In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful, Which one of us has not cried helplessly in the darkness? Which one of us has not made the sincerest of supplications when we thought things were seemingly impossible? When we felt our most loneliest and...
"How do you structure your Quran class and what are the ages of your children?" Here's an old post I wrote 4 years ago, on how I started homeschooling Quran when my children were younger: ~~~ Alhamdulillah my children are now almost 7, 5, 4, and just over...
The saying of Imam As-Suyuti: “Teaching the youth the Qur’an is from the roots of Islam, for they are brought up upon the ‘fitra’ and their hearts arrive at the light of Wisdom before the whims & desires are enabled from within it, and before its...
Ponder the following verse: رَبَّنَا اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَوْمَ يَقُومُ الْحِسَابُ 👉"Our Lord, forgive me and my parents and all believers on the day when the reckoning shall take place.”👈 (Ibrahim 41) 🏖🏝🏖🏝🏖 Some etiquettes: ✔️Make Dua for yourself ✔️Make Dua for your parents, who have immense rights over you ✔️We should...
Everyone who memorises (the Qur’an) in the first two years loses some of what he/she memorised. This is called the “Marhalatut- Tajmee`”, roughly translated as the “Gathering Stage”. So do not worry about the Qur’an leaving you or making many mistakes. This is a difficult stage of...
“Do not be deceived by the prosperity of the disbelievers throughout the land. It is only a brief enjoyment. Then Hell will be their home—what an evil place to rest!” (Surah Ali-Imran, 3:196-7) لَا يَغُرَّنَّكَ تَقَلُّبُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ فِى ٱلۡبِلَـٰدِ (١٩٦) مَتَـٰعٌ۬ قَلِيلٌ۬ ثُمَّ مَأۡوَٮٰهُمۡ جَهَنَّمُۚ...
How many times have you received an advertisement for memorizing or explaining a lesson, but you ignored it because it crowded out your tasks? And how many times did you enter a circle to memorize a part but withdrew because it was difficult to memorize? How many...
One of my teachers used to say, “Do not allow what is outside your control to stop you from doing what is within your control,” The people of the cave personify this lesson. These were a small group of seven believers in a town that wanted...
Here’s something I’m striving to teach my nafs—my spiritually flawed inner self—each day: Every thought or feeling that passes through your mind and heart, even if deeply felt, does not need to be shared with the world or posted on social media. Some things you can...
I used to have this mindset that I will make dua after my Salaah, or after some Quran reading or a Zikr session or on a Friday or at Tahajjud time - Basically after doing a good deed or at an auspicious time so the...