Thursday, October 15, 2009

Time is flying by

Salaams all,

Alhamd, we are doing well. IA all of you are doing well. Its thursday evening and we will be going to our school soon for our Thursday programs. The students take turns in reciting Dua, Quran and Ziyarat, and every other week one of the students gives a lecture in Arabic. Its nice, this way we get to practice public speaking but more then that to practice our arabic. After the program, we go to the Haram for a little while, we cant overstate how nice it is to be in the proximity of the Haram.. Alhamd... we really feel fortunate.

School is going well, busy, we have taken some extra classes on our own, without going through the school, just easier that way, less questions. We got a teacher to teach us this extra subject and then at home we are listening to a series of lectures on Akhlaq. That is a class on its own, and ALhamd we are taking it seriously, good routine we have going ALhamd, please pray that we can maintain it iA.

We just want to say that even though things are not ideal, but thats life, we are not that frustrated, and even though we may sound like it at times, overall we are quite happy... will tell you a secret: sometimes when we want things to change or certain things to happen we put it on the blog, just incase there are some ppl who have influence can read it. :)

OK, thats it for today, we will write more later on iA.

Take care

Salaams

Sunday, October 4, 2009

The weekends go by too quickly

Salaams all,

sorry for the long delay in writing, but the truth is we dont think anyone is reading..lol.. oh well, we will try to write as much as we can.

so we have completed a full week of school plus two days... the classes are going well, not at all as hectic as last year, we mentioned in our other blogs about the changes that have taken place so no need to repeat it.

the classes we are taking this semester include: Usul al-Tafseer, Arabic Morphology and Grammar, Fiqh, Arabic in the Media, Akhlaq, Ulum al Hadith and Aqaid. Not a bad load, and then we do have our Masters class...so pretty busy, but because the schedule has changed, we are in school from 7-1 instead of 8-5, we have lots of time in the afternoons...

sad news about on of our teachers, his grandson, very young, passed away due to some inhalation of gas... really sad, lets pray for them iA.

Besides that, our apartment is nice, we are still waiting on our school to give us a new stovetop, we have been waiting for a while, patiently, ALhamd, while others' problems are getting fixed before ours... but thats ok, lol, just wanted to write that incase there is someone who is reading, LOL...

anyhow, thats it for now, we will write back later iA. please remember to pray for us!!