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Surah Al-Ikhlas was one of the first ones my daughter memorized. She was four. It's short; that's basically the whole reason. Four-year-olds do not have patience for anything long, mine included. But then something happened I wasn't expecting: we…
We had family visiting a few months back, and my daughter, completely unprompted, ran off to grab the guest her favorite blanket and asked if she wanted tea. I hadn't taught her that exact thing. Not that specific gesture. But something I'd been…
Our cat is objectively spoiled, and my son will absolutely tell you it's "because the Prophet loved cats too." Which is a slightly exaggerated, not entirely wrong takeaway from a conversation we had months back about kindness to animals in Islam.…
When my sister had her first baby, my mother started talking about Aqiqah before the poor kid was even a week old. I remember thinking, wait, what exactly is this again? I'd heard the word my whole life, my whole life, and somehow never actually sat…
We drive two hours to my in-laws every few months, and for years that drive started with nothing more than buckling seatbelts and hoping nobody needed a bathroom break in the first twenty minutes. It wasn't until my son asked, completely out of…
Out of all the companion stories in our house, this one gets asked for the most. Mostly because my daughter loves this whole idea that a "best friend" could matter enough to change actual history. Not wrong, honestly. Abu Bakr's friendship with the…
My son used to grab food the second it hit the table. No dua, no bismillah, nothing, just straight in, like the plate might run away if he didn't move fast enough. For a while I just said "wait," over and over, which, in hindsight, taught him…
