Nothing in this world can bring comfort to the heart and a sense of inner peace more than reciting the Qur’an. The Qur’an comes to save you every time you feel sad, lost and confused.
Sheikh Bilal Assad mentioned how 3 days after his son and brother had passed away, he found himself standing on the edge of a flat roof of a house. It was the same roof he had spent the last time with his son, the night before he passed away.
He thought, “Why am i not with them? Why am i still living? I should be with them.”
At that moment, subhanaAllah, the Qur’an started being recited from the mosque speakers. And you know what the first verse was?
I have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed [to you] - Indeed, I am Allah. There is no deity except Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance.
no, we dont have worship songs. the permissibility of songs alone is questioned by a number of muslim scholars. some say songs are completely haram, most say its the instruments that make songs haram. i have the belief that songs arent haram unless theres something haram in the lyrics or meaning of the song (e.g. if the song encourages addiction to drugs, sex, alcohol, porn, etc)
we do have nasheeds, tho, which are mostly sung a capella and have religious meanings and such in the lyrics. the wikipedia page claims that theyre used to encourage terrorism or violence, which is untrue.
interestingly, tho, the quran does get mistaken for singing quite often. its not music, let me make that clear, but it has certain rules for pronouncing certain letters paired together and such which does give it a musical sort of sound. it sounds incredibly soothing, even to non-muslims. id recommend listening to it, if youre comfy with that<3
Went to a bookstore after class and was shocked to find a shelf of cassettes (!) I didn’t buy any books today but my dad bought home a box of pizza so I had pizza after so many months. It was straight out of the oven and was so good in this cold weather :’) hopefully my stomach doesn’t complain but I did go to bed early in Fear 🤡 Also today my minions juniors went to buy some items at muji lol and when one of them called I heard the other one in the back going ‘she should have never sent us alone 🤧 I want to buy everything!’ it was so cute lmao she was having a whole experience I’m so glad I sent them💓