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Halal cooking

Please remember all the food you normally eat before reverting except pork and alcohol which are 100% haram there are ways to makes this food the halal way. I love English and European food cos that’s what I was brought up on, but alhamdulilah there have been ways that I can cook the food I love from scratch with halal ingredients and prepared in a halal way, so keep at it and inshallah in time allah will help you find the answers ameen

Above I have: chicken chow mein and spring rolls, Spaghetti bolonaise and garlic toast, pizza (with chicken and salami and vegetables), Nando’s style burger, beef burger, chocolate Krispy cake, Turkey sandwiches (instead of ham), lamb stew, fruit flan, shepherds pie.

Pretty much everything you could have before you still can once it’s adapted to halal rules. If in doubt check the halal/haram online food databases, and don’t forget to read ingredients of processed food in supermarkets. Good luck x

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Learning Arabic

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Learning to read Quran in Arabic is so hard but alhamdulilah Allah has given me an opportunity. Always remember alhamdulilah sisters and brothers and remember that Allah has taught us that patience will be rewarded in jenna. So thanks to allah, alhamdulilah I have been given an opportunity to learn the language to help me in life as a Muslimah revert, and when you get started ladies and gents, keep up the good work. Allah knows your intentions, may he make it easy for you, ameen.

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Prayers (or Salah | صلاة )

Note: Rakat/Rakah ( ركعة‎‎) refers to the number of movements (standing/kneeling/sitting) that happens in the prayer. Rakat is plural and rakah is the singular.

Fajr  |  صلاة الفجر

“Dawn Prayer”

Fard (required) = 2 rakat

Sunnah (extra) = 2 rakat before or after

Dhuhr  |  صلاة الظهر

“Noon Prayer”

Fard = 4 rakat

Sunnah = 4 rakat usually before the fard

Asr  |  صلاة العصر

“Afternoon Prayer”

Fard = 4 rakat

Sunnah = 4 rakat after

Maghrib  |  صلاة المغرب

“West Prayer” (when sun sets)

Fard = 3 rakat

Sunnah = 2 rakat before and/or after

Isha  |  صلاة العشاء

“Night Prayer”

Fard = 4 rakat

Sunnah = 2 rakat after

  Taraweeh  |  تراويح‎‎

Special night prayers held at the masjid (mosque) throughout Ramadan

Held after Isha prayer

Prayed in two rakat

Rakat are normally an 8 or 20

Often used to recite the entire Quran

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Reverts, when you are having a weak iman day, when you come across racism in the ummah, when someone treats you like you are not knowledgable in religion because you are a convert, when your parents refuse to be seen in public with you in your hijab, remember that when you made the decision to become Muslim , you made the decision that your children will be Muslims, that entire generations of your family will be Muslims.Let that empower you, struggle for their sake. Your reward for your jihad will be you entering paradise with generations of your family that wouldn’t have known Islam if it weren’t for you. You brought your future generations to the truth , let that make you strong.

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support revert/convert women and girls

• support revert/convert women and girls who are forced to keep their faith a secret

• support revert/convert women and girls who wear hijab

• support revert/convert women and girls who don’t wear hijab

• support revert/convert women and girls who feel alone

• support revert/convert women and girls who are still learning the basics

• support revert/convert women and girls whose families don’t accept or don’t respect their faith

• support revert/convert women and girls who don’t go to a masjid or don’t live near one

• support revert/convert women and girls who struggle to stay on the deen

SUPPORT REVERT/CONVERT WOMEN AND GIRLS

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“Bismillah is the start of all good things”

— Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

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Ok, so alhamdulilah a few weeks ago after many years of prayer and asking for answers I have a diagnosis. I’m so proud of who I am, because this is the way allah has made me.

Autism for non autistic people:

Imagine waking up every day and the first thing that happens is you get bombarded by sound, light; touch, smell. Everything is so loud and bright that it can overpower you. Imagine walking outside with the cars rushing (even when they are at a slow speed, the noise and the breeze gets to you) by and the people talking and the even when the sun isn’t shining the light from the sky is so bright it just hits you like a wall of whiteness:.. a sensory overload.

Certain things you touch make you cringe or uncomfortable just by touching them like bumpy surfaces or for some people it could be wet things or squidgyness etc or textures when you eat.

In the spring you can hear the birds and wildlife around you getting on with their day.

All the time everything that happens you are aware of it, even when you are minding your own business. The smallest of details you are able to notice.

When you are around people you struggle to engage with them and even when you do you often end up on the edge of the crowd sticking out like a sore thumb and to you it feels like it can be awkward or draw attention to yourself just cos you feel like you don’t fit it completely, just because you have your own quirks that others don’t understand, and cos you struggle to communicate effectively.

pretty much everything you do can provoke anxiety to some degree, especially socially.

And when you are in your own environment you have a need to control it in your own way, everything has its place, and particular way of doing things, and when this gets disturbed or changed it can cause some upset or distress.

When you go places or things are going to happen which a different from your day to day life like going on trips or on holiday or to see a doctor or somewhere new you have a need to know exactly what will happen to prepare you for the days onslaught of senses.

Imagine being able to remember particular things like maps or places like you were still there, like it was still happening, vivid and bright, and certain memories but for no reason and certain things can trigger these to come to you randomly and that your thoughts can simply be so vivid, everything that comes to mind can feel like your thoughts are speaking to you when they are not.

when it comes to learning knew things, in some areas ie areas that involve using language you can struggle to process new information unless it’s given to you in a way you can cope, which is different from person to person, and you can struggle to communicate. What you say to people makes sense to you but often doesn’t make sense to them first time, sometimes cos that’s the way it is and other times it comes out in waffle or jargon, or long winded and people often just want you to get to the point, but to you that’s what you are doing, being to the point, and to you it simply makes sense.

From the inside it feels like the world looks at you like are a little different, or even weird and you simply know that other people just don’t understand just by the way they deal With you or talk to you (like you are like everyone else who is not autistic), but to you, you just know this is who you are and to you, you simply are just normal.

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