Eid Mubarak

Image taken at Putrajaya, Malaysia

Dear brothers and sisters. May Allah accept our fasting during this holy month and grant us more. We hope you all have a blessed and joyous Eid with your families and loved ones. Whether you pray and celebrate at convention centers, ceremony halls, hotels, local mosques, or open fields reserved for Eid events, we hope to see pictures of your Eid celebrations on your blogs, so that everyone can get a chance to see how others celebrate.

However, as we celebrate with millions of other Muslims across the world this Eid, let us remember our brothers and sisters back home and in other parts of the world, who find themselves in contrasting realities to ours. Because of the events that are taking place back home in Somalia and the hardships our brethren in places such as Palestine face, our happiness this Eid is not complete in the sense that a great percentage of our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world are not sharing it with us.

Pray for the unfortunate. Greet everyone with a smile. Invite your non-Muslim friends and neighbors on Eid celebrations and expose them to the beauty of it all. And remember to visit the sick in the hospitals and brighten their day.

Here is a little Sunnah reminder.

"Allah’s Apostle never proceeded (for the prayer) on the Day of ‘Id-ul-Fitr unless he had eaten some dates. Anas also narrated: The Prophet used to eat odd number of dates." (Bukhari)

Eid Mubarak.

Somali Proverb

Who can come up with the best translation without losing the meaning...?

The Reason Behind The Move

Hello dear bloggers and readers. Welcome to the new location. There are a few reasons for the move; the main one being the aggregator, or lack thereof. Wordpress, although with a clean and great user interface, lacks the feature we need most: to have the blog list updated each time someone publishes a new post on their blog. This way we can keep track of the latest updates from our fellow bloggers instead of going through the long process of opening each and every blog in hopes of finding an update.

The second reason, albeit not as significant, is simply cosmetic. Wordpress does not allow customization of templates and charges users a fee for the feature. We wanted to have the ability to be able to edit the template in the future if the need arises.

With that out of the way, I'd like to welcome all the new bloggers to the list. The list is over 50 people now and still growing as we are receiving new links each day. There are several Somali blogs marked 'Protected' so we haven't added them. So far we have blogs written in Somali, Arabic, English, and Norwegian. If you know of any other Somali blogs, drop us a line.

But am I the only one that gets this feeling that those aren't the only languages we'll see? I know somewhere out there is a Somali writing a blog in some other language, whether it be French, Portuguese, or Italian. It's just a matter of time.
 

Till then, browse through the list of bloggers and go do some exploring.

Welcome

Welcome to Somali Blogs. The purpose of this blog is to compile all Somali blogs (written in Somali or any other language for that matter) in one place. There are many Somali bloggers out there and it would be nice to have a single place where one can read about the different opinions, perspectives and interests of the various Somali bloggers around the world.

In addition to listing Somali blogs, we will be doing a monthly round-up of the most active blogs and featuring a blogger each month. So come in, browse through the list of blogs, and if you know of a Somali blog that isn’t listed here, please drop us a line.