So many of us like to listen to Islamic music. One particular artist that many of us know is Native Deen. Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of them. Although the message is great, some of their music is too cheesy-sounding for my tastes. Khair, that’s just me. There is one song, though, that is really tight.

Everytime I ride in Rhonda’s car, she’s always bumping that CD. I’m not even kidding you, that is all she plays ever. Totally fine, I mean, subhan’Allah that’s a great thing, right? Fo sho we should all be striving to cut out the stupid meaningless music we listen to in our lives and instead listen to more music with an Islamic theme. So the CD starts off, and all I hear are some dudes talking. I’m thinking, “What the heck? Rhonda listens to some waackkk music.” But then it starts off, and all the guy says is “AlhamdulilLah, alhamdulilLah, alhamdulilLah, alhamdulilLah, alhamdulilLah, alhamdulilLah, subhan’Allah.” And they just repeat that the whole song. Two and a half straight minutes of it! It sounds like it would be so lame, but subhan’Allah it’s totally not & the idea is awesome! Imagine. You’re sitting there singing along to this song, and you’re totalllyyy getting dhikr points the whole time. These are the kinds of songs we need, man, ones that help us to remember Allah (swt) and get thawab for it.

Okay, so I thought my subjugation to this song was over the first time I heard it, but no. That thing gets stuck in your head BIG TIME. I don’t mean like only for a couple or minutes or two, but it’s in there for the whole day. So I noticed myself singing it to myself as I’m walking to class or just standing around or waiting for the brothers to begin prayer. Sometimes I would think to myself, “Wow, this song really needs to get out of my head.” But then I figured why should it? If it’s only helping me, then what’s the use of trying to rid myself of it? Interestingly enough, after a few times of having listened to that song and having had it stuck in my head, making dhikr became an instinct for me when I would walk to class or when I had nothing better to do. Sure I didn’t and don’t remember to do it everytime, but generally speaking, it’s become more habitual than before.

So I just wanted to bring that up cause I forget about it sometimes. Seriously, half the time we’re mindlessly walking around campus from one place to another. Every now and then we’ll see something that sparks our interest, glance over, get bored really quickly, and look away. So why not make better use of that time? It’s never a waste of time to remember our Creator. Even short sayings like “alhamdulilLah” or “subhan’Allah” or “Allahu akbar” are worth it. I don’t know about you, but I can use any good deed, be it big or small, to help myself get closer to Jannah. Luckily, simply making dhikr can help! So let us all remind ourselves to do this as often as possible cause not only does it help you get closer to achieving the ultimate goal in life, but it’s also an awesome way to recenter yourself throughout the day. If nothing else, at least listen to the Native Deen song. Hopefully it’ll get stuck in your head like it was stuck in mine. =)