Followers Fever!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful


Asalamu Alaikum everyone!
I've been wanting to do this post foreverrrrrrr alhamduLilah i finally got to it!
Firstly i would like to say this post was inspired by Rukhpar Mor!


So lets start from the beginning. I started blogging in November 2009, and this is how i started. I was looking for some good websites for muslim teens, and i forgot how exactly but i came across Hegab-Rehab, and was curious. Long story short (hopefully) i started the blog Hijabi Queen, and then began asking all the popular blog owners what they do to get soo many followers! They told me to just comment on other blogs mostly and to follow other blogs, some said they just start coming on there own and that they just blog for fun.


Well i was too but i wanted followers, and i would follow blogs and comment telling them to check out my blog, now don't be judgmental!! lol but i mean when you put as much time designing and perfecting your blog as i did when i started, and started posting, well i really just wanted to feel like i wasnt talking to myself and that there was someone out there who cared, ya know?


And people started reading, and they started following, I was sooooo happy, and i tried too hard, i tried to make my blog how they wanted, how they would like, i paid too much attention to the details of my blog and didnt have fun with it, i only started to really enjoy blogging once i started Bubblez Island, before, well i guess i only enjoyed seeing the numbers increase on the followers list.


After blogging for 5-6 monthes on Hijabi Queen, i was a confused muslima and needed to learn more about my deen! So I left blogging and i asked many questions, read many books,watched many lectures and made soo sooo sooo many duas. AlhamduLilah i can now say i am a Muslima and proud because i am sure that Islam is the truth and i know what i am doing in this world, oh god! off topic... okay. so anyways, I felt better and after some encouraging words from my blogging buddies i came back to the blogosphere! And here I am!


Anywho I wanted to say that I do unfollow some blogs *gasp*, well no, dont we all! its no crime you guys, why do some people get soo upset if you unfollow their blogs? I dont do it to be mean or because this blogger unfollowed my blog, heck no! If i ever unfollow a blog its either because they dont update often, or I dont like the contents. I mean whats they point of following a blog that you will never read, for either of those reasons. Why do people follow blogs anyways?


Recently I read a post on Rukhpar Mor's blog and she asked "Tired of follower hunting?" my answer is yes, well i decided that 2 monthes ago when i started this blog, I promised myself to ignore the followers list, ignore the numbers, and focus on what i am writing. I want to give my best to the world out there, who knows who will be reading this blog, and how it could help them? or hurt them?, words are powerful and they could hurt someone and make them go into depression, or they could make someone feel better and inspire them to do something good, thats why i want to focus on this content of this blog and to try to inspire people to do better. That doesnt mean i dont care about followers, of course i'm flattered when i see that there are people out there who care about what i post so much that they want to keep up with it :) I feel soo great and soo thankful to allah swt when people tell me i inspire them or motivate them to do better, but getting alot of followers isnt why i am blogging. 


AlhamduLilah for the followers i have! AlhamduLilah people like my blog and are inspired by it! Thats all i can ask for really! Blogging has helped me soo much in becoming a better muslima, i've met some of the best people one could ever meet, i've made awsome friends :). AlhamduLilah in the beginning and in the end :)


Okay it feels good to get that out of the way :) I know this post is longggggggggggggg but thats okay =) lol.


Thoughts? Questions? Comments? Concerns? Compliments?(^_~) lol jk

YAY! My first award!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Today i got my first award ever from the lovely RukhparMor!

I'm soo excited, i've had a blog before, for about 5 or 6 monthes, and never got an award, and this one has been here for bout 2 and alhamduLilah, mashAllah!

Lets move on now..shall we?

Where will you be in ten years?

Well I cant really say, Allah swt knows best, but let me say where i hope to be in 10 years, hmm well, i dont really know what career to pursue yet, but either an awesome teacher at an islamic school here in the USA or in Egypt, or maybe a Personal Trainer for women also here in the USA or Egypt, not sure yet. but when i do get children inshallah, i will become a house wife because i want to give them the best childhood I can, and to always be there for them, I want to teach them true Islam, help them get a good education, and let them have fun, inshallah. I want to be married to a pious Muslim man, who knows his deen and follows it! and I want to have memorized the Quran and inshallah live by it! 10 years is a long time, so much can be done, hmmm I also hope to open something like an Islamic school, or a shelter for homeless people, or masjid, idk but i want to do something to help out Inshallah.

Ten people who deserve this award?

AlabasterMuslim

Amira

Tuttie

HijabChic

My Getaway

Naz

Here and There

Is-za Jelass

Shahirah Elaiza

Anya

How do u do that!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

You guys when i see how much blogs some people are following it shocks me, i mean i really admire u people lol. I 'm not following that much blogs but i honestly i just cant keep up with them, i forget, or dont see some posts, and even if i do see them i usually forget to comment cuz i am checking so much of 'em. So lovely people, how do you keep up with sooo much blogs???

You know when you feel like giving up, thats exactly when you gotta hold on tight and remember what this life is really about!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Never a believer is stricken with a discomfort, an illness, an anxiety, a grief or mental worry or even the pricking of a thorn but Allah will expiate his sins on account of his patience.

[Al Bukhari and Muslim]

Life is full of hardships, but reward is for those who are patient. ~ Bubbli 

Oh would you quit complaining!!!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Asalamu Alaikum sisters, i got 2 more posts coming up soon inshallah but i've been a bit busy, but i really wanna share this with you guys. I got this in an email, its such a great and very needed reminder, because we really need to stop complaining about things when we are soo blessed. Take a look at these pics.

Do you think you're unhappy, your salary is too low, feel like giving up, suffer too much in life? Hate your transportation system, yuh think your life is unfair?

talk about Confusion with a capital C

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

this is funny and a bit confusing but also true...

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.  There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.  Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.  Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job.  Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.  It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have.  ~Author Unknown

"Reviving the Sunnah"

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Just a quick post, I'd like to say that one of my favorite blogs in the whole wide world is "Reviving the Sunnah".
I've learned so much from this blog, and also it has given me so much reminders seemingly at the perfect time.
check it out guys and u won't regret it, promise :)

In the steps of RasulAllah (saw)-- backbiting, slander, lying, other Muslims.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Allah's messenger (SWS) said, "A Muslim has six duties towards another Muslim: when you meet him, salute him; when he invites you, accept it; when he asks your advice, give it to him; when he sneezes and praises Allah say "May Allah have mercy on you"; when he is ill, visit him; and when he dies follow his funeral" [Reported by Muslim]

"Backbiting is to say something about someone they wouldn't like said about them....If what bad you said about them is true, then you have backbited and if it is false then you have slandered them." (MUSLIM)

The Prophet (saw) was sitting with his companions one day and one of them was speaking badly about someone who wasn't there. As the man got up to leave the Prophet (saw) said to him: "Pick Your Teeth!" "But I haven't eaten anything." The man protested. "No" the Prophet (saw) said"YOU HAVE EATEN THE FLESH OF YOUR DEAD BROTHER".

The Prophet (saw) described: "On the night of mirage I passed by some people who had metal hooks in their hands and were clawing at their faces and their necks with them. I asked Gabriel 'Who were these people?' He said 'These are the people who eat the flesh of human beings and disgrace them' (Abu Dawud).

The Prophet (saw) said that "Abusing a Muslim is a sin and fighting with him is disbelief." (MUSLIM).

A man came to the Prophet (saw) one day and said "Advise me". The prophet (saw) said "Don't become angry. Don't become angry. Don't become angry"....

The Prophet (saw) was once asked "Can a Muslim be a coward?" He (saw) replied "Yes." and then asked "Can a Muslim be a miser?" and the reply was "Yes." The Prophet (saw) was then asked "Can a Muslim be a liar?" The Prophet (saw) replied "NO! A Muslim can never be a liar".

"Truth leads to virtue and virtue leads to paradise...Lying leads to wickedness and wickedness leads to the hellfire." (Bukhari)

 The Prophet (saw) said "When a person gets up in the morning, all the parts of his body make a plea to his tongue saying; 'Fear Allah regarding us, because we follow you. If you are right then we shall also be right , and if you are wrong then we shall also be wrong." (Tirmidhi)

The Prophet (saw) said "Whoever can guarantee me two things I can guarantee them Paradise." The companions asked "What O Messenger of Allah?" He replied "What is between his jaws (his tongue) and his legs (private parts)." (Bukhari)

Ayesha (RA) the Prophet's wife described the Prophets conduct as follows "He was neither a obscene talker nor a user of bad words. He did not shout nor did he repay evil with evil. He used to forgive people and overlook their sins." (Tirmidhi)

The Messenger of Allah (saw) said"Whoever believes in Allah and the Last day, LET HIM EITHER SPEAK GOOD OR KEEP SILENT"

Life

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~Henry Ford


Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~Les Brown


One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard


If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.  ~Lawrence J. Peter


It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.  ~Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770


The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  ~Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870, On the Occasion of the Distribution of Prizes for the Session  (Thanks, Paul)


If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.  ~J.M. Power


Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.  ~Author Unknown


Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.  ~Author Unknown


The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.  ~Ayn Rand,The Fountainhead


It is never too late to be who you might have been.  ~George Eliot


To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.  ~Eva Young


The impossible is often the untried.  ~Jim Goodwin


It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.  ~Arnold Bennett


One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.  ~Jack Penn


There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.  ~Beverly Sills


A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.  ~Andre Gide


The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.  ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 July 1763


Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.  ~David Lloyd George


Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.  ~Author Unknown


It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.  ~Harry S. Truman


Map out your future, but do it in pencil.  ~Jon Bon Jovi, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," September 2002


Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood


When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.  ~John Dewey


If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.  ~Author Unknown


When the horse is dead, get off.  ~Author Unknown