Have you posted your nominations?

As-salaamu-alaykum - Peace to you All

Tommorrow (Wednesday, 16 March 2011) is the final day for posting of nominations for the Tribute Award (see previous post for details).

If you haven't already posted your nominations, please do so now!

Voting will begin on Thursday, 17 March Inshaa'Allah.

Thanks for all the great nominations thus far.

All The Best:)

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Announcement !!! Nominations Now Open !!!

I've decided to have my very own mini-awardS. Since there are so many amazing sisters blogging I decided that I am going to be running ...

THE TRIBUTE AWARD !

Since my blog is basically intended to be a Tribute to Amazing Muslim women, I thought that this would be very appropriate. It's simple and fun and this is how it will work inshaa'Allah:


-You will have 1 week to nominate the blogs that you think deserve
                        The Tribute Award.

- You can simply add your nominations to the comments below this post.

- On Wednesday 16 March 2011, the nominations will close.

- I will then put up a poll and voting will take place for 3 days inshaa'Allah.

- On Sunday 20 March 2011 the winners will be announced on this blog.

- There will be three winners, Gold (1st), Silver (2nd) and Bronze (3rd)-
(I've added the awards below so you know what it looks like)

Just to clarify-The aim of this award is to pay tribute to the amazing sisters who are out there taking the time to share their opinions about things and just to tell us what they're thinking. I think all of you are great and so you are already winners in my eyes, but it's always great to get a little extra encouragement.

SO LET'S BEGIN TO POST NOMINATIONS NOW!!!

May Allah Shower Peace and Blessings on you All!

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THE TRIBUTE AWARDS

Our 1st Place Winner will receive this Gold Award.

Our 2nd Place Winner will receive this Silver Award.

And our 3rd Place winner will receive this Bronze Award.

INSHAA ALLAH
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Call on your Lord with True Conviction

We all pray to Allah to help us in situations, and sometimes we may feel that our prayers are not been answered and we naturally tend to wonder about things. Well, I just had an experience which made me question how true my conviction really is and how much I believe Allah will help me. Let me explain using my example, which is actually a mundane example, but there’s so much to learn from it.

I recently got a new car (Alhamdullillah), well my new car is actually a second-hand car which I got from my brother in law through a deal the family made. In any case, the car needed some work to be done on it and so we first sent it to the mechanic. Since the mechanic was waiting for car parts he took very long to sort everything out and eventually he brought the car back. After driving it for one day, the car gave me some problems, so we got that sorted out. Then, very shortly after that, it gave some more problems. These were all small things that the mechanic hadn’t adjusted properly because only once you begin to really drive the car can you see what works properly and what doesn’t. Anyway, Alhamdullillah, that got sorted out as well.

Now, here’s where the lesson begins...

 I was extremely irritated and frustrated by all this. After waiting for so long to get the car from the mechanic I really expected it to be working great and I wasn’t prepared for more hurdles. So I really didn’t deal with this well at all (okay, to be honest I sort of put up a tantrum about it). Since I had made duaa (prayers) to Allah Almighty before even getting the car, I wondered why all this was going wrong now, and maybe even wondered why Allah wasn’t accepting my prayers (May Allah (SWT) forgive me!!!).

You see the thing is that even though I made prayers, I didn’t ask Allah with true conviction and I didn’t go about it in the correct manner. Then the other day a wise Moulana said to me that the best way to get over any problem at all is to focus on shukr to Allah (Giving thanks to Allah for everything). It was like the key to open every single locked door when he said this, because it’s just so true. He explained that no matter what problem people may have, when we consider all Allah’s favours upon us, our problems will always be much, much less!!! SubhanAllah!!!! Truly Allah is the Most Giving, The Most Kind and Most Merciful!

The story continues...

The day after I heard this from the Moulana, the car started up again. As I was driving, a gush of thick white smoke started coming out from the exhaust pipe non-stop. I was about to freak out again, but then Alhamdullillah I was reminded about what the Moulana had told me. So I took a deep breath and firstly had to admit that I should be thankful to Allah that I have a car in the first place because I know many people who wish they were so fortunate. Besides that I should be thankful that I can drive, thankful that Allah keeps me safe all the time (especially in a place like Johannesburg which has been termed the “Crime Capital of the World”). You see, one incident and there were so many things I had to be thankful for.

Since the car started smoking when I was nearby my place of work I decided to just drive there because I had an appointment which I couldn’t miss. I calmly decided to complete my work and after that I’d see what happens with the car. Then before I left to go home I recited durood (praises on the Prophet Muhammad- Peace and Blessings be upon him), and really made a strong duaa from the bottom of my heart that I can at least take the car home because it was too far away for the mechanic to come out. After that there was just something inside me that knew the car was not going to act up again (Alhamdullillah- All praises are only due to Allah!). SubhanAllah, the car was absolutely fine all the way home. I had some stops to make and the car was fine, and no smoke all the way I was driving home, not even a little bit. (I just have to say SubhanAllah again!!!).

The story isn’t over yet so please bear with me...

When I got into our driveway I stopped the car and went to open the garage gate. As soon as I got back into the car and started it, the smoke began again, a whole lot of it! I had to cry when I thought about how Allah Almighty had accepted my prayer and brought me all the way home with no problems. SubhanAllah!!!

You see, when you have true conviction that Allah is going to accept your prayers, then Allah will definitely accept your prayers! This does not only apply to me, it applies to every single human being and this is why I’m sharing this story with all of you!

The Moulana explained to us that Allah is as we think Allah is. So if you think that Allah can do anything and everything, then this is how Allah will be. And if you trust Allah completely then Allah will help you, but if you don’t have true conviction then Allah will treat you in the same manner. My example proved that this is indeed the truth.

So if you have a problem that you think you’re not getting the answer to, then ask yourself if your prayers are truly been made from the bottom of your heart and do you truly, absolutely, one hundred percent, believe that Allah will accept it. If not, well, then that in fact is the real problem!

PS: Please remember that sometimes Allah Almighty doesn’t accept our prayers because He has something better planned for us and if Allah does not accept a prayer in this world , then Allah keeps it for us and gives it to us in much better form in the hereafter, so much so that we will wish that none of our prayers were accepted when we in this world.

A true believer can never be at a loss. Remember that thankfulness to Allah comes before anything else. May Allah guide and protect us all, Inshaa’ Allah.

Image taken from: http://islamicthems.blogspot.com/2010/09/muslim-prayer-hands-wallpapers.html

Friday Nasiha - Weekly Reminders for Successful Life

Friday Nasiha - Weekly Reminders for Successful Life

Stylish Blogger Award-2

I've received this award for the second time around. This time it's been given to me by another special lady. Marie @ http://wwwwritingvibe.blogspot.com/ Thank you dear Marie for this, may you always be blessed.

NOW I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME RULES TO FOLLOW, BUT SINCE I'VE HAD A VERY TIRING DAY I WON'T BE FOLLOWING THESE RULES RIGHT NOW.- I'M SORRY FOR THIS, BUT INSHA'ALLAH AS SOON AS I CAN I WILL RE-POST THIS, WITH THE RULES OF COURSE!!!

So for now-To be continued....

Alhamdullillah (Praise be to Allah) I finally have some time to continue this post:

So here are the rules that I need to follow:

1. Thank and link back to the person that awarded this to you.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers.
4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award.




7 Things About me

1. I like learning new things, it doesn't matter what it is, I'm always interested in learning.
2. The desk that I'm supposed to use for work is actually organised chaos.There's hardly a space for me to work.
3. I'm always reading a number of books at the same time, and you're likely to find post-it notes in them.
4. I like spending quality time with good friends.
5. I like children when they reach the age of 1 or 2 years, before that they're cute but not as much fun.
6. I love all forms of water  (the sea, waterfalls, ice,) Alhamdullillah this is just the most beautiful thing in nature for me.
7. I usually go to bed really late at night and I'm finding this habit diffiult to change.

Now....The Stylish Blogger Award Goes to the following blogs  (in no specific order):

1. How to Wear Hijab
2. Road to Jannah
3. The Colourful Years
4. Me, Myself and Him
5. Pink Islam
6. The Color of Our Skin (Marie I think this blog is really great!)
7. The Tales of a Modern Muslimah
8. Amber Misk
9. Oldie Goldie & the Young ones 
10. POSITIVE ISLAM 
11. Rose Water (I know you're the one who first gave the award to me but you really deserve this again!)
12. Carnations Contribution
13. Light of Happiness *warkah seorang hamba)
14. Wiser, Miss Tweet Blue Pearl (I know you've also received it before but you deserve it again).
15. Glowing Snow (Love the name of your blog Syida)

Congratulations to all these lovely bloggers!!! Keep writing and putting your thoughts out there. Remember great things have happened from only just a thought:)

Stay well always:)