About Time!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

السلام عليكم 

Feels like almost another year has gone by since my last post and an additional year since I have been promising to finish up "Part 2" of "No Cell Phone".  Still, I say, "Al-hamdulillah" that our Creator, Allah, has given me the opportunity to be here once again attempting to write something to bring Him closer to us and bring us closer to Him.  So, it is "About Time," that I updated my blog; even more so, it is about time we drew closer to our "Care-Taker," Allah.  

In case the title of this blog throws you off, albeit to a certain degree the titles of almost all my posts are meant to represent more than one meaning, I do not intend to address the much-mentioned and equally important topic of "time" itself. 

Thank God, Another Break!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

As-salaamu 'Alaykum Wa Rahmatullaah,

So, once again it's been another huge break since my last post.  It almost feels like my breaks or "pauses" end up being entire events in themselves.  If it was practical I would say "no updates" are like "posts" of themselves. Unfortunately, it's something that as of yet cannot manage to change. I really want to go back to the second part of the "No Cell Phone" post, but another thing came up which I have to put up while it's still fresh in my mind.  

If you couldn't guess already, it's another khutbah that I really wanted to share with you.  I pray to Allah that he allows us to benefit from it and to bring it into practice.  Aameen.

iPause

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

(In the Name of Allah, The Ever-All-Merciful, The Ever-Specifically Merciful.)

   It has been a long time since I wrote my last post.  Working to advance oneself in life is a tolling job.  I had planned on writing the second part to the "No Cell Phone!?" post but, as you can probably guess from the title of this post, I am going to take a little pause from that and share something else with you.  And, no, sorry, this is not going to be about an iPod, or an iPad, or any other iWhatever-you-might-think-of.  It is an iPause, nonetheless.  By the way, you can now share any of my posts on the dreaded facebook, twitter, the buzz, and good-old email.  I added those buttons at the end of every post. :)

   I wanted to share a khutbah (religious sermon/talk) with you about akhlaaq.  Al-hamdulillah, I have "full rights" to type it up and even add some annotations that might not have been part of the original.  So, following is a transcription of the khutbah with my annotations in parentheses (...) .  It should be noted that this khutbh was given to an audience who subscribe to a specific line of thought so most of the references are from scholars of the same line of thought; this should not hinder from the main message, which is applicable all across the board. I pray to Allah that we all benefit from it, Aameen: