Following Intuition & Wishing a Great Weekend

I had a lovely day today and I hope you sisters did too!

Alhamdulillah I've become a bit better (at least this week) at following my intuition :-) Like earlier today, when I was going out to buy some food, I thought the man in the restaurant wasn't that friendly and I didn't have the best feeling about it. So I went outside and without thinking, my legs guided me to a hidden Islamic store, close to the masjid. I'd just been there once before, some time ago. I went inside, not sure about what I was doing there. Two brothers were working there, with two little children playing around. The brothers greeted me very friendly (don't you also just love the Islamic greeting (Assalaam 'Alaikum)? It's so beautiful, Alhamdulillah) :-) I asked for a Qur'an in Arabic, so I can improve my Arabic reading skills and this beautiful one below immediately spoke to me:

The brother said "Masha'Allah" when I told him that I needed to buy this Qur'an :-) What a great thing to follow your intuition :-) I also cherish the pure and respectful interaction there can be between Muslim brothers and sisters. If the brother and the sister has a good heart/good intentions, there'll be no flirting or anything like that, like you see in so many other interactions between the two sexes, astaghfirullah.

Alhamdulillah for a lovely day. And now I'm at home, after having cleaned the whole house and eaten Pakistani food with my husband and stepdaugher, sitting on the bed with the laptop and a cup of Chinese tea next to me.


I wish you all a wonderful weekend! We'll be going to a big "non-firmation" of my nephew tomorrow. Insha'Allah it'll be a good experience - it sadly isn't always a good experience being with my whole family... Oh well.
Take care all of you.

Another Morning & Intuition

Good morning dear ones.

I want to thank all of you, who are so kind commenting on my posts! It means very much to me and I continuously enjoy reading your comments!!

And I thank Allah (swt) for being able to experience another day - and beautiful morning - of this life:

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَقَالَنَا يَوْمَنَا هَذَا وَلَمْ يُهْلِكْنَا بِذُنُوبِنَا 

All praise be to Allah who has forgiven us today and not destroyed us due to our sin

I had a lovely night's sleep and got up early to go to lessons at university. I knew I had a long day ahead of me: Lessons from 8-11AM, three hours break (to study, buy groceries, go to the library) and lessons from 2-5PM and then off to an appointment after school!

I didn't think about not attending the first three lessons, but right when I stepped out of my front door, I remembered that I forgot a bottle of water and when I went inside again, I thought to myself that I'd better stay home! Then I could study, write emails to friends whom I have neglected a bit for some time, go to the library, buy groceries and then go to school around 1PM.

So now I'm sitting here with a cup of green tea and am looking forward to start my day anew :-)

Sometimes I find it hard to know, if the voice inside you (call it intuition) is coming from a good- or bad place. Do you always know if you're being guided from a good- or bad place?

I believe that it is Allah (swt) who sometimes makes us change our minds in the last minute and by doing so, He is actually saving us from something (i.a.). This might have been the case today for me. Or perhaps He wanted me to prioritate differently today, than my "routine"-attitude was making me do. Allahu Alim.

Sometimes I have experienced that I was going to do something, which I'd convinced myself to be good for me. I experienced that recently! And in planning this, nothing worked out smoothly! And on my way to the place, even after looking at a map, I couldn't find it without lots of struggle!

In this case I should definitely have listened to that inner voice/feeling telling me that what I was on my way to, wasn't going to be good for me!

And then again we might all know the story of how a man struggled to go to his Fajr prayer in the mosque, because Shaitaan made him fall repeatedly...! (Read it here). But although it was a struggle for him to get there, it was good for him to attend the prayer!...

Perhaps there's a difference here though, because we need to perform salah and that can never be bad for us!... So if you have a bad feeling concerning salah, it might well be Shaitaan whispering in your ear!

And again: probably the world is not at all black and white - neither in this matter of the inner voice/feeling! :)

If you have some thoughts on this subject, you're very welcome to share them and perhaps also about how you navigate, when it comes to your inner voice/feeling (intuition) :)

Take care all of you and may you have a wonderful day!