What I Miss about Ilm Summit....

[Widaad az Zamaan]

Assalaamu'alaikum,
Let everyone know how depriving it is to be back in the real world again :-(

[Widaad az Zamaan]

I miss my shuyookh the most :-(

[HaythamSoliman]

my sleep :)

[HaythamSoliman]

wait.... does that mean i was sleeping through out ilmSummit....!!!! if so, no thats not what i meant... i meant that i didnt sleep during ilmSummit... lolol... haha

[spana3rabia]

besides the obvious(too cool shuyookh, awesome environment, sisterhood/brohood, salaat in Jama'ah, the 'ilm, the laughs) and the new yorkers and all the wonderful sisters we got to meet from all over. Alhamdulillah!

This Ilm Summit has really brightened my hopes for the future! Never underestimate what you can do! JazakomAllahu kheiran to all the shuyookh and organizers. I cant even describe how cool this was. masha'Allah! may Allah allow more successful ilm summits to come!

[sireen]

If I was at Ilm Summit right now, I would probably be praying jama3a behind one of the shuyookh :(

I will miss that for sure...

[safa_709]

The contests.....quran, pingpong, badminton, and the such.

Also, Sitting around the shuyookh, asking them every question that crossed our mind.

Feeling like we were all one big, happy family.

[Abdurrahman]

I miss the dirty (you know what Haytham)

I miss the morning Student reminders and Bukhari's brief lessons, the tasfeer, I brity (do you get the pun) much miss everything and everyone.

I also miss the fact that everyone was breaking out of their shells and you find people that would never of meet becoming best friends and inshallah as the shayookah have told us will remember this for as long as we live.

wasalamu alykum

[Widaad az Zamaan]

i miss Andalus!!!!

[Adib Contractor]

Not being able to control my tears in every prayer

[Umm Amr]

the shuyookh.
the community spirit.

[Wasif]

I miss ....
The mannerism and the knowledge of the shuyookh
The whole ilmsummit environment.(I appreciate it even more now that i am back)
Fighting for the front row (Salaah and in the class) :)

[Sr.Sara]

my Ilm Summit neighbors. :(

[Sr.Sara]

Saturday night when some sisters (you know who you are) were at my door and I was reciting poetry.

that was something... ;)

[sireen]

Saturday night when some sisters (you know who you are) were at my door and I was reciting poetry.

that was something... ;)
LOL
Not just any kind of poetry!!
I'll never forget that!

[Sr.Sara]

"Alhamdu lillahi rabbil 'alameen.
wa salla Allahu wa sallam mubaraka 'ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa 'ala aalihi wa sahbihi wa salama tasleeman khatheera thumma amma ba'ad..."

[zuhair.shaath]

I miss all the brothers, all the fun and of course all the shuyookh and their "tangents".

[HaythamSoliman]

No one misses me? sigh.... soon i will be a shaykh too lol and inshaAllah be missed :) haha

for whatever its worth... tho i feel a little relaxed ... I am in tears here at work thinking and remembering what just happened in the last two weeks.....

MAAAAN.....I cant get off the forums...i think they are gona fire me at work LOLOL.. o vell

[zuhair.shaath]

No one misses me? sigh.... soon i will be a shaykh too lol and inshaAllah be missed :) haha

for whatever its worth... tho i feel a little relaxed ... I am in tears here at work thinking and remembering what just happened in the last two weeks.....

MAAAAN.....I cant get off the forums...i think they are gona fire me at work LOLOL.. o vellYou know what I'm missing now that you remind me?

Some of my dirty lundry

[HaythamSoliman]

haaaaaaay people... what happens at IlmSummit stays at IlmSummit... we dont want to get our "dirty laundry" out to the public LOLOL

haha..

[As'habul_Quran]

Subhanallah! Ilm Summit, you guys sound like you just came back from Hajj! Man, inshallahu ta'3la i am going to the next one! The more shamsies, the merrier :D

[hassanm]

No one misses me? sigh.... soon i will be a shaykh too lol and inshaAllah be missed :) haha

No one misses you because you are with them in their heart? :D

[sidrae]

that at this very moment, one of the Shuyookh would be going over his designated time cutting into our break/lunch yet no one would be complaining because we didn't want the session to end...(mostly because the knowledge was so interesting and partly because lunch that day was chinese...lol)

I miss everything about IlmSummit :(

[Rabiah - la Voyageure ©]

I miss the food always being on time - and the beautiful company to enjoy the lunch with!
The halaqaat, the jokes of New Yowkers and them always trash talking (now I know that it runs in the qabeelah!), my Haqq sisters with their smiles (I miss you guys...!), Majd girls trying to incite tayybites... Durbah on the sidelines.. Haadi with their genuinity...

You know how duniya means the least important to you when you get a taste of Jannah - and at ilmsummit - the tranquil feeling, the barakah - I tried to watch some gemreels and they couldn't even bring 1/8th of the same pleasure I felt as we watched them with the students and the mashaykh at ilmsummit.

I miss my jannah of this world.

[Brooklyn]

I miss messin around with ever qabeelah and using names like to identify other sisters that no one would understand except us like:

san3a', salaami, sutra, south africa, london, edaraaw, yo majd, bala qalu, partner, termites, etc :)

[Brooklyn]

Something i won't forget are all those elevator stories and funny situations that happened.

[Mobeen Vaid]

I miss sitting in class- just taking notes, soaking it all in.....

[Halle Ma]

I miss messin around with ever qabeelah and using names like to identify other sisters that no one would understand except us like:

san3a', salaami, sutra, south africa, london, edaraaw, yo majd, bala qalu, partner, termites, etc :)

lol i miss that too and i also miss blaming everything on durbah lol...miss yea sid

[mazinmk]

How can I not miss the Isha Prayer led by Sh. Waleed Basyouni

[Ibn Cheek]

I miss:

Sheikh Yasir Qadhis British accent and eccentric tabletennis moves...

Maani3's Urdu..

Doing Sufi sessions with Ahmed..

Random Majdees coming up to me and 'groping' my earlobes...

Ginger coming up to me, holding my beard and saying, I wanna shake your beard like crazy, just give me permission...

The feel of a tabletennis bat...

Sitting on Muhammad's la...erm, I mean, erm, yeah..

Calling bros whose names you dont know, 'Bro' or 'Akh'...

Khairuddin's eyebrow and Miswak on his ear...

Hearing the worst English accents I have ever heard in my life...

People making things big when they really arent...cough Aqeedahexams/playsbyshamsees/theissueofbadfood/missinglaundry cough...

And of course the classes, the shuyukh and Haytham and his Helpers..

:D

[The 2nd]

EVERYTHING....the good and the bad...I'd gladly go through another 16 days of candied chinese chicken and awkward elevator/narrow-as-anything-hallway situations and damp hotelroom floors and lack of sleep and any other thing I might have complained about because that would mean....praying 5 times a day behind our shayookh, being with close friends who days before were total strangers, learning adab, fiqh, hadeeth, history, Qur'an, aqeedah, Q&A w the shaykh, halaal jokes and hilarious stories, and another 16 days spent with my 'IlmSummit family :)

[Mohammed Mana]

i miss eating with the shuyoukh...i had my first meal back from houston and although i was sitting with some good brothers, it just wasnt the same. you can ask any question off the top of your head and tangents of all sorts and kinds were allowed in these circles.

if the food were eating was really bad (and it wasnt) then the sheikh being with us made the food taste like a royal dish.

this is just one of the hundreds of things i miss about ilmsummit.

btw...i am missing some laudry. and im NOT JOKING...dead serious i really am missing one piece of clothing,

i miss every single one of my fellow students, and mostly our teachers May Allah preserve them...

[Ibn Cheek]

Haytham has it....you left it in our room on the night of the Exam...

:D

[Mohammed Mana]

yes a brother called me and told me..alhamdulilah

jazaks bruv...missing you guys alot!

[Anas_]

I miss the Ilm Summit babies. :(

[zuhair.shaath]

I miss the Ilm Summit babies. :(Same here! Nooh always had a huge smile on his face :(

[Anas_]

May Allaah protect them! Ameen!

[Su'aad]

I miss having everything being taken cared of, not having to worry about anything

[praisebe2allah]

I miss waking up after fajr and eating breakfast with all the sisters who are have awake...

I miss praying in the ballroom

I miss seeing the eleavtor door and cautious walking in so as not to bump into anyone.

I miss hearing Shyakh Yasir Qadhi's english accent.

I miss the wildcard sessions

I MISS EVERYTHING ABOUT ILMSUMMIT.

[Halle Ma]

i miss praying Jamaa'ah 5 times day

i miss Sh. Yaser B saying Ya Jamaa'ah during every lecture (lets all pray that he can come to toronto for a class Inshallah)

i miss Sh. Yasir Q's tangents and of course his british accent

i miss Sh. Waleeds jokes lol cereal killer

i miss the competitions we had with the other qabeelaats (dodgeball and table tennis lol)

i miss the lobby and all of its noise

i miss our meal time stories and jokes

i miss our many attempts to try to go swimming...although we knew it could never happen it was still fun wishing for it lol

i miss the hotel hallways and the elevator stories lol

i miss everything period and im just soooooo greatful and thank Allah swt that we all got to experience this alhamdulilah walahi being in an environment where we were remembering Allah swt 24/7 and then coming back home was literally a big shock for me subhanallah it seriously made me realize how much time i waste doing meaningless things.... but we have an almaghrib class this friday inshallah a hearts serene and i get to see some of my ilm summit buddies :)

Ilm Summit 2008---an event which will never be forgotten

[Bint Shahid]

I miss seeing my beautiful sisters every morning

I miss listening and soaking in our Shuyukh's lectures

I miss walking down the corridors to my class

I miss waking up every morning to get my favorite spot

I miss the early morning jokes over breakfast

I miss the anticipation, what will I learn today

I miss splitting my lunch and dinner with three other sisters

I miss sitting around our Shuyukh in the Lobby (living room)

I miss looking down the fifth floor onto the Lobby

I miss “Suleiman Idhar aaoo” every salah!

I miss having an urdu conversation with an Egyptian sister

I miss praying every Salah in congregation

I miss the small announcements after every Salah

I miss all the encouragement and advice our Shuyukh gave

I miss the awesome sense of humor of our Shuyukh

I miss the tripping over extension cords while making my way down the hall (I really do)

I can go on. I miss every second of Ilm Summit!



Thank You all for making it the most amazing experience of our lives.

[ATLMaghrib]

... what happens at IlmSummit stays at IlmSummit...
LOL, you got that right; all but the knowledge though!

[Precious Pearl]

II miss “Suleiman Idhar aaoo” every salah!


I can still here her.....LOOOOL

[sidrae]

i miss ourdad18 and her endless supply of snacks

i miss the family - [anecdote: friday late night there were about 7-12 sisters studying in the lecture hall and by this time mostly all the brothers had left, the ones studying and those protecting the sisters, except this one brother who looked like sleep would overtake him at any moment but he decided to stay outside hall despite the fact that all the other brothers had abandoned him, to ensure that the sisters were protected. May Allah swt reward that brother with nothing less than Jannahtul Firdaus, MashAllah its brothers like him that remind you chivalry isn't dead just yet.]

i miss the urdu spoken by the egyptians and the somalians

i miss the drum stick that doubled as a hitting stick whenver someone fell asleep in class (reviving the spirit of Umar ibn AlKhattab RA) :)

san3a', salaami, sutra, south africa, london, edaraaw, yo majd, bala qalu, partner, termites, etc :)lol. i miss that too.

lol i miss that too and i also miss blaming everything on durbah lol...miss yea sidi miss blaming everything on majd - and then realizing that the reason the sister that you told the majd joke to wasn't laughing was because she was from majd- every other sister was a majdian MashAllah :) Miss you guys.

[Nihaad Zaman]

I miss Shaykh Yaser's Muqtasar alBukhari...i dont think i'll ever be able to read a hadith again without wishing Sh.Yaser was here to recite it for me in his mashaa'Allah beautiful voice.
I miss praying behind the shuyook. Mashaa'Allah they all have such wonderful and powerful voices. I don't think I've ever prayed like I prayed the last two weeks. subhanAllah.
I miss the never-ending announcements
I miss turning corners verrrry carefully.
I miss the Shuyook looking out for us sisters...subhanAllah who's going to do that for us in the real fitna-filled world?
I miss my bubble
I miss "Ya Jamaa'a!"
I miss Sh. Yasir always going for it just because this was ilmsummit
I miss Sh. Waleed challenging everyone at table tennis
I miss the 2nd and the 2nd 2nd :)

[Brooklyn]

i miss ourdad18 and her endless supply of snacks

i miss the family - [anecdote: friday late night there were about 7-12 sisters studying in the lecture hall and by this time mostly all the brothers had left, the ones studying and those protecting the sisters, except this one brother who looked like sleep would overtake him at any moment but he decided to stay outside hall despite the fact that all the other brothers had abandoned him, to ensure that the sisters were protected. May Allah swt reward that brother with nothing less than Jannahtul Firdaus, MashAllah its brothers like him that remind you chivalry isn't dead just yet.]

i miss the urdu spoken by the egyptians and the somalians

i miss the drum stick that doubled as a hitting stick whenver someone fell asleep in class (reviving the spirit of Umar ibn AlKhattab RA)

lol. i miss that too.

i miss blaming everything on majd - and then realizing that the reason the sister that you told the majd joke to wasn't laughing was because she was from majd- every other sister was a majdian MashAllah :) Miss you guys.You got a problem with the urdu speaking egyptians?? we egyptians got talent we even had a brother who can sing a whole nasheed in urdu!!! ;)

- The Drum Stick!!!! Ahhh i remeber that, alhamdulillah the one hold the stick was my homie so i wasn't the one gettin the beatings lol ;) (plus i was sitting pretty far away) lol

WORD!! majd man, you guys took over, we tayybaites HAD and were FORCED to pair with our rival enemy DURBAH against the majd crew they were 2 many eyh!! lol :)

[mbslrm]

i miss eating with the shuyoukh...i had my first meal back from houston and although i was sitting with some good brothers, it just wasnt the same. you can ask any question off the top of your head and tangents of all sorts and kinds were allowed in these circles.

if the food were eating was really bad (and it wasnt) then the sheikh being with us made the food taste like a royal dish.

this is just one of the hundreds of things i miss about ilmsummit.

btw...i am missing some laudry. and im NOT JOKING...dead serious i really am missing one piece of clothing,

i miss every single one of my fellow students, and mostly our teachers May Allah preserve them...Haytham?

I miss Haytham's announcements.

And I don't know why everyone was complaining about the food. I actually like it since I didn't have to eat Desi food all the time, like I do at home. The only thing that was bad about the food was the beef that was really hard to chew.

[mbslrm]

I also miss Junaid Jamshed's nasheeds.

And eating with the Shooyokh.

[Nihaad Zaman]

- The Drum Stick!!!! Ahhh i remeber that, alhamdulillah the one hold the stick was my homie so i wasn't the one gettin the beatings lol ;) (plus i was sitting pretty far away) lolI miss being defended by that drumstick against my own sister! subhanAllah!

[mbslrm]

I miss the Jinn stories.

Where can we watch that Jinn documentary?

[Precious Pearl]

i miss blaming everything on majd - and then realizing that the reason the sister that you told the majd joke to wasn't laughing was because she was from majd- every other sister was a majdian MashAllah :) Miss you guys.
WORD!! majd man, you guys took over, we tayybaites HAD and were FORCED to pair with our rival enemy DURBAH against the majd crew they were 2 many eyh!! lol :)
Offcourse, being the biggest Qabeelah, we only had to show our true colours and represent at Ilm Summit.
Majd was toooooooooooo peaceful however. We're gonna have to wage a real war since Tayybah and Durbah began the battles.

But I miss you guys thoughhttp://forums.almaghrib.org/images/icons/icon10.gif

[sidrae]

blimey, i miss my British accent (or lack thereof).

Majd was toooooooooooo peaceful however. that was implied, your guys are Canadian what else would you do, lol :D

[Rami]

Asalaam Aleikum Warahmatullah Wabarakatu,

I miss competing for the front row!

I remember by the end of the second week you see brothers getting ready to sprint to the back in order to get the front row of salat. And after lunch the deeply remorseful yet "You gotta do what you gotta do" feeling of moving someone off the front row when all bets were off, and the feeling of regret for spending that extra minute in your room and finding yourself flung back into the back back rows =)

I miss it.

[zuhair.shaath]

What I miss:

I miss the volunteers walking up to me and asking if I needed anything else (even though they had given me everything I needed and more)

I miss playing ping pong with Sh. Yasir Qadhi and him yelling out ahadeeth and ayaat of the Quran

I miss Sh. Yaser Birjas saying "I don't know, I wasn't there when Adam was created" or "I don't know, I've never been to Jannah"

I miss the bro's yelling "Jinn story!" everytime sihr was mentioned, and I miss that shuyookh looking at the sisters side everytime and then saying "no way, not again"

I miss the dirty looks that people gave us when we were in the lobby

I miss the UK bro's and going swimming with them

I miss yanking on all of the long beards

I miss making suffi dhikr in the first row with the shuyookh (LOLOL)

I miss running to the first row with the brothers

I miss Sh. Yaser looking at me after iqama and saying "Do you know that you're blocking the door?"

I miss the smell of Sh. Waleed's beautiful ittir

I miss the stories of Madinah

I miss the stories of Sh. Uthaymeen rahimahullah

I miss the stories of Sh. Bin Baaz rahimahullah

I miss the stories of Shaikhul Islam, and how huge the eyes of our shuyookh got when they were about to tell a story

I miss walking down the hall and using the doors as reflectors to make sure I wouldn't bump into a sister

I miss having to get a spot in the first tables to ensure I could get an outlet for my laptop

I miss the yellow Ilm Summit paper (alhamdulilah I took a huuuge stack right after the exams)

I miss playing ping pong with the brothers

I miss going to sleep at 1 and waking up for qiyaam and staying up the rest of the day

I miss the Canadians and their randomly weird ear rubbings

I miss the UK brothers saying "Waadeer and Buudder" everytime they heard water and butter

I miss the beautiful recitations of our huffadh

I miss the brothers making fun of me the last night because I wore my ma3wees (it's like a cloth that guys wear in somalia, similar to a 'lungi' or 'kilt' )

I miss reading saheeh bukhar - hijaazi style

I miss marriage being brought up every break when Sh. Yaser Birjas would eat with us

I miss the good food that was always on time (note: I actually love Chinese food so I did actually like it!)

I miss always spilling ice on the table from our water pitchers

I miss having to explain what "Virginia" was to all our overseas brothers

I miss everyone calling our Canadian brothers "People from overseas"

I miss all the hugs, now I know how the companions developed their strong brotherhood

I miss all the "inside jokes"

I miss the cute little babies

I miss the marital advice

I miss shamoo the elephant

I miss making a 3 hour movie at 12am only to not finish it

I miss making fun of Haytham

Most of all though, I miss you. You are what made Ilm Summit, Ilm Summit. I pray that Allah blesses you and forgives you of your sins, and that He reunite us; if it not be in this world then in the next in jannatul firdous.

[HaythamSoliman]

I went to the hotel today at 5pm to pick up some stuff from there and i went to the bathroom next to the ballroom.. then i stopped at the ballroom and it was soo quite.. and empty .. mayn... I miss you guys... i feel like a huge part of me is gone :(

sigh... i went to work today 1 hr late.. and i couldnt work... i was on the forums LOL for 2 hrs.. then i took off... i just couldnt get used to the work life again .. very odd feeling i tell you .. subhan Allah..

Anywayz... if there is ONE thing i dont miss .... it would be hearing the word laundry repeated over 15 times in less than 2 hrs during the banquette.. its as if the main theme of that banquette was about the "laundry" LOL....

I had so much fun tho... if i ever go back in time.... i would do it all over again :)

[Brother Noor]

i miss 'YA IJMA' by Sheikh Yaser Birjas :D

that was legandary

[praisebe2allah]

i miss praying with such straight rows and no gaps btwn the sisters....

i miss my Ilmsummit family :(

[Smooth]

I miss....
-the feet in the sinks (so hard for us sisters with abayas)
-the eggs for breakfast EVERYDAY
-the chronicles of the elevator
-the swimming pool attempts (we almost had it)
-the dodgeball game
-the 3 days no sleep
-the breaks that kept getting shorter as the week passed by
-THE COOKIES
-the prayers in Jama3ah
-the shocked look one everyones face when they found out i was not pakistani but knew how to speak perfect urdu
-Suliman Idarowwwww
-the non ending snacks
-the quran competition
-the ooos and aaas of the ping pong games
-the brothers non stop questions
-the attempts of all the sisters to speak brooklyn, and british

I can go on forever and ever and ever because these were the best 2 weekends of my life

[Ifteen]

I miss....
-the feet in the sinks (so hard for us sisters with abayas)
-the eggs for breakfast EVERYDAY
-the chronicles of the elevator
-the swimming pool attempts (we almost had it)
-the dodgeball game
-the 3 days no sleep
-the breaks that kept getting shorter as the week passed by
-THE COOKIES
-the prayers in Jama3ah
-the shocked look one everyones face when they found out i was not pakistani but knew how to speak perfect urdu
-Suliman Idarowwwww
-the non ending snacks
-the quran competition
-the ooos and aaas of the ping pong games
-the brothers non stop questions
-the attempts of all the sisters to speak brooklyn, and british

I can go on forever and ever and ever because these were the best 2 weekends of my life
Don't you mean " galabayas? "
I miss the intense Ping pong threats... mashallah I never knew ping pong was such serious business :D

[zuhair.shaath]

-the brothers non stop questions
Lol, I remember for one class the sisters passed over a note that said "Brothers please keep questions until the very end

Pass this around"

I guess we get ahead of ourselves sometimes lol.

[Allah's_Fan]

So I've read seven pages of these posts from everyone of everything they have missed. I keeping remembering the last night after the banquet... how much I didn't want to leave and go back to my room. YQ was answering the questions of all the London brothers and I keeping hoping in my mind that they wouldn't stop. I remember sitting in the big group of sisters when YQ answered more questions and I didn't want that to end either... but it did. I walked up to my room and looked over the edge of the hall down to the brothers from the 6th floor, who were still talking and YB entered... !!! I went back down to the lobby just to be there and around them. I don't care what they were talking about!! I didn't want to leave. It was 3 am and my eyes were blood shot my legs felt like jelly and as I made my last trip up the elevator the words "last time" kept repeating in my head.

I miss everything. My teachers, my friends, the environment, ... everything.

A few post ago someone wrote this and I totally agree:

I miss my jannah of this world.

[Layl7]

I miss the food always being on time - and the beautiful company to enjoy the lunch with!
The halaqaat, the jokes of New Yowkers and them always trash talking (now I know that it runs in the qabeelah!), my Haqq sisters with their smiles (I miss you guys...!), Majd girls trying to incite tayybites... Durbah on the sidelines.. Haadi with their genuinity...

You know how duniya means the least important to you when you get a taste of Jannah - and at ilmsummit - the tranquil feeling, the barakah - I tried to watch some gemreels and they couldn't even bring 1/8th of the same pleasure I felt as we watched them with the students and the mashaykh at ilmsummit.

I miss my jannah of this world.
Umm hello Rabia..did you forget Ansar..ehem, i'll be seeing you this weekend inshaAllah at Heart Serene...ehem

[Faizan]

I sincerely apologize for all the delays and waiting when coming into Houston... insha'Allah we will be much more prepared next year. I could only think of all the stress everyone was feeling waiting in the terminals for so long. May Allah azza wa jal reward you all. If I offended or hurt anyone personally please forgive me.

[Asha]

What i TOTALLY missed (since i wasnt there) Is the Sisterhood that the Haadi sister who went found!! :(

[medihah]

I miss our Shayookh :(

I miss the feeling of brother and sister hood and although we spent the whole day in class everyone would be sitting in the lobby after Isha ready to play a game of Sheikh hunt.

I miss the way brothers and sisters would be making their way to the ballroom at Fajr

I miss the jokes of our shayookh

I miss making fun of Shamu

I miss having table wars when trying to secure your seat for the day

I miss the cookies the size of Texas

I miss the way everyone was so enthusiastic to learn

I miss our Bukhari classes

I miss Sh. Yasir Qadhi scaring us senseless about the exam

I miss these quotes: "Ya Jama'ah" "Itaqillah" "Omg" "I wasnt there when Adam was created" "Dichotomy" "Magnum Opus" and "Ramifications"....

I miss everything about Ilm Summit and I pray that Allah (swt) unites us all togehter a big happy Ilm Summit family in Jannah inshallah. Ameen.

[Halle Ma]

What I miss:

I miss the brothers making fun of me the last night because I wore my ma3wees (it's like a cloth that guys wear in somalia, similar to a 'lungi' or 'kilt' )

.looool omg that was u...walahi i felt the urge to ask u if u were half somali or something ..lol its not everyday u see someone wearing a ma3awees in public lol

[Widaad az Zamaan]

i miss being called a salaami and being told that i belong between two slices of bread! silly tayybites! and I miss sidrae always hogging my internet at every break, and getting hit with the drumstick for bullying my lil sister (that's what lil sisters are for nihaad!), and being poked by the 2nd :'''(

i miss taking notes in andalus, even though i couldnt stand taking notes in andalus. i miss crying everytime shaykh yaser said: "weep and cry like women for a city you could not keep like men."

i miss having Bukhaari being sung to me :-(

but i DONT miss busy boy!

[zuhair.shaath]

but i DONT miss busy boy!Astaghfirullah!!! Busy Boy was the BEST food there mashAllah. The guys side ran out within 10 minutes tops every time mashAllah.

[zuhair.shaath]

looool omg that was u...walahi i felt the urge to ask u if u were half somali or something ..lol its not everyday u see someone wearing a ma3awees in public lolhe wore that a lot in the room. at first i thought it was sheet or a bath towel lol :) until i asked him.
Lol, even shaikh birjas was taking shots at me lol. It's all good though, he said he wears something similar (but not in public lol...)

[Siraaj]

- I miss the accessibility to the shuyookh - it would be 2am in the morning, and they'd want to talk with you just like regular people, joking, and so forth.

- I miss the adab al-'ilm sessions - I found those the most practical and immediately life changing. The changes from those sessions for me were instantaneous.

- I miss all the amazing, hilarious, and competitive brothers I had the opportunity to interact with over the past 16 days.

- I miss seeing an amazing set of volunteers go over and above the hosnatality I experienced when I first came to Hosna and coined the term hosnatality. Please let me know if any of your volunteers come to chicago, insha'Allah ;)

- I miss the late nights and overdrinking of coffee throughout the day.

- I miss all the inside jokes of dirty laundry, shamu, british humo(u)r, and Haytham needing to get married ;)

- I miss attending probably the only khutbah in the continent (maybe the world) where virtually all attendees come early and actually pay attention to the khateeb.

- I miss Shaykh Waleed wandering the halls late at night into the wee hours of the morning, looking for people to hang out with and talk to =)

- I miss being isolated from the rest of the world.

Siraaj

PS - But I have to admit, I also missed my wife and kids, and I'm happy to be home with them, alhamdulillaah, and I'm excited that the changes that took place during those two weeks went from being theoretical stories to practical habits which I can now practice in the "real world".

[mbslrm]

I miss Zuhair from Fairfax.

[zuhair.shaath]

I miss Zuhair from Fairfax.I miss you too :(

[Abdurrahman]

Originally Posted by zuhair.shaath
What I miss:

I miss the brothers making fun of me the last night because I wore my ma3wees (it's like a cloth that guys wear in somalia, similar to a 'lungi' or 'kilt' )
Ya Shiekh you should have called me I would have backed you and gave them a good somali showdown, how dear they take about a culturally sensitive thiing like that they are gland i do not go over there and bit them with a banana.

wasalamu alykum

[zuhair.shaath]

Ya Shiekh you should have called me I would have backed you and gave them a good somali showdown, how dear they take about a culturally sensitive thiing like that they are gland i do not go over there and bit them with a banana.

wasalamu alykumNooooo don't waste the banana! I need it to eat with my rice! :D

[LoNgInG_2_jAnNaH]

- I miss being isolated from the rest of the world.

SubhanAllah, that is what i MISS THE MOST...


Allahu Almustaaan!

[Brooklyn]

i miss being called a salaami and being told that i belong between two slices of bread! silly tayybites! and I miss sidrae always hogging my internet at every break, and getting hit with the drumstick for bullying my lil sister (that's what lil sisters are for nihaad!), and being poked by the 2nd :'''(

i miss taking notes in andalus, even though i couldnt stand taking notes in andalus. i miss crying everytime shaykh yaser said: "weep and cry like women for a city you could not keep like men."

i miss having Bukhaari being sung to me :-(

but i DONT miss busy boy!Salaaaamiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!

[Naiyerah]

SubhanAllah, you're all bringing me to tears...

I miss being surrounded by so many amazing sisters from the US, Canada & the UK.

The Brooklyn sisters' sense of humor

Sh. Yaser Birjas' "ya jama`ah" and "Allah ul-Musta`aan"

Sh. Yasir Qadhi's "believe YOU me!" and his big words (iconoclastic, eclectic, modicum and many others I don't remember)

I miss the sisters' facial expressions when they saw the same Chinese food over and over (Now that it's over, if I was asked to eat the same food every day in exchange for being at `Ilm Summit again, I'd do it in a hearbeat)

Seeing the brothers crowd the shuyookh at any chance they get between the main sessions

The sisters' last Q&A w/ Shaykh Yasir Qadhi. I remembering asking all the questions I had, and hoping others would ask more questions so we can keep benefiting from his wisdom.

I miss my Haqq sisters' wake-up calls for fajr

Having a blast staying up almost all night w/ the sisters studying for the exams

The big yummy cookies

The hilarious entertainment sessions

The inspiration and Eman Rush I felt during Sh. Yasir Qadhi's Friday khutbah

I miss joking around with the sisters before wuduu`and then having deep conversations with them after Salah

One of the shuyookh making fun of the sisters b/c they would crowd the snack tables during all the morning breaks

Needing coffee after the Bukhari session b/c of back-to-back sleepless nights

As Br. Mehdi said in his speech, I miss being around the shuyukh who will tell a joke that makes you laugh, and then lead the prayer and bring you to tears

Going to the lobby and seeing Muslim brothers and sisters dominate the place, and the non-Muslims' utter shock at seeing so many of us

There's so much more, and I'm so sad that some of the most intricate memories of this experience will fade away as time goes by. Going to the airport was definitely what popped my bubble and brought me back to the reality of everyday life...but alhamdulillah praying w/ the brothers in jama`ah at the airport made the transition a bit easier (Jazakum Allahu Khayran to the brothers who spotted us and asked us to pray with them)

After hajj & `umrah, Ilm Summit is definitely the most out-of-this-dunya experience I've had my entire life, and I ask Allah (swt) that He unites us with our `Ilm Summit family and all other Muslims in jannat al-firdaus so we can reminisce and enjoy the rest of His more amazing blessings insha'Allah.

[The 2nd]

i miss being called a salaami and being told that i belong between two slices of bread! silly tayybites! and I miss sidrae always hogging my internet at every break, and getting hit with the drumstick for bullying my lil sister (that's what lil sisters are for nihaad!), and being poked by the 2nd :'''(

i miss taking notes in andalus, even though i couldnt stand taking notes in andalus. i miss crying everytime shaykh yaser said: "weep and cry like women for a city you could not keep like men."

i miss having Bukhaari being sung to me :-(

but i DONT miss busy boy!LOL BUSY BOY....

I miss poking you, "dad" and your endless supply of snacks and drinks. And I miss being called a Quraniyoon

I miss Tehmina making fun of her last name

I miss sun'aaaaaaaaaaaa telling me it's table tennis

I miss not having to make my bed

I miss the whole day already being planned out for me

I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy miss adab class!!!!

[LoNgInG_2_jAnNaH]

One of the shuyookh making fun of the sisters b/c they would crowd the snack tables during all the morning breaks

LOL, that was embarrassing!

In our defense, the water was not hot all morning, so we kept going back and forth to check if it was hot enuf to make our coffees! :)

good times....good times!

Allahu Almustaan!

[Nadya Aweinat]

I miss having to call in back up to wake certain sisters up

[ibnabeeomar]

i miss the sisters asking the brothers to have j. brown speak into the mic during q/a in between sessions, and dr. brown replying "tell them to come stand here, its a free country" :D

[HaythamSoliman]

i miss the sisters asking the brothers to have j. brown speak into the mic during q/a in between sessions, and dr. brown replying "tell them to come stand here, its a free country" :D
hahaha.. priceless.. :)

[Rabiah - la Voyageure ©]

Umm hello Rabia..did you forget Ansar..ehem, i'll be seeing you this weekend inshaAllah at Heart Serene...ehemoh all the canadian qabeelahs were one big happy family: Majd.
I meant to include you guys in with us... but... ahem.. yea.. I'll see you inshaAllaah sometime during Heart Serene. I better colour coordinate with Sistamatic ;)

[Nadya Aweinat]

watching the breakfast eggs turn from yellow to orange after being smothered in ketchup in an attempt to add flavor...sick

[Yasmine.Gharib]

watching the breakfast eggs turn from yellow to orange after being smothered in ketchup in an attempt to add flavor...sick


ok...that description just gave me a stomach ache....

cheefich ya Nadya?...
:)

[safa_709]

I never really minded the food, walhamdulilah for the variety and for the ni3mah and for the volunteers for trying to do their best in treating us :)

I miss all the shuyookh's unique quran recitation. In fact, I downloaded Sheikh YQ's khutbah, and I find myself repeatitively listening to the end with the quran....barakAllahu fee the akh who thought about recording it! May Allah preserve them.

I miss, sharing the food and the constant coffee/tea. I had major caffeine withdrawal headaches when I got home :)

I miss looking down to the lobby, and yelling down to someone you know and they dont know where its coming from looking side to side....very confused.lol

I miss the jam'aaat that were always present, during prayers, food, class, games, etc just all the groups & circles.

I miss getting my room key charged so many times! and then re-charged.

I miss talking to the maids in Spanish, when they could not understand ANY word of english. Once, a young maid was talking to me en espanol, and after the brief encounter she ended it with something.....I couldnt understand and told her to repeat it several times....turns out she had caught the word Shukran (thanks in Araby) and I just smiled.

I miss making wudu in the bathroom, almost slipping b/c of the wet, soaking tiled floors.......and then grabbing towels and sliding back and forth with my feet to dry it and avoid any liability issues later on :)

I miss sister Khadra's "Umar ibn khattab's" stick.

I miss Sh. Zoubair's and Imam Isam's wildcard sessions.

I miss eating lunch while listening in to Sh. YB Q&A sessions during the break.

I miss the "Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh's" ............

I miss praying side by side, praying behind the sheikhs, and every prayer in jama'ah. What a great feeling.

I miss the comfy, comfy huge beds with like 10 pillows.

I miss getting wake-up calls whenever I needed them. Once, for a afternoon siesta, I only wanted to sleep for 20mins and I phoned in. The person at the information desk laughed at my request, but Alhamdulilah granted it.

I miss talking in Araby to those who learned fusha by studying overseas, mA.

[Yasmine.Gharib]

I miss sister Khadra's "Umar ibn khattab's" stick.

LOL!....

[safa_709]

Dont remind me sister!!! that was horrible..its like we never left our parents!!
Do anything wrong....and let AUNTY khadra find out...you in for a good beating :oMashAllah, and this is NY talking ;)

I think it was needed, c'mon you would never have gotten a beating if you were 'good' or not sleepin........:D

[Nafsul-Awwaamah]

Lol, even shaikh birjas was taking shots at me lol. It's all good though, he said he wears something similar (but not in public lol...)
Is ma3awees another word for izaar?

[Nadya Aweinat]

cheefich ya Nadya?...
:)
Don't even...lol

[Brooklyn]

Don't even...lolshuuuuuu shlonesh ya Nadya ;)

[Ahmad.Kareem]

I miss everything about it. Everytime my wife and I look at the time, we say "we would be in class right now...", OR, "we would be at lunch right now...". It's nice to be home getting rest, but it's so hard not think of ILM Summit, my three favourite shuyookh, all the awesome brothers, praying together, and learning. It's hard to accept that it's all over, even 4 days after.

[ibnislam]

Who can forget what it feels like to eat halaal Starburst candies after years. Farhan Noon, I love you for that brother!

And Tajweed sessions after Fajr. (big shout out to Tawheed Pretzel).

[mbslrm]

I miss being cold

I miss Jiyaad from Edison/Piscataway

I miss not hearing about the Olympics

[Brother Noor]

Who can forget what it feels like to eat halaal Starburst candies after years. Farhan Noor, I love you for that brother!

And Tajweed sessions after Fajr. (big shout out to Tawheed Pretzel).Alhamdulillah.. no prob. inshAllah next year.. i will bring more inshAllah.. and also we'll bring you all some real chocolate not some fake hershie bars that you eat.. that is soo not chocolate..
wait untill you taste cadburys me and humza as soon as we got to heathrow, we were like :D yay real chocolate, oh how we missed it :P

[Yasmine.Gharib]

"Dont mess with Texas....its already messed up....." -Sheikh Zoubair

LOL!!!
in my mind b4 that i was thinking wats the big fuss about texas...its even worse then some third world countries :D.....
Then he said that and it was like the cherry on an ice cream sundae...PRICLESS!!

[The 2nd]

You claim to be a hosnawi in the making but poke fun at Texas?! That's blasphemous!

I miss not hearing about Musharraf and government conspiracies

[ibnislam]

I miss Shaykh Yaser Birjas ending with:

و الله تعالى أعلم

[sireen]

I think I'm really missing Ilm Summit
I had a dream about it...
Except, I wasn't really sitting down and taking notes and stuff...it was more like just walking through and watching everything happen right infront of my eyes..
I really miss Ilm Summit..

[fatoum_]

My list of 'I miss' is innumerable but here it goes anyway:

I miss the late night study sessions and sister bonding.
I miss going downstairs at 1:00 am and finding the Shuyook in a mini circle answering questions/giving advice.
I miss those comfy arm chairs where I fell asleep studying.
I miss walking around trying to get good internet connection on my laptop during five minute breaks.
I miss the humidity.
I miss the atmosphere of knowledge.
I miss the Ilm Summit van.
I miss those gargantuan chocolate chip cookies.
I ACTUALLY miss the chinese food (come on it wasn't that bad!)
I miss Sh. Yasir Qadhi's tangents and his spontaneous British accent.
I miss how Sh. Yaser Birjas said, "Ya Jama'ah" and "oh my God".
I miss all the shuyook and their classes.
To sum it up I miss everything about Ilm Summit.

[LoNgInG_2_jAnNaH]

I think I'm really missing Ilm Summit
I had a dream about it...
Except, I wasn't really sitting down and taking notes and stuff...it was more like just walking through and watching everything happen right infront of my eyes..
I really miss Ilm Summit..
I also had a dream about Ilm Summit last night. I can't remember the details...but i remember some people and faces...

I TOO REALLY MISS ILM SUMMIT!

Allahu Almustaaan....

[sireen]

I also had a dream about Ilm Summit last night. I can't remember the details...but i remember some people and faces...

I TOO REALLY MISS ILM SUMMIT!

Allahu Almustaaan....
SubhanAllah!!
Mine too was last night..
How cool is that, physically we're separated but we're not really :)
May Allah gather us again in jannah inshaAllah! (and in next year's ilm summit!!)

[praisebe2allah]

SubhanAllah!!
Mine too was last night..
How cool is that, physically we're separated but we're not really :)
May Allah gather us again in jannah inshaAllah! (and in next year's ilm summit!!)this is TOOO funny! i had dream of ilmsummmit last night....Longing2jannah you were in it too! i woke up this morning and i was telling my sister about it she just thought i was wierd!

[LoNgInG_2_jAnNaH]

SubhanAllah!!
May Allah gather us again in jannah inshaAllah! (and in next year's ilm summit!!)
Ameeeen Ya Rabb-al `alameeen!

[safa_709]

I miss Sh. Isam's "consumer" wildcard session---------everytime I'm having to buy something, his lecture replays in my head and I ask myself, "Do I really need this?" lol

I miss that Fajr prayer when they closed the hall with a barrier, and the sisters line literally went out the door and the 2nd, 3rd, and possible 4th rows were prayed out in the hall.

I miss eating, sleeping, talking, studying, dreaming, and living 'ilm.

I miss seeing a familiar face every minute, and talking to like 10 ppl before finally going up to your room.

[ibnislam]

I still remember those adhaans by the brothers, some of which would bring me close to tears. May Allah preserve all their voices

[LoNgInG_2_jAnNaH]

- I miss EVERYTHING about `Ilm Summit
- I miss having a full productive day...and going to sleep a bit content with what you've accomplished during the day and ACTUALLY looking forward for the next day!
- I miss not having to drive, check email/voice mail....basically, being isolated from this world :(
- I miss praying behind YQ, YB, WB and the other guest shyookh (and enjoying their recitations)
- I miss EVERYTHING about `Ilm Summit
- I miss Sh. YB saying "Ya Jama`ah", "Allahu ta`ala a`lam" at the end of his sessions and "Na`am" right after a question is asked :)
- I miss Sh. YQ's big/interesting words (that we hardly hear anywhere else), his british accent, and his threats about the `Aqeedah exam :)
- I miss Sh. WB's recitations in class and when he picks on the brothers/sisters in class :)
- I miss EVERYTHING about `Ilm Summit

[praisebe2allah]

- I miss EVERYTHING about `Ilm SummitDitto...Almost a month Post Ilmsummit and the longing and emptiness still lingers... I was reviewing my notes the other day and i could still hear the voices of the various shyookh.

reflecting back and thinking about Ilmsumit and everything Ilmsummit...I am realizing what an amazing blessing it was to attend ilmsummit. May Allah bless us with this oppurtunity again. Ameen.

[sireen]

I miss sliding a card/key two or three times before the door would open to my room!!!

I miss having the everlasting energy to do things

[Brother Noor]

SHADY HALL...

LAUNDRY

^ But when you read these.. you need to picture them being said by brother Haitham himself.. makes it that more funny..


SUBHANALLAH.. WHENEVER I SEE THE USERNAME SHADYHALLLAUNDRY.. I CANT STOP LAUGHING