Happy Muslim Mama: Faith

As usual “on my mind” is everything:

I haven’t done any Eid preparation

How am I going to keep up with my Quran reading?

I haven’t read much of the tafaseer on my bedside table yet

The office messed up my pay, again – how long will this to take to sort out and what is my budget this month?

What colours shall I have for my Eid (and Eid party) theme this year?

Did I forget something I had to do at work?

I have book reviews and product reviews to write, but no time at the moment

Shall I put another load of laundry in at this time?

I was meant to visit my friend who had a baby…

I better answer my e-mails

How can I make time to blog?

What shall I make for iftar today?

Am I spending too long in the kitchen every day?

Am I eating too much?

Am I letting the kids have too many sweets?

Should I be stricter with them?

The boys are definitely spending too much time on that computer

I wish they could spend more time in the park playing football

Shall I eat that chocolate?

I better get Gorgeous’ passport renewal form filled out

I better get my black work abaya repaired

I wish I read as much as I used to

I had better chase up mum’s hospital appointment

Is everything we do enough?

I feel so guilty, so many people across the world have so little and have lost so much.

Will this house ever look clean? What must people think?

Should I be wearing niqab?

Do we have too much stuff?

etc

Sometimes all of this stuff that swirls around in my head comes out of my mouth as anxiety. Then my other half tries to reassure me and encourage me to let go of things and trust in Allah (SWT).

This weekend, I decided to do just that. Stop worrying about money and work, stop overthinking and planning ahead so much. Try and fall into the rhythm of Ramadan and the long summer days a bit more. Stop stressing about praying more, reading more Quran and obsesing about food too much. Trust that Allah (SWT) is answering our dua’s and resolving our affairs for us better than we ever can insh’Allah.