Today

al-Hamdu lilLah for today's khutbah it was so good.

The Khutbah was primarily focused on judgment Day, one hadith he narrated that I want to post as a reminder for myself, and for others who are interested is this:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet [salla Allahu `alayhi wa salam] said,

"Allah will give shade, to seven, on the Day when there will be no shade but His. (These seven persons are)

[1] a just ruler,

[2] a youth who has been brought up in the worship of Allah (i.e. worships Allah sincerely from childhood),

[3] a man whose heart is attached to the mosques (i.e. to pray the compulsory prayers in the mosque in congregation),

[4] two persons who love each other only for Allah's sake and they meet and part in Allah's cause only,

[5] a man who refuses the call of a charming woman of noble birth for illicit intercourse with her and says: I am afraid of Allah,

[6] a man who gives charitable gifts so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given (i.e. nobody knows how much he has given in charity),

[7] and a person who remembers Allah in seclusion and his eyes are then flooded with tears."

(Book #11, Hadith #629)

subHan Allah, he spoke about how close the sun will be, and how people will be waiting for 15,000 years sweating, and he explained that for the believers the waiting will only be the length of 2 rakah's.

Then when we prayed I was so happy because he had such a heart shaking voice, heart shaking in the sense that it helped with one's humility in front of Allah. When he recited the first chapter Al-Fatiha, he paused for a little bit after each verse, and that silence in between was filled with deep reflection, that silence was so powerful. Imagine each verse recited so beautifully and then there is a pause, and that sound comes again, subHan Allah ... those are Allah's words, so beautiful.

Then after the Friday prayer had finished and people were praying their sunnah prayers, I noticed the woman praying next to me didn't put her nose on the ground when she put her head on the floor in prostration. I wanted to tell her something, because, I seriously hate it when I do something wrong and someone doesn't correct me... but I just didn't want to say anything because she was much older. I was going down the stairs and I bumped into another very close friend of mine BB -smiles- I told her that I saw a lady that I want to help but I don't know if I should tell her anything, and al-Hamdu lilLah being the BB that she is, she narrated for me a couple of ahadith and told me to go ahead and tell her.

So, I went back upstairs, I waited until she was done praying and then I told her, "I want to show you something I noticed in your prayer, in sha' Allah try to put your nose on the ground too when you go down, it is important to have both the nose and the forehead touching the ground." Then she said, "Oh, I don't do that, I didn't notice." Then I asked her where she was from, because she had a Arab accent, and she was from Palestine, just like me and we talked for about 2-3 minutes.

But I left feeling a little content that now she knows how to do it, and a little troubled too. Troubled because I don't feel I am good at correcting people, I need to learn some way of helping others, without it seeming like I'm giving them advice, but that they got it on their own... ya Allah, I don't want to be a fault finder, how there are still sooo many lessons I need to learn, Allah Ar-Rahman. subHan Allah, anytime I feel like I'm under any stress I like to say, "Ar-Rahman" it reminds me of Allah's compassion, and I instantly feel more at peace.

Then afterwards I met BB's new roommate and BB asked if I was free to go out to eat with them, and al-Hamdu lilLah I was, and I did. We went out to eat at my favorite restaurant, it's a place that literally takes time preparing your food for you. When I ordered lemonade, I could taste that this lemonade was freshly squeezed lemons mixed with water and sugar, so good, sooo good, al-Hamdu lilLah for how fresh and tastey all of their food was.

While we were out we bumped into two more friends, yay! cool! and we talked about school and I guess one of the sisters was overburdened and we had a discussion that really al-Hamdu lilLah was awesome. We were talking about human weakness. My friend BB said something like, "Allah does not give us more than we can bear, and we are the ones that make ourselves weak, it's our mind that can either strengthen us or weaken us." subHan Allah, this was such a good point, such a good good point, Barak Allahu Fiha, indeed we make ourselves weak, we need to have a strong mind, we are in control of how we feel and what we can do about any given circumstance. subHan Allah reminders definitely benefit the believers.

al-Hamdu lilLah then when I returned home in my gmail box I recieved a gmail from one of my students that's just going to take time to answer. subHan Allah, I love it when people ask questions, I love it when people are curious, I love the eagerness that some people have to learn and study. I believe it takes humility in order to ask a question, or to request help. I love the humility in wanting to learn, I love it so much.

... so that pretty much was my day, it's definitely not everything that happened, but al-Hamdu lilLah (praise Allah) for everything.