Saturday, November 26, 2011

I havent wrote anything in here for so long. it's not that there is nothing to write, (there are plenty) but merely lack of motivation.

Still remember my 'son' Ibrahim? Received updates from him yesterday, and it really really made my day!

Seeing him (from afar) growing up is reaaaaallly something! And seeing that he has similar interests (football and computer, hey this is no coincidence, thank you Allah!!!) strengthened the bond, and for a second, I feel that he is actually my own. Lol. Sentimental much?

But it saddened me that he didn't write anything about the future. Why oh dear?

You want to become a syahid ey?

Anyways, please pray that this particular deed is accepted by Allah. If ibrahim is meant to be a syahid in the near future, I want sahams in it too o Allah. This is the closest I can imagine getting to the holy position of a martyr.

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"Child Progress Report:

1.    I am best in:playing computer


2.   I love the most: My Mother


3.   When I grow up I want to be :


4.   My school’s name is :Terra sancta


5.   My favorite subject is: Drawing


6.   I know from the Quran by heart


7.   My favorite sport is: Football"

Adopt your own child here: http://www.humanconcern.org/csp.php

p/s:did i mention he is subhanAllah extreeeeeeeeeeeeemely cute? The picture shows him wearing a big handsome smile, and dressed in a tux. Oh, he is 5 btw. ;)

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

the other day i called home, and casually asked ummi what did she cook on that day. hesitantly, she replied, 'masak lemak ikan jenahak'.

when i called today, ummi was having breakfast, but before i had the chance to ask, she said, "dont worry, everything is what you can make on your own"

how thoughtful of ummi. heh~

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Talked to kid#2,maryam this morning. Her latest ambition is to be a policewoman. I told her police officers do not earn enough money for a living, therefore she should become something else instead. I shouldn't have done that. I should just encourage her to be anything she wants to be n just work hard towards that. Well that is a lesson for next time.

Friday, August 26, 2011

of what can be achieved =); click the link below.



robbana hablana min azwajina wa zurriyatina qurrata a'yun. waja'alna lilmuttaqeena imama.

i recently realized that by reciting this du'aa, not only we are asking from Allah what we ask in the du'aa, but also to attain high rank in jannah, inshaAllah inshaAllah (refer 25:71-75).

Friday, August 5, 2011

bismillah,

lately, so many of my close friends and relatives were tested by Allah.


me: but she tells everyone about it ummi, how strong of her.
ummi: sometimes that is how people grief. they have to talk to people about it, so they tell everyone. however *** is diff, she can never talk about THE topic.
me: i can never talk about it either.
ummi: oh for me i have to.


after almost a year of clashes, and tension, only now i understand what caused it. ummi had to let it out, therefore that was the only thing she talked about when she talks to me. as for me, i cannot talk about it at all.

ummi continued talking about it, and i continuously wasn't able to withstand the pressure. until at one point a friend who got to know about it (she was the first person to know because i broke down in front of her post-talking to ummi) forbade me from calling home during final exams period.

it was that bad. and only now i understand the simple logic behind it. Allahu Akbar.

so many things to write about, but lack of motivation. sorry dear blog.

Friday, May 27, 2011

bismillah,

only a week after touchdown, I wanted to sleepover at my naqibah's house(shared with many other sisters). So in order to make my mum pleased, I tidied the whole house to an extreme, did everything I can so that she can not complain one single thing, and will be pleased with me, hence getting Allah's redha.

That was the sole intention.

I left the house, feeling proud of myself. 

Only to receive a call from her just a few hours after that, saying she was very upset with me for I didn't take out coconut milk that she wanted to use (I wasn't told to).

Yes I know, it is the intention, and the effort that matter. But I was very disappointed, and I talked to her about it a few days after that, when she was in a good mood. 

You know what did she say about it? "Oh I'm preparing you for your mother in law".

I couldn't help but laugh. Sigh. 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

bismillah,

whenever i talk abt him to ppl, i would always describe him as someone who is very quiet and distant from the family. dont get me wrong. we were very close. extremely close. until one day he went to boarding school and came back as a man, and no longer a boy. that changed everything.

so that was what i think of him, until recently. i just realized, he does make effort to be a dear brother to me. it is me, who distanced myself away from him.

whenever he says something to me, it is me who doesnt reply, merely because i do not know what to say. and the jokes he makes, go by without me laughing at them.

however, i seriously do not remember the last time he was this nice to me. dear sel, do not ruin things.

oh Allah, thank you for this opportunity. i do love him sincerely for the sake of Allah. please please make us go to jannah together.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

alhamdulillah, thummalhamdulillah!

kids' ability to memorize amazes me! maryam, kid #2 memorized a surah within 5 days!Allahuakbar. well, it is not truly an achievement, but do consider that this is my first trial. plus, we didn't really do anything intensive. it was merely a 5-10 minutes reading per day, and sometimes the sessions don't even last that long. and on certain days, it is just me reciting the surah to her repeatedly, and her repeating it after me while she plays or does something else.


i started the same way i did with muzakkir. i recited the quran in front of her, and invited her to join in. i tested her on some surahs, to see how far she has memorized. i wanted her to continue from there, but she insisted on wanting to memorize ad-dhuha.

i agreed, and we went from there.

everytime we read, i would correct her mahkraj and tajwid, as she can already read with tartil, alhamdulillah. i try to make her start our sessions with alfatihah everytime, so that she can perfect the tajwid of that surah, in order to perform her daily prayers better. not that she prays much. oh my. that's another issue i have to try to tackle.
bismillah,

okay, this is a longgggg due update. shall i start from day 1?

kids are hard to deal with. you miss them when you are far away, but you get really annoyed when they pester you 24/7. or, when they don't listen to you.

day 1 was alhamdulillah, fun. but i didn't start anything until day 2. i woke up early, probably due to jet lag. at around 5, i heard someone using the bathroom. it turned out to be muzakkir, kid #1. when fajr came, i asked him to pray with me. to encourage him, i told him to be the imam and i pretended to follow him.

nothing has changed in his reading from the last time i left him. after prayers, i read quran outloud in front of him, to make him used to it. he was then eager to join me.

he still doesnt know how to read the quran, eventhough he does memorize short surahs. which was a hugeee shock for me. i really didn't know he still can't read. so i asked him to only read alfatihah (by memory), while i point the script accordingly to him. he mispronounce many words, but that is okay, since he doesnt fully speak yet. so i corrected some pronunciations(not even makhrajs or tajwid, just trying to get the correct english-letters-sound out of him).

and even for the days after that, these were the only things i did with him. read quran aloud in front him to get him to join me, asks him to read alfatihah by memory while i point, and correct his pronunciation.

anyways, my short experience with him shows that yes, it is true that we can teach kids to memorize quran even before they speak properly, and even before they could read the quran. well, many kids memorize alfatihah and annas before they could even read right? or atleast the du'a before eating.

those simple prayers that kids memorize, aren't they in arabic too?so don't wait for your kids to be able to read to only then teach them hifzulquran.

wallahua'lam,
ummu ibrahim...

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim!

Bismillah,

So this is the very first post for this blog.
A single muslimah, not yet married, but inspired by this blog, to start practising her tarbiyatulaulad skills. If she, a working mother, can do it, why can't I? By the way, when I say tarbiyatulaulad, I refer solely to their education and their sahsiah, and mainly on quran teachings (as I love teaching Quran even to friends my age), as other areas have to wait for my own real kids. hueh.

To have perfect parenting skills needs practice right? Thus the need to practice on other kids. Plus I would have ample time with the 4 months break from university and studying. And I have to babysit anyways, might as well use the time to 'torture' the kids with quran sessions, aite? Yeay summer!

If I'm not married, who is ibrahim then?

He is an orphan, living in Palestine. I have been his parent for the past 3 years. Let's pray that I would get to meet him sometime in the future. Or in jannah, atleast, if he or I become one of the syuhada'. I receive his school work and updates once in a while. He is very cute, but unfortunately I am a tad bit lazy to scan his picture, having all my stuffs packed in boxes, ready for summer. 

Towards baitulmuslim and eventually ustaziatulalam!