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There was a stretch where my daughter wanted a "cool fact" every single night before bed, no exceptions, so one evening I told her Allah has 99 different names, and each one describes something different about Him. She actually sat straight up in…
We spent basically the entire nine months of my second pregnancy arguing about names, lovingly, mostly, but arguing. Every list I made got shot down for some reason or other — too common, too hard for my in-laws to pronounce, "sounds like a cartoon…
My son asked me something once, totally out of nowhere, while I was folding laundry of all things. "Do I have to pray for you when you're not even sick?" It threw me off a little, but it turned into a pretty good conversation, because dua for…
Of all the companion stories I've told my kids, this is the one that always gets a different reaction. No giggling, no interrupting to ask random questions. Just quiet. It's not an easy story to sit with, honestly. It's about someone treated…
Kids love a good "villain turns hero" story, and I don't think there's a better one in Islamic history than Umar ibn Al-Khattab (RA). Every time I tell this one, I get to the part where Umar sets out to hurt the Prophet and my nephew literally leans…
There's a very specific kind of chaos that happens in our house between "wake up" and "out the door." Missing socks. Someone in tears over the wrong cereal bowl. A genuine, tearful crisis over a hairbrush, once, that I still don't fully understand.…
My daughter's favorite part of this story is always the same: that one of the smartest people in early Islamic history was a woman who answered questions that even senior male scholars couldn't figure out on their own. She likes hearing that because…
