If you’re a Muslim and this shows up on your timeline, kindly retweet it could be the reminder someone needs to complete their solat. May Allah accept it from us all 🤲
@olajumokeokenla That's your opinion.
My own is that:👇
she just told the world that sexually reserved people still exists...that sexual purity is not a myth...that in a debased and sex crazy world people are still marrying as virgins.
Hello Lola, I am a Muslim, and our spiritual tradition has a very deep approach to raising children. I want to share some tips from our scholars that will be beneficial to you regardless of your faith.
First of all, our theology teaches the concept of Fitrah. This means that every child is born with a pure heart. At six years old, she is not a criminal mastermind. She does not have a wicked soul.
If she doesn’t have all these, then what is happening? The truth is that she is just lacking impulse control and testing boundaries. By this, if you look at her as a manipulator, you will fight her. However, if you look at her as a pure soul making mistakes, you will be able to guide her.
Secondly, for every problem anyone faces today, it has been solved in history. The only problem is how to locate them.
A classical scholar named Al-Ghazali wrote about child psychology over 900 years ago in his famous book “Ihya Ulum al-Din.” In his section on disciplining children, he gave a practical rule I want you to adopt going forward.
He advised that parents should never push a child into a corner where they are forced to lie. When you ask a question you already know the answer to, her survival instinct kicks in. She cries and she lies to defend herself because she is scared of you. Stop interrogating her. Just look at her and state the fact. Say, I know you took this, and we are going to return it right now.
Again, another scholar and sociologist Ibn Khaldun addressed this exact behavior in his masterpiece titled: “Al-Muqaddimah.” He warned that when a child is raised with harsh punishment, they learn deceit, trickery, and lying to protect themselves. This is why she is covering her tracks and crying to manipulate you. The fear of a harsh reaction is making her a better liar.
Lola, do not attach a label to her. Do not ever call her a thief. If you attack her identity instead of her action, she will internalize it and grow into that dark label. Tell her the action is wrong but protect her dignity.
Make her return the item. Do not fall for the tears. Hold her hand, walk her back to wherever she took it from, and make her hand it back and apologize. The discomfort of returning a stolen item teaches a much better lesson than beating her will ever do.
Finally, I don’t know if you are a Muslim, but never underestimate the power of your own words. In our faith, we believe the prayer of a parent for a child goes straight to God without any barrier. Pray over her. Pray for her heart to be content and for her character to be straight.
Keep doing this consistently and the habit will break.
Allah knows best.
A potential client asked me “ I hope ur chocolate cake doesn’t have a Sandy after taste”???
I sent her receipt of the price I buy cocoa-powder I bake my chocolate cake with ..
30k per kilogram Dutch processed cocoa powder, there’s no Sandy after taste. We bake with the finest ingredients 👌
Most people (including many Muslims) still don’t get the concept of Ramadan fasting at all… at all o.
The funniest thing is that “hunger (food abstinence) is the least of all the constraints and restraints that come with Ramadan.
1. The first most obvious and strenuous struggle is thirst.
You’d think 13+ hours of thirst is a joke until you embark on it. And this isn’t even about the oral craving of liquid alone, but the extreme physiological demand for fluid.
Easiest way to dehydration, headaches, dizziness, and generalized fatigue.
2. There are tons of other restrictions, especially abstinence from every form of distractive pleasure.
Naturally, you would feel like playing games, listening to music, watching movies, and all should help you while away time. Unfortunately, there are strong restrictions against these things for Muslims fasting Ramadan. In fact, if we were upright enough, no fasting Muslim should staying online scrolling and wasting their Ajr (reward) and time while fasting.
Now, imagine being extremely dehydrated, bored and fatigued, yet you have to restrict from every form of rewardless activities for 13+ hours.
3. Fasting Ramadan is useless without keeping all other pillars of faith. While fasting, no matter how tired you get, you must pray your five daily Salah at the right time.
You are also expected to engage in a lot of rewarding activities like Nawaafil, charity, Tilaawah, Adhkaar… Imagine you’re reciting the Quran with a dried throat, dehydrated body, weary eyes and heavy head.
4. Fasting Ramadan is not an excuse for idleness.
If you have an active job or business, you are expected to actively participate in your means of livelihood.
Now, you’re dehydrated, fatigued, bored, and have to show up to work in the sun or under stressful conditions.
5. Fasting Ramadan is COMPULSORY on every adult, sane, healthy Muslim (except some excluded groups) without any compromise.
Meaning, for 30 days consecutively, you have to rinse and repeat. No excuses. No voluntary breaks.
6. Ramadan is not just food abstinence during the day. It is also the observance of Taraaweh at late night, early rising before dawn for Tahajjud and Suhoor, keeping abstinent during the day, keeping steadfast in worship throughout the month.
You MUST observe all these for 29/30 CONSECUTIVE days without compromise.
Even if you managed to endure a single day of all these, come back after 30 days of such steadfastness and repeat that Ramadan is just you “skipping lunch”.
7. Finally, the Quran already tipped us off: the kuffs will never agree with us, and we are very okay with it.
If you still find this lenient and cheap compared to your own religion fasts… Alhamdulillah, and congratulations to us — our own Lord and Creator doesn’t ask for more, and we appreciate His mercy and benevolence on us (for giving us an easy way), and we will keep striving ONLY for His mercy, and not your validations.
Alhamdulillahi Robbi l-‘Aalameen. 🤲❤️😎
Eid Mubarak in advance, Muslim Ummah. 🎁🎊