Tag: "Eid"
7 Tips for Thoughtful and Creative Eid Gifts
Eid al-Adha is less than a week away, everyone! Make sure you have a great gift for every child on your list. Eid Shopping: Tips for Thoughtful Gifts Does shopping for Eid gifts stress you out? With the enormous amoung of choices out there, it can be challenging to pick out gifts. These tips will [...]
Let’s Celebrate a Modern Eid Event! An Eid Decoration Giveaway Party!
Now, I’ve been decorating my every single Eid all by myself. For years, the only way to force the girls into bed early is by reminding them we stay up after fajr to prepare for Eid prayer…so that’s not many hours for Mama to cook, bake and decorate a surprise fajr for you! They knew [...]
Touchnote Show You Care Eid2Eid Postcard Campaign & Challenge!
I’m so excited to share with you this really cool “Show You Care From Eid al-Fitr to Eid al-Adha orEid2Eid” campaign and challenge! Touchnote is an incredibly ingenious, highly-economical, convenient, traveler’s dream app. However, I believe it’s an awesome innovation for for high-tech Internet-connected people to stay in close touch in a very personal, special [...]
Eid Dessert Recipe: Wishing your Eid is filled with sweet memories
Eid-ul-fitr, one of the two major Muslim festivals, marks the completion of fasting from dawn to dusk during the month of Ramadan. It is a time to rejoice and celebrate by wearing brand new clothes, attending the Eid prayer and wishing each other “Eid Mubarak” or “Have a blessed Eid.” Eid is a sweet time [...]
Eid Mubarak. Have a Blessed Eid. ;-)
Happy Eid everyone! Guess what, the moon was sighted in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Gaza and I guess most of the Eastern World. But, after my mama facebooked saying: “Qul ‘am wa antum bikhair. May you have blessings and goodness in the new year. InshaAllah. Eid Mubarak! Have a blessed Eid. Eid Saeed. Happy Eid. [...]
Tips to Celebrating the Full 3 Days of Eid
Alhamdulilah Ramadan came, we saw it through and now it is time for celebrations! There are three days in which we celebrate the concluding of Ramadan. It is known as Eid ul Fitr (not to be confused with the four days of Eid ul Adha). This is a blessed time where family and friends get [...]
How to Cleanse for Eid Prayer
Homemade Egyptian cookies, Eid decorations, Eid prayer, Adeyya (Eid money), and family—that pretty much summed up my Eid Al-Fitr holiday as I was growing up in the Midwest. Now however, it’s a tad bit different because us “kids” are each living in different states (brother isin NYC, I’m in South Carolina, sister is in Michigan, [...]
Frugal and Fabulous Eid Gift Ideas
Hard to think that Ramadan will quickly fly by and then it will be our time to celebrate. I have celebrated 4 Eids now. Last year I absolutely loved my Eid. I live in Toronto, Canada and every Eid about 20,000 Muslims gather together to celebrate. When I first saw that many Muslims under one [...]
Top 10 Islamic Gifts Chosen By You!
One of our big projects this summer was the launching of the first-ever online Eid Gift Guide. Read our post about it here. On the Guide, there are products and services highlighted for the convenience of the Muslim consumer looking for a halal shopping trip. In addition, there is something for everyone to make this [...]
Balancing School and Ramadan/Eid
Time truly is flying by, SubhanAllah- Glory be to God. I feel like just last week was my college freshman orientation, when in reality, it was over a year ago. I remember my first semester in September 2010, it was still Ramadan. In fact, it was the final third of the month, the fully-blessed last ten [...]
The 30 Days of Ramadan Crafty Challenge
How it all began… You can learn about how my 3 girls and I came up with the idea of the 30 Days of Ramadan Crafty Challenge here. You can craft, too! For each craft, we will have a supply list, take photos of the supplies and show the process step by step. This will [...]
Let’s Start Ramadan 2011 – A 35-Day Ramadan & Eid How-To Guide
This post was written in anticipation that our first day of fast may very likely be Monday, August 1, 2011. However, we are not for sure for a few more hours. With much happiness, please allow my family, staff and everyone associated with the American Muslim Mom brand to bid you Ramadan Mubarak! Blessed Ramadan! [...]
Party City Review & Giveaway in Time for Ramadan and Eid
Since we’ve been moving and traveling so much over the past year, and we couldn’t make my sisters’ first child’s big summer celebration party, it was a great honor to share our $100 worth of Princess party supplies for her 42-kid party last week. My sister was so incredibly excited because she already started buy [...]
Shopping for a Halal Tangent? I Mean…
As you may know, we recently launched the first ever online Eid Gift Guide – halal shopping made easy! Halal, as in, what is permissible according to Islamic law. Halal is Hot! Halal is a term usually constrained to food products, but recently its utility as an adjective has expanded, as Shafeeq Rahman explains in [...]
Preparing for a Simple Ramadan
This is an exciting time of the year. Ramadan is quickly approaching. Can you believe it will be here in mere weeks? This will be only my second attempt at fasting this most holy month. I want it to be able to be a spiritual time of growth for me. During the month of Ramadan [...]
