Ramblings: Life essentials

Faith

Family

Friends

This is all you need and in that order too.
Faith – Where would we be without it? We all have to believe in something. It might not be the ideal but what is key is there is believe.
Our Lord, indeed we have heard a caller calling to faith, [saying], ‘Believe in your Lord,’ and we have believed. Our Lord, so forgive us our sins and remove from us our misdeeds and cause us to die with the righteous [3:193]😇

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At the crack of dawn

As I sat in the doctor’s office and listened as she threw her scary jargons around, something about ‘hyperstimulation’ all I heard was that my ovaries had a mind of their own and I was not going to be pregnant this month. Tears rolled down my brown cheeks. I rushed home to put away all of my unused pregnancy test strips. The ones I used certainly didn’t prove that I was finally going to feel like crap for nine months. My period was just late and the doctor had made it clear I wasn’t pregnant. I just had an hyperstimulated ovary. Lucky me.

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(Un)intentional dawah

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I come from a fairly large family and then married into a huge family so that doesn’t make it easy. I literally had to do a recap of names of parents and children before I show up at any family gathering though now Ma Sha Allah I have a hang of most of them. Being a large family, it allows for diversity so we all need to be very accommodating. My hubby’s cousin, a Christian came visiting Continue reading