Time - Day 1 – 28/06/11
Place – Outreach Centre based in the corner of a primary school playground.
Mission – work experience

Stapling, hole-punching, photocopying, counting, folding. I couldn’t possible tell you which one is my favourite. I mean, photocopying 1500 pages in bunch of 500 and having to sort them out in piles of 30 was quite a...how should I say it? Enlightening experience…

My first lot of 500 went relatively well… with no experience, I had printed out the 500 all in one go and carried them back to the centre where I then resolute myself to sorting them into groups of 30.

A Delayed Response

While talking to himself Ibn Al-Jawzi was blaming his soul in a gentle way. He said: I found myself in trouble, and so I made Du'aa consistently, all the while requesting relief and comfort. The response to my Du'aa seemed... to be delayed, and so my soul became disturbed and worried.However, I rebuked it saying, "Woe unto you; look attentively at yourself, are you the one possessed or are you the possessor? Are you the one that is controlled or are you the controller? Are you not aware that this world is the abode of tests for you? If you desire that your goals be fulfilled and become impatient when they are not, then, where is your test? Is it not the ultimate test when you get the opposite of whatever you desired?
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Bit random but I thought i'll share this with you 😃

The Buraq is the animal who took the prophet Muhammed ﷺ to the heavens during the journey of miraj. He is described as this:

Then a white animal which was smaller than a mule and bigger than a donkey was brought to me." ... "The animal's step (was so wide that it) reached the farthest point within the reach of the animal's sight. ..."

—Muhammad al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Bukhari[1]

Thestrals are fictional creatures in the Harry Potter books... They look like a horse and have wings ....

Has the ideaa of thestrals come from the Buraq?

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“Verily, the number of months with Allaah is twelve months (in a year), so it was ordained by Allaah on the Day when He created the heavens and the earth; of them four are Sacred. That is the right religion, so wrong not yourselves therein…” [al-Tawbah 9:36]

Tajweed is about reciting the Quran. there are many different ways of reciting the Quran; as the Quran was revealed in many different dialect but only a few survived until out time.

I do not actually know what the word "tajweed" means literally.

Usually the first thing you (should) learn in tajweed is the articulation points of the letter, but you might find excruciatingly boring to read and it would be better learnt face to face or at least orally with a teacher.

To improve your tajweed i would advice practicing reading the Quran with Khalil al-Hussary. HE reads slowly mashaaAllah.
method: listen to an ayah, repeat until you get it kinda right/you forgot what is sounded like; listen again, repeat until you get it right; listen again if you want.