I never explained why I chose to call my blog Glad Tidings to the Strangers. I aspire to be a stranger as referred to in the hadith of Rasulullah (sas):
"Islaam began as something strange and it will revert to how it began as something strange. So glad tidings of Paradise to the strangers"
Before I made hijrah I felt like a stranger in my country, and after I made hijrah I felt very strange. But being a stranger, in the way the hadith is referring is not just feeling like a stranger. I found this site by Shaykh Jamaal Ad-deen Zarabozo with a good tafsir on this hadith.
http://www.freewebs.com/salafiyyah_/gladtidings.htm
So, are you a stranger?
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Assalamualaikum,
MashAllah sister I love reading your blog! You are a very optimistic person. I had to comment on this blog because I myself feel like I stranger in my own country... lol, as if I do not belong here. When I go to Manhattan and I see the tall buildings, when I'm at university and I'm the only one who's covering... InshAllah I will be making Hijrah soon like you, by myself. And I will definitely keep reading your blog so I don't look sight of my goal InshAllah.
wassalaam
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