The Stillness of the Night

Asalaamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone,


Ramadhan Mubarak! It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm sorry for the long silence. I actually thought of abandoning this blog for good (and I sort of have), but there were days where I just wanted to come back and post again.

Alhamdulillahi rabb'il 'alameen for He has blessed us with another Ramadhan. Wow. Ramadhan is a great time to finally take control and to correct ourselves for the better. I've been away and while I was gone so many things have been going on in my life. Some good, some bad. Though for this month, you can change that make yourself a better person, to cancel everything bad happening in your life and make yourself a stronger person to tackle these issues. It's also an excellent time for asking Allah for forgiveness. In other months, the shayateen are strong and can easily bring us down, but alhamdulillah this month is the month when you are much much stronger. It's a month in which the deeds are multiplied and filled with many reward:

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "Whoever observes fasts during the month of ramadan out of sincere faith, and hoping to attain Allah's rewards, then all his past sins will be forgiven." [Sahih Bukhari in his book of Belief (2:37)] 

So let us take advantage of this month and make ourselves much stronger and better, inshaaAllah.

Priorities

I've realized that sometimes you've got to open your eyes and realize what your priorities are in life. As much as playing soccer outside maybe fun for a little boy, he needs to pray first then continue his play.

Today, I've realized my priorities. Alhamdulillah, I have commited myself to do something and lately I have been slacking off on. Instead, I've started to do others things and that made me lose time for the important things.

As much as other things can be fun to start with , it's important that we concentrate on what needs to be done first so that what's most important is already done. After completeting our important tasks, inshaAllah there will be room for fun and more fun. :)

Random fact #4

I still don't know what I want to be when I'm older. Although, there is one thing I want to include in it, and that's to have it benefit someone and that there space for Islam in it (of course I'm not thinking of anything haram!)

InshaAllah, I find a career that shall benefit me and others in this life and in the hereafter. :)

Random fact #2

I'm 16 and I still don't know how to cook. Should I be ashamed of myself?

I know for sure that if I went to my 'old country' , they'd look at me with disgust and say: 'Shame! Astaghfirullah! *spits on floor* what will you do when you get married? WHO will marry you! Shame...! I bet she can't even make tea!'

Yeah, well, I know how to make tea alhamdulillah. (I think. It's been a while) I don't know what's stoppping me from cooking though. I guess I've never really wanted to do it until I'm 18 or something (my mom has been reminding me constantly saying : ' Today I'm gonna teach you how to cook.', but then I'd leave the room lol).

InshaAllah, I'll learn to cook someday, maybe even during the summer, Allahu 'Alem. :)

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@Little Auntie- Wa 'alaykumu salaam sis! :D I've read your comment but unfortunatly with my sucky internet connection, I can't answer to it via comment. :/ I can't really comment on any blog actually. :( But yes, it is nice and alhamdulillah, I feel like I'm more sincere and real this way instead of feeling like I'm putting up a show for my friends when they are reading ( does that make sense? :)) Wasalaam. xx

Random Fact #1

My friends don't know that I have a blog. If anything, they think I don't know how to work a blog and everything, but that's what they think. 

One day, I had a friend babble on about how to use Blogger and I was listening to her as if I didn't really know how to use one. To be honest, I like it that they don't know about Seeking Jannah becuase this blog lets me be me and lets me express myself the way I've always wanted to express myself. :)

Alhamdulillah, I like it like this and I won't change the way it is now. :)

P.S.- Please keep my mom in your du'as. She hasn't been feeling well lately... JazakumAllah Khair (May Allah reward you with good.)

I'm still alive

Alahmdulillah, lol. I'm sorry for the long period of silence, school has been stressing me out and it has demotivated me from possting anything in this blog...


The good news is that school is finally over so inshaAllah, I'll be able to return to posting my boring posts again. There's a few things though that I'd like to change here though:

• the template
• the url( I'm still debating on that one)

That's pretty much it. I don't know what else to say. I look forward to posting again!

Asalaamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullah,

A Blessing and A Mercy

"And We send down blessed water (rain) from the sky, then We produce therewith gardens and grain (every kind of harvests) that are reaped. And tall date-palms, with ranged clusters; A provision for (Allah's) slaves. And We give life therewith to a dead land. Thus will be the resurrection (of the dead)." [Surah Qaf 50:9-11]

Allah has mercy on us all the time, even when we don't notice it.

You can see, alhamdulillah.

You can hear, alhamdulillah.

You can smell, alhamdulillah.

You walk, you talk, you smile, you breathe.

Alhamdulillah ir Rabbi'l Alameen.

It was raining today I thought of making a post on mercy and the blessed rain. People can find the rain annoying, but I find it amazing. Sometimes we need the water to wash off all the dirt from the earth and nourish it to grow again. It's  something beautiful, subhanAllah. :)

May Allah swt have mercy on us all, ameen.