I love seeing women being celebrated and celebrating each other. Reading all the nice posts and seeing the memories shared through pictures is comforting. I’ve never been one to celebrate anything too hard and mothers day was never really more than a card (maybe) and visit (which was almost an every day thing anyway) situation. …
Rescued from the Fire, by Abdullah Nazir Uhuru was given to me by a sister I’d met through work and was one of those books that sat on my shelf for months before I picked it up. When I finally did it was the type of read you don’t want to put down until you’ve finished. I related …
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New Muslims, and even those who are not so new often come across terms that we aren’t familiar with or only have a basic understanding of. Increasing our Islamic vocabulary directly influences our Islamic knowledge and understanding, and therefore our iman, in sha Allah. Here’s a few beneficial definitions, phrases and du’a with explanations and some personal considerations and comments. Itjihad …
Ramadhan and Eid can be both the most special and most trying times particularly for new Muslims and even more so if they don’t have an established support network, whether that be a supporting family or brothers and sisters in Islam who are local to them. I’ve put together some ayat and ahadith to act as reminders …
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JazakAllahu khayran to the brothers and sisters who contributed to this post by sharing their own experiences of things they didn’t know when they accepted Islam. We can take for granted the knowledge we gain if we are to consider just how much new Muslims may not know at first. Here are some of the things that …
Coming To Islam As much as Islam (submission to Allah) is our natural state as people, there is plenty that becomes normalised in our lives that we need to adjust and remove when we go from being a non-Muslim to embracing Islam. Converts want to come to Islam in full submission, but our adjustment can …
“I just wanted to be clear that there aren’t any religious connotations in the songs that they’ll be singing” I was told on the phone after requesting to withdraw my daughter from the school’s Christmas concert. But there was. It speaks to a major level of faith illiteracy when a school in a location that is around …
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It’s just a day. Even if you stretch the Christmas period to a week, or two- it’s still a short amount of time. Honestly, it wont last long. And in my experience, it’ll get easier year after year. This year is the second Christmas since my mum passed away in 2017. My family wasn’t Christian, …
When Allah guided me to Islam (all praise and thanks belongs to Him) I eventually said my shahada (declaration of faith) after someone at a casual drop-in type Islamic centre encouraged me to say it: ashadu an la ilaha illallah, Muhammadun rasulullah, I testify that there is no god But Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of God. May …
New converts to Islam have to ask themselves “How can I learn how to pray if I don’t even know Arabic?” “How do I know if I’m praying salah the correct way?” This post will share some insight into how some converts will experience learning to pray, and what to do if you’re new to …