La hawla wa la quwata illa billah
06 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in Family, Prayer, Reverts, Salafi
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
a busy week subhanaAllah, mentally busy! Lots of reminders of the Power of Allah and ‘His’ plans, mashaAllah. Du’as, du’as and more du’as for those brothers and sisters around me who have been tested, alhamdulillah ‘ala kulli hal!! Love you all for the sake of Allah!!
Whenever Allah Intends Good For Someone He Test ThemAbu Huraria narrated Allah’s Messenger said, “If Allah intends good for someone , He test them with trials”
ExplanationThis hadith points to the reward for demonstrating patience. “If Allah intends good for someone”, He test them with a calamity in order to reveal whether or not this person will respond with patience or discontentment. The words, “He tests them with trials” are general in meaning, but they are further explained by other aahadith more specific in their meanings.
Simply stated, for whomever Allah intends good for, He test the believing man or woman with adversity. If they are patient, in anticipation of a reward from Allah, the end result of their struggle is good.
In spite of being tested with many trials, there are many people who are not patient. As expected, their adversity reaps no benefit for them. Allah often test the disbelievers with calamities as well. However, during these trials, they continue along the path of disbelief and in the end they die in a state of disbelief. Clearly, Allah did not intend any good for them.
As Allah has decreed, struggle and hardship are atonement for sin and an elimination of bad deeds. To have one’s sins removed or bad deeds erased is without a doubt, a good thing for the believer. This is Allah’s intent in testing His servants with adversity. Most of the trials that you undergo deal with worldly matters that may last for days. However, as the days go by, your hardship eases. Not so in the Hereafter. The pain and suffering are permanent. We seek refuge in Allah from the Hell-fire. Whenever Allah removes your sins through these trials, then that is good for you.
Taken from the book entitled…
“Sabr (Patience & Tolerance)” Pages 51-52
From An-Nawawi’s Riyadus-Saliheen
With explanation by Muhammad Ibn Saalih Al-Uthaymeen
I don’t belong here
26 May 2011 9 Comments
in Algeria, Du'a, Family, Hijrah, London
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
time has passed so fast subhanaAllah! It seems yesterday that I was breathing under the hot algerian sunshine. And well, yes, a month has passed in that strange country mashaAllah!. Strange? Yes, strange for all the strangeness happening in it but to which you know, you’ll have to get used to! InshaAllah!
Once back in Uk, I’ve felt ‘myself’ strange! While I was going to visit one of my very missed Salafi (well yes, you like it or not I use this word mashaAllah) sister, I’ve looked around and seen no-muslims UNDRESSED. I passed by a parked car and saw myself reflected on the window and thought “do I match all this scenario?” obvious answer, anyone could easly say “NO”.
I’ve spent this time in Algeria with a different intention alhamdulillah. It hasn’t been easy at all. Been through big tests subhanaAllah but mashaAllah I’ve always kept inside of me the tawakkul alhamdulillah! And never wished to go back to England. Then, what for? Even when sick I’ve felt the barakah of being in a muslim country. And I’m not even mentioning the warm feeling of having my mother in law close by mashaAllah tabarakaAllah!. What I thought is that when I’m sick in England (for example) I make it a real drama subhanaAllah! I say alhamdulillah, anyway, but it’s still a drama, astaghfirullah! Instead, while being in Algeria, it’s all another story. Coming back from doctor I’ve decided to go to visit my mother in law. And there I was subhanaAllah! Not even thinking too much about me being a “meridhah meskinah” LOL!
So, yes, this is part of the hijrah inside of me. It has started, alhamdulillah, and I put my trust in Allah, especially after all the 30,000 du’as I’ve made on the plane “I know He will answer inshaAllah, if not in days but in months”, I thought so, and tack! He answered very quickly, Allahu Akbar!
Sorry, it might not make sense what I wrote, it’s just the explosion of different emotions inside of me, I just know one thing: I will only miss my Salafi Sisters mashaAllah! Love you all for the sake of Allah!
Learning Roots: Remind me
09 Mar 2011 1 Comment
in al-mujahid, Du'a, Family, Shopping
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
as suggested by Umm Raiyaan masha’Allah I’ve bought the du’as card from Learning Roots alhamdulillah. I was surprised ’cause lately my shopping online experiences haven’t been so …. we can say… “happy” LOL!
I’ve received the cards in 2 days masha’Allah and finally been able to stick them around the house alhamdulillah! As soon as I’ve stuck the first one in the kitchen, I’ve seen my oldest son showing interest to it… all those colors and arabic writing…
And yes, it’s true, they are very helpful for us grown up too alhamdulillah! So, if you want my opinion too…. buy them insha’Allah!
From Algeria… with love
12 Jan 2011 9 Comments
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
I haven’t been in Algeria since last year, my first son wasn’t even 1yr old and it was hot! SubhanaAllah! That time was hard, yes it was, my first time there with a baby… all day long covered and the heat driving me mad… but I always reminded myself of the reason why I was there: my lovely parents in law mashaAllah! Awww… If I could always keep them with me… inshaAllah!
But anyway, this isn’t about my “adventures” in Algeria… just wanted to share a couple of pictures I managed to take of some of the goodies I received yesterday from there (Dz). The only 2… well, we can say 3 things I asked for were: honey, black seeds and a set of jilbab+khimaar to be made by my favourite tailor there (I bought the material last year, in Dz, but didn’t manage to have it done).
Well, yesterday was another story, what I received was much more than expected mashaAllah… and I know, the “more” you are thinking of, are the huge algerian plastic boxes full of “gateaux” 
… no, no that! 2 bags of dried mint…
then honey (of course), dates, dried figs, black seeds (of course), some lovely mahjeb, the jilbab+khimaar I asked for, mashaAllah (I thought to take a picture of that but then… “how”?) and then some ta’amir (tamina balls with addition of spices)….. ah, also some traditional plates and a tajine (I falled in love as soon as I saw them mashaAllah) 
… and some few things for dh…
One ball is missing… ask my son! 
mashaAllah!
… with all those things around, I “felt” Algeria and missed it… 
My little one
22 Dec 2010 6 Comments
in al-mujahid, Du'a, Family, In my mind...
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
I still remember the first time you looked at me… and now you look at me with those “naughty” eyes mashaAllah!
The first time I saw you I cried, I cried a lot subhanaAllah! And I cried for days and nights. I remember waking up during the night and have tears and tears coming out from my eyes, I couldn’t stop them… and when I think about it, I remember it as a dream, a bitter sweet dream… Ya Allah! Your tests! And we never appreciate! … alhamdulillah!
I spent months reviving my imaan, putting my trust in Allah, making some du’as that, as a Muslim, I had never made before… but still, I knew, I knew that Allah was going to answer them, I believed that! I did indeed! I just needed patience and more patience mashaAllah!
Months before (“the test”) I asked Allah to increase my imaan and the imaan of my family… and so He answered.. Allahu Akbar!!
Here I am!
03 Nov 2010 5 Comments
in Algeria, Family, In my mind..., Muslims
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
You see?? I’ve loaded some pictures!!! Wohooooo!!
I’ve always wished to post them, I took them during my last visit in Algeria. It’s in the wilaya of Chlef, country side (of course!).
I enjoyed that afternoon so much! And then it was sooooo quiet masha’Allah! Lots of trees and green! That area was full of rumman (pomegranate) trees, on the left and on the right. I managed to take a picture from the car on our way back. Asking dh to stop… here is a horrible one You could see some of the pomegranate trees between those 2 big ones.
hope to be back with some food pictures insha’Allah! Still thinking: should I have a blog or a simple section… what do u think?
jazakhum Allahu khayran!
Hands Free Post
14 Oct 2010 14 Comments
in al-mujahid, Family, In my mind...
assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
How is everyone? It seems everybody is busy with something or doing something or somewhere else masha’Allah! Umm Ibrahim back from England masha’Allah (what a pity we didn’t meet…. ok so I’ll have to go to KSA then ), recipes posts are back on The Muslim Wife Kitchen… and here I still had the ‘Eid post! SubhanaAllah!
The thing is that I really can’t find a moment to sit down and do what I like, to translate, to organize my blog and add the ‘foodie’ section I have in my mind insha’Allah 
(even if I have problems with the pc and couldn’t pass pictures on it…. so what’s the point of having a food section without pictures.. 
– so it’s on stand by at the moment).
Kids are growing masha’Allah and driving me crazy learning every day. I really wonder what language almuhjahid #1 is trying to speak…. almujahid #2 is just fun tabarakaAllah! He smiles at everybody… not my character that’s for sure LOL!
And while I just cook , bake and try to find a ‘hands free’ moment for myself, I hope to receive the baraka from Allah and leave this country… for a while, for ever… just leave.
jazakhum Allahu khayran
From the eyes of a mother
18 Jul 2010 2 Comments
in Family, General, In my mind..., Muslims, Sisterhood, Women
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
A muslim mother just enters the unit. She seems a visitor but from the white “bracelet” on her arm I understand she is a “mother”, maybe her first child or maybe not. But for sure, her first time in that unit. Everything must look so BIG at her eyes, everything around her has got “sounds & noises” never heard before maybe. Scary noises! SubhanaAllah!
I look at her, hoping to share a greeting but her husband arrives and points out to her the room, room 3, where her child is staying. She enters the room, walking slowly with her eyes just pointing at her baby, not looking around, not caring for anybody else, just her child. I see her, I hear her, I feel for her… she is crying subhanaAllah! It’s a shock yes, the moments you were planning to spend as a family, the whole family, celebrating, being happy for the baraka from Allah… those moments planned from someone else, Him! Alhamdulillah! He knows the best!
I wish to enter the room, to talk to her, hug her and remind her of Allah. Khris hugs her, explains to her, try to make her relax… may Allah guide you Khris!. I’m still looking, yes looking at my sister in Islam and wishing to remind her about the tests from Allah, great tests, hard at our eyes but a rahma from Him!
I leave and an ambulance comes to transport the baby, to transfer him somewhere else, I think, I guess I won’t be able to meet her again.
May Allah cure all our brothers & sisters around the world! Insha’Allah!
Our little “hijrah”, alhamdulillah
06 Nov 2009 6 Comments
in Family, Islam, London, Muslims
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
Alhamdulillah we made it! We moved to a new flat and to a new area masha’Allah! I’ve been waiting for this moment for long time, with lots of patience and alhamdulillah Allah has rewarded me!
Yes, a new area, always in the same town but at the “halal” side The best thing is that we have 3 mosques around us, including our dear ICT masha’Allah and obviously lots of halal shops
I ended up hating the area where I was living before, I guess my family and I were the only Muslims around, apart from our neighbour and now I understand the big difference in living among your “ummah” alhamdulillah! You know, we came to see the flat 2 weeks ago, it was raining so I didn’t even want to go out and said to my dh: “for me, the flat is fine, the most important thing is that it’s near ICT” … crazy isn’t it? LOL! But then I came to see it and loved it so much masha’Allah! Plus, the guy who showed us everything and looked after us (very well to be honest) is also a Muslim masha’Allah! May Allah reward him!
So please, if you have a chance, make a small “Hijrah” and move to the “halal” lol!
I gonna go now, insha’Allah I’ll post soon about “pizza fritta”
Free travel & Free food
27 Oct 2009 11 Comments
in Algeria, Family, In my mind..., Muslims
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
I’ve kind of promised HERE to write different posts about my last trip to Algeria. I feel like I’ve been there loooong time ago subhanaAllah, instead, it has been just 2 weeks ago or so!
This time I’ve seen the country with different eyes. I’ve seen it as a Muslim planning his/her Hijrah, checking the places, mosques and Islamic courses… it is a bit scary to be honest, who wouldn’t be but I think I have to re-new my intention, why I want to move there insha’Allah!
It’s true, there is lots of bad there, I’ve noticed lots of changes. Lots of women in the street, not shy at all to look at you from top until down, not shy to cover what they like to cover, not shy to speak with men. On the other hand, (I don’t know if it’s because of the way I look – I mean ALL covered), I was very happy and honored by the manners that Algerian men had with me: sooo polite masha’Allah! If entering a shop, they would let me go in first, if crossing the road, the same… if standing in queue (I was without my son) they would let me go first… alhamdulillah, still good manners!
Something, related to the sweetness of having good manners, happened to my family and I when, one day, we decided to go to the town centre. Our car broke down few days earlier so we took the bus. We entered the bus and sat down in the back. My husband gave his salam and recognised “someone” of his neighborhood, they know each other just like this, they never talked or something. Anyway, when it came the moment to pay the bus fee, that “someone” paid for us masha’Allah! I know it’s not much but it’s the action that was so nice… forget something like this in London!!!
After that, we went around the town, lunch time and you know what? We ate very well alhamdulillah and the owner of the pizzeria, (who knew my husband), didn’t want to take our money LOL! I was having a big smile behind my niqab when I saw those dinars going right and left near the till…. friend > dh … dh > friend…. then add the algerian language and their behaves … masha’Allah!
So I can say that there’s still some good in those countries, we just need to have a different intention when going there… maybe… wa Allahu a’alam!
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