Short Prayer/Dua/Dhikr in Islam

There are so many Short Prayer/Dua/Dhikr in Islam. We should learn them , understand them and remember to say few times a day. As a kid, I learn few  that I want to share here. I hope to teach my family the same and hopefully someone who is reading at this blog entry will be benefited Insha-Allah. The prayer/duas are so beautiful and it's Allahs' mercy that it was provided to us to elevate ourselves to help to go Heaven insha-allah.

Islam 2nd Pillar : Praying 5 Times/Day

Islam has 5 Pillars. Second Pillar is Praying 5 times a day.

• Prayer is one way to directly connect to our Creator. We can do Wudu and pray in any place that is clean. 
• We pray with the understanding that God is in-front of us.
• We recite Sura Fatiha in every rakat in a prayer. God responds after each line we recite in Sura Fatiha.
• For non-arabic person, it is better if we can learn the meaning of Suras so that we know what we are saying during prayer.
• One of the closes moment to our God is when we touch our head on the floor. We should make duas and ask Allah for Saving us from Hell Fire and other duas.
• We should be humble in our prayer.
• We should have all the major feelings like this
• "Fear"
• We fear of doing wrong and worried of Hell Fire and only God can save us.
• "Hope"
• We try our best and hope that God accepts our prayer and good deed.
• "Love"
• We love our Creator and God loves us more than anyone can

What I want to do ?

What is the goal of life ? As a Kid, My goal was to go to school and study. Then later the focus was to get a job and live in own place independent. Then getting married, raising kids etc. Alhamdulillah, Allah (SWT) has provided me and made my life easier. Sadly, we humans don't say enough thanks to our God and we can never give enough Thanks to the almighty. 

Our goal in life is to follow Islam, live the way Allah wants us to live and follow Quran and Sunnah. Personally, I have some goals that can be summarized in 3 bullet points:

1. Find time to learn/understand Quran and help kids/Family.

2. Take care of Parents as much as possible. It is a challenge for me as my parents live in a different country. Calling them regularly is something I can do now but I need to more Insha-Allah, but I don't know how yet.

3. There are lot of poor/needy people and it is our obligation to help them financially. I really want to do it but need to make it happen Insha-Allah.

May Allah make it easy to work on my Goals Insha-Allah.

Islam : Teaching Kids Manner at Home

Raising kids now-a-days is different than how it was done for my parents or grand-parents. As parents, we have less help with regard to raising kids and they are also exposed to different culture/society outside home.

As a parent, we need to be setup good example that kids can learn/follow from very young age. Just telling them about good deeds/manners is not enough. For example, Parents should be putting best soft behavior towards the kids as much as possible. Yelling at the kids or being Rude is not teaching them good manners. They may get scared and listen to us, but they will NOT once they grow older. Worst case, they may do the same with their own kids. Is this what we really want ?

As Muslim, we do our best to follow Quran and Sunnah. If we look at how our Prophet (Peace be upon Him) lived his life, we will see all the great examples of how we behaved with everyone including spouse, children, rich, poor or anyone. We try our best to implement his examples in our life and hopefully we can pass it to our own kids. This is our responsibility and it is also our Kid's right on us. 

Islam is the best religion and it is a complete religion from Allah (SWT). May Allah guide us to the straight path and help us to follow Quran and Sunnah. 

 Islam: What happens after Death ?

We all come to world for a short time, but sadly we don't want to think about Death as it is a tough subject. Remembering death often like daily is needed and it helps us to to stay in correct path and prepare us when death comes to us without any notice. I recently came across the following article and it gives the true picture on what happens after Death. Please take some time to read it and it is easy to understand. I hope it will benefit you and insha-allah we hope and pray to Allah SWT that we die as Muslim and do our part before death comes to us.

Click here: What happens after Death ?