Tag: "muslim"
Audio Post: Muslim School Kids’ Morning Routine While Fasting
Recorded 12-14-2011. This is a follow-up to a Typical Muslim Kid’s Morning Routine audio recording. We fast any days that are Sunnah to fast, such as Monday and Thursday, Days of Ashura (check out our audio post the day after the Day of Ashura), as many days in the month of Shabaan (the Islamic month [...]
Audio Post: A Typical Muslim School Kid’s Morning Routine
Recorded 12-14-2011 As you know we’re homeschoolers who love traveling the world, and as part of our Arabic studies here in Gaza, we choose to enroll the girls in a private school to see how much Arabic they can learn. So, we needed to establish a new routine to actually get them up and out [...]
Audio Post: From Mecca to Medina to Palestine
A Secret Revealed Asalaamu Alaykum! As you may have realized Ponn has been missing from American Muslim Mom for the past couple months. Listening to her debut audio linked above, as well as reading the title of this post, will explain that she has been traveling to the 3 Most Sacred Lands for all Muslims–Mecca, Medina, and [...]
Morning and Evening Du’a (Supplications), Dhiker (Remembrance of Allah)
A quick note to share something we play every day in the morning and after maghrib. We listen, recite and read the Morning and Evening Du’a, Dhiker and recommended Qur’an with the beautiful recitations available on TV Qur’an here. I love starting our day after healthy, sit-down warm cozy breakfast to these recitation. Then, completing [...]
American Muslim Family Casting Notice – Crosstown Media
Crosstown Media, the Emmy-winning film and television production company, is developing a brand new documentary TV series aimed at exploring and celebrating the lives and faith of Muslim families living in Middle America. Through profiling the everyday lives of one or two Muslim families, their goal is to accurately document what life is truly like [...]
Top 50 Muslim Mom Blogs 2011
Today we have the pleasure of sharing with you a list of the Top 50 Muslim Mom Blogs on the net! Mubarak and Congratulations to all these wonderful Muslim Mom Bloggers who made this esteemed List for 2011! Ranking Determination The blogs are listed by Alexa Ranking, a system which measures the trafficking to the [...]
Unwelcome Response from an Muslim African American Husband – Descendant of Slaves
While tweeting for the past week with #musliminamerica I was intrigued by brother Will’s tweets and asked him to elaborate a bit more on his unique position and views on having watched Soledad O’Brien’s “Unwelcome. The Muslims Next Door”. His response is a letter directed to our Muslim brothers and sisters living in Murfreesboro, TN. [...]
How Do You Handle Elder Care in America as a Muslim?
Just thinking about this title is quickly making my stomach turn in such pain, actually so much so I feel my eyes swelling up that I promised myself I’ll keep this short and sweet and not type over the 20-minutes I have to run to the next family doctor appointment. Here’s why. The Qur’an clearly [...]
The Meaning of Eid
The Meaning of Eid Eid means “Festival” or “Celebration” in Arabic, and Muslims have two Eids every lunar year. Commonly known as a “Feast”, my family and I always share that “Eid is our Feast meaning: Food, Family, Friends and Fun!” Eid al-Fitr (Festival of the Fast) is a three-day event that marks the end [...]
Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door – Muslim and Non-Muslim Mom’s Views
As you know Amanda is not new to our community, her motivational tips in our recent podcast was popular among many of our readers, subhanallah, Glory be to God. Since her tweets we’re going in both direction of this documentary, I asked her to share her personal views in this “Unwelcome. The Muslim Next Door” [...]
Halal Travel Appeals to Safe Family Travelers – Next Steps For America?
Almost one year after HalalTrip.com was launched, and they just refreshed its design and logo. I personally prefer the uppercase H, T & M for Muslim. And, this button, compliments of my 10 year old kidblogger. They also completely redesigned their website, which I feel is a great improvement in focusing on the single most [...]
Muslim Wives Need to Learn To Just Shut Up!
Grabbed your attention, didn’t I? Well, let’s consider three things before you just yell back, “No! You Shut Up!” First, it is reported that Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said “I stood at the gate of Paradise and saw that the majority of the people who entered it were the poor, while [...]
Muslim Kids Video – The Story of ZamZam
This short animated video is a great summary of the story of zamzam for young and new learners. [And, us oldies too. ] It’s an important Islamic story for all Muslims to know, especially because it’s one of the actions we perform during Hajj. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzHX8SlJkoM We’d love to see what you think of this movie. [...]
Muslim Kids Video: The Easiest Way to Get into Paradise – Jennah – Heaven
A funny video shares a couple well-known ahadith about how we must treat our mothers: The Prophet Muhammad said, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him: Your Heaven lies under the feet of your mother (Ahmad, Nasai). A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Messenger of God! Who among the people is [...]
Parents’ Role to Assure Children Get the Most Out of Ramadan
One of our most favorite Islamic sites offering daily fatwaa, shared a beautiful fatwaa about the parents roles in assuring that children gain the most out of our blessed month of Ramadan. We highly recommend that you subscribe to their RSS feed for you and your children’s spiritual growth and well-being as Shaykh Muhammad addresses [...]
