AStruggler

I'm new here. If anything like other gatherings I've attended, there's a lot of eyes going around and no one saying anything. Maybe the people are tired of the feds infiltrating? LOL. It's ok. I can laugh because I was locked up for over 10 years and considered a violent criminal. I protected my family and told the truth. So, of course I'd be punished in America! LOL. 
I'm a Choctaw from the Nation of Oklahoma. I graduated from Haskell Indian Nations University in 2019.
Recently, I approached the Imam of our mosque here in Topeka, communicating that I wanted to give back, do more, and be around the brothers. He literally told me to go online. LOL.
Should probably spend more time searching around and reading, but just like anything else with life, I'd do better when I'm guided lol. 
I started with an online tutor to work on my tajweed recently. I'm trying to make more time in my life to get back to studying the religion as I once did. If money wasn't an object, I'd rather spend my time raising my family, worshipping God, studying the deen, and helping others. Doesn't everyone??? LOL
The age of materialism is beginning to eclipse. What is important will become more valuable than ever before.
I'm grateful just for the opportunity to be alive, make the prayer, and recite the Qur'an. 
A time is coming when those who travel light will be blessed!

Stop procrastinating. If it is simple to do, do it now. If it is complicated, make a list of steps and do it little by little, crossing off each step when you finish. 

Brother, you have been gone a month. InShaAllah you are well.

Since studies have shown that "breaks" lead to higher productivity, greater job satisfaction, a more balanced emotional health, and a stronger desire to go above and beyond.
It's time for me to take a break from Shiachat. See you guys after the break Insha Allah .
Take care!!

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

It has been over a year, kindly keep brother Hasan in your prayers. Hope someone can update us regarding him, InshaAllah all is well.

Dear brothers and sisters! I need your prayers. I am going through a hard time and all doors seem to be closing. Please pray for me that may Allah ease my difficulties. 

Salam bro, how have you been?

Salamun alaykum wm wb.
My name is Marcela, Islamic name Umm Ul Baneen. Please, I kindly request your duaas. Been going through a rough time spiritually and mentally as well. May Allah ta'ala be with all of you and your beloved ones. Ameen.

Assalam O Alikum to all my Muslim Brothers

When you see a member who made their account years and years ago and they last signed in 3 or 4 years ago 

Where have you been? 

Seeing a great rise in supposedly believers, and especially believer-youth, becoming open fasiqs, embracing kufr practices, and adopting kufr beliefs.
Fisq and kufr is being normalized and promoted left right and centre. 
May Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) protect His divine law from being trampled upon. May he destroy the wrongdoers, and may He hasten the reappearance of the Imam Zaman (عليه السلام) so that mankind finds salvation. 

Seeing a great rise in supposedly believers, and especially believer-youth, becoming open fasiqs, embracing kufr practices, and adopting kufr beliefs.
Fisq and kufr is being normalized and promoted left right and centre. 
May Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) protect His divine law from being trampled upon. May he destroy the wrongdoers, and may He hasten the reappearance of the Imam Zaman (عليه السلام) so that mankind finds salvation. 

Seeing a great rise in supposedly believers, and especially believer-youth, becoming open fasiqs, embracing kufr practices, and adopting kufr beliefs.
Fisq and kufr is being normalized and promoted left right and centre. 
May Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) protect His divine law from being trampled upon. May he destroy the wrongdoers, and may He hasten the reappearance of the Imam Zaman (عليه السلام) so that mankind finds salvation. 

للَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّادِقِ

Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) revealed Āyat Ikmāl ad-Dīn (آیَة إِکْمَال الدِّيْن‎, Verse of the Perfection of the Religion) at Ghadir Khumm about the wilayah of Imam Ali (as);
This day have those who reject faith given up all hope of your religion: yet fear them not but fear Me. This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion (5:3).

After contemplating the matter over a few months, I have realized that my time on ShiaChat has truly come to an end after 16 years. As such I will no longer be participating on the forum nor responding to PMs. Please keep me in your good du'as and forgive my short comings.

"Prayer is the shield of the believer and when you increase your knocking at the door it opens up to you."
— Imām ʿAlī (al-Kāfī)
عدة من أصحابنا، عن سهل بن زياد، عن جعفر بن محمد الأشعري، عن ابن القداح، عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام) قال: قال أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام): الدعاء ترس المؤمن ومتى تكثر قرع الباب يفتح لك.

I just love Iftar

On your birthday Imami, your soul lives with us until our dying breath.  God destroy the House of Saoud, so that one day we build a shrine for all our Imams in Baqe3.  Peace be upon you, my master Imam Ali Zein al 3bdeen.

Salam,
Just received news that a distant relative, a young and religious father of two, has passed away in a road accident while coming back from work in the city of Mumbra near Bombay. The funeral is tomorrow. Requesting prayers for him and his family.

I am at peace with those who are at peace with you. 
- Ziyarat Ashura

Imam Jaffer as Sadiq(عليه السلام) said: '' Persevere in this world, which is in fact no more than one moment, for that which has passed of this world has neither pain nor pleasure for you (for they have moved on), for that which is yet to come is unknown to you. Rather, the world is the very moment that you're in now, so persevere in that MOVEMENT in obeying Allah(سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) & patiently refrain from disobeying Him(سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى)." al-kafi, vol.2, p.328, no 4
 

Lol read your message in the chatroom a bit late.
Thanks, I actually wrote that while fighting sleep, it wasn’t even me trying