It’s a (temporary) collective sigh of relief as the Saudi Arabian authorities announced 30 days of Sha’ban a few minutes ago and thus Wednesday night will be the first night of Tarawih prayers in the Haramain and Thursday 13th September being their first fasting day of Ramadhan.
Seeing that most of us here in the West also expect to start on Thursday, at least we’ll have a unified start between the two main camps in the UK insha’Allah.
Incidentally, anyone wishing to join us tomorrow night to fulfill the Sunnah of sighting the Crescent moon is most welcome to join us on the Glossop plains.
September 11, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Thursday – alhamdulillah. Those of us wanting to maximise the ‘ajr of our ‘ibadah (who doesn’t?) can insha’Allah combine intention for Ramadan with intention for the sunnah of fasting on thurdays insha’Allah.
Anywhere specific in Glossop? What time is best?
September 11, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Assalamu Alaikum Abu Eesa,
Please don’t take my request the wrong way insha Allah.
I would like to have said I read your previous article in full and am looking to implement all these. However the following I see with regret but I fear I am not alone.
I am of the Muslims whom talk Islam but walk little and drive much. I am trying slowly to increase the amount but this will take time (and May Allah give me that which I need to save me from the fire). One piece of advice I have found beneficial was to spend just 1 minute a day reading Quran(I try one page in a Quran that always end a sentence on a page) a day. This is small but a start insha Allah and still progress be it slow.
Do you have this type of advice, small but insha Allah stepping stones for the likes of me.
Wassalam
September 11, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Assalamu Alaykum, are sisters welcome then? Is a group going down or with their mahram?
September 12, 2007 at 11:20 am
SALAAM.
WHERE IN GLOSSOP IS THIS MOON SIGHTING GOING ON???
September 12, 2007 at 1:16 pm
There are no glossop in Cheadle in it?
September 12, 2007 at 7:25 pm
AKH
NO GLOSSOP8 IN CHEADLE.ITS NEAR HYDE.GO UP HYDE RD,M67 GO STR8 AT ROUNDABOUT.WEN U GET TO TRAFFIC LIGHTS FOLLOW SIGNS TO GLOSSOP.WHERE TO GO FRM THERE I DNT KNW.MAYB SUM1 CN TELL ME.
September 12, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Salams,
Got a question:
When you to masjid for taraweeh and say you make intention for 2 rakah nafl, then you realise Imam is reading a 1 or 3 rakah witr, what do you do in this situation?
September 17, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Wa ‘alaykum salam wa rahmatullah
1. RE brother Muhammad’s question concerning the Witr prayer: as long as you stand behind the Imam with the intention to follow him, that is acceptable insha’Allah due to the need. Then, whether he prays 3, or 2 and 1, or 3 “like Maghrib” or 5 straight without any sitting in between, it will be accepted from you due to the “lesser nature” of the Witr prayer. This will not be the case of course for the obligatory 5 prayers of the day as mentioned in the books of fiqh.
And Allah knows best.
2. RE brother T: you certainly aren’t alone in what you mention – add me to your list. We all talk a lot and don’t follow it up with what we’d like and that represents the daily battle we fight with our nafs as Believers in a world that has already sold its soul to its Amir, al-Shaytan.
May Allah support us and help us all – small and continous is the aim and a real achievement. To read a little Qur’an everyday than to finish it once in the last ten nights and then not touch it again until next Ramadhan – well, it’s a no brainer as to which is better. Keep up your reciting, make use of the peace and quiet after you finish your prayer every day to get closer to Allah through glorifying and praising him with the tasbeeh you make, keep in close contact with the practising Muslims so as to limit the amount of time you spend alone, and try as much as possible to find those circles of knowledge where you can sit with scholars and teachers who will benefit you more than you might imagine now, but will appreciate so much later insha’Allah.
May Allah bless our time and protect us from the weakness of our own souls, ameen.