September 18, 2005
· Filed under Uncategorized
Looking For a Friend
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
As salaamu alaikum
I feel as if I’m going to another stage of my life. I’ve matured so much from where I was a year ago, where I was six months ago. Allah (swt) is guiding me to a new understanding and to new goals. I’m much more conscious of my faith than I use to be. I now feel a need to understand really understand the deen. Not just know it but really understand it. I think that by understanding what Islam really means, one can truly capture the spirit of the deen. Honestly, I haven’t seen too many Muslims who do this. I often think that I don’t do this and everyday is a day where I try.
I’m naturally reclusive but I think this zeal to truly practice my deen is pushing me to try and associate with other Muslims. This isn’t easy. I’m not outgoing and I often feel uncomfortable around people that I barely know. For some reason, this uneasy feeling becomes heightened around my peers and I think it is part of the reason why I don’t have many Muslim peers. I’ve been praying to Allah (swt) to meet Muslimahs that I can become friends with and to help me to go to the places where I can meet them. I have this bad habit of going to school and then coming home. When I do go out, it’s usually with my family.
As I try to navigate the world as a Muslimah, I find comfort in my deen but I also feel a longing to have friendly peers who are going through the same joys and trials that I’m going through. My whole life I have never had a real friend who was a Muslimah. Now that I’m trying to practice the deen, I find this to be a bit painful. Inshallah, this will change soon and I will be able to blossom and open up.
September 18, 2005
· Filed under Uncategorized
Looking For a Friend
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
As salaamu alaikum
I feel as if I’m going to another stage of my life. I’ve matured so much from where I was a year ago, where I was six months ago. Allah (swt) is guiding me to a new understanding and to new goals. I’m much more conscious of my faith than I use to be. I now feel a need to understand really understand the deen. Not just know it but really understand it. I think that by understanding what Islam really means, one can truly capture the spirit of the deen. Honestly, I haven’t seen too many Muslims who do this. I often think that I don’t do this and everyday is a day where I try.
I’m naturally reclusive but I think this zeal to truly practice my deen is pushing me to try and associate with other Muslims. This isn’t easy. I’m not outgoing and I often feel uncomfortable around people that I barely know. For some reason, this uneasy feeling becomes heightened around my peers and I think it is part of the reason why I don’t have many Muslim peers. I’ve been praying to Allah (swt) to meet Muslimahs that I can become friends with and to help me to go to the places where I can meet them. I have this bad habit of going to school and then coming home. When I do go out, it’s usually with my family.
As I try to navigate the world as a Muslimah, I find comfort in my deen but I also feel a longing to have friendly peers who are going through the same joys and trials that I’m going through. My whole life I have never had a real friend who was a Muslimah. Now that I’m trying to practice the deen, I find this to be a bit painful. Inshallah, this will change soon and I will be able to blossom and open up.
September 9, 2005
· Filed under school
Bismillahir rahmanir raheem
As salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullah
To those who have seen my blog in the past, welcome back! I have been really busy with work, getting ready for school, and just the usual stuff that comes along in the summer. Sorry for not writing for what seems like an eternity. There’s so much stuff to write on: Hurricanes, death of a racist Chief Justice, start of classes…the list goes on. I will try to address all those and more in a timely manner.
You may have noticed that I changed the address of my blog. I moved my blog to blogster just to see if I like format better. I must say that it is a lot easier to type and format on blogster. No trying to remember html code here 
The only drawback is trying to get my pictures and smilies in place. That seems to be a bit harder to do here.
So, I started school on Tuesday and I’m getting back into the flow of things. I’m glad that I have classes to distract me from the news, which for obvious reasons has been very depressing. I don’t know if I mentioned this in my last blog entry but I decided to stay at CCP. For some reason, I just couldn’t bring myself to attend Temple. I did much praying on this decision and I just felt like Allah (swt) was bringing me to attend CCP. Even though I miss being on a traditional campus, I’m happy with my decision. I’ve been offered the opportunity to tutor students in reading at local elementary schools and to make it even better, I’ll be getting paid for it as part of my work study. I’ve also been offered the chance to be on the Student Leadership Council of the college. Inshallah, this will work in my favor as I try to transfer later on in the school year. For the first time in a long time, I’m actually excited about school. I’m thankful to Allah (swt) for the opportunities He has given me this school and I pray that I am able to take advantage of all of them to the fullest.
Well, I’ll write more in another entry. For now, I must be off. Peace 
.
~Faith
P.S. I figured out how to get my smilies to work. 
September 9, 2005
· Filed under school
Bismillahir rahmanir raheem
As salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullah
To those who have seen my blog in the past, welcome back! I have been really busy with work, getting ready for school, and just the usual stuff that comes along in the summer. Sorry for not writing for what seems like an eternity. There’s so much stuff to write on: Hurricanes, death of a racist Chief Justice, start of classes…the list goes on. I will try to address all those and more in a timely manner.
You may have noticed that I changed the address of my blog. I moved my blog to blogster just to see if I like format better. I must say that it is a lot easier to type and format on blogster. No trying to remember html code here The only drawback is trying to get my pictures and smilies in place. That seems to be a bit harder to do here.
So, I started school on Tuesday and I’m getting back into the flow of things. I’m glad that I have classes to distract me from the news, which for obvious reasons has been very depressing. I don’t know if I mentioned this in my last blog entry but I decided to stay at CCP. For some reason, I just couldn’t bring myself to attend Temple. I did much praying on this decision and I just felt like Allah (swt) was bringing me to attend CCP. Even though I miss being on a traditional campus, I’m happy with my decision. I’ve been offered the opportunity to tutor students in reading at local elementary schools and to make it even better, I’ll be getting paid for it as part of my work study. I’ve also been offered the chance to be on the Student Leadership Council of the college. Inshallah, this will work in my favor as I try to transfer later on in the school year. For the first time in a long time, I’m actually excited about school. I’m thankful to Allah (swt) for the opportunities He has given me this school and I pray that I am able to take advantage of all of them to the fullest.
Well, I’ll write more in another entry. For now, I must be off. Peace .
~Faith
P.S. I figured out how to get my smilies to work.
September 9, 2005
· Filed under school
Bismillahir rahmanir raheem
As salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullah
To those who have seen my blog in the past, welcome back! I have been really busy with work, getting ready for school, and just the usual stuff that comes along in the summer. Sorry for not writing for what seems like an eternity. There’s so much stuff to write on: Hurricanes, death of a racist Chief Justice, start of classes…the list goes on. I will try to address all those and more in a timely manner.
You may have noticed that I changed the address of my blog. I moved my blog to blogster just to see if I like format better. I must say that it is a lot easier to type and format on blogster. No trying to remember html code here The only drawback is trying to get my pictures and smilies in place. That seems to be a bit harder to do here.
So, I started school on Tuesday and I’m getting back into the flow of things. I’m glad that I have classes to distract me from the news, which for obvious reasons has been very depressing. I don’t know if I mentioned this in my last blog entry but I decided to stay at CCP. For some reason, I just couldn’t bring myself to attend Temple. I did much praying on this decision and I just felt like Allah (swt) was bringing me to attend CCP. Even though I miss being on a traditional campus, I’m happy with my decision. I’ve been offered the opportunity to tutor students in reading at local elementary schools and to make it even better, I’ll be getting paid for it as part of my work study. I’ve also been offered the chance to be on the Student Leadership Council of the college. Inshallah, this will work in my favor as I try to transfer later on in the school year. For the first time in a long time, I’m actually excited about school. I’m thankful to Allah (swt) for the opportunities He has given me this school and I pray that I am able to take advantage of all of them to the fullest.
Well, I’ll write more in another entry. For now, I must be off. Peace .
~Faith
P.S. I figured out how to get my smilies to work.
