We look forward to seeing you there!
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Go Green!!
Today, April 22nd marks the 40th Anniversary of 'Earth Day', a day which is celebrated in almost 200 countries around the world to bring awareness to the importance of being environmentally friendly and diversify the environmental movement worldwide. This definitely is an amazing cause, but did you know that this concept has been taught and practiced in our religion for more than 1400 years? Muslims have long had a responsibility to be "Green" & environmentally friendly long before these terms became as common as they are today. Subhan Allah!!
Join us for a "Go Green" discussion @ Youth Group this week!
Where- Masjid Al Othman
When- Saturday April 24 @ 10:00 am
When- Saturday April 24 @ 10:00 am
You don't want to miss out on this!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
The Deed of the Week Challenge
What is "The Deed of the Week Challenge"? Well, its as simple as this- each week at the end of our Youth Group meeting, we sit together and pick a goal or deed to accomplish in the coming week. For example: read one page of Quran each day or do athkar after Fajr, etc... Each week we will add on a new goal/deed to accomplish in the next week! InshaAllah in no time our list of 'deeds' we do as a group will grow!
Simple enough? Excited to start now? Are you up for the challenge?
I thought so!!
With that, I would like to present this week's "Deed of the Week"- Fast on Monday and Thursday. If you already do it, thats wonderful! If you don't, then try it this week! If fasting on both days is a little too difficult to start, just start with Monday, or with Thursday... slowly the habit will grow insha Allah!
If you weren't at the meeting today your homework is this-- find out why we picked this goal. Why fast on these specific days?
Simple enough? Excited to start now? Are you up for the challenge?
I thought so!!
With that, I would like to present this week's "Deed of the Week"- Fast on Monday and Thursday. If you already do it, thats wonderful! If you don't, then try it this week! If fasting on both days is a little too difficult to start, just start with Monday, or with Thursday... slowly the habit will grow insha Allah!
If you weren't at the meeting today your homework is this-- find out why we picked this goal. Why fast on these specific days?
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Lessons from the Story of Dhul Qarnain- Ayoub Niyas
قَالُوا يَا ذَا الْقَرْنَيْنِ إِنَّ يَأْجُوجَ وَمَأْجُوجَ مُفْسِدُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَهَلْ نَجْعَلُ لَكَ خَرْجًا عَلَىٰ أَن تَجْعَلَ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ سَدًّا ﴿٩٤﴾ قَالَ مَا مَكَّنِّي فِيهِ رَبِّي خَيْرٌ فَأَعِينُونِي بِقُوَّةٍ أَجْعَلْ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَهُمْ رَدْمًا ﴿٩٥
These are the two versus from سورة الكهف ayat 94 and 95 depicting the story of Dhul-Qarnain. Dhul-Qarnain was tendered to build a "Wall سَدًّا" to seperate a nation from the evils of Gog-&-Magog. In return, Dhul-Qarnain offered them to build a "Barrier/Dam رَدْمًا" voluntarily...
Lessons:
1. Try and seperate yourself from the evil elements in your vicinity.
2. If you can't do it by yourself, or if more people than just yourself are being affected, consult one another and see if there is someone who can do it.
3. Be grateful with what Allah has blessed you with. Firstly, you have to acknowledg the things that are being entrusted onto you by Allah, and then thank him and be grateful and use them to his Will.
4. Use those blessings to benefit yourself and others. Allah has trusted us with so many things, and in return we have to serve him sometimes by serving his creations in his way and for his cause.
5. Working is in and part of our Deen. Working for money is part of our deen, but it also shows more appreciation for Allah's blessings if we sometimes work expecting no worldly returns, purely for the sake of Allah, if we don't need it.
6. If someone asks for some form of help, offer them the best help. For example, if someone asks you to build them a wall for protection, offer to build them a barrier or dam. There is more ajr, inshAllah.
7. If someone asks for something from you out of sincere concern for themselves and the Ummah, help them out to the best of your ability to ease their burdens, and make them feel more comfortable about the situation. For instance here, the reason for the wall being asked to be built was for the sake of protecting themselves from the evils and troubles brought forth by Gog and Magog [aka Ya'jooj and Ma'Jooj], which is a sincere reason. Therefore, the reaction of Dhul Qarnain was the best, and he genuinely did his best by giving them better than was asked and expected of him. I hope I communicated that point well enough.
8. [This may seem like a repeated point, but it's only because it's all interrelated, but it's separate] Dhul Qarnain, as we learned from that lecture, was a leader. He lead the entire world. I'm going to go ahead and assume he was already a leader during this particular incident, seeing as the people asked HIM to help. So, in that situation, he displayed superb leadership. The lesson: If you lead a people, take their best interests at heart, and do all in your power to help them and keep them safe. You are there to serve THEM, and not the other way around. Sure, you rule over them, but only as a central figure to settle differences and make key decisions and such. But in reality, a true leader, however powerful, will do what is best for the people, as opposed to doing what's best for himself and just serving his own greed and worldly desires. And he didn't accept their payments, because as a leader, he is only doing his duty by serving them, and since he was capable of doing the job without their money with what Allah had already provided him, he did it without taking more from the people.
These are the two versus from سورة الكهف ayat 94 and 95 depicting the story of Dhul-Qarnain. Dhul-Qarnain was tendered to build a "Wall سَدًّا" to seperate a nation from the evils of Gog-&-Magog. In return, Dhul-Qarnain offered them to build a "Barrier/Dam رَدْمًا" voluntarily...
Lessons:
1. Try and seperate yourself from the evil elements in your vicinity.
2. If you can't do it by yourself, or if more people than just yourself are being affected, consult one another and see if there is someone who can do it.
3. Be grateful with what Allah has blessed you with. Firstly, you have to acknowledg the things that are being entrusted onto you by Allah, and then thank him and be grateful and use them to his Will.
4. Use those blessings to benefit yourself and others. Allah has trusted us with so many things, and in return we have to serve him sometimes by serving his creations in his way and for his cause.
5. Working is in and part of our Deen. Working for money is part of our deen, but it also shows more appreciation for Allah's blessings if we sometimes work expecting no worldly returns, purely for the sake of Allah, if we don't need it.
6. If someone asks for some form of help, offer them the best help. For example, if someone asks you to build them a wall for protection, offer to build them a barrier or dam. There is more ajr, inshAllah.
7. If someone asks for something from you out of sincere concern for themselves and the Ummah, help them out to the best of your ability to ease their burdens, and make them feel more comfortable about the situation. For instance here, the reason for the wall being asked to be built was for the sake of protecting themselves from the evils and troubles brought forth by Gog and Magog [aka Ya'jooj and Ma'Jooj], which is a sincere reason. Therefore, the reaction of Dhul Qarnain was the best, and he genuinely did his best by giving them better than was asked and expected of him. I hope I communicated that point well enough.
8. [This may seem like a repeated point, but it's only because it's all interrelated, but it's separate] Dhul Qarnain, as we learned from that lecture, was a leader. He lead the entire world. I'm going to go ahead and assume he was already a leader during this particular incident, seeing as the people asked HIM to help. So, in that situation, he displayed superb leadership. The lesson: If you lead a people, take their best interests at heart, and do all in your power to help them and keep them safe. You are there to serve THEM, and not the other way around. Sure, you rule over them, but only as a central figure to settle differences and make key decisions and such. But in reality, a true leader, however powerful, will do what is best for the people, as opposed to doing what's best for himself and just serving his own greed and worldly desires. And he didn't accept their payments, because as a leader, he is only doing his duty by serving them, and since he was capable of doing the job without their money with what Allah had already provided him, he did it without taking more from the people.
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