Nearing the end of the Holy and Blessed Month

Salaams all,

Its hard to believe that the Holy Month of Ramadhan is nearing to an end... IA the month was spiritual and benefitial to all. As we know the blessings of Allah SWT are abundantly flowing during this great month, its up to us to maximize the intake...

This Holy Month has been really good in Sayyida Zainab AS. Last year we were holding programs at school so we didnt get a chance to go out at nights to participate in the lectures.. but this year there are not that many students, lol, so we go out every night.. we still recite dua together at school after Iftar which is nice, everyone gets a chance to recite and then we go out to different centers where they have Majalis... its a nice feeling... some places even recite dua before the programs and they do have amaals, we thought they didnt before, but they do have it, however the ones that we have attended, they only do the Qur'an aamaals....but Alhamd, its a nice feeling.

The 23rd night of the Month of Ramadhan we spent a good portion of it at the Haram, and there was a special and nice vibe that you could feel throughout the haram.. we truly are blessed to be here and are trying to capture as much as we can before our time runs out.

Last blog entry we mentioned a bunch of changes that took place at our school, something else they have done is given us the last 10 days of this Holy Month off. It was a nice surprise but they said they wanted us to focus on our ibadat and spirituality... and because they like to be involved in ALL facets of our lives, they gave us an assignment...LOL.... no such thing as a free lunch i guess... so our project is to attend a lecture every night and then write a paper about our spiritual progression during this month and how the lectures helped us become more spiritual..or something like that... it was really annoying to be honest... cause we were planning to attend lectures anyways but now they made it a burden... so instead of willingly attending lectures now we are forced...lol.. i know we are complaining, but we dont understand the need to try and dictate our lives... oh well..

besides this, im sure there are other things that we will write about in the future... until then Eid Mubarak and please remember us in your prayers...

Salaams!!