Tagged: Islam

The Short Story of My Grandmother

This is not a happy story, but actually a story about my mother’s family during hard times for years. My mom came from a lower-income family from Sumatera, and her story is a kind of self-reflection story and taught me to become a better person. This story is real, being told by my mother and my aunts. They were the living witnesses of this story. It’s all began with my...

Broken Promises

As I previously written on my previous post about promises (here), here’s the law in Islam how do we need to pay our broken promises or oath: Allah will not impose blame upon you for what is meaningless in your oaths, but He will impose blame upon you for [breaking] what you intended of oaths. So its expiation is the feeding of ten needy people from the average of that...

Denied, Ridiculed, Hypocrites

This is a verse from QS An-Nisa’: 140. Found this verse today, just want to share it here 🙂   And it has already come down to you in the Book that when you hear the verses of Allah [recited], they are denied [by them] and ridiculed; so do not sit with them until they enter into another conversation. Indeed, you would then be like them. Indeed Allah will gather the...

Prayer For My Mother

Dear God, I know I am a sinner. Every second I live I never get away from all this sin. I know I am a liar. Every single word I speak is only lie. I know I am unfaithful to You. Even though I know that You always grace me with Your joy These sins is all about me. About how I stuck with my own lust and greed. But...