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UmmBilal is living my dream – living in the city of the beloved (saws).  Her blog is a spectacular journal of Medina (and Mecca on occasion) and the Prophet (saws).  She mixes photographs of the city and the masjid an nabi with stories, ahadith and poems, often dedicated to the beloved.  Do visit her blog when you have a few hours to read it all.  It will be time well spent inshaAllah.

Heads up!

The month of Ramadan is often used as a means of correcting our slackened efforts in this deen. It is a month when extra effort is made towards spiritual goals, with the du’a that we will receive blessings for our good works, and the hope that we will come out of Ramadan ready to incorporate more into our daily spiritual practice the rest of the year.

Many Muslims keep journals throughout Ramadan to track their progress on goals and save for future benefit the feelings, sights, and lessons learned throughout the holy month.

Gratitude is one of the character-improvements that we should see as a fruit of Ramadan. “Depriving” ourselves for the month should make it that much clearer to us how much we take for granted, how much we sometimes normally overeat, overspend, oversocialize, over-talk, etc.

So, this year, the Grateful to Allah blog will host a blog carnival designed to celebrate our gratitude to Allah. This is an opportunity to take the lessons learned, the insights discovered, and the goals intended during Ramadan and express our gratitude for them. It is also an opportunity to share and learn from what each other have experienced throughout the month.

• This carnival is open to ALL Muslims.
• After winding down from Ramadan and the Eid festivities, please look over your journals, blog entries, and memories of the month and write a blog post expressing what you are grateful to Allah for.
• Email the link to your post, along with your name, email address, and the name of your blog to niqaabisister@yahoo.com. Or you can submit through the Muslimas Speak Up! Blog Carnival Submission form (technically this is not an MSU carnival, LOL, but to keep the Blog Carnival site appeased I have to list something anyway, and many of you find it easier to submit through that form, so please feel free.)  
• Submission deadline will be Wednesday October 8.
• The carnival will be posted at the Grateful to Allah blog on Saturday October 11, inshaAllah.
• Please feel free to be creative; express yourself in your own way. Artwork and photographs with explanation of how they relate are welcome. Poetry, journal entries, essays, etc. are all fine.
• If you do not have your own blog but would like to participate, email your post and it can be hosted at the blog.
• Older blog posts related to gratitude are also welcome! Do not feel that you must write about Ramadan-related matters, or only what you felt grateful for during Ramadan. Ramadan is just a nice jumping-off point, but we should express this gratitude to Allah all year long.
• No limitations (as long as it’s halal, LOL): Poetry, essays, articles, lists, meandering random thoughts, quotes, photos, whatever: However you would like to express appropriate gratitude to Allah – please share.

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Sometimes I happen upon a blog where I get the urge just to sit and read through the entire thing.  I stumbled upon one such blog today – Fatima Hye.  I haven’t found blogs belonging to too many of Sh. Nuh’s students, so it’s a rare treat when I find one.  This sister in particular writes quite a few good entries on sufism, the tariq and the teacher.  I tried to leave a comment, but it didn’t go through.  inshaAllah she’ll find me through the link back, and maybe even contact me   Taking the tariq is still my intention eventually, inshaAllah, and I feel corresponding with people in the tariq would help me to grasp “it” more fully. 

The ritual of my daily blogstroll continues gets longer and longer as the list of blogs I frequent expands. Occasionally I can trim it when a blog goes defunct, but I’m so attached, it’s hard to get rid of someone I’ve been reading for a long time, so my list just continues to grow. Even if someone hasn’t updated for months and months, I still keep them on the list and visit them once a week, hoping for something new.

So, here is a list of the sisters’ blogs I visit, minus the ones that haven’t been updated for awhile. I’m pretty sure these blogs are written by sisters, although there are one or two that I guessed when I categoriesed them. Order isn’t indicative of anything except for the order I added them to my favorites menu.

Sunni Sister
Izzy Mo
SufiStication
JiLbAbBLe
Raising Yousuf, Unplugged
Islamic Fashion
Dervish
Dictator Princess
Hijabi Apprentice
Nzinghas’ Soapbox
Organic Muslimah
Muslim Apple
Travelers on the Path of Knowledge
The Egyptian’s Wife
Southern Muslimah
Warped Galaxies
ALMISKEENAH
Achelois
The Imam’s Daughter
Soliloquies of A Stranger
Inner Reflections Transcribed
All About Marriage and the Search
Through a Muslimah’s Veil
Writeous Sister Speaks
Ginny’s Thoughts & Things
Saudi Stepford Wife
The Muslimah
Koonj: the crane
Tradicionalista
Honorary Arab
Safa
PM’s World