Keeping your Iman in tact!

Your Iman is constantly on a Rollar Coaster... Up and then down.. It gets really hard to keep it high all the time..

Here are my tips on trying to get that old Spirit back!

1. When people convert to Islam.. Or just recently learnt about Islam and now their practicing.. they end up losing that first time spirit after a while.. The best thing to try and overcome this is wake up 10 mins before Fajr! Tahajjud prayer which is the night prayer.. This is SubhanAllah when Allah is the closest to us.. He is at the lowest heaven and calls out and says "Which one of my servants is awake and asking for me"
This is the time where NO one is awake.. Its just You, Your prayer mat and Allah.. Just take that time to just let everything out.. Every feeling inside of you.. Honestly let out a cry. I promise you it will help you so much..

2. Remembering Death and the Day of Judgement. When you remember your purpose in this life and exactly what you are doing to fulfil your duty as a Muslim it becomes easy for you follow Allahs Command without question.. When you remember that you will die ANYTIME it scares you because if you die in a state where you have no iman or doing something wrong then what are you going to say??? What will you say to your lord?? If you die and the last words aren't La Illaha Illalla, Then you're in BIG Trouble... You didn't remember Allah on your last breath.. There isn't a more painful death.. Your soul will be ripped out of your body as if you pull thorns through a ball of cotton wool.. Whereas for a believer and I mean a PROPER Practising Believer it will feel like a mosquito bite..A painless death.. You need to die a Mu'min or face Allahs Punishment. Its not easy to go heaven you know! But its soo easy to go to hell..

You make the choice..?


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I know that remembering or fearing death can be hard seeing as though most of the time the death of someone isn't close to you.. but just think that Do you fear death when you do think about it? If you do, then that means your Iman isn't to the highest it can be, Your belief isn't as strong.. it means that your fearful knowing that your not being the best muslim you can be.. Are you making sacrifices?? Are you researching more about islam to find out things that will make you a better muslim?? Are you even trying to improve yourself? What are you putting first? Your feelings or Allahs orders?? You should think that 'Im ready if death comes to me right now.." But do any of us think that way..

Day of Judgement can be one of the things that also can not make you as fearful.. But if I said to you that most of the signs have come and we have seen and only the major ones are left.. what would you think then?? Still not scared..??

Okay well even if you do die beforehand..Which even I hope I do.. Would you be able to face the grave..? Grave punishment.. Do you know what they are..? The ground will crush your ribs so that they overlap on one another.. The snake.. Think of all the bugs and things that you are terrified of and they will be in that tight space with you..





I might do another post about the punishments of the grave and hell. I think we all need a good scare.. dont you think?

If you knew that this was going to be in your grave would you want to go in there..?

Those snakes wont leave until you get what you earned in this world..











3. The value of time..

Now this one.. Time.. Is the biggest issue that more youth have. Wasting time! Valuable time.. And Honestly I'm guilty of that too.. But some people are to the extreeemmmeee! Like they have no value to their life! Imagine that you are running, your running to your family who are dying and they need water, you have that bucket of water in your hand how fast would you run?? What if that bucket had a hole in it? How would you feel for every drop that was falling on the ground and your trying so hard to make sure one drop doesn't fall.. what would that mean to you?!
That is the exactly what this life is all about.. We are running towards the hereafter.. Whether its the right way or the wrong way we are still all going to end up at the same destination.. But some of us are wasting our time messing about, bring sins along the way.. stopping to have a chat with a guy.. This is a load of rubbish! There are people wayyyy ahead of you! you need to get their fast so you can win your reward right!? Your prize is Jannah! And their are people already taking up your spaces!!.. You would try your best to get there without wasting time because you earned it and you worked hard for it.. Don't waste precious time that you will NEVER get back.. There are people in the Hell fire Screaming for a second chance but Allah will say "Did we not give you all chances in this world?" "Didn't we show you every proof and example?" Yet you STILL denied.. Now who will you blame other than yourself..?

Brothers and sister.. I pray for you all but if your iman is at a low point right now just think that there is sooo much better things to come! Look at what Allah has provided for you in this world and what he is offering in the hereafter!! Money, Education, All the desireable things that you love, Your HEALTH. He has offered a Paradise which you can do ANYTHINGGGG, there will be no guilt nothing, This is only for the people that believed and did righteous deeds.!!!!. Yet we are sooo ungrateful! Look at the people suffering! Allah could have switched our place with them.. But he didn't... Why? because he is testing you to see if after seeing all that is happening and everything he has given to you.. Can you still get up to pray and ask him for forgiveness and thank him... Don't make things hard for yourself.. Islam is Black and white! Following it is easy.. Making yourself choose to follow it is hard..

Can you do that? Or do you just not want to..

You have two places you will end up.. Hell or Heaven.. You make the decision..

Hijab and fashion

Now this topic is such a hot topic dayummmmm! Like WW3 within the sisters.. Now I advise myself before I advise everyone else but seriously there is a limit when you mix fashion with hijab..  There are 2 types of ways you can take this:

1. Wearing hijab but dressing decently that you still look good as you are representing islam in a modest way. 

2. Wearing hijab and you have every colour of the rainbow on you including your face. Camel hump, tight jeans, low cut top, bosoms out! Like WOW. I can tell what cup size you are from a mile away with that top on :| 

So yeah, I mean there are sooooo many debates about hijab and even girls having their own debates about it, but I thought I should give a little bit of advice and just a very open minded opinion and maybe you could agree with me.. 

So I have about 5 points that I would like to clarify... 

1. When girls say "my right, my life, my choice" and "I'm not ready". I'm sorry but this really annoys me. Fair enough hijab is your choice of wearing but exactly what is the choice that you made? You made the choice to follow Allah's command. You are following His order of wearing the hijab. So when girls say "I'm not ready" your basically saying I'm not ready to follow Allahs order yet. -__- seriously? If you say so! 

2. Hijab and makeup: OMDAYS. Okay now there is a limit to the amount of makeup you put on your face.. And I think some people go OVERboard. Like full on eyeshadow, lipstick and all that junk! And its not like it's an occasion is ERRRRDAYYY! Girls it's school not your wedding!! Daym! Makeup does defeat the whole purpose as your beautifying yourself even more when the whole point of hijab is to cover your beauty.. So relax woman! You don't need all that to look beautiful! Natural is the best way! 

 Like just to look decent thats fine because you need to look presentable of course.

 Wow makeup does make a big difference!

3. Hijab and fashion: okay this is a huge topic and people can go on and on about it but I just want to say that I see girls these days wearing the tightest jeans that it looks like it's painted on! Seriously! I even see girls with the tightest tops to go with it! Like I can see everything!!!  What is the point!? The first thing that Allah told us to cover in the Quran is our bosoms THEN our hair! Why do you think that is!? Allah doesn't say these things without a coincidence! It's all for a reason! Another point is the ankles!! Wthhhhh seriously! They role up their trousers that's like the more obvious thing in the book! Cover them! It looks silly!!! Allah knows everything of what you do.. 

4. Hijab and relationships: okay let's take the time to just laugh about this. Seriously this is soo common now that it's considered "normal" I don't even have much to say about this other than take your hijab off if you're going to rub of some guy! Astagfirallah! -__- disgusting 

LOOL 

5. Hijab and character: I think this is the most important point out of all. Sisters, you represent islam more than any other human being.. When you help and elderly , smile at the world you represent islam! Obviously our reputation has gone down the drain thanks to "some girls" (point 4) But You give dawah in that type of way.. Your actions inspire others! When you respect yourself and Allah, of course everyone will respect you! Guys will think twice before approaching you! 

You need to sacrifice pleasures for your reward at the end of the day and honestly that is the best type of reward you can receive trust me.. It's amazing when you do more research on it.. This world isn't worth it.. Don't make yourself cheap. The status of a woman is sooo high that if men knew they would want to be women! People may judge you and call you weird and all but The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Glad tidings to the stranger! So don't worry just know that Allah has something bigger in stock for you in Jannah. 

When you walk towards Allah, He will RUN to you.. Read that again! Your Creator will RUN to YOU! How amazing is that! 

In sha Allah, Allah makes it easier for us to be the best Muslims out there.. But it all works both way.. You need to start putting an effort it to get what you want..