The Introduction

In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Compassionate

My friends and I have long decided to have our own Usrah group and start one to strengthen our Ukhuwan and also as an opportunity for us to share and increase our knowledge together. So finally, last Friday on the 6th January 2012, we gathered in my room :)

  Fae and Nadiah came over to the house during Jumaah prayer time and we started our first session. We read surah Al-Asr and went in depth into the translation of the Surah.

The translation of Surah Al-Asr is
1. By the time!
2. Lo! Man is in a state of loss;
3. Save those who have faith and do righteous deeds, and counsel each other to hold on to truth and counsel each other to be steadfast.

   What we learnt from the surah is that, we have to organize our time to do good deeds and basically  to surround our everyday life around good deeds either specifically by performing Ibadah or doing work and other things with the right intention to seek His pleasure. We also shared each of our experiences as holding different roles from each other and how we managed our activities. We learnt a lot from each other! I shared my story as a working mother in the hospital and fully committed to breastfeeding.

   In conclusion, we learnt from our discussion was to
1. Always be punctual
2. Respect time, and other people's time
3. Manage our time wisely to be filled with good deeds (Amal Soleh)
4. Be an agent of change among friends and family, to have the intention of delivering a good message either directly or indirectly.

  InsyaAllah, our usrah will be done every fortnight and we hope to increase our knowledge and get to increase our Imaan. Ameen.