Fasting in the Fast Lane - Muslims @ Olympics 2012

*Updated*

MV: Aselamulaikum!

While many of us are complaining at home for fasting in a hot summer day, around 3500 Muslims are competing at the Olympics this year, subhanAllah! And as if you don’t have to be fast enough at the Olympics, many of them are  fasting. I have mad respect for these people, seriously, not only are they representing a positive outlook of Muslims around the world, they’re not leaving their deen for their career and hobby. (Sort of like Br. Hussein Abdullah) May Allah (swt) reward them for their hard work and make the sport even easier for them Ameen.

I’ve seen several different pictures of Muslim athletes of this year floating around, so I decided to compile them and put them up. Here they are:

Note: I’ll be adding more once more start coming through inshAllah.

Palestinian runner Woroud Sawalha

Muslims praying together at the Olympics.

Ibtihaj Muhammad
Read about her: http://newsone.com/1847595/ibtihaj-muhammad-fencing-olympics/

Lebanon’s Zain Shaito (C) attends a fencing training session at the Excel centre in London, on the eve of the start of the London 2012 Olympic games opening ceremony.
Read more about them: http://www.france24.com/en/20120726-fencing-siblings-aim-make-lebanon-point

MV: The story above are actually two siblings, Zain and Mona Shaito, who both mash’Allah got to the Olympics in Fencing. The cool thing about them however is that one of my friends was classmates with them. Meaning they studied at an Islamic school, ‘Brighter Horizons Academy‘ here in Dallas!

MV: They play for Lebanon’s team, mash’Allah! 

MV: Here are a few more that surfaced online, don’t have a description but Shaykh Abdul Nasir has a pretty good one:

No description but seems like one of the boxer is doing Sajda (prostration) to Allah.

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