Spare Five minutes for the Prophet this month

Below are excerpts from an email I receive from SoundVision (www.soundvision.com):

Assalamu Alaikum:

...Let us dedicate what remains of this month of Rabi al Awwal to educating ourselves, our families, our friends, neighbors and coworkers about the Prophet. The simpler the gesture the more meaningful, although, if you want to put together a public service announcement (PSA) for television or develop a beautiful video to upload to YouTube, that you would be excellent as well.

 These small acts can include:

1. reading for just five minutes every day from a biography of the Prophet

2. putting a quote from the Prophet every Friday as your email signature

3. listing a couple of his sayings as part of your "favorite quotes" section on Facebook

4. giving a friend a beautiful book, CD or DVD of Seerah 

5. watching a video about the Prophet's life with your kids and having a family discussion about it

6. organizing "Seerah Story Time" every Saturday afternoon during this month for the kids at the local mosque and doing the same every night for your children

7. developing one Prophetic virtue this month that you feel you lack, whether it's controlling anger, gentleness, cheerfulness or any other beautiful quality that you as a follower of Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, feel you have

8. writing an article for your local or campus newspaper, perhaps for its religion section, about one aspect of the Prophet's character or an incident in his life that reflects it.

9. listening to CDs about the Prophet during the drive to work

10. when faced with a particular situation, consciously asking yourself: what would the Prophet do?

Adopt any of these ideas that you feel are doable. The point is to experience the sweetness and beauty of the Prophet's character in our busy, busy lives, even if its' just for a short period of time. Please feel free to forward them to family and friends as well...

Salam
Abdul Malik Mujahid