Make a Difference Now

Dear sisters!

I hope you're doing well.

I've been wonderfully busy with lots of things such as a Symphony-orchestra weekend trip, studying, reading self-help books, hanging out with my husband and yesterday, on the International Women's Day, attending a demonstration with my sisters in the hope of making it illegal to buy sex in Denmark (insha'Allah!).

Some time ago Blue Pearl posted about this wonderful website called FREE Rice, where you play simple multiple choice games and for each correct answer, FREE Rice donates 10 grains of rice to people in need. FREE Rice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Programme. You really should join and it won't cost you anything but a little time!

In Blue Pearl's post she also gave a simple description of how this works and also asked to join her group Muslims United. So please follow the steps in her post to become a member, 'cause we need more wonderful members and to donate more rice (food)!

Just 5 minutes a day secures a meal for one of the 925 million hungry people worldwide!

Looking forward to seeing even more sisters and brothers join the group <3

For those who also feel like donating money, check this wonderful website out, which is also an initiative of the United Nations World Food Programme:

In the developed world, life puts tasty food on our plates all the time. French sausage, avocado or chocolate cake -- we all have our favorites.

If we take just one of these things and give it back, or feed it back, we can help change the lives of hungry school children around the world. WeFeedback brings together individuals like you to do just that. It’s fun, it’s social and it makes a lasting difference.

Source: http://beta.wefeedback.org/

Give a Goat... or a Cow for Eid ul-Adha

If you don't know what to give your loved ones for Eid or for their birthdays or whatever you're celebrating, I think one of the most wonderful presents you can give is something related to charity.

Perhaps you already knew this and were going to do it anyway, but if not - read on: Through Muslim aid.org (and other organizations too probably) you can donate money for the yearly Qurbani in countries, which need our charity for that purpose! Do it for yourself and give it as a present to people close to you, if you feel like it. The more money donated, the better!

More charity-present-ideas:

In Denmark there's this organization, Folkekirkens Nødhjælp - Dan Churchaid, who started this fantastic campaign (Giv en ged - Give a Goat), which gives you the opportunity to buy "a goat", "rabbits", "a bag of rice", "a football", an almond tree", "an island", "a fish" etc.! (You can see all the presents here).

Two years ago I "recived" an almond tree. Well that is I received a card with a picture of that tree on it and on the back it was written that I hereby support families in Central Asia and Kirgisistan to join and plant almond trees together, which will supply them with almonds that they can sell on the local market.

That's just one example of how their presents work and I LOVE the idea of it and it really was the best present I received! Almost daily I looked at that "tree" thinking about how the money donated would help some people in need. I have a feeling that many more Danes have donated to charity because of these gifts, because it gets so real and you're not "just" giving money, you're giving something special for a special place in need of that present. And really: most of us have enough stuff lying around in our apartments or rooms and don't really need more of that!!

The presents range in price from kr. 80 ($ 40,7) - kr. 5000 + ($ 919 +)! Awesome, isn't it?

My intention with this post, was to hopefully give some of you ideas for presents that will not "just" make one person happy - but many more, insha'Allah, and you can do it even if your country doesn't have a campaign like the Danish one above! You could for example donate some money to an organization and find a postcard yourself (for Eid it could be with some kind of cattle on it (any one approved by the Sharia) :)) and write the amount of money donated and how it will, insha'Allah, please some people in need! Then you donated for the present for a loved one (loved ones) and donated for Qurbani yourself :) Insha'Allah!

Good luck my dear Blogger-friends!

Global Pink Hijab Day

Did you know about this day? Why didn't I? 'Cause I'm always the last to know what's going on in the world. Hehe. I live in my own little happy bubble, most of the time... Not watching the news etc. And that's why today I realize it's been Global Pink Hijab Day for breast cancer awareness yesterday. Hehe. Did you sisters participate? This website Pink Hijab Day has a lovely video for this day. Check it out!

Anyway I really didn't observe any pink hijabs yesterday here in DK... I think mulims don't really dare to put on too bright hijabs in this crazy country :-P Sweden marked the day... Denmark not... I'm living in the wrong country!...

Take care my beautiful sisters!

Ramadan Day 25

This day has been so beautiful with a fantastic blue sky, no clouds, no wind and just this peaceful pre-Autumn atmosphere, masha'Allah. I can't thank Allah (swt) enough for the beauty He has created!

My sister stayed at my place this night, which was great.
Tonight I'm all alone, which I haven't been since January ('cause that was the last time my husband was gone for a few days). I enjoy the silence...and I see now how healthy it is to be away from your significant other sometimes and actually feel that you miss the person! And he misses you too :-)
I'll spend the evening in worship, insha'Allah, which is also very great when you're all alone... And looking forward to Laylat al-Qadr tomorrow night, insha'Allah.
I'm just having rice pudding, fruit and bread for Iftar, 'cause I'm all alone and nobody expects from me to prepare something special :-)

Tomorrow I'll be doing charity work in my city for a couple of hours, collecting money for the organisation Save the Children. They have one day every year where people can walk around in their neighbourhoods collecting money for that year's project.


I hope you sisters out there are also having a great evening, insha'Allah.