Polls Archive
Ramadan is nearly over, do you feel you:
- Didn't quite get all of them done, but not bad (43%, 70 Votes)
- Didn't plan well enough (27%, 44 Votes)
- Missed most of your goals (22%, 36 Votes)
- Accomplished your goals for the month (8%, 14 Votes)
Total Voters: 164
Start Date: September 7, 2010 @ 1:08 am
End Date: No Expiry
Have you voted for your favorite poem yet (each day)?
- Don't plan to (wrong answer :)) (38%, 109 Votes)
- No, but plan to (37%, 106 Votes)
- Yes (25%, 74 Votes)
Total Voters: 289
Start Date: September 1, 2010 @ 2:25 am
End Date: No Expiry
What are your plans for the last 10 blessed nights?
- Planning extra worship in all 10 nights (64%, 210 Votes)
- Planning extra worship in odd nights (35%, 114 Votes)
- Sustaining current worship pattern (13%, 41 Votes)
- Planning to sit in i'tikaaf (10%, 32 Votes)
- Too tired to do more (wrong answer :) ) (4%, 14 Votes)
- Going to umrah! (0%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 327
Start Date: August 30, 2010 @ 3:46 am
End Date: No Expiry
What is one deed you're focusing the most during Ramadan (different from previous)?
- Reading more Quran (46%, 254 Votes)
- Controlling your eyes/tongue (21%, 117 Votes)
- Making more dhikr/duaa (15%, 85 Votes)
- Praying on time with the congregation (11%, 61 Votes)
- Cutting TV/Internet (7%, 38 Votes)
Total Voters: 554
Start Date: August 26, 2010 @ 4:25 am
End Date: No Expiry
(Only) After reading the 3-pt series on the Cordoba House:
- Stick to current PR & location (36%, 149 Votes)
- Stay put, but agree CI PR has been bad (32%, 130 Votes)
- Just move for "sensitivity" (18%, 72 Votes)
- Move for the "right price" (10%, 39 Votes)
- Establish a memorial for Muslim victims of 911 instead (4%, 21 Votes)
Total Voters: 410
Start Date: August 19, 2010 @ 12:09 am
End Date: No Expiry
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very good mashâa’ Allâh
who is islam
Salam
Mashallah, this is a good idea to encourage us all. May I make a few suggestions?
1. Do this every day, and see which direction the trend goes.
2. Offer the following options: Yes, Yes but only had time for fard rakats, Yes and prayed in the masjid, No.
We took a variation of your thoughts to see in which area we can help our readers for the Fajr poll
i still don’t get why people find it so difficult to pray fajr. it’s the only salah that I find easy to pray on time.
alarm>>stretch>>du’a>>feed cats (coz they will be annoying otherwise)>>wudu>>fajr>>coffee>>check emails>>bathroom>>work. Am I abnormal?? What’s so difficult?
THE MAJORITY IS NOT PROOF THAT SOMETHING IS CORRECT
Then We have put you (O Muhammad SAW) on a plain way of (Our) commandment [like the one which We commanded Our Messengers before you (i.e. legal ways and laws of the Islâmic Monotheism)]. So follow you that (Islâmic Monotheism and its laws), and follow not the desires of those who know not. [Tafsir At-Tabarî Vol. 25, Page 146]. (Al-Jathiyah 45:18)
Adhering to the Understanding of the Companions
May Allaah have mercy upon you. Know that the Religion is what came from Allaah, the Blessed and Most High. It is not something left to the intellect and opinions of men. Knowledge it is what comes from Allaah and His Messenger, so do not follow anything based upon your desires and so deviate away from the Religion and leave Islaam. There will be no excuse for you since Allaah’s Messenger explained the Sunnah to his Ummah and made it clear to his Companions and they are the Jamaa’ah, and they are the Main Body (as-Sawaad ul-A’dham), and the Main Body is the truth and its followers.[1]
So he who contradicts the Companions of Allaah’s Messenger sallallahu alaihiwasallam in any of the affairs of the Religion, then he has fallen into disbelief.[2]
{Explanation of the Creed, Imaam Al-Barbahaaree)
From the characteristics of the people of the Days of Ignorance is that they would view the majority as proof that something was true and the minority as proof hat something was false. So according to them, whatever the majority of the people was upon, that was the truth. And whatever the minority was upon, that was not the truth. In their eyes, this was the balance used to determine truth from falsehood. However, this is wrong, for Allaah says: “And if you obey most of those on earth, they will mislead you far away from Allaah’s path. They follow nothing but conjecture, and they do nothing but lie.” [Surah Al-An’aam: 116]
Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatahu,
May Allah have mercy on you – As your sister in Islam, I am prohibited from withholding naseeha. As such, I must make mention of the fact that not only is it of no benefit to poll the readers on their OPINION of what the correct hijab is, it is also dangerous. Following popular opinion regarding Islam gets us where exactly?.
Deen is whatsoever came from Allah and His Messenger. It’s no befitting to ask the people of their opinion on a matter that has already been decreed. Any questions based on deen, addressed to the general populace, beginning with the phrase, what do you think’, is wrong. Don’t take my word for it. Read the books of the Sunnah and the statements of the Pious Predecessors (the Salaf).
Barak’Allahu feekum.
May Allah unite us upon His Straight Path and give us the baseerah (light( by which to understand His Deen.
Ameen!
^ I think it is more to SEE what are the commonly held views of the community, not to assert a “winning opinion” based on what the majority vote for! The majority of people might vote on a given day that they did not wake up for Fajr that morning –no one would ever think that this poll is trying to indicate that because the majority didnot wake up for Fajr that day that this is the correct behavior or “answer”! You might think that everyone wakes up for Fajr, but an anonymous poll can help show the reality and once a problem is identified, solutions for it can be found. You might think that everyone knows what the minimum hijab requirements are, but an anonymous poll can help show the reality and once a problem is identified, solutions for it can be found
salam
mashaAllah, I like the polls, however I’d like to add that they are to be taken with a grain of salt. A poll maybe interesting but the result only as truthful or serious as the medium (in our case an often troll infested internet) and as interesting as the (variety of) questions.
It can serve as a quick click opportunity for someone to voice a stand/opinion without having to write a lot of stuff in a comment which is often not necessary and tiresome to read.
I don’t quite understand Sarah’s comment, it’s not a poll that calls to follow the “mainstream opinon” and a free medium which allows to voice an opinion (comments on a blog) allows you post the above. If you are against people voicing their opinions on matters that shouldn’t be discussed, why are you commenting and browsing blogs where those matters are extensively overdiscussed? Obviously those are not clear to everyone to the same extend as for you.
so… anyone offering a bit of an analysis? Any “sad state of the ummah” essays?
I dot have the c alendar fo r ramadan plz happ