Friday, 10 November 2017
Monsoon Spell
While driving through a raging monsoon spell...
Bari *excited*: Mama look! Everyone is enjoying the rain outside. They are all splashing around and playing in it!
Me: Baby...those are people on bikes and foot. They aren't playing in the rain, they are running for shelter so not to get wet or hurt..
Love the quiet innocence of children.
#Mommysgirls
Harvey
I was reading about Hurricane Harvey this morning, and it's worse than anyone could have ever imagined. The aerial pictures of Texas, specially Houston, are devastating.
Yesterday, hubs called up an old friend living in Victoria to check up on him and his family. What he told me later on was alarming. His friend was forced to evacuate their home and restaurant at the very last minute by guard troops. Once shutting down their restaurant, they rushed home, packed couple of necessities and important documents, and drove as fast as hey could to Houston downtown. 3 hours later their house and restaurant was leveled by a tornado and gone under water in torrential floods.
It's impossible to understand the fear and pain that Texans are going through right now. But from this far away the least we can do is pray from them.
Therefore I request everyone outside of Texas to please take at least 10 minutes out of your time and pray for the health and safety of people going through the hurricane right now. Prayer has a very powerful effect and diverts calamities.
For people inside Texas, specially Houston, my heart goes out to you. Please recite 'Astagfar' as much as you can to cool Allah's wrath. May Allah make it easier for you and your families. And our families.
The world is in trouble. And the only way to save it is through prayers.
- TMR
Work you Woman
Nowhere in the world have I seen women as sharp and talented as in Karachi.
It's amazing really.
Specially when you think about the amount of time and brain power they waste on useless stuff. Like gossip and TV serials.
The first few years after I moved to Karachi, I was baffled at how the women here 'worked'. All I saw were a number of talented brains being unfairly consumed for chit chat and cooking. There was occasional cleaning too when the maid(s) weren't available in extreme cases. And yes, those lovely invented committees that are just an excuse to eat more food and waste more money while gossiping about women who actually put their brains to a better use.
I say this once, and I say it seriously. You HAVE to put your talents to a better use.
If you know how to write, then write. Write blogs, write articles, write a book. Write to help the minority. Write to diminish the unjust. Write to expose the truth. If you know how to cook then cook for others. Cook to feed the needy, cook to win competitions, cook to earn. Cook to teach. If you know how to speak then speak for religion, speak for morals, speak to bring hope and happiness.
I have seen women who have an amazing sense of fashion but can't sew, women with great memorizing skills but have no motivation to learn, women with awesome debating skills which are simply used to win arguments against there in-laws.
Put your talents to a POSITIVE use! And I can't empathize that word enough.
Use your time to fine tune your skills. Use your hard earned money to invest in what you are good at. Use all that pent up energy to perform with passion.
And as soon as you start using your talents for the good, you'll watch your life change. You won't be the victim anymore. You'll be your own woman, standing on your own feet, powered by your own brain.
A self sufficient woman.
And nothing is more beautiful than that.
- TMR
A Lobster Story
While cooking dinner one day..
Choti: Mummy, can I pweezzzzeee have a lobster?
Me: *Trying to figure out which one of us could have passed down the avid sea food lovers gene*
Umm...sure baby! But...when did you eat a lobster?
Choti: I ate the yellow one yestevday...and it tastes like peep (peach*). Can I have the ved one today??
Me: *Mentally going over the lunch and dinner menus from yesterday* Baby, we don't have a lobster at home..
Choti: Yes you do. It's in your side dvawer! *points towards my bedroom*
Me: *Shocked at the image of a huge dead lobster decomposing in my side drawer* Alright, can you show it to me?..
Choti: *Walks to my side drawer, opens up my secret candy stash, pulls out a box of Gobsters* Here it is....lobster!
Me: *Doubles on the floor laughing*
I love my kid.
#Mommysgirls
The way of Salat
Thank you Allah for giving us Salat.
For forcing us to stop running 4 times in a day, and to sit and reflect for some of those precious minutes.
For the instant calm and peace that washes over us as we perform it. Without which, we would have mentally collapsed a long time back.
For reminding us every single time that you are there to help us through this race of a life. That you are the one holding us up and helping us push through.
Thank you Allah, for making us pause our mental load for a fraction of time and helping us circulate the blood in our veins physically.
For helping us wash our sins of the day away with every drop of water that touches our skin. For cooling our over-heated bodies.
For refreshing our brain every time our forehead touches the ground. For helping us realize that we are not in control of everything.
Thank you Allah, for waking us up in the middle of the night, to help us absorb the freshness and tranquility of a new day. To think through in the quietness of an early morning.
For giving us an opportunity to ask you for things we can't ask any human. For sharing with you to our hearts content.
For reminding us day in and day out that we are running out of time. That this dunya and its problems are tiny and temporary.
Thank you Allah.
Over and over a million times.
- TMR
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