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Ramadan Tip #4: Secret MUSLIM MAN... or Woman
In this Ramadan tips episode, Theresa and Kaighla offer honest, sincere advice to those Muslims who are trying to fast + pray in Ramadan when they are secretly Muslim. What should you do if your boss/family/friends don't know you're Muslim? Kaighla tells a story of a time she had to take a leap of faith much like what a new Muslim has to when people find out they've converted, and how that turned out for her.
Note: We both use the phrase "in the closet" to refer to people who have not been able to come out and tell people about their decision to convert. We mean no offense and have no intention of downplaying the very real struggle people face when they are in-the-closet homosexuals. There just isn't a better phrase for what it's like to hide a core aspect of your identity from the people you love.
@3:43 Theresa says that "actions are based on intentions." This is based on an authentic hadith (or saying from Prophet Muhammad) wherein he said:
"Actions are according to intentions, and everyone will get what was intended. Whoever migrates with an intention for Allah and His messenger, the migration will be for the sake of Allah and his Messenger. And whoever migrates for worldly gain or to marry a woman, then his migration will be for the sake of whatever he migrated for."
[Bukhari & Muslim]
@4:14 Theresa says that Prophet Abraham's family "threw him into the fire." This is based on the Qur'anic story found in 21:51-71.
@2:35 Kaighla mentions that the first converts were forced into the mountains and starved out by their own family, and that for the first 3 years of revelation, everyone was secretly Muslim. This is based on stories in Seerah An-Nabawi, authentic recordings of the lives of Prophet Muhammad and the early Muslims.
@6:14 Theresa says that if something is harder, you get more reward for doing it. This is based on a hadith specifially about trying to read the Qur'an in Ramadan.
Verily the one who recites the Qur'an beautifully, smoothly, and precisely, he will be in the company of the noble and obedient angels. And as for the one who recites with difficulty, stammering or stumbling through its verses, then he will have TWICE that reward." [Bukhari and Muslim]
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In this Ramadan tips episode, Theresa and Kaighla offer honest, sincere advice to those Muslims who are trying to fast + pray in Ramadan when they are secretly Muslim. What should you do if your boss/family/friends don't know you're Muslim? Kaighla tells a story of a time she had to take a leap of faith much like what a new Muslim has to when people find out they've converted, and how that turned out for her.
Note: We both use the phrase "in the closet" to refer to people who have not been able to come out and tell people about their decision to convert. We mean no offense and have no intention of downplaying the very real struggle people face when they are in-the-closet homosexuals. There just isn't a better phrase for what it's like to hide a core aspect of your identity from the people you love.
@3:43 Theresa says that "actions are based on intentions." This is based on an authentic hadith (or saying from Prophet Muhammad) wherein he said:
"Actions are according to intentions, and everyone will get what was intended. Whoever migrates with an intention for Allah and His messenger, the migration will be for the sake of Allah and his Messenger. And whoever migrates for worldly gain or to marry a woman, then his migration will be for the sake of whatever he migrated for."
[Bukhari & Muslim]
@4:14 Theresa says that Prophet Abraham's family "threw him into the fire." This is based on the Qur'anic story found in 21:51-71.
@2:35 Kaighla mentions that the first converts were forced into the mountains and starved out by their own family, and that for the first 3 years of revelation, everyone was secretly Muslim. This is based on stories in Seerah An-Nabawi, authentic recordings of the lives of Prophet Muhammad and the early Muslims.
@6:14 Theresa says that if something is harder, you get more reward for doing it. This is based on a hadith specifially about trying to read the Qur'an in Ramadan.
Verily the one who recites the Qur'an beautifully, smoothly, and precisely, he will be in the company of the noble and obedient angels. And as for the one who recites with difficulty, stammering or stumbling through its verses, then he will have TWICE that reward." [Bukhari and Muslim]