What is the Purpose of Life, Really?

This week I have had the opportunity to touch on many subjects relating to Islam and the Muslim. The subject that catches my attention most is what the purpose of  life is to be. I have asked myself this many times."What is my purpose in life?" I can remember going from job to job trying to find out what in particular I was good "at". Perhaps this was my purpose, to land a great job that paid me thousands maybe millions of dollars.Or, perhaps, focusing in on my children and their ups and downs was my purpose for life. But, soon they became teens and were busy trying to find their own purpose in life. Clearly, becoming absorbed in my children's affairs was not my purpose in life. I then came to the conclusion that my purpose in life was to save or to fix men. When I couldn't fix them, I'd simply divorce them. When I realized that I could not fix a drug addicted person, or convince an alcohol addicted person to stop drinking, or preach a "sex outside of marriage" addicted person to stop committing adultery, I would just throw my hands up and move on. I  have, finally, come to the conclusion that none of the above was my purpose in life. The only thing that stayed consistent in my life was the presence of God and my need for prayer and acknowledging His existence. My purpose was not to put emphasis on a job for purpose or to become so involved with my children's lives in order to find purpose, or even trying to fix imperfect husbands as a way of fulfilling my purpose. My only purpose in life is to serve Allah(God) and follow the straight path in doing those things that He wants me to do. By serving Him, He directs my path in how to relate to events in this life. So, the purpose of life is to serve Allah(God) and only Allah(God). To serve Him is truly a sweet, savory taste to the pallet. I can now feel confident in knowing that my happiness comes from serving Allah(God) who is The Creator, The All Knowing, The All Gracious, and The All Most High.

Praising Allah(God) with Existence of Opposition.

The past few weeks have been full of new things for me.But, the one thing that stuck out mostly to me was that whenever there are people praising God and His existence there is always opposition. Why? because shaitan (satan) is there. We, who are on the straight path will always be faced with the taunting of evilness that exist in this world. This is a test to see just how honest and just how committed we are in our devotion to Allah(God). Many things are happening in the world that shows just how prevalent the challenge is to fight off the evil influenced that seek to destroy the Muslim's faith. Movies of desecration of the Prophet Muhammad(may peace be upon him) and of Muslims, hatred by persons who aren't aware that Muslim's praise God, too, or even that we know Isa(Jesus) as being a messenger and the Messiah. That we, too, know Ibrahim (Abraham), Moses, Aaron, Jacob, John the Baptist, and others. Because of the lack of knowledge and this ignorance, the shaitan (satan) is taking advantage of it and running in a rampage against God (Allah) loving people. Shaitan is even using the September 11th tragedy to stir up hatred against the Muslims as a whole every year. In contrary to the belief of those who ignite hatred due to this event and due to the actions of a small group, Muslims do not condone such acts of violence or do we condone acts of suicide.Allah(God) does not condone it. Suicide is a sin that cannot be forgiven! Also, peace is always better than acts of violence. Yes, new things to me, and an old practice of praising God and having opposition to praising God is a challenge that people of faith will seemly always have to face. Knowing That We must strengthen our faith, we must do it at this moment in order to ward of the evil influences of this world.

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Tweet Tweet: Shaitan(Satan) is Alive!

I was quickly going through my Gmail, when I spotted a message from a follower on Twitter. When I opened the email, it was news about the events that had occurred in Libya. I  knew that it was being sent to me because I was Muslim. First upon reading the article, I was very disturbed by what had occurred. I knew, also, that it had to be a small group involved. Also, I knew that it had to be something behind this reaction. Well, I read the article. I am going to share my response and ,also, allow you to read some of  the article.



Terry Jones is an evil person from Florida that calls himself a Christian and a pastor. First, he showed evilness in burning the Qur'an, now he has desecrated a Messenger of God in a movie that caused emotional upheaval. The result was the death at the American Embassy in Lybia.This Terry Jones must be controlled and somehow be sanctioned by the U.S. government! Terry Jones is Satan in the worst form!

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   Keep in mind that out of 1.5 Billion Muslims, the majority are peaceful, God loving people.
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   The movie was made by Israeli producer Sam Bacile, according to a statement released Wednesday from Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, and has been promoted by controversial pastor Terry Jones, the Florida preacher whose Koran burning in March 2010 led to the deadly violence in Afghanistan.
   
   Jones said Tuesday in a statement that the movie was titled "Innocence of Muslims" and was intended not to attack Muslims but to show the "destructive ideology of Islam."
   
   "The movie further reveals in a satirical fashion the life of Muhammad," he said.
   
   Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement condemning the movie and called it an "insult" to Islam.
   
   "Desecration is not a part of the freedom of expression, but a criminal act that has now badly affected the righteous sentiments of 1.5 billion Muslims all over the globe," Karzai said.
   
   ABC News' Martha Raddatz and The Associated Press contributed to this.
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The Strength of the Muslim Man

In my journey into Islam as a new Muslim woman, I have began to observe and understand the strength of the Muslim man. When thinking of leadership, caring for family, and caring for persons in the community,  all other men run second to Muslim men in their dedication. I can tell you from my own personal experience that the Muslim man's traits are very real.For example, my 17 year old son can be a very stubborn person when it comes to standing up for what he believes in. I don't know rather or not it came from me telling him that there was no such thing as can't when I'd encourage him to never give up on something when he was beginning to learn about it. One recent morning, I received a phone call from the school with the message that my son was in the assistant principal's office because he'd refused to take off his favorite shirt of Topak with a west side sign thrown up. He had worn this shirt many times prior to this incident. The school's assistant principal wanted me to pick my son up from school. Before going, I asked to speak to my son. I asked him to just remove the shirt so that he could remain in school. Still he refused to take the shirt off. I headed for the school, more than a little upset about the matter. Once in the principal's office, I saw that my son was fairly upset. The assistant principle was answering different phone lines while trying to talk to me. He said that he was too busy to have to deal with a student refusing to follow adult instructions on changing a shirt. The principal went on to explain that he had already spent 1 hour out of  his day dealing with my son about the removal of the shirt. He went on to tell me that he had gotten information that this particular day was "national gang day" and that he was merely trying to keep my son safe..The only thing I could think to do was to immediately get on the phone to Mr. Eric Harmon, a Muslim man, my teacher, and a person who had taken my son under his wings. I informed Mr. Harmon of what was going on. He asked that I put him on speaker phone. Mr. Harmon spoke, the room became quiet as he asked my son the reason for not removing the shirt, he then asked the principal why hadn't a notice been sent home about gang day , and that perhaps if it was not already being done, that it could be implemented  into next year's agenda. Then he asked to be taken off of speaker phone to speak with the principal one on one. After speaking on the phone with the principal, the phone was handed to my son. I could see the anger and hardness leaving my son's face, as he listened to Mr. Harmon. To my surprise, my son handed me the phone, began to take of the shirt, stood to pulled up his pants, tightened his belt, and replaced his shirt with one of the school shirts that the assistant principal had collected from another office. I put the phone to my ear in amazement. Mr. Harmon explained that men think differently from women. Being that my son was a "young bull", he explained, my son had to make a point. He let my son know that his point was made, but it was now time to follow instruction and head back to class. I cannot thank Mr. Harmon, an active Muslim man for having insight, reaching out, and caring enough to defuse a situation that could have been worse. He showed leadership, love, and understanding for a young teen boy on the verge of manhood. Yes, the Muslim man is indeed a leader, a person interested in family, and actively take interest in those things and persons that are in the community. The assistant principal, in the end, asked if he could add Mr. Harmon to persons to contact for my son, if a need should ever arise again.

Allah Remembers the Orphans and the Women, too.

It is a wonderful feeling when you can just turn to Allah and ask or talk to Him about anything, after doing Salat. For He is All Knowing, Oft-Forgiving. He is so Kind that during the Revelation through His Messenger the orphans and the women were remembered. In the past the orphans and the women had not been treated as well as men. Allah, being All-Knowing, All-Hearing, in Sura-4 AN-NISAA in the Nobel Qur'an, He gave guidance in how the orphans and women should be treated. In Part 4:2 Allah gives instruction to restore property, when the orphans reached their proper age and not to substitute worthless things for their good ones; and devour not their substances (by mixing it up) with ones own. For indeed that is a great sin. And for the women, they are to be given their dower(gift given to women prior to marriage, this is mandatory for a man to give) as an obligation. Also,  the woman are to be fed and clothed with what Allah has given you(man) to manage, and instruction to speak to women with words of kindness and justice. What other way of life is better than this.

Giving You The Challenge

Allahu Akbar! Today brought me much knowledge. Thanks again to Allah for bringing me such a good teacher, Mr. Eric"Abdus" Harmon. From a child I have always been very curious. If  I didn't feel as though something wasn't quite right, I would investigate. For much of my life I felt something missing. Being once brought up to follow the Christian faith, I would go from church to church, read the Holy Bible several times only to feel something still was missing from the literature and the sermons. There was no completenesss. There were many questions that I would research that brought more questions, but no sound answers or divine proof.Then the memories started to stir of a time when I did feel peace, completeness, and truth. That is when I was staying with my granddaddy, Ed, in Ft. Pierce, Florida. He and I would sit and watch services given by Minister Farrakan, the leader of Nation of Islam peacemaking efforts.Those memories were triggered when I walked into a store owned by Muslims and heard familiar music playing. It seemed to draw me in. I became spellbound. The music, I knew it from somewhere. "What is that music playing?" I asked the sales person. It was the Holy Qur'an being played. I , immediately wanted to know how I could get a copy of that music. Well, to make a long story short, this etched out the start of my journey, should I say, back to Islam. I read through the Qur'an like drinking water on a very hot day. My thirst was quenched, at last. I did the research, it was truly divine. Nothing could be disproved in the Qur'an. All of those unanswered questions were answered with Truth, with Divinity. I Give you, as a reader, the challenge of disproving anything presented by the divine inspiration brought forth in the Qur'an. This is, for the second time, a challenge that was given to me by my teacher, Mr. Abdus. Again, nothing could be disproved.

!Allahu Akbar!

God is so Great! There is no way around that fact. I knew that I needed a teacher to help me to praise Allah in the correct way, but I didn't know how it was going to be done other than to go straight to the Knower of All Things, Allah. Yes, In my prayer I made Dua, which is to just ask directly for what you want and both believe that it is done. What a blessing it is that I now have a new teacher that is very well versed and blessed by Allah in his knowledge of the Muslim belief. Mr.Abdus Harmon is a very humble Muslim who teaches not for his own praise, but to honor Allah. He taught me that there is a reward for both ends, the teacher and the one that struggles to learn for the sake of Allah. I am thankful for that because many days during Ramadan I wondered if I would be punished or rather Allah would hear my prayers if I pronounced an Arabic word incorrectly or if I prostrated incorrectly. But, Allah is Merciful, All Knowing, and Forgiving. He is kind and sends me all that I need to honor Him. Allahu Akbar.