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Welcome to Inner Peace Be Upon You!

Thank you for supporting me in this endeavor! My purpose in Inner Inner Peace Be Upon You is to send a motivational, inspirational, uplifting newsletter every day during the week day.

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Inner Peace Be Upon You,

Ramin Mohammad

Friday, March 28, 2014

#0744 Two blessings

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# 0744 Peace and Blessings Every Day
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Two blessings
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Reported by Ibn Abbas (RA): Messenger of God (PBUH) said, “There are two blessings in which many people incur loss. (They are) health and free time (for doing good).”

[Bukhari]

Let us use our youth and our time for goodness now, before we run out.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

#0743 What is the real purpose?

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# 0743 Peace and Blessings Every Day
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What is the real purpose?
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When I started Inner Peace Be Upon You in 2010, I knew
I wanted it to be a newsletter that helped someone change
their perspective for the better or simply help them get through their
day. My initial subscribers were close friends and family
who were gracious enough to allow me the opportunity
to start this.

I slowly started to look beyond family and friends. I knew
the messages I was trying to convey in Inner Peace Be Upon You
was universal and could make a difference in anyone’s life.
As I started to do the marketing for Inner Peace Be Upon You,
I became more and more concerned with the number of
viewers and subscribers. It started to become more of a
numbers game than anything else. Soon enough I was
consumed with finding ways to get more and more
subscribers and viewers.

Granted Inner Peace Be Upon You was popular because
it was something that everyone could relate to. It came at a
moment when by the grace of God someone needed it that day
even though I had written the newsletter at least a month in advance.
But when I started to become numbers driven, I realized that my
efforts in gaining more subscribers and viewers started to disappoint.
I just wasn’t sure what was going on.

Did people all of a sudden stop reading?
Was it no longer helpful?
Were my topics redundant?
Am I no longer successful in my endeavor?

It became very personal. I started to ask these questions
and many others as I could not find the answer.

Yet, the answer was right there in my face.

My purpose changed.

I was more concerned with the numbers than I was with
the purpose of Inner Peace Be Upon You. The purpose of
Inner Peace Be Upon You is to help others: most times
in life we just need to change our perspective in the way we
view things because the best way to gain
external happiness is through internal peacefulness.

It was never about the numbers.

In fact, everyone who I spoke to initially about Inner Peace Be Upon You,
I told them that so long as one, just ONE, person was able to
benefit from the newsletter for that day, then I had fulfilled
my purpose.

In today’s environment with facebook, twitter, instagram, and many
other social media venues, we are often consumed with how many
followers we are able to get that we often forget the real purpose
of what we are hoping to accomplish.

In those moments when we forget, we have to ask ourselves:
What is the real purpose?

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Monday, March 24, 2014

#0742 Instructions for a bad day

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# 0742 Peace and Blessings Every Day
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Instructions for a bad day
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There will be bad days.


Be calm.
Loosen your grip, opening each palm slowly now.
Let go.
Be confident.


Know that now is only a moment, and that if today is as bad as it gets, understand that by tomorrow, today will have ended.


Be gracious.
Accept each extended hand offered, to pull you back from the somewhere you cannot escape.


Be diligent.
Scrape the gray sky clean. Realize every dark cloud is a smoke screen meant to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not - the sun and moon are still there and always there is light.


Be forthright.
Despite your instinct to say "it's alright, I'm okay" - be honest. Say how you feel without fear or guilt, without remorse or complexity. Be lucid in your explanation, be sterling in your oppose. If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion.


We hungry underdogs, we risers with dawn, we dissmisser's of odds, we blesser's of on – we will station ourselves to the calm. We will hold ourselves to the steady, be ready player one. Life is going to come at you armed with hard times and tough choices, your voice is your weapon, your thoughts ammunition – there are no free extra men, be aware that as the instant now passes, it exists now as then. So be a mirror reflecting yourself back, and remembering the times when you thought all of this was too hard and you'd never make it through.


Remember the times you could have pressed quit – but you hit continue.


Be forgiving.
Living with the burden of anger, is not living. Giving your focus to wrath will leave your entire self absent of what you need. Love and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed. Be persistent. Be the weed growing through the cracks in the cement, beautiful - because it doesn't know it's not supposed to grow there.


Be resolute.
Declare what you accept as true in a way that envisions the resolve with which you accept it.


If you are having a good day, be considerate.
A simple smile could be the first-aid kit that someone has been looking for. If you believe with absolute honesty that you are doing everything you can - do more.


There will be bad days, Times when the world weighs on you for so long it leaves you looking for an easy way out. There will be moments when the drought of joy seems unending. Instances spent pretending that everything is alright when it clearly is not, check your blind spot.


See that love is still there, be patient.
Every nightmare has a beginning, but every bad day has an end. Ignore what others have called you. I am calling you friend. Make us comprehend the urgency of your crisis. Silence left to its own devices, breed's silence. So speak and be heard. One word after the next, express yourself and put your life in the context – if you find that no one is listening, be loud.


Make noise.
Stand in poise and be open.
Hope in these situations is not enough and you will need someone to lean on. In the unlikely event that you have no one, look again. Everyone is blessed with the ability to listen. The deaf will hear you with their eyes. The blind will see you with their hands. Let your heart fill their news-stands, Let them read all about it. Admit to the bad days, the impossible nights. Listen to the insights of those who have been there, but come back. They will tell you; you can stack misery, you can pack disappear you can even wear your sorrow – but come tomorrow you must change your clothes.


Everyone knows pain.
We are not meant to carry it forever.
We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you how was your day, realize that for some of us – it's the only way we know how to say, be calm.


Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now – let go.


~Shane Koyczan



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Thursday, March 20, 2014

#0741 Piety

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# 0741 Peace and Blessings Every Day
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Piety
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Reported by Wabisah bin Ma`bad (RA): I went to Messenger of God (peace be upon him) and he asked me, “Have you come to inquire about piety?” I replied in the affirmative. Then he said, “Ask your heart regarding it. Piety is that which contents the soul and comforts the heart, and sin is that which causes doubts and perturbs the heart, even if people pronounce it lawful and give you verdicts on such matters again and again.”

[Ahmad& Ad-Darmi]

Listen to your heart for that’s where your piety resides.



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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

#0740 The power of words

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# 0740 Peace and Blessings Every Day
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The power of words
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Change your words.

Change your world.


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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

#0739 Inter-faith harmony

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# 0739 Peace and Blessings Every Day
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Inter-faith harmony
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The below letter requires no explanation.  We hope it provides credence and comfort that Prophet Muhammad (sa) truly celebrated his Christian friends. (The original letter is now in the Topkapi Museum in Instanbul)

"This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! I hold out against anything that displeases them.

No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries.

No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims' houses. Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God's covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate.

No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray.

Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants. No one of the nation (Muslims) is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day (end of the world)."

English translation from 'Muslim History: 570 - 1950 C.E.' by Dr. A. Zahoor and Dr. Z. Haq, ZMD Corporation. P.O. Box 8231 - Gaithersburg, MD 20898-8231 - Copyright Akram Zahoor 2000. P. 167

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Monday, March 10, 2014

#0738 Putting out a fire

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# 0738 Peace and Blessings Every Day
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Putting out a fire
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Are you the type that will put out a fire by using gasoline?


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