So you've probably noticed that I've been posting my articles mad late. Well, that is because my life has gone from 'I can't find anything to do and I'll just sleep and keep my mind busy all day by thinking and philosophising' to 'I have so much to do, I which I could just get a few hours of sleep so that I could have some time think clearly'. In other words, I went back to college for a master's degree...Alhamdullilah.

So why does this concern you?

Well, the answer to that, is that whatever you may be doing and however much time you have, you have to keep Allah subhanna wa taala in your thought, in your mind, and in your heart as much as possible. In the morning, in the evening, and every moment in between.

So this article isn't going to be just a posting of a bunch of hadith and a summary of books like adhkaar and Fortification fo the Muslim. No, you can read those yourself...and you should.

What I want to do is show you how you can remember Allah subhanna wa taala at all times...like the Sahaba did. How? Well, let's start with the morning insha Allah....

MORNING

Back during my last month abroad in Egypt, just after I completed my courses and before I came home, I was chillin. Really really chillin. My day consisted of waking to the sound of roosters and one of the four sheiks on the radio (Abdul-Baset, Minshawi, Hosari, & Mostafa Ismail) praying fajr at the masjid not two minutes away, coming back home, putting on some Sheikh Dewidar or Sheikh Shuraim and just listening to them half-alseep, half-awake till the sun was way up in the air and somebody made the adhaan for dhuhr. After dhuhr, I would read and study the book "The Sword of Allah" like an armchair general and then later in the day would tink, write and re-write my articles for hidaya while sipping a cup of finely Earl-gray tea on the porch on warm, sunny day. My heart was constantly full.

What you guys would call an eman-rush was rather to me a slow, constant rise because I had nothing else to distract me from Allah subhanna wa taala.

This of course, is not true today...especially in America, where everything is a hussle-bussle, the sun barely comes out, and good luck trying to hear the adhaan for dhuhr. You can't turn on the radio and hear Qu'ran, you can't say salaams to everyone on the street, and it is really hard to make all your prayers in the masjid (Although some do it...and mad props to them).

Does this mean that is the end all of our attachment to Allah, subahanna wa taala? Of course not. So what do we do?

What you do is turn your 45 minute commute to work or school into a opportunity to do all your morning adhkaar and listen to Qu'ran. Buy a couple of tapes of different shuyukh. Get a feeling of different recitations. Make each commute different the the next, so that you don't just listen to the Qu'ran half-heartedly and repetitiously.

Then...

EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

What you do is learn to recite everything in the name of Allah. That's impossible you say. No, it isn't. By the time you learn the duas for leaving/entering the house, riding a vehicle, going to the bathroom, sneezing, eating, fearing, travelling, returning you've just made your entire day a rememberance of Allah. Not to mention that you've gotten protection from shaytaan, had your sins forgive, etc. etc. etc.

EVENING

Then, as you're driving back home you recite all the adhkaar for the evening. The combination of having read the morning and evening adhkaar has just given you such things as forgiveness from Allah, the intercession on Rasul Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on the day of judgement, dying on the fitra, mad good deeds, and on and on and on.

After you make Isha you pray the Shafa and Witr, you make duas, you seek forgiveness, you remember Allah subhanna wa taala before you sleep and insha Allah you meet Allah that night forgiven.

May Allah forgive us all. May He grant us His Paradise which He has made for those who are righteous and do good. May keep us away from Hell-fire.

Waslaam Aleikum Warahmatullah Wabarakatu