Nomadic Journey

We take a walk down memory lane and share some about our past Ramadhan’s: mind-blowing moment that changed Ramadhan for us forever, tough moments that made Ramadhan hard, and happy moments that made Ramadhan heart-fully light.

At the beginning of Ramadhan, we chose a book to read together and reflect on: The Content of Character is a compilation 130 of hadiths on character.

In this episode, Faisal leads the first discussion in this series on the first 44 hadiths in the book.

From Amazon: The Content of Character. As a scholar, Shaykh Al-Amin Mazrui attempted to be a bridge between Islam and modernity. Shaykh Al-Amin s choice of these favored sayings of the Prophet (P.B.U.H) in The Content of Character translated and introduced here by Hamza Yusuf was influenced by his effort to be a bridge-builder, especially between the values of tradition and the norms of modernity, between the wisdom of religion and the compassion of humanity.

Work doesn’t stop, now, does it?

In this episode, we share our first fast and work experiences, how we try to stay focused and productive at work, and interactions with our coworkers

First part of our series for this blessed month! In the Qur’an Reflection series, we’ll study the Qur’an: reflect on a few verses from the Holy Book, dive into tafsir, and find lessons we can apply in our lives.

In this episode, we reflect on verses 7:44-51 from Surah Al-A’raf (The Heights) in which Allah swt tells us about the People of The Heights, standing on the barrier between Heaven and Hell.

It can be hard to maintain a workout routine during the Blessed Month. Do we workout before Suhoor, after Suhoor, later in the day closer to Iftaar, after Iftaar, after Taraweeh? What do we eat for Suhoor and Iftaar to best prepare us for a good workout?

In this episode, we discuss adapting our fitness routines to the Ramadhan schedule.

Prophet Muhammad pbuh said that Ramadhan is the month, whose beginning is mercy, its middle forgiveness, and its end emancipation from the fire of Hell.

SubhanAllah, we’re in the 2nd ten days of Ramadhan already. In this episode, we discuss this Ashra (ten days) of Ramadhan- days of forgiveness: where in our lives we see God’s forgiveness, how we understand God’s forgiveness, and how forgiveness ties into fasting.

Allah swt says in the Qur’an (49:13) People, We created you all… and made you into races and tribes so that you should recognize one another.

An important part of gaining perspectives is to listen to and learn from people who are different from us. We wanted to hear the different cultures of Ramadhan, so we decided to invite some friends from different parts of the world.

In our first episode of this series, we’re joined by Ahmed from Hadramot, Yemen. Ahmed grew up in Yemen and moved to the US in the spring of 2015 for higher education, and he is currently a civil engineer working in Boston.

Whether it’s the grade you’re shooting for in the class you’re taking, the project milestone you need to complete, the training for the race you’ve signed up for, or the things you want to accomplish this Ramadhan, goal setting is what takes you where you want to be.

In this episode, we discuss our goal setting techniques, what works for us and what doesn’t, and the things about goal setting that we often don’t hear.