Assalamualeikum

I'm back! At least for now :) My life's been busy lately ! I'm juggling too many things at once. Work is driving me crazy. I'm currently working on reports for 3 different states. Personal life's been busy too with some changes that I will share with you on coming posts. Other than that, I'm good alhamdulilah! Trying to survive and be a Super-Hijabee!Thank you to all of you who donated money for my friend, prayed for her, voted or just expressed concern. May Allah reward you for your kindness. I haven't spoken to her recently, I called her but wasn't able to reach her. She doesn't know that I'm raising money for her so this will be a surprise. I will update you with how things are going once I have news!



Last sunday, I went to my Islamic Studies Class at the mosque as usual but the heat wasn't working. We were all freezing even though we were still all wearing our coats & gloves, so you can imagine how cold it was. The class is offered in a room separate from the main prayer room and we were all wondering why the sheikh didn't do the class in the main room since the heat was working fine there. He let us in the cold for 2 hours and it got to a point where I couldn't listen nor concentrate on anything he was saying coz my brain cells were frozen. Just when I was about to give up and leave, he said " let's go upstairs now". Everybody screamed ALHAMDULILAH!So we went in the main room and we all felt better and to our surprise the sheikh said : I did it on purpose. Needless to say, we were all puzzled. " You did what on purpose". He said:" I left you in the cold on purpose so you can remember what people are going through in Gaza and other parts of the world. They don't have heat, food or electricity. Sometimes, you need to feel a little so you can remember". SubhanaAllah, there we were wearing our coats and complaining about the cold while all the sheikh wanted was to remind us of Allah's blessings. To remind us that somewhere, someone is freezing and they don't even have a coat. Somewhere, someone is dying because they are hungry. Somewhere, someone is crying...Somewhere, someone....There is always something happening to someone, somewhere..If only we could be less selfish sometimes and look around us, maybe we would appreciate more and complain less! What a beautiful reminder the sheikh gave me by letting me sit in a cold room for 2 hours. May Allah rewards him for testing my soul on a cold winter morning and I almost failed....

*For those of you who are members of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Hijab,I've been getting questions about why you don't see that there are new posts.You won't be able to notice new posts on Blogger because it's a private blog. You'd have to visit the blog. The automatic feeds don't work for private blogs, the blog's been active. You just have to visit it to see what's going on.