Largest America Tarawih

Thousands of Muslims from across the US and Canada welcomed the holy fasting month of Ramadan, which started Monday, September 1, by joining the largest congregation for Tarawih prayer in the history of North America.

“It is an amazing site to see thousands of Muslim men, women and children standing shoulder to shoulder with their fellow Muslims of their gender and simultaneously bowing down in prayer to God in worship,” a Greek Orthodox woman who only identified herself as Helen told IslamOnline.net.

“I’ve never seen anything quite like this.”

Helen joined many non-Muslims who watched with admiration as thousands of Muslims prayed in unison.

The Tarawih, a special nightly prayers performed during Ramadan, marked the conclusion of the annual Islamic Society of North American (ISNA) convention.

It began shortly after 9:30 pm Sunday, August 31, in the large prayer hall of the convention center.

For Barbara Pouros, a Cincinatti resident wearing a brown, orange and beige hijab even though she had not yet formally converted to Islam, the Tarawih was the highlight of the ISNA convention.

Asked what drew her to Islam, she recalled that after meeting a Muslim one month after 9/11 and being invited to his mosque, she wanted to know more about prayer.

“So I did a lot of research on the Internet to figure out what was being said in the prayer.

“I like the simple quiet, rustling of fabrics and bowing my head to the ground and this makes Islam so rich and full.”

Entertainment

A couple of hours before the Tarawih, many Muslims attended ISNA entertainment program, which features several poets, Nasheed singers and a comedian.

The house was packed with an enthusiastic audience.

The looks on the children’s faces sitting next to their parents reflected the joy and happiness of the evening.

“This is the happiest day of my life,” Ahmed Khan, a ten-year-old fourth grader from Houston, told IOL.

“I want to be a Nasheed singer like Native Deen. They are my favorite group.”

Native Deen, a famous Nasheed group, participated in several youth activities during the ISNA convention.

Aisha Mohamed, a 12-year-old originally from Somalia, had a similar dream.

“When I grow up, I wanna be a comedian and make people laugh.”

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You always listen this shiekh in your ipod, phone or mp3 but the people who saw him recite quran in video are not that much. It’s always wonderful to see our favorite shiekh in video, because listening and seeing are not same. To save time for you, we will leave you with the beautiful recitation of Shiekh Mohamed Al-Mohisni, you can also visit his website from www.almohisni.com

Today I would like to share with you one of greatest nasheed by Mishare Al-Afasy. It’s called “Ana Abdu”, I got the arabic lyrics and send to google to translate and here is the roughly translated lyrics

I Abed, who earn sins Our aspiration is to repent

I’m sad Abed, who became concerned when he slipped up on the bleak

I Abed, who established it did not hide the fact Sergeant

I secretly Abd abuser disobey me now, what does not make lamentations

I never lost Abd excessive did INSIGHT Youth and greying

I bring Bahr Al Greco Tip of the respondents gave perhaps

I’m sick of Al sins have sought a doctor she came back

I myself had been wronged Al-Shareed The door while Lafitte

Lyrics: Gamal Eddin Chirring

or arabic

أنا العبد الذي كسب الذنوبـــا وصدته الأماني أن يتوبــــــــا

أنا العبـد الـذي أضحـى حزينـــاً على زلاته قلقاً كئيـبــــــــــا

أنا العبد الذي سطـرت علـيـــه صحائف لم يخف فيها الرقيـبــــا

أنا العبد المسيــئ عصـيـت سراً فما لي الآن لا أبدي النحيـبـــا

أنا العبد المفرط ضــاع عـمـــري فلم أرع الشبيبة والمشـيـبـــــا

أنا العبـد الغريـق بلج بحــــــــرٍ أصيـح لربما ألقــى مجيبـــــــــا

أنا العبد السقيـم مـن الخطـايــا وقد أقبلت ألتمـــس الطبيـبــا

أنا العبد الشريد ظلمت نفسي وقد وافيت بابكـم منيـبــــــــا

كلمات: جمال الدين الصرصري

Stop using myspace & Facebook

What’s up with our Muslim youth? why are we acting like there is nothing wrong in the world? Sorry if my writing sounds that I’m mad, but I’m really serous. Ok, let me explain what I’m trying to say, we are in very messed up world, muslims are being proscuted and oppressed but our youth don’t really know what is going on in the world…We are busy using myspace and facebook, but never bother to listen our people’s suffering. How can we be the leaders of tomorrow if we act like this way? to be honest, let’s be serous, learn what’s going on around you…read the news from reliable source Insha Allah.

Do you think that our youth should know what is going on around the world so they can be aware of what’s happening to their people?

You decide…

wa bilaahi tawfiiq

Muslims built this amazing piece of Art

“Well, to be honest from my childhood I was exposed with westren history and culture, so, I didn’t get the chance for someone to teach me” that is what most people say, this is true for some of us but as we grow up we should have searched way to get educate ourselves about the rich and beautiful Islamic History.

Maybe it’s not too late for us to find rich Islamic History source. I looked for many Islamic websites, looking for for authantic and reliable Islamic history source, some of the websites I could say we can trust and it has enough Islamic information is http://www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm#History There is criteria that the website has to meet to qualify as trusted historical website.

I just have to tell you that you need to be extra caution of what website you get your info from because I have seen like 100s of websites that twist Islamic information to use it as propaganda. It’s us Muslims who need to publish our history and teach others no matter what and clear all misconceptions.

You can also share your idea of how can someone learn easily about Islamic History…

Bismillah

Asalama Alaykum

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