Ramadan Blogging: Day 6
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »Raza Rumi points us to this beautiful Ghazal by Jalaluddin Rumi. Celebrate! The month of fasting has come. Pleasant journey to the one Who is the company of the fasting. I climbed the roof to see the Moon, Because I really missed fasting By heart and ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 5
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »Quranic verses regarding fasting and Ramadan, translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint. (Fasting) for a fixed number of days; but ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 4
Monday, September 17th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »Today's after-fajr talk was by Dr. Hisham Abdullah who discussed a small portion of the 6th hadith from the collection of 40 Hadith by An-Nawawi. This collection of Hadith (42, actually) is considered quite important in the canon of the ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 3
Sunday, September 16th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »I didn't get much out of the after-fajr talk by Dr. Imad Bayoun. May be he was trying to pack too much in short time. May be I was too sleepy. In the evening we went to smaller Masjid Noor ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 2
Saturday, September 15th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »I am really getting to like the short talk after fajr (early morning) prayers. Since it is no more than 10 minutes, the speaker has limited opportunity to digress from the main theme. Today's talk was given by a young ...
Ramadan Blogging: Day 1
Thursday, September 13th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | 1 Comment »First day of Ramadan is always the hardest. It takes time to to get accustomed to abstaining from eating and drinking during the daytime and I am constantly on alert lest I may eat something accidentally. Hunger and thirst is ...
The Beginning Of Ramadan
Thursday, September 13th, 2007 Posted in Islam, Ramadan Blogging, USA | No Comments »The month of Ramadan is starting today here in Santa Clara. May be in other parts of California (and USA) too. The folks at Muslim Community Association (MCA), where I go to pray, have decided unanimously to go by ...
