nice poem.....

~~~Each Breath~~~

Am I truly grateful for each breath that I take..

For each and every moment that I am awake?

Do I thank Allah for my restful sleep,

And for the dreams that cause me to weep?

Am I honestly thankful to the Almighty One,

For the early morning mist, the bright, rising sun?

During Fajr prayer, I use my soft prayer mat,

As Allah’s servant, do I appreciate that?..

Throughout the day, do I realize,

That Allah, All knowing and the Most Wise..

Gives me what I need and so much more..

And that I have so much to be grateful for?..

A grandmother’s love, a book of hadith,

The clothes that I wear, the food that I eat..

The book that I should follow, the Holy Quran,.

Promoting the good and ending the wrong..

So I must ask myself every beautiful day,

Am I truly grateful for each breath that I take,

For each and every moment that I am awake?

Do I thank Allah for my restful sleep,

And for the dreams that cause me to weep?

 

 By Ibn-e-Malik

Courtesy: www.everymuslim.com

bit ov an old story this is....happend a few days ago.... maybe sunday methinks..but i was jus tellin amina abt it...n thot..hey...funny story...lemme blog it...lol
so...here goes...

my flatm8 decided to make roast chicken.

n we realised we dint hav sweetcorn...n it tastes nice wit sweetcorn.

so i was like okay im gna go pop dwn to the shop to get sum.thinkin yeh its gna b easy...they'll kno wat sweetcorn is.

omg was i wrong!.they kept pointin at chocolates!!!he was like "kinder?".n im like noooooo its a vegetableeee.small....yellow....in a tin!(all this in arabic tho)

n then i saw this 'trendy' lookin yung arab in there
n assumed he'd kno english.so i goes.u speak english.n hes like yeh.so im like u kno wat sweetcorn is then.n he looks at me like im gone mad.n hes like "sumthin sweet" to the guy in arabic.n im like nooooooooooooooooooooooooo not sweet! grrrrrr

was goin round in cricles.

was mad.

in the end.i gave up.

no sweetcorn

end of story

xx

Subject: The Hidden Fact - Quran - a must read

Subhanallah....what a lovely story!!

An old man lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern kentucky with his

young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen

table reading his Quraan .

His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in

every

way he could. One day the grandson asked, "Papa, I try to read the

Quraan

just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget

as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Quraan do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned

from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket down

to

the river and bring me back a basket of water." The boy did as he was

told,

but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house.   The

grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster next

time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.

This

time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned

home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to

carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead.

The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket

of

water. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went out the door to

watch the boy try again.

At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his

grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak

out before he got back to the house.

The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he

reached his grandfather the basket was again empty.

Out of breath, he said, "See Papa, it's useless!""So you

think it is

useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket. "The boy

looked at the

basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It

had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside

and out.

"Son, that's what happens when you read the

Quraan. You  might not understand or remember everything, but when you

read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the  work of  Allah

in our lives."