Tag: "fasting"
Tips For Keeping Ramadan Alive Year Round
This is a time to reflect on the 99+ Tips of Teaching Kids How to Fast During Ramadan at the beginning of the month, and keep these new or old habits year-round. Many are repeated, simply to re-enforce their importance. InshaAllah, stay posted for tomorrow’s post Reflections for Ramadan and Eid 2011 Muslim Blogpost Series [...]
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 [...]
5 Tips for Teaching Young Kids to Fast During Ramadhan
Each year Muslims all over the world eagerly anticipate the arrival of Ramadhan. Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar when Muslims everywhere abstain from eating, drinking and other physical needs to reap the rewards of this blessed month. It’s no surprise that children are also excited about the arrival of this month. [...]
Tips for Observing Ramadhan During Your Menses
It’s Ramadhan and you’ve been dutifully spending the month fasting, praying, reading Qur’an and doing all you can to earn Allah’s favor during this most blessed month. Your body has adjusted to long stretches between meals and late nights spent in prayer when unexpectedly (or unexpectedly as the case may be) you get your period. [...]
How to Earn the Blessings of Ramadhan When You Can’t Fast
Prior to the start of Ramadan, my 10 year old daughter asked me to help her come up with a plan for the month. She suffers from a chronic health condition, Hemoglobin SC Disease, which prevents her from fasting . She was concerned about missing out on the opportunity to fast along with everyone else [...]
99 Tips to Help Kids Fast during Ramadan
It is mandated to fast when a Muslim is of mature age. However, the benefits and rewards are plentiful, if you can train your kids to fast at an early age. Alhumdulillah, it all started when our girls were one and two years old, mashaAllah. They watched their parents enjoy this special month of Ramadan [...]
Ramadan is Greater Than the Goal of Weight Loss: Tips
I’m amazed at the coincidences, subhanallah, Glory be to God, I’m running into with these blog post topics that Ponn assigns me. I got back from the masjid a few hours ago, where I was with a group of girls discussing Ramadan goals. One girl remarked how it’s funny that some Muslims actually gain weight during [...]
Eid Decorations are Allowed
Bismillah ar Rahman ar Raheem (In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful) First, I want to thank Sisters Aisha and Naseem for sharing their opinions, “…that purchasing eid decorations are copying the commercialization of holidays as done by the kuffar; and also a great waste of money…” and thought it’s critical that I [...]
Muslim Kids Video: Beautiful Nasheed with the Shahada
The repetitive harmonious calling of the Shahada (declaration of faith, the first pillar in Islam) in this simple nasheed (Islamic song) is so beautiful, calming, uplifting, and peaceful that it brought tears to my eyes. The video is okay, but the nasheed is something worth streaming through your house over and over again. Shahadah: “There [...]
Help Support Positive News Reporting of Muslims in America (Associated Press)
Special Note to David Grant: I enjoyed a motivating and reflexive conversation yesterday. Thank you for publishing an interesting article about Ramadan as practiced by Muslims here in America. I hope you’ll keep my cell phone number handy for future opportunities to work together! Alhumdulilah (Praise to be to God), one 20-minute conversation with Associated [...]
