on 26 Sept 2015, alhamdulillah all of us in the Heart whatsapp grp (Sarah, Maryam, Puteri and  me) 'launched' our own mini 'ODOJ-like initiative', where we each have to read at least 3 pages of a book OR 5 pages of educational magazines/small books per day. Then report out and share any points from our reads (optional).

It might not be a big-scale initiative, but personally, I'm thankful to Allah Ta'ala for Guiding us to start it. Got the idea partly from Ukht Halimah Latiff, who suggested a group for those who are able to read a chapter from a turath book every day. Brilliant suggestion maasyaAllah, esp. for those who are able to istiqamah & have a lot of turath books at home...

As for me, I'm more confident and comfortable of starting small, but still feel the need for a 'support group' to maintain the momentum and as a motivation to PUSH my weakself further...

Alhamdulillah my Hearts (hehe) agreed to it, and most of us in the group managed to istiqamah till today... Although there was once when I accidentally slept after Isyak all the way till fajr, and didn't get to read the night before -_-"

so the next day I pushed myself to read double.. And told myself, that was to be the Last one. no more excuses of not reading just 3 pages/day when i'm able to do many other things besides reading!! 

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Hopefully, I'm not only able to istiqamah, but also read beyond the minimum no. of pages. but firstly, aim for Istiqamah ya Khadijah!!

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