Patience with Tests: The Eighth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God
Accepting this nature of worldly life helps the servant acquire a basic virtue and cross a very important stop in his journey to God which is that of patience with tests.
Category New Muslims’ Experiences
This section highlights New Muslims’ experiences before and after their conversion to Islam.
Perfecting the Beginnings: The Ninth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God
If you master the beginning of any work, there is a guarantee that you get the desired end of that work in the end.
What Is Mysterious about the Hijab?
Have you ever thought of the Muslim woman’s hijab as just a religious traditional habit? I had… I never knew what hijab really mean until I examined it myself. Since then I’ve never took it off….
My Journey to Islam: A Worthy Struggle with the Hijab
My Mom ’d told me my whole life to be open-minded and to accept everybody, though it was so hard for her to accept this. An American Muslim sister tells of her…
Women’s Reflections on Wearing Headscarf (Hijab)
Why do you wear hijab? When did you start wearing the hijab? To get these questions answered, please watch this video.
Discovering One’s Flaws: The Tenth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God
Trying to discover the flaws within you is better than trying to discover the worlds hidden from you.
Good Friends: The Twelfth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God (1)
Here Ibn `Ata’illah talks to about another flaw which is that of the bad choice of friends. How should the believer choose his friends?
Self-criticism: The Eleventh Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God
The origin of flaws -sins, forgetfulness, lusts, etc. – is to feel self-righteous. After looking within oneself and discovering its flaws, one has to know the origin of these flaws so that he can get rid of them.
Good Friends: The Twelfth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God (2)
Do not befriend someone who does not elevate you with his state. How can one’s friends draw them closer to God and elevate their spiritually?
Keeping up with Mentioning God: The Thirteenth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God
We are still passing though the stage of cleaning up in our journey to God. It’s about a serious flaw of the soul which is that of forgetting mentioning God…