I wasn’t planning on making any banners as I haven’t felt up to much this year, but Little Lady was on the case and pestered me until I greed to make some.  Once I agreed, she fetched, tidied up, helped choose elements of the banners and generally put up with my moaning and grumpiness. I wanted to make […]

This weekend I was feeling a little tired, frazzled and unappreciated.  I had been waking up at 1.50am to make breakfast for my family and then sleeping for a few hours before getting up for work.  I had been returning from work to sleep for an hour then grabbing groceries, cooking, praying and having our […]

During our visit to Scotland, we got some recommendations for places to visit.  Edinburgh was not one of them, but after my last visit, I really wanted to visit again.  So after a busy day, hubby drove us to Edinburgh in the late afternoon. We happened to visit during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which is […]

My maternity leave started officially yesterday, although I have been on leave for the last two weeks.   I have been trying to keep myself occupied so that I don’t go crazy.  Thankfully nesting has hit like crazy and I have been dragging out furniture and cleaning corners that I previously pretended didn’t exist and rearranging every cupboard […]

I attended a one-dish party yesterday.  All of the sisters from our Islamic circle were invited.  I got all excited because I don’t usually go to this kind of thing.  I had assumed that all of the sisters do these all the time and invite each other and that I was missing out because I […]

Last Saturday was the our annual sisters Eid party. It was colourful, fun, loud and exhausting. The food was so good. Somehow we ended up with a LOT of kids. We all got overheated. I think next year we will have a small party. Something a bit more relaxed, just family and neighbours. No more […]

Ramadan Kareem everyone, May Allah (SWT) give each of us the opportunity to benefit from this blessed month, to increase our ibadah (worship), to seek forgiveness and to attain Allah (SWT)’s pleasure insh’Allah. (image source) “Oh you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you many learn […]

I know that people will say that “every day is a Mother’s Day for Muslims” and I fully agree, but you don’t get flowers and presents every day (or many days at all in my case) so I will take what I can get. Mother’s Day this year was a light hearted and sweet affair. […]

Mum and Muslim Magazine has now been launched. The first issue has articles on every topic of interest to Muslim parents and I suspect will be a useful eye-opener and source of information for non-Muslim parents too. They also have a Facebook page.Please do head over and show your support by leaving a comment as […]

I grew up fighting with my siblings, especially the brother closest in age to me: hair pulling, karate fighting, wrestling and the usual shoving and fighting.  I won’t mention the time I threw a high heel at him and cracked his head open (I think I was 9 and he 8, he still has a […]

11 January 2006 – Penultimate day of Hajj. This morning we prayed Fajr at Muzdalifah. Woke up feeling like someone had beaten hell out of me (I suppose that’s what sleeping on rocks does to you) but felt happy and peaceful.Had to queue up to get on a bus and no-one would let us on. […]

My words for last year were Quran and Khidmat (Service), I wrote here about how well I did with these as inspiration. This year, the word was easy to choose, I have been moving towards it for a long time: acceptance.  Sounds not very ambitious and perhaps a little cliched but the reality for me […]

I had a rather disturbing start to my Jummah day today. I was woken at 7am by loud and insistent pounding on my door. I wondered momentarily if the postman had gone crazy and come early for a change. My husband opened the door and from the voices below, I realised it was the police. […]

I wrote two years ago about my experience of using the miswak or tooth stick and the benefits I gained from this amazing sunnah (practice of our beloved Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam).  Although it is a great and beneficial sunnah, it’s one that has been fairly neglected in parts of the world and we who have been […]