The 1 year anniversary edition of Mum and Muslim is now online (including my column). The editor, Sister Umm Imran has worked hard to co-ordinate the efforts of all of the writers to bring an edition packed full of brilliant articles. Sister Umm Imran says: “The features section has an interesting article with a muslim […]
After two weeks, I felt like a human being again today, so decided to get going. We have all been eating junk and left-overs so I made some steaming hot and very spicy chickpea curry and mince kebabs for my sisters. After feeding the kids all sorts for the last few days, I decided to […]
We usually throw one Eid party a year for ladies and children but in the last year or two I had found these getting rowdy and moving away from my aim of providing a halal environment for my Muslimah friends to meet, enjoy and in some small way remember Allah (SWT): Abu Hurairah and Abu […]
I have been sharing my journey to get healthier and lose weight each month through my word of the Year for 2016: Health. January was about taking stock and trying to understand what the task ahead of me was: my good habits, the habits that needed attention, what was helpful and some reflection on my […]
A good friend once told me she experienced guilt because after trying to have conceive for many years, when she finally had children, she found she didn’t like it much sometimes. It’s not something anyone wants to admit. Sometimes people don’t like being parents. I find I love being a mum, but occasionally find myself […]
I am currently reading Parenting Skills: Based on the Qur’an and Sunnah by Dr Ekram and Dr Mohamed Rida Beshir. Something that surprised me was that they did not start with childcare tips, or parenting advice but with the idea of self-review or “mohasabah”, or reviewing what you have done every day. Although this was […]
A Sister recently left a comment on my blog that I felt warranted a proper response as far as I am able to offer this. The Sister’s query was as follows: Salaam, I found this page a while ago and hesitated about whether or not to express my confusion. I hope you won’t be offended […]
I got through the housework in a rush this morning, with the plan that I go to visit the mother of one of Little Lady’s classmates. I have gotten to know this wonderful sister and she has honoured us by attending one of our annual Eid parties. She has been asking me to come visit […]
We visited Kew Gardens a few years ago and enjoyed our visit so much but never got to see everything we wanted to in one day. Since then the older two children have been there on school trips but I thought it would be nice for us to go as a family and I remembered […]
Our last stop on the visit to Greenwich wa the National Maritime Museum. The first exhibit pleased my mum because it was called Rawalpindi, which is near where my parents are from in Pakistan. A large pat of the museum was devoted to Britains history of trade and interaction with other countries. The famous Cutty Sark: In all, the […]
The first of the two biomes we visited was the Rainforest biomes. If you have ever been to a hot country, you get the feeling when you walk off the plane of a wall of heat hitting youand immediately drenching you. This was a bit like that. The temperature went up to 35 degrees but […]
I have posted this before, but the last sermon of our beloved Prophet (Sallahu Alaihi Wassalam), delivered on the 9th day of Hajj at the plain of Arafat, never fails to move me to tears. Every time I read it, I find something new in it and every time I read it, I marvel at the […]
A sister recently left a comment in a blog post asking for career advice on whether she should take up a position that she felt that she might not be up to. From her writing on her blog, I can tell she is intelligent and insightful, I have no doubt that she could do what […]
One thing I love about my relationship about Little Lady is that we have great conversations. These are mainly about books, films, family, school, food and more books. But sometimes they are just about life and our perspective on things.One recent such conversation came about because she had been watching lots of hijab tutorials. I […]
