Fasting while Nursing July 15, 2009
Posted by ummibraheem in Pregnancy and Children, Women and Islam.Tags: fasting, Nursing, Ramadan
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It’s funny, I started this blog so I could just put up transcriptions of lectures I listen to, and my Fasting while Pregnant post seems to be the most popular, by far 
This Ramadan I am not pregnant, but I will be nursing a 9 month old inshaAllah. Khadeejah is different from her big brother. She does not put away milk like that little boy did So I’m praying that inshaAllah it will be a little easier.
I included some fataawa in my old posts on fasting while pregnant which also mention fasting while nursing.
One thing is for sure : we definitely have to try. We can’t just throw our hands up and go, “Oh, I’m nursing/pregnant! I can just skip the fasts.” Give it a try ast least. If it works for you, alhamdulillah And if it doesn’t work, make them up whenever you’re able to.
Some women are able to do it easily. A few friends of mine come to mind MashaAllah that’s terrific for them! I was surprised when they told me (more…)
Ramadan is Coming! July 14, 2009
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I don’t know where the time goes. Just yesterday I was pregnant with Ibraheem. Man, Ramadan is so close. It’s already the end of Rajab. Next thing you know we’re in Sha’baan, when we’re freaking out that we’re not prepared for Ramadan, then wham! It’s Ramadan. And then we scramble to finish all of the things we wanted to finish in Ramadan – like reading the entire Qur’aan and praying more Sunnah prayers. And just when we feel like we almost have the hang of it…. It’s gone.
Which is why we (and by “we”, I mean “I”) should prepare. I should prepare from now. What with the visitor throwing off Qur’aan readings, the kids causing acute exhaustion, and trying to make something nice every day for iftaar, ibaadat are often left on hold.
This Sha’baan, I want to try hard to get a few simple things into my schedule before Ramadan starts. Allah subhaana wa ta’aala loves the consistent deeds, even if they are small.
They are really small things, but if I can keep up with it – Alhamdulillah! I’m sure that I’m not the only mother overwhelmed with all that goes on in Ramadan. I need to write it out some where so there’s one less thing in my too-crammed head What I usually do is print out all of my goals on a table, put them up some where that I know I’ll see them often and then I check them off throughout the day. May Allah make us all prepared for Ramadan this year so that it may be the most fruitful Ramadan yet!
Oh – I just realized I cannot list all of the Islamic months off the top of my head. How sad is that?
So I looked them up in case anyone else is as ignorant as I 
and here they are: Muharram, Safar, Rabi ul Awwal, Rabi al Thaani, Jummadi al Awwal, Jummadi al Thaani, Rajab, Sha’baan, Ramadaan, Dhul Qada, and Dhul Hijja.
Dancing within Women July 12, 2009
Posted by ummibraheem in Women and Islam.Tags: Islam, Muslim women
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Dancing is so common within women that some people might even find it ridiculous that I’m talking about this. I probably would’ve found it ridiculous a few years ago. I mean, sure, I always get uncomfortable when a woman belly dances at a party for everyone. I’ll sit there in the corner and avert my eyes, wondering if it’ll seem strange if I just stood up and went to the kitchen. I always seemed to be the only one who felt that way. It just never made sense to me - why should everyone just sit and watch as one woman performed this very provacative dance?
Forget about belly dancing – what about just women dancing all together? And we’re obviously not talking folklore or ballroom dancing here; we’re talking hip hop, belly shaking, shoulder shimmying dancing. It is clearly haraam in front of men – but what about within women?
I tried to look up dancing in hadith, etc, but I came up dry. My guess is perhaps that dancing is a rather new phenomenom. This topic did crop up in the Fiqh of Love class (more…)
