So arrived at work, greeted with : Salam Sister… Salam means peace, Assalamu Alykum : peace upon you, and sister is sister, so not a bad greeting, right? Only its only worthy of an elite group. If they know I have more or less forsake their religion, they wouldn’t wish me peace or consider me a sister.
In my inbox the usual daily email with hadith of the day, I even have that app on my mobile, heh, but it always comes with nice hadiths, none of the cruel ones. Also a sister sent me an email with video link to great women in Islam, that made me laugh and I deleted the email, now I wish I haven’t. It would have been an interesting watch. I may mail her to forward it to me again on my home mail.
This morning I was thinking since I am not praying and not constantly doing wudu (I drink a lot of fluid out of habit, tea and cold drinks, so I go to pee almost every half or one hour) hence my wudu is always broken…. This is another thing that gets me, why do we have to constantly go for wudu, I understand it if one lived in the desert with lots of dust around, but wait, actually I don’t get it if one lived in the desert, they didn’t have much water, its not like they had water on tap or flowing rivers there. I believe some bright spark invented this wudu thing, no way they had all this water to wash 5 times a day. Tayamum is allowed only when one doesn’t have water available, lets face it in the UK, we have more water than sand! still, I don’t get it, if I have a shower everyday, and wash my bum every time I go to the toilet, I should be clean enough to pray without having to do this constant wudu!
Oh before I got distracted, I was saying, if I am not worried about wudu now, I suppose I could go and have my nails done
hehe only I sort of got used to looking natural, and I think it did my toe nails a lot of good to leave them alone without a varnish…. They looked prettier with varnish on though, I will think of a solution.
I need to work on myself and take care of myself now, I have sort of been not caring for a while now, the year when my late husband was very ill in and out of the hospital and after his death, I need to focus on my health and fitness. I was a size 8 UK, and now I am 10/12, I put on at least a stone, I need to sort myself out, need to do some kind of a diet which I hate, at least am not going to fast, I hate fasting as it messes up with my metabolism, and it takes me a couple of months to recover from it. OK, back to work now, will peak at various intervals as am not so busy at the moment.
Just for a laugh this is Hadith of the day sent to me today:
Narrated Anas (radi Allahu anhu): The Prophet (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) had a she camel called Al Adba which could not be excelled in a race. (Humaid, a sub-narrator said, “Or could hardly be excelled.”) Once a bedouin came riding a camel below six years of age which surpassed it (i.e. Al-Adba) in the race. The Muslims felt it so much that the Prophet (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) noticed their distress. He then said, “It is Allah's Law that He brings down whatever rises high in the world.” [The Book of Jihad: Sahih Bukhari]
One of the lessons we get from this hadith is the extreme love that the Sahabah of Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) had for him. When you love somebody very much you want everything belonging to them to be of the best kind. Seeing that the Prophet’s camel was no longer the fastest, the Muslims were upset.
The second lesson we get from this hadith is what Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam) said to his Sahabah at this time. We should not get into competition for worldly things. In this world what goes up, must come down. But as far as the Hereafter is concerned if you make it to Jannat ul Firdous, the highest level in Jannah, you will stay there forever. Jannah is where we should strive to reach the highest station and have the best, for there it is everlasting.
They are so clever in making anything look as if it has a deep meaning in life, FHS, camel race and one camel lost, that's it!!!
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