Center for Muslim Life at Maryland
Live Your Best Life
by CMLMD Admin
COLLEGE PARK, MD –
It’s nice to be back in the swing of things after our recent Fundraising Dinner. I’d like to extend my gratitude to all of you, our supporters, for showing such an outpour of generosity just a few short weeks ago.
As I contemplated on that outpour of giving, for which we heartily thank Almighty God, I began wrestling with a thought: there is a point in our giving where we can begin to feel a bit of entitlement creep in.
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by CMLMD Admin
Board of Advisors, Center for Muslim Life at Maryland
It is related in the Mustadrak of Imam al-Hakim that Umar b. al-Khattab was sitting amongst a group of his companions when he asked them what they longed for.
One said that he longed for a room full of gold so that he may spend it in the way of God. Another longed for a room full of precious stones so that He may also spend it in the way of God. They then asked Umar himself, “What do you long for?”
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by CMLMD Admin
Associate Chaplain and Mentor
COLLEGE PARK, MD –
It seems as if suicide within the Muslim community is occurring at an increasing rate. Our most recent loss in Virginia shocked all of us that call the DMV home, and it occurred just a few days after another incident in Dallas, TX.
In the DMV Muslim community alone, there have been more than a handful of cases of suicide over the past year involving individuals across all ages, some even as young as 10 or 11 years old.
The CDC published a study earlier this year with data supporting that suicide rates have risen between 1999 and 2016 in every state except Nevada.
Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s deputy principal director, says that the data “suggest that this is a national problem hitting most communities”, and we are seeing over and over again that the Muslim community in North America, and especially Muslims in the D.C. Area, are not immune.
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by CMLMD Admin
COLLEGE PARK, MD –
Many of us are familiar with the term FOMO: fear of missing out. We’re afraid to miss out on all sorts of things big and small.
It is a term that has gained traction in our social media crazed society.
FOMO drives us. It is very often a seminal reason behind the actions we take. Young people can fall into the trap of fear of missing out on their youth, relationships, risk behaviors and experiences, etc.
Older people easily fall into fear of missing out on degrees, cars, homes, families, social status, and the like.
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by CMLMD Admin
COLLEGE PARK, MD –
It’s the difference between being our own person and being someone else’s.
We’ve touched on one of the impediments to living deliberately before – not being able to make decisions.
The gist of that previous reflection is that many of us can’t make decisions because we lack principles that are prerequisites to decision-making.
But, even those with the principles to make a decision often get tripped up at the point of execution.
by CMLMD Admin
COLLEGE PARK, MD –
If we’d like to understand a mode of being or attitude, it usually helps to look at the forefathers of that mode or attitude. One mode of being or attitude I’m sure none of us would like to exhibit is one of ignorance.
In order to successfully avoid this ineffective trait, we can look to ignorance’s father – Abu Jahl – to find out his habits, and run far away from them.
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