I have noticed many members here are students (Alhamdulillah) but this question is for everyone, so, well, what are you studying, planning to study or have studied academically? This is utterly random lol - but we can encourage each other inshaAllah.
I'm in my first year of A-levels but I am planning on doing Psychology (not decided which area yet), and Islamic Studies privately.
You make college sound miserable when you say it like that.
Alhamdulillah, I think a lot of the members here are teenagers We can spur each other on in our examinations - I think the time from year 10 till I suppose university can just seem like a constant state of study. I've only just started college (in the UK it's called sixth-form) and I feel like I've been doing this forever!
Idk what i'm doing anymore tbh. Don't know if I even want to go to uni here anymore. I'm lost but I have my trust in Allah, when the time comes I hope I'll make the right choice in shaa Allah.
I have noticed many members here are students (Alhamdulillah) but this question is for everyone, so, well, what are you studying, planning to study or have studied academically? This is utterly random lol - but we can encourage each other inshaAllah.
I'm in my first year of A-levels but I am planning on doing Psychology (not decided which area yet), and Islamic Studies privately.
Wa alaykum salam,
I just finished high school in the states (yesterday actually haha) and throughout high school I've been very anxious and worried about what I wanted to pursue. I've changed my plan and path several times, premed, teaching, political science, history...I had so many interests and it became hard to choose.
In the end I thought because I love talking and reading about politics and history, to double major (get a degree in both) and maybe minor in nutrition since I also love health too and did well in biology. However I realized I hated writing long papers, I prefer just reading and I also love caring for people and going back home in the summers, I saw how important healthcare was and how it relates to social justice (which I feel passionate about and relates to my love of history and political science) so I decided to pursue nursing as a career because in the world there's a serious shortage and I'd like to have a skill that if the ummah ever needed my particular help, or someone was in serious trouble, I would like to be able to help out.
Also I've been a patient many times, and it can be a very traumatizing experience. I do feel like nurses make a huge difference. So that's pretty much how I chose what to study and I still have to my prerequisities this year before I can apply to the programs of my choice but alhamdulillah. At LEAST I figured it out. It's a relief honestly.
I said too much but yup that's how I chose it. Honestly it was a completely last minute thing. I think Islam is the best subject ever and will always be- but in terms of secular studies I'd be very happy with nursing.
I did want to go uni to study history (which i find so absolutely fascinating) and comparing religions, but i cant afford it and the thought of being in debt horrifies me lol plus i feel too old to go uni its kinda scary for me thinking to go back to education in a proper setting plus theres the "free mixing" issue that i just dont know
*sigh*
Narrated Jubair ibn Mut’im: The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W), said: "He is not one us who calls for `Asabiyah, (nationalism/tribalism) or who fights for `Asabiyah or who dies for `Asabiyah." [Sunan Abu Dawud (Vol. 2, pg. 753) No. 5121]
Narrated Jubair ibn Mut’im: The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W), said: "He is not one us who calls for `Asabiyah, (nationalism/tribalism) or who fights for `Asabiyah or who dies for `Asabiyah." [Sunan Abu Dawud (Vol. 2, pg. 753) No. 5121]
What books do you use for history please, iv never been much of a reader but islamic and history books il sit and read them all day
All sorts.
At the moment I'm reading Xenophon's Cyropaedia and Herodotus' Histories (volume one book one) - you won't believe the relation these have to Qur'anic story of Dhul Qarnayn.
Honestly.
If it wasn't for these two, and Joesphus, I'd not have discovered the REAL reason(s) for why Dhul Qarnayn is so named - now I know some of you will be like "HEY YOU CAN'T CLAIM TO KNOW THAT"... but you don't know what I have discovered and I am not telling.
Not yet anyway.
MYTHOS: the Greatest History, NEVER told.
Scimi
EDIT: I've spent ten years almost in the study of Surah Al Kahf ayahs 83-99 and Al Anbiyah 96-97... I already expended all the scholarly stuff from Islam and I was left wanting - HARD... so I took it further, went where no Muslim dared to go before lol... It was soooooo worth it, still is.
I've emailed scholars with my findings and left their mouths agape Allahu AKbar.
Let me give you a teaser sister, as away to know if you can understand what nuance is.
Story of Dhul Qarnayn - last leg of his epic journey:
93. Until, when he reached between two mountains, he found, before (near) them (those two mountains), a people who scarcely understood a word.
94. They said: "O Dhul-Qarnain! Verily! Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog) are doing great mischief in the land. Shall we then pay you a tribute in order that you might erect a barrier between us and them?"
Do you believe that the words Ya'juj and Ma'juj are Arabic?
- Lost Islamic History by Firas Alkhateeb - one to dip in and out of.
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta - this one is fascinating.
- The Islamic Conquest of Syria by Imam Waqidi (translated) - one of the best books I've ever read.
- Isabella. This is a novel set in Al-Andalus, Muslim Spain. I haven't yet found a good translation in the UK though.
^ I read it a good few years ago, I think it needs to be read again. Time to dig it out of my library..
I envy those reading it for the first time! The way places are described is wonderful, he transports you to all these exotic locations and you get a fascinating glimpse of what the world was like.
Its funny you mention that but
Dhul Qarnain is one of the stories i loved when i first became muslim, i found it so fascinating, the whole wondering where is this wall, where exactly are ya'juj and ma'juj are they actually human, what will they look like etc etc
It was a mystery to me like the bermuda triangle
(Im still learning arabic so please i honestly have no idea, it takes me ages to read one word let alone tell you something or understand it lol)
Im definitely going to have a look at all the books you both mentioned they all seem very interesting
I went through this stage of just watching everything to do with the silk trade routes even watching a quite "westernised" documentry on it which actually wasnt half bad
Sis aisha if the last book you mentioned is in spanish il be fine reading it in sha Allah
Reminds me i loved learing about islamic history in Spain i would love to go sight seeing there in the south one day in sha Allah
in the canary islands theres some influence over there aswell even some of their churches have a very "moorish" feel to them
Narrated Jubair ibn Mut’im: The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W), said: "He is not one us who calls for `Asabiyah, (nationalism/tribalism) or who fights for `Asabiyah or who dies for `Asabiyah." [Sunan Abu Dawud (Vol. 2, pg. 753) No. 5121]
Its funny you mention that but
Dhul Qarnain is one of the stories i loved when i first became muslim, i found it so fascinating, the whole wondering where is this wall, where exactly are ya'juj and ma'juj are they actually human, what will they look like etc etc
It was a mystery to me like the bermuda triangle
(Im still learning arabic so please i honestly have no idea, it takes me ages to read one word let alone tell you something or understand it lol)
This is JUST THE TIP OF THAT PROVERBIAL ICE BERG (read only my posts from page three - Scimitar)
Scimi
Well that's just fascinating, honestly i feel so stupid reading it lol, i dont know anything about history on that level, i would love to know though and in geographical terms aswell how the world was back then to now in comparison
i mainly know what i was taught in school untill i realised it was mostly a lie and the war mongers made to look like the victims. So i started learning for myself.
But wow i loved "conspiracy theories" i was constantly on about them, my life revolved around them the amount of times i was blocked and deleted of websites and youtube lol, when i became muslim i had so much people tell me that i was delusional and to not think like that and stop, and now i have a new forum to explore thanks brother
Narrated Jubair ibn Mut’im: The Messenger of Allah (S.A.W), said: "He is not one us who calls for `Asabiyah, (nationalism/tribalism) or who fights for `Asabiyah or who dies for `Asabiyah." [Sunan Abu Dawud (Vol. 2, pg. 753) No. 5121]
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You make college sound miserable when you say it like that.We can spur each other on in our examinations - I think the time from year 10 till I suppose university can just seem like a constant state of study. I've only just started college (in the UK it's called sixth-form) and I feel like I've been doing this forever!
but yup that's how I chose it. Honestly it was a completely last minute thing. I think Islam is the best subject ever and will always be- but in terms of secular studies I'd be very happy with nursing.
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