Back to Basics: A life less complicated
Almost from the day my daughter was born, I have received friendly emails from various ‘child-expert’ brands educating me about the various stages of growth she would [...]
Batool Haydar
High-Tech Mummy, No-Tech Baby
Disclaimer: This piece is my personal opinion and in no way aimed at imposing a right or wrong judgement on the choice of individual parents. When my daughter was just over a [...]
A new Ramadan
What Ramadan was like before my daughter was born: Reciting the Qur’an and supplications, reading books, listening to lectures, meditating on life and contemplating [...]
Middle-Age Mothering (& Fathering!)
Getting married, planning a family, having a baby…all these events brim with joy and a sense of youthfulness. These are times that we see as new beginnings and fresh [...]
Parenting the Soul
From the moment we become parents, the thing that we want most is for our children to be happy and successful. Everything we do for them is focused on achieving this goal, [...]
Don’t Be A Backseat Daddy
We all know the famous saying of Prophet Muhammad(s) where he exhorts birr (familial devotion) towards a mother thrice before mentioning the father, there’s even a song [...]
After ASHURA
It is not uncommon to hear people say “How fast Muharram has come and gone!” after the day of Ashura, the day on which the grandson of the Prophet and his family [...]
