Gratitude List: Happy Friday April 5th 2013!

Hello Folks!

Salamz, peace, blessings, love and forgiveness and all the awesomeness to you! 

Was a bit stressed last night but after talking with my friend J I feel like a boulder lifted off me.

I am rising again and I can breath...

Gratitude List: Happy Friday February 15th 2013!!

Salams to all my readers!!

I went away for about a week to Texas because my 83 year old nani (grandmother) has been getting ill lately. As soon as I received a call about her health I felt sick inside because I knew she had always wanted to see sou sou. My daughter is the youngest member of my whole family at this point...the only great grand daughter.

They met, and Sultana gave her some dirty looks. Nani returned them, and soon they were shouting and playing and poking each other. 

My daughter has a good heart alhamdoolilah

Gratitude List: Happy Friday January 25th 2013!

Salams my dear readers!

I hope you all have a wonderful Friday and a great weekend. I am very excited for his particular weekend as my life is set to change dramatically, inshallah I see this as a blessing from Allah swt coming to my life. 

A lot of people are depending on me to fulfill my dream and I know I have this year to do it.

Gratitude List: Happy Friday January 11th 2013!!!!

Salam folks! 

Me=Dying from the Cuteness! 

Best of Smiles, 

Best of Health,

Best of Happiness,

Best of Imaan (faith),

Best of all that I can wish for all my dear readers today! 

We received an AMAZING anonymous gratitude list! Mashallah and Alhamdoolilah! 

No matter how hard it gets (and it will) just try TRY to remember the good you still do have, because tomorrow is a new day. 

Please make dua for anonymous who took the time to write and reflect on their blessings and was so kind enough to let us read it. Let something like this bring us closer to our Creator and cherish every moment we have left in this short life.  Jazkallah Khayr!

1. That I have access to the internet so that I can get inspired by you.

2. That God has protected me thus far and kept my matters private.

3. That I can breathe.

4. I have food, running water, heat, clothing, and basic neccasities.

5. That I am not exposed to anything traumatizing, especially not on a daily basis.

6. For Allah SWT's help in helping me establish the habit of referring to his Quraan every day.

7. For a mother and father who love me and have raised me as well as they can.

8. For a supportive and religious family who has principles and values.

9. For the many privileges I have above others that I don't even always utilize.

10. For the opportunity to be involved in the social justice movement.

11. For people who have opened my mind and heart to reality.

12. For my sewing machine, that I love so dearly.

13. For my room, which is beautiful and comfortable and a luxury that SO many cannot afford.

14. For the ability to read, write, and process information.

15. For the ability to communicate.

16. For God's mercy and continuous lutf he has bestowed on me.

17. For having a laptop.

18. For owning a home.

19. For the ability to be close enough to God to pour out my vulnerabilities to Him.

20. For books that I can lose myself in.

21. For access to scholarship money for college.

22. For having options.

23. For living in a community of Muslims.

24. For siblings who care and especially ones who care to share experiences, clothes, love, etc.

25. For a food processor and good set of knives that make the tedious task of cooking much easier.

26. For having influential and inspiring people in my life.

27. For the space I have to be creative and create.

28. For a beautiful body.

29. For a strong sound understanding of Islam.

30. For the ability to grow this foundation.

31. For the hardships that have made me stronger (this one is SO hard to appreciate for me, especially right now, but it is vital).

32. For shoes that cover my feet.

33. For the ability, time, and motivation to exercise.

34. For the privilege of being able to eat healthy.

35. That I can see. And hear, and feel.

36. That I am not made of stone.

37. That I realize my self-worth.

38. That I have control of my emotions, most of the time.

39. That I have had the opportunity to meet different people and visit different places.

40. That I have extra money to donate and spend on myself for added luxury that others can't afford.

41. For living in a country where Hijab is not banned.

42. For having an attitude that embraces differences.

43. For being able to find God in watching the clouds or the moon.

44. For people who push me, sometimes by force, into doing good for Allah's sake.

45. For makeup and paint and pretty things that let me stream my creativity fixes.

46. For the fact that nothing in this world last forever.

47. For ice cream.

48. For people who have less than me and in turn force me to realize how blessed I am.

49. For a functioning heart, even if it has black in many areas.

50. For the chance to start over and over and over again. Thank you ya Rabbi.

Gratitude List: Happy Friday December 21st 2013

Have a wonderful day today folks! Here are the 5 things I am grateful for lately! Don't forget to share yours as well inshallah :)

Please email me so I can submit your list on this blog inshallah! 


Alhamdoolilah for....

Gratitude List: Happy Friday November 16h 2012!

Salam folks and Sabaa7 al Khayr (Good Morning)!!!

I feel so happy today, like a tiny little weight has been lifted off my shoulders and even a tiny little knife pulled from my back! Yesterday was a bit difficult but today is a new day to make it count.

One of my life goals (check out my buckit list which is soon due for a revamp!) is to show more daily gratitude.

Jumuah Mubarak! Gratitude List Friday!

Jumuah Mubarak folks!

“And Allah has extracted you from the wombs of your mothers not knowing a thing, and He made for you hearing and vision and intellect that perhaps you would be grateful.”

- Nahl 78

Jumuah Mubarak: Gratitude List Friday!

Asalamu Alaykum Folks,
 Jumuah Mubarak! I hope you are all in the best of health and imaan. I am still busy of course, but this coming week should be much better for me when it comes to posting.

The Giveaway ended yesterday. If you entered, go check out whether you won or not in the previous post. 

Today we will be featuring another LFFM Guest Gratitude List. If you are interested in creating one yourself, its very easy. Just sit down for several minutes and write consecutively at least 50 things you are grateful for. It will help improve your mood and realize all those blessings that get overlooked.  
My first Gratitude list here.

1st Guest Gratitude list here.

Congrats to  Eliza for making this heart-touching list. I first met her in Egypt at AUC my first semester. She and I became close and she was one of my best friends overseas. Its my mission in the next few year to go to Egypt again and reunite with her and all the lovely girls I met.  Alhamdoolilah she recently got married to the guy of her dreams!


Enjoy Folks!

1.       Being Muslim and knowing God

2.       Having been guided to Islam and shown where Allah’s path is and where it leads to

3.       My wonderful, supportive, fun-loving, funny, crazy, kind, smart husbandand the beautiful home that we have

4.       Having the most awesome, most supportive friends in the world. Without them the world would be less colourful, less entertaining and less yummy!

5.       Having the ability to see, hear, taste, smell, walk and general good health

6.       Having been born with no mental disabilities or allergies!

7.       Having been blessed enough throughout my life so far to not know hunger, thirst or any kind of material deprivation

8.       Despite the way things are at this very moment, I’m thankful that I have a family whom I had and still will have great memories to make and share

9.       My parents who brought me Islam, cared and provided for me

10.   My mother who taught me all the skills have and who inspired me to increase my faith

11.   My father who is always there when I need him

12.   Sister Fatima who taught me what faith is, how to pray, how to read Arabic and Quran, how to love Allah.

13.   Having parents in the first place and not being an orphan

14.   Having nice in-laws

15.   Knowing how to read, write and think in general

16.   My education and my degree

17.   Finishing my education

18.   My awesome job full of awesome people!

19.   Having a job!

20.   My metabolism and without which I’d most definitely NOT be the size I am now

21.   As far as I know, the ability to have children

22.   All the skills that I’ve been taught and the talents I’ve been blessed with

23.   Not being completely socially awkward

24.   A sense of humour

25.   An taste for fun in this life

26.   The wisdom to know and see the delusions in this life

27.   The wisdom to know that there should be a balance between “el duniawa el akheera”

28.   Learning to strive for this balance

29.   Learning to love, lose and love again

30.   Knowing now, the difference between deep infatuation and real love

31.   Learning to love things and people for the sake of Allah and learning that this is the most liberating kind of love there is in this life

32.   Hearing the call to Fajr prayer even while deep in sleep

33.   Beingmotivated to learn more about Islam

34.   Having a husband who is willing to teach me more and learn with me

35.   Understanding enough Arabic to do more than just survive here!

36.   Learning relatively quickly

37.   Not living or have ever lived in a country ravaged by war

38.   Having experienced the Egyptian revolution first hand

39.   Not having any relatives or close friends who were killed during the revolution

40.   Not having ever been under any kind of attack or assault

41.   Not having, so far, a major car accident

42.   Never having broken a bone, so far…

43.   Never having the need for stitches or major surgery

44.   Having goals that motivate me to keep improving myself and my life

45.   Knowing how to drive in Egypt!

46.   Being able to see God’s work everywhere and in everything in this life

47.   Knowing what it feels like to have your prayers answered and seeing the blessings that come with being patient during a test from God

48.   The realization, now, that even after all the things I’ve done, there was always God looking after me and constantly calling me back to Him. Like a child who rebelliously ran through a field of tall grass only to cry and get lost all the while hearing a familiarly pleasant voice calling out for him to come back.

49.   Having the awareness of the darkness within my own heart and the willingness to try to correct it

50.   Knowing the purpose of my life

Jumuah Mubarak and Gratitude Lists

Asalamu Alaykum folks! Jumuah Mubarak!

 I hope you have a great and wonderful Friday to start zee great and wonderful weekend inshallah. For now LFFM will be posting Gratitude lists every Friday. A gratitude list is a list of all the things one can be grateful for. I wrote my first one for this blog here. It is an amazing tool to realize all the blessings we have and also a mood lifter, I try to do them when I am feeling less awesome haha.

Today I want to introduce you to an amazing woman named Seresity who not only wrote a list but has allowed us to read it. Thank you for for being our first guest submission Seresity!!! 

Habits to Live by: Gratitude lists and Request for Blogger Submissions!

“‘If you are grateful, I will surely give you more and more”  

(14th Surah, verse 7)

Show Gratitude! There are a kijilliion and one resources that explain why showing gratitude is important, from psychological perspectives, mental and spiritual, and of course Islamic. One of the most powerful words Muslims can say is ALhamdoolilah which can mean All Praises and Thanks to Allah. When I used to live in Egypt I noticed how most of the time, whenever I asked other folks how they were, their first answer was always ALhamdoolilah. I usually was the type beforehand, to LITERALLY tell someone how I was feeling and then maybe throw in a alhamdoolilah in there somewhere.