Credit to The Designer

oh btw, my blog's current design is made by

Miss Fatayat Eshamaal

clickity clicko 

She has taken down all the flim flams off my old blog and left it minimal. Love it very much.

(Oh, I still need to treat her ice cream and maybe bawa to a local art store )

Do check out her blog :D 

Spending Time

Assalamualaikum! Hey erbodyy!

How are you doing? May Allah bless you with good health :)

After the finals for semester 3, I went back south to my hometown, Johor. It was a 5 hours journey from the big city (which my father has been kind enough to pick me up from the residential college). After spending some time catching up with my family and getting back into the loops of routines, I find myself enveloped with boredom. There is ample of time available to me, but  none being debited into good use. As Ibn Abbas once narrated that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said 

'There are two blessings which many people lose ; (They are) health and free time for doing good.' (Bukhari 8/421)

It is in deep regret that I have wasted my time by spending it on social networking sites, hours of telly shows and occasional outings. As normal students, I've made a deal with myself to qada' all the free time I've crossed off the list all for the sake of assignments and events. Eventually, I need to tweak that a bit. So here is the new plan (given a facelift) 

1. Frequent Al-Quran recitation - at any time at all. Make it flexible!
2. Improve on the quality of the house keeping  :)
3. Cook healthy meal for my family + more baking.
4. Replace the singing with zikr and nasheed. Lessen the singing of nonsical music.
5. Read more books, watch videos with benefitial input
6. Go do that hobby - in my case more painting/doodling/art project
7. Re-hafaz the surahs in Al-Quran, better yet recheck the reading
8. Finally the most important : solah on time! There is no excuse for not being able to be punctual.

Note that the list are made based on my routines and I tried to be as practical as possible. Islam wants its follower to be the best that they can with ease. By setting approachable goals, it is possible to become better Muslim/Muslimah. Simply said, let's start today. 

Stylish Hijabista

A beautiful Open Letter indeed. 

Dear Hijabista, Hijabister

I am writing to express my concern over the portrayal of 'hijab' women in

your magazine. I believe in the concept of modesty accompanying the

muslimah attire (the hijab included) is a fundamental core one must

embrace. The Hijab is not a replacement of the 'hair' we cover. The hijab

isn't just a cloth or layers of cloth on your head. It comes with a

package. Of intellect, manners and adab. It is a symbol of the believing

women, her 'modesty'- A sign of dignity and pride. Your magazine bears no

sign of 'modesty' and I say this clearly, this is definitely very WRONG!

Portraying hijab women and "doll-ing" them up like models in Vogue but then

only to cover her hair is an absolute disgrace and mockery to us the

believing women. What more the women and cover girls who allow themselves to

be exploited as an object and fool themselves into thinking they are on

their 'Deen' and pleasing Allah by just covering their hair... How can you

even think you are pleasing Allah with all that make up, ridiculous styles

whilst purposely showing off your beauty and body.

Your magazine just as the likes of vogue and cosmopolitan has NO

intellectual nor spiritual dimensions to it except to brainwash and create

an unnecessary desire to the 'hijabisters' to own more and more stuff. In

reality, a real, true believing women DOES not need to display her

adornments to entice others. The believing woman has self confidence that

what is INSIDE her heart and MIND will indeed be of much more value than

all the silly bangles, sunglasses, shoes and handbags you bombard the

pages of your magazine with.

Your magazine corrupts young, sincere minds into foolishly thinking that

they are more beautiful with more shoes, accessories or ridiculous tudung

styles they do not need.

The best garments as the Quran states is Taqwa. And tell me where, in which

page of your magazine do you propagate this message? None, not one I'm

afraid. It is clearly a consumer driven magazine casting a spell with

women, where one will then start to wish on owning and buying or to 'copy'

the 'Photoshop-ed' girls you portray.

I am afraid you are only destroying the hijab sisters filling their minds

with superficial beauty. Please take a sincere step back and help many lost

sisters out there to care more about diseases of their hearts instead of

merely emphasizing a message of "what is important is how you look and tie

your tudung'

Sincerely,
A worried Muslimah

(source : We are beautiful, Allah Loves Us )