Naz and A'qilah

You Have My Heart- Cant Keep Up

2010-06-13T07:41:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone :), my dearest followers from the beggining and my good blogger friends honestly my sincere apologies to you, i seem to have dissapeared not only from blogosphere but from the face of the earth also, according to my friends. I have been so busy with exams and Life and i seem to honestly have nothing to say, no time to talk , i dont even watch tv. A lot of things have happened as you know from my previous posts, and i am trying to cram so many things in at once i dont know where the time has gone, or how we got to June and the Summer already. Last Summer is still fresh in my Mind but i cant begin to describe how much has changed in my life sicne then, or even more how much I have changed. So many good things have happened but at the same time many dissapointments , still alive and breathing isnt that all that counts?. I get a longer Holiday this year not a measly two weeks because i have managed to escape the shackles of education and scholarships and rubbish, i get to visit my sister in Somalia, and My Cousins in Egypt, and Kenya and then to my cousins wedding in Dubai. Besides being a trip through Africa my Homeland or shall i say Home continent and a place which i havent been to since i left a million years ago, these trips are so special to me and i am sure will remain engraved in my heart and Mind for a Million years to come, i will see my sister and my grandmother, i will see Somalia and i will Attend the Wedding of my Best Friend Inshallah, ill go and see a simpler World , My eyes will Open , i will wake up and smell the coffee, i will say HEY Mamma Africa!

i wanted to leave blogger so as not to bore you with my lack of posts , but Inshallah i will be back and i will write, in this journal which contains my dreams, so sorry for my lack of posts and comments and appearances, sorry to all my friends whether in blogger and in real life , if i have missed something important in your life, if i have forgot to return a phone call, or took long with a promised email, sorry if you thought i forgot about you, sorry if i declined offers to go out and meet, and sorry if i cant make it to your weddings, but remember you have my heart always , i am there in spirit with lots and lots of love:)
Your sister in Islam
Naz

Love In A scarf - And Where art though Modestjustice and Sukkar

2010-05-07T14:12:00.000-07:00

*Princess Fatima Kulsum Saudi Arabia*

Hey everyone, wassup? i have returned yes *gasp* the dead woman who has disapeared has returned back, i will post more now? actually i didnt know how much i loved my blog and how much i love having a blog since i have dissapeared so , reason why i stopped being a regular blogger is because i got distracted by a number of things namely exams which i still have by the way (i beg you, make dua) and i figured you didnt deserve to read moany nonsense and you have heard enough about my exams so i should stay away until i found something to write about, but then i missed this place but there is a small teeny weeny problem, i stil dont have anything to write about minus exams lol.
1) Where are my friends Mj and Sukkar?
and others?
2) So glad to have found followers despite like a months absence
3) i think a couple of my followers wanted to join my cousin nazs "somalianarab.blogspot.com blog haha

I should get back to the topic of the post by now, i was going through my posts and i promised to do a review about the Book Love in a Headscarf
i think the book is very good well written and explains a lot about some of the issues highlighted
however when i read reviews of this book i thought it would be written as a story even the blurb is misleading in a way to me it seemed to be like a collection of hadeeths or quotes but not like in a list, about lvoe, spirituality , the Divine but not a story.

Although the Book has some Non muslim readers it would probably make more sense for a muslim person to read it, due to the fact that sometimes it can get a bit complicated or just about Islamic thoughts on how to find a partner etc.

I also found the book seems to have been more aimed at, or described the maybe traditional, or the norm way of finding a husband in asian customs (Pakistani, indian etc), because obviously this was where the author came from , by ways of finding a husband i mean aranged marriages (this is not the same as forced marriages ) and matchmakers and stuff.

Still i found it an interesting read, sometimes it wasnt really always about relationships (there was just basicaly islamic parts which just sort of explained islam and some about her lifetime achievements etc) and it wasnt exactly what i thought it would be like but i am sure some readers will enjoy it, non muslims can learn something from it, and some sisters can relate to it more then me so yeah go ahead and read it :).
Naz

Some Sweet Story

2010-05-06T12:44:00.001-07:00

Some thing’s for you, and for me to remind us what is really important in life, we can all be successful, in whatever we choose to do in our lives, if we put our hearts, and minds into the tasks, and work relentlessly, in order to achieve, and in order to succeed. We don’t have to separate Deen and Dunya; we can be incredibly excellent, at both, if we set our mind to it, we should remember to celebrate our religion, to understand, how it leads us, to be great human beings, we should remember to appreciate Allah’s, blessings which rain down us countless times each day, remember to smile, as the sun warms your skin, give thanks, as you walk past the sweet smelling rose bush, Say Salaam to your sweet sisters in Islam. Remember why we are here.

Beauty lies within, Intellect is our most outstanding treasure, Islam is our special gift, and Allah is our splendid Saviour. The world is Ok. Life’s, good, Summers here, so sweetheart

Smile with me.

Naz <3

My Life! My Hijab! My Choice!

2010-04-25T07:55:00.000-07:00

My Hijab, My Choice!

A hijab is both the head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women and modest Muslim styles of dress in general. The Hijab, is considered to be an important aspect, of Islamic teachings, which many Muslim women adhere to across the world, The ways Muslim women wear the hijab’s, and the materials used, are often influenced by their cultural backgrounds, and personal preferences.

Hijab has undergone a tremendous transformation, and its popularity in the Muslim world has dramatically increased, over the last 10 years. More and more Muslim women have adopted the Hijab, after re-discovering their faith, and understanding the importance it holds, many women began to recognise, that their traditional dress, did not always follow the correct requirements of hijab, and have therefore adopted the full head and neck coverings, and were sometimes met with fierce opposition as some where banned from schools (Tunisia) Or from taking specific courses and jobs such as TV presenting (Egypt). Despite this the women continued to fight for their rights to follow their religious beliefs and be accepted in to society, and many Muslim women lead successful careers and have achieved their hopes and dreams, not inspite of hijab but because of it. The hijab is now fully welcomed, as well as encouraged in the Muslim world.

Similarly due to the popularisation of hijab in the east and the rise of more scholars many young Muslim women, feel further connected, to their faith, and difficulties in their lifestyles, e.g. recognising drinking, and partying has not been a fruitful lifestyle, has lead them to understand the reasons behind many of the teachings of their faith and investigate until they have come to the conclusion that Hijab is a definite requirement of their faith. It saddens many Muslim women, who have understood the liberating message behind a cloth which proclaims that similarly to men, women have the right to be judged on their thoughts, and ideas, not on their looks, has been met with such fierce opposition, in the western world, as the west claim to be champions of freedom and equality for women. However in an attempt to silence Muslim women, who adopt the Hijab some European countries, have risked going against their own constitutions by banning the hijab (France), whilst claiming to be a force fighting for the freedom of females. The sad and immediate assumption that women, who wear the hijab, are forced and have no voice of their own, or no thoughts about their lifestyle further burdens the Modern Muslim woman, as this contributes to resentment, and frustration, as well as mounting misunderstanding between multicultural societies.

Many Muslims believe in Modesty and self respect, and the hijab is a religious duty, which promises to fulfil those important ideals, and has become a beautiful way, for women to liberate themselves, from societies which demands of them to appear “sexy” and “hot” in order to be well rounded individuals. In the modern world today magazines and posters, encourage young women to be thin, and body image, is emphasised. The hijab represents freedom from these social norms, and in a world where many women are solely judged on their appearance hijab provides a haven, promising that they will be judged on intellect rather, than a beauty which is only skin deep.

Personally the hijab has been an enlightening experience for me, as I strived to fulfil a religious requirement by God, in an effort to be a better Muslim and in turn a better person , perfecting my religious beliefs, and aspiring to please my god and attain a heavenly reward in paradise through following Quranic requirements.

The Hijab, only represents, freedom, to me, freedom of Appearance, and freedom of Faith, as well as freedom from the sometimes cruel world of “fashion”.

By naz from Somalianarab.blogspot.com

Remember, I promised

2010-04-20T01:46:00.000-07:00

So we keep in touch, me and my sister (read two posts down if you don’t know what im talking about), and its unbelievable , we thought it would be awkward we wouldn’t be able to describe ourselves, she wouldn’t be able to know us, how we want her to know us, so many years 15/16 years have gone past, and even before that we only met once, that’s not how its meant to be she’s our sister, I cant begin to describe in words contained in the dictionary how much she means to me, how glad I am to have found her ecstatic, over the moon Wallah, im so grateful this time. She made me and my other sister closer too (if that was possible), I love them both, me and Amal are twins so naturally we look the same, but speaking to our sister on MSN, we shared pictures and swear to god she looks just like us, its amazing, fascinating (to us), people say well yeah your sisters, but still we think it’s the best discovery ever, im happy.

She managed to print the pictures out, and show them to our grandmother and other family members we never met, sent her pictures of my mum and my brothers and everything aswell,maybe just maybe we can meet up this summer, was planning to go Saudi Arabia, where cousin naz is at somalianarab.blogspot.com but of course I had no idea about this, we are all so excited its unbelievable seeing them would be a dream come true, but of course there are problems as usual, Somalia is not safe we haven’t been there since we were five years old, and back then it was so much better then it is now, my mum will want me to go to he safer areas (North Somalia/Somaliland) or remote like village areas in south Somalia, thing is my sister lives in the capital (most dangerous area), and Somalia is huge, if I don’t go to the capital ill have to take a plane to visit them, waste of money? Risking your life? , my mum is trying to be helpful obviously but she doesn’t want us, to be in that situation , she left Somalia to make sure we never see guns, or bombs, we asking to fly right into the middle of it. Terrorists, drugs, guns, fighting, AU forces you name it, its all there, I just want to see my family, my grandmas getting old, it would mean the world to see her, to us and to her.
Make dua for us J
With love
Naz

My weird feelings

2010-04-14T07:31:00.001-07:00

i will post later today, inshallah hopefully , i need to post, i need to rant, i think im going crazy, i missed this, i missed my readers, and friends , i missed writing down my feelings, my thoughts and what i did, somewhere along the line of me writing this blog lost its number one purpose,you guys with your sweet comments and kind hearts wherever you are in the world make me happy so happy, when everyone else isnt.
@ Ms stupid suggestions-i can love so much, so deeply, and truthfully with all my heart, i can care for everyone, and some people make my life worth living, they are the ones i care about, i would die for, some people just bring bad news, to my life, they enjoy creating hurt and misstrust, they enjoy labelling others, and they enjoy ruining whats already perfect, they are the ones who ruin lives, all they do is hate, i hope to be rid of you, i hope you go away, i like my life and my family, until you came i hope you dissapear and you leave me alone, theres no point to smiling while you are here, dont ask me whats wrong with me , when all thats wrong with me is you, i cant wait until you dissapear.
@ Mr my best friend-You are him 'the one', everyone is always talking about, you make me happy , you make me smile, you are beautiful and kind, i love it with all my heart everymoment you are around, you make evident to me there is good in the world, when im with you, the sun is always shining, and im always smiling, i dont want to be without you ever, i will definetly never replace you with ^ aboves stupid suggestions.@ Miss Memories- i saw you, in the street, i smiled at you and gave you a hug, it took you a long time to recognise me, and it took me a long time to recognise you, we risked saying hi to a stranger but we are not strangers , we found eachother, yesterday you came over, to my house, i was so happy all i did was smile, you are pregnant, i was at your wedding and it was the happiest day for me, i think you knew that too, i always wanted the best for you and i still do, now you are having some troubles and yesterday i wanted to tell you something, but i felt i couldnt maybe i was shy, maybe i thought you wouldnt care or it would be awkward, how could it be though? you lived with me, we were like sisters, we were friends we told eachother everything until that awful day, how did this happen to us?.

@ My best friend ever Ms beautiful- im glad you excist what would i do without you? honestly i dont know my closest friend since childhood i dont have to tell you how i feel, thanks for being here
:) wish it was in better circumstances
with love
naz

Something, a little Sad, Happy and Personal

2010-03-21T05:46:00.000-07:00

Salaamz Everyone
I would like to tell you all something, about me and my family that i probably didnt tell before, and because i want to write it down, and want to remember this day or yesterday for ever, until im old and grey or whatever so here it is.

My Dad Allah have mercy on his soul, died, when we was younger and he married twice, anyways while he was alive he had 4 children Mashallah, they are me and twin sister and older bro Naz, Amal and Hmoudi (with my mum), and the other Lady gave birth to a daughter called Myriam but after my dad died we never saw her or her mother or her family again, (since we was 5 years old)- thats nearly 15 years ago , we tried to contact them but her family move, alot my family move alot,my dads family, they are not that great at keeping in contact but whats worse is, my mothers family are pretyy well off money wise and my dads family (the ones in somalia), are the total opposite of that, so even though i kept in contact with my grandma , she wouldnt be able to tell us where my sister was. We did always think of her but we honestly thought she probably doesnt even know we excist unless her mum told her about us, or she remembers seeing us when she was 5.

Anyways aparently she kept in contact with one of my uncles (dads half bro), all those years who lives in denmark knows my number, and has never once ever called us, even though we call him and his wife tells us hes always 'sleeping', or out, until we stopped calling him, she asked him to tell her where, we was and to give her any sort of contact number to call us from, and he said he doesnt even know what country we live in (lies).

Anyways, the other day i went to the Masjid, to pray and listen to a lecture, and everything, and a lady stopped me at the mosque who ive never seen before, she said to me as i walked past her
"whats your name?" and i said "huh?" and she said
"hi my name is ....., whats yours", i was still confused but i was like "my name is naz"(whatever naz is short for) and then she smiled and said "your second name?" i was thinking should i tell a random person that? and then i was like whatever "Naz (,,insert second name)" and then she hugged me and started crying and was like "you look just like him" (i was soo confused), so i hugged her back and said to her back and was still confused, she let me go and stared at me before saying "im your aunt, your dad hes my cousin, i miss him so much im so glad to meet you", i said "oh" and then she explained properly, to me, how she went to somalia and my grandma heard she was there and wanted to contact us ( we lost contact with grandma after my dads bro died and she moved, 2 years ago), because she heard my mum had a baby and wanted to give some letters and stuff to anyone who was going to europe who can maybe find us. She gave me my grandmas contact details some letters and a parcel from my grandmother and i couldnt stop crying, i went home and showed my mum and my sister and my bro and my other grandma, and my auntie (mums sis) was there my cousins and everyone was crying, we got to call our grandma after 2 years last time we spoke to her was when uncle died.

Grandma was soo happy i couldve died i was so happy, she told us she was fine and where she was living and everything and how she was glad she found us, i cant beleive we ever lost touch, we did look for them though my grandma even went to somalia (my mums mum), she told us she couldnt walk anymore though because she is so old, and that she would pray for our studies to go well, that we remain good Muslims everything , i think it was like the best day of my life.

She told me "your sister has been looking everywhere for you, she even went to a different country to try and find you guys, or anyone who knows anything about you, she will be so happy if you could contact her, or give her your number", so we did , give her our contact details and took theirs, my mum sent my grandma money and gifts ,that day and we tried to call my sister on the number they gave us but it was a wrong number.

We called again yesterday and asked for their number, and my grandma gave us a wrong number again, she was missing a few digits and my mum randomly tried some random digits and someone picked up , i was happy it was a somali person before realising "duh its somalia", then my mum was like "Heloo is that Myriam?" and the person was like "yeah" and my mum couldnt beleive it so she repeated that three times and the person was like "yeah its myriam" and my mum was like "Myriam (insert second name)?" and the person was like "yeah" and me and my sister were literally jumping up and down and holding on to eachother so tight, Amal was about "this close to taking the phone off my mum" and we was trying not to scream, my mum was like "Myriam, im auntie ........, your sisters are dying to speak to you". she was so shocked she was like "my sisters? Naz? Amal?" shes about the same age as me and amal.

And then we talked, and cried and tried to summarise our life, into a phone call, she told us she wanted to come europe and to see us, she would love to be somwhere we was, and everything and then my mum was crying by then, and we talked to her mum, and everything exchanged emails and pictures, promised to stay in touch and my mum, is trying to sort out a 'family reuninon visa', please pray for us, please pray we get to see eachother again, she said theyre my only siblings from my dads side, pray they accept the Visa request, pray for my grandma and my family and for all of us and the Muslim Ummah :)
Thankyou
Naz :)
xx

I love my sisters and I love my brothers
Amal
Myriam
Muhammad
Hamid
<3 for ever

The Presidents Party

2010-03-12T07:17:00.000-08:00

"The Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is in London this week holding high level talks with the British government."BBC World

'The crowd roars and excitememnt fills, the room, a smile is plastered on every face, and flags are wildly being waved, this is because im at the presidents Party'.

The president of the Republic of Somalia, was on a visit to the United Kingdom, London wand was meeting British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to discuss stuff, and i was at an exclusiveish party, at a top London Hotel,to welcome him. The British and Somali Media, were there, abd the event was an oppurtunity for the somali public/ Somali Organisations (Like london somali youth forum that i work with , if you somali and a youth er google it), to display their dedication and devotion for peace to be reached in their homeland (about time dont you think?), and it gave the somali people a platform to unite. There were Famous somali celebrities (singers,actors,actresses), Somali Politicians, buisness men, British Politicians or Mps, journalists etc, and average somalis. There was live Music entertainment, poetry recitals, quraan recitals, food speeches, and ofcourse the President and his Party (including, foreign minister, and female ministera ,education minister etc).

At the Party i realised, i never met a Somali President Before, thats strange because, ive met some of my favourite celebs (concerts/events), whether they were Somali, Arabic or Mainstream celebs and even nasheed people (outlandish, native deen), but i never met a president from somalia, why thats weird is because im related to ambassadors, former president of somalia (aideed), and goverment ministers (my auntie, my mums uncle, my mums bro etc), and i met important people from other countries and never a president from my own, (met the queen of england at a north london shopping centre when i was a kid , we did a singing performance for her with the primary school), and the king and queen ofBahrain, King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa, and his Wife, Sheikha Sabika bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa(their palace is the most beautiful place i have ever seen in my life, the toilets are beautiful beyond imagination let alone other places lol), when i was on a trip with my Mums uncle (Minister ofsomething),there, so a first time for everything i guess i enjoyed seeing him.

Actually for me it was more special to be ina place where somali people were able to celebrate their, 'somaliness', their heritage and unite under their common values, (one country, one language, one religion), common values which lately seem to be dissapearing was the absolute higlight of my evening (and the food ofcourse:P), i went with my cousin and my sister and it was absolutely amazing.

Salaamz Naz
PS: Like a nerd i spent the rest of today studying so ima go back to it
take carex

Islamic events, Kebabs,Barbeques and Cakes

2010-03-06T14:24:00.000-08:00

Heey Everyone
today is the official get fat day :P,i went to an islamic talk event, thing today where they were raising funds for orphan children in somalia, however it was also a great event, mashallah i wanted to stay home and study (how exciting a life i lead), but then my mum told me its good to do islamic stuff/encouraged me to go, so i got up watched US wife swap (someone had an awful husband i wanted to throw him out of the window), then as the weather was warm or sunny *gasp* (very shocking i mean its london we are talking about), i actually wanted to go outside , so i had a shower(it was like the highlight of my morning and i dont know why), i think its because i found a very natural/clean smelling shower gel, i was so excited i mainly use perfume smelling shower gels, but it was nice that this one just smelt, fresh i like the fresh smell, now and i love the smell of dove and palmolive shampoos :) (thats the type of fresh smell im talking about), oh yeah by now it was time to go to the event, i wore an abayah and shayla, took my bag full of perfumes but i didnt spray much (this is naz trying to be islamic),and i totally loved the event.

There was four sheikhs, really popular within the somali and even pakistani community here, the lecture was in somali and arabic so a lot of people were there, and mixing, the sheikhs read quran in such a beautiful voice i was moved to tears, and gave absolutely enlightening and entertaining lectures, wallah according to me, downstairs they provided a creche were kids could be looked after, and they in aseparate hall sold, cakes and rice and food, and outside they had a barbeque stand where you could get shawarma or kebabs as they are known, and they also sold really lovely cakes (better then the one pictured above a delgihtful turkish cake, with chocolate and vanila filling with strawberries on top yum), and my god did i eat and erm eat, and listen to the lectures, and i love islamic events because you meet people you havent seen in ages, and talk to lovely sisters, and i helped out at the creche area and just generally helped out the broz and sisters who were organising the event was well organised, and great, i gave some money to charity and i hope other people did too, in support of the great cause for the poor orphans of Somalia.

byee salaamz *gone to eat more cakes*
naz
xx

...Happiness, Good times, Blogging

2010-03-05T15:23:00.000-08:00

Salaamz Everyone (one day someone will say wa salaam :P)

so yeah ill move on to whatever i was going to blog about, i dont like moaning or complaining, and i dont like talking about things that upset me , i dont think this is an entirely good thing, i hate the idea of sounding like a moan , i know some people who start every conversation with "i hate....... and i hate..... and i hate......." and everyone ends up wondering well 'what do you LIKE?", and i dont like talking about problems because, however stupid it is, i like frgetting they ever happened or trying to unless i really need to get it out of my system, thats why i like this blog because it reminds me of the good times, or the happier times (most of the posts) or it just reminds me of stuff, i like blogging because its like a little diary but mine is only the good things, i think there are readers on here, and it should be sorta entertaining i hope it is, im not sure considering i right down whatever im thinking, and im a firm beleiver in "say something good or say nothing at all", so i dont really post when im all upset and feeling like 'the world is such a terrible place' coz we all felt like that before, i also beleive that as long as you have clothes and food, and a home and health theres nothing wrong with your life-ish, though re reading my posts they seem to be a bit about erm shallow ish stuff maybe but i can be deep :P, im interested in:

religion
philosophy
psychology
sciences
Politics

and despite my poor typing skills , teenage pc shorthand stuff, i have good english grades :P, and love reading, but i probably dont write about these things because by the end of a college day the cure to all my problems is coke and clothes/shopping :P, or thinking of random holidays, i think im going saudi Arabia this summer and meeting up with my cousin from somalianarab.blogspot.com
im really looking forward to it and itll be a chance to go umrah, and clean up my messy mind :P.

Live, love , laugh, smile people and praise the Lord for all that you have :)
xxx
Naz
Btw i really need to know aqilah how everything went with you please email me as soon as possible, please im so worried
love you
xx

Mammas, and Mothers day gifts

2010-03-02T13:36:00.000-08:00

Its mothers day soon , in about two weeks, actually less but you know what i mean, and i dont know if its really alowed to be celebrated or anything but i just thought its a nice thought to celebrate and remember all the things mothers do for you, and a great way for the british economy to get a "boost", of something, hopefuly the dollar will stop catching up to us now :P, but anyways because of the wide range of "mum suitable gifts", that were meant to be on sale, i thought i should get my mum some stuff and we gave our mums (me, my sister and my best friend), their gifts before mothers day so we are technically not celebrating mothers day, (trying to be on the safe islamicish side).

i bought my mum dior perfume gift set ^, and i actually spent a lot of my birthday money, but its fair because most of my birthday money came from my mum in the first place, plus she will let me share the perfumes :P, i love dior, especially the'amore' one.

and a bath gift set, with scented candles, towels, creams, shower gels, some stuff and 'herbal stuff' and bubble bath spa things, coz thats the kind of stuff my mum loves, me and my best friend bought the exact same stuff for our mums and we think they liked our 'surprise', and that we have the same taste just like they do in stuff. do you celebrate mothers day? are you going to get your mum something? if not get her a kiss and breakfast in bed, its what we always do and my bro always does the breakfast (he can make food, better then me, and doesnt burn toast :O)

Salaamz

naz :)

xxxx

Its hard being a parent.

2010-02-26T15:31:00.000-08:00

Salaamz
i was thinking yesterday, and today it must be hard being a parent, or its hard being a good parent , maybe if you want to be a crap one its all cool, :P, im not just talking about all the technical stuff, like you have to provide for your kids a home , a roof, food, money, life, security and all that but because you have to do the more complicated stuff, like , look after someone and be responsible for how they turn out later, teach them right from wrong, try to keep them safe and be aware of what they are doing and the sort of people they hang around with , without being annoying or excessive stalker parent-ish. making sure that they understand you are their Parent, and not a random friend and have to respect you, but you are cool enough so that they can tell you what they think or feel even if you dont agree with it. teach them about their faith and culture or background and teach them to be proud and confident but not like big headed, dedicate time and attention to them , worry about them put them before yourself always, etc.

its because i noticed a lot about your parents change as they become your parents, like i know a lot of stuff about my mum, her dreams or views on the world , her love life and all of that, and she didnt just dump everything or fail to reach her dreams because she had children, i think shes quiete proud of her achievements and academic success atleast and rightly so, if you came from a very privileged background in your home country, about as priviliged as it could get and suddenly your country was torn apart in war, your husband was killed, forget about money and you had to flee with your kids and start from scratch and end up, where my mum did , i think you deserve applause, but it seems that in all of that time you put your kids first and yourself last, you just become a parent, and whatever dont know how to put this in words , its like your character and dreams get pushed aside and you have one job, only, and they are different from how they used to be, when they were young like your age and maybe just wanted to have fun or something, hey priorities change.

also i think parents probably make a lot more of an effort to understand their kids, and their kids way of thinking and their kids enviroment more then kids try to understand where their parents are coming from, and the differences to how they grew up and what was expected of them (guilty as charged), i hear parents talking about how best to raise children in the west but i only hear kids talking about how backwards or weird parents are, atleast they are Trying,to understand a culture, that is different or alien to them. i went to an islamic lecture on parents last week and it was interesting and reminded me of the position of parents in Islam, i hope this reminds everyone to be more appreciative, more loving and compassionate and more understanding,to their parents, because i think thats what we are all missing, all of us especially from immigrant backgrounds know our parents did a lot for us simply from the fact that they uprooted themselves from their country their comfortable surroundings and homes for your sake, w inshalla we do enough for them too one day.

'Paradise lies at the feet of your mother'- Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

'life is what happens when your busy making other plans'-Someone very wise

Muchos Gracias
Naz xx <3

Whats in YOUR handbag?

2010-02-25T09:43:00.000-08:00

Salaamz
i keep seeing these cute tags of whats in peoples hanbags , i wanna do one i tag myself :P
i never used to carry them because i didnt think they were special but now i love them because
i seem to carry loads of stuff with me lately
so what is in it?

1)Pink Phone
my mobile, even though i never call anyone to be honest, but my mum and family call me and friends, but its my music player
2) Perfume, spray, perfumed body lotion, normal body lotion

3) Latest book i bought -Love in A headscarf at the moment actually it was a gift , pearl necklace also a gift (i dont know why its in there) and latest copy of LOVE IT, magazine, cherry coke bottle and unwanted ASDA receipts :s
i just noticed most things are Pink , i love Pink
whats in yours?
i TAG- Modest justice Sukkar andd .. A muslim Wife and Queen AQILAH I TAG YOU TOO :)xx <3

Nazzz :) <3

You and Me are we meant to be?

2010-02-25T09:09:00.000-08:00

What about You and what About Me
What about the fact that we was meant to be?
What about Me and what about You
what about our dreams of saying 'i do'

What about the fact that i loved you
and about the fact that i still might do
what about me and what about you
what about the fact that you didnt do
all the things that you promised to
what about me and what about you
what about the fact that you did do
all the things that you promised not to do
what about you and what about me
what about the fact that i didnt see
me and you arent 'meant to be'.

Even though they say all you need is love if its true
what i wrote above
then my darling its just not enough
what about me and what about you
what about all the things i told you
you see tomorrow ill say 'i do'
and im no longer sorry it wont be to you.

****
You are the number one Gift
if he broke your heart once
dont let him do it twice
Poem by Naz , not dedicated to anyone
hope you all like it
no plagiarism :)
xxx

salaamzThe prophet Muhammad's Birthday Tommorow Milad un nabi 26/2/2010 , Best of all birthday wishes to our beloved prophet Muhammad Peace and utmost blessings be upon him sali 3ala Muhammad everyone :)

RIP and Freedom for Filisteen

2010-02-18T05:28:00.000-08:00

Somalia will always be with Palestine <3

Allah's peace and blessings and mercy be with the deceased Mahmoud al Mabhouh, who was assasinated in dubai by cowardly men and women in disguises, May Allah punish them for their evil actions and give Sabr to his family and friends and to the people of palestine, and may Allah allow justice for Palestinians to start soon,
ya habibi ya filisteen
Allah's peace and blessings be with you
"We Will Not,Go DOWN in the night without a fight,We will not go down IN GAZA tonight"
"Lan nakhdha' Lan narhal. Lan naskut"

We will never submitWe will never leaveWe will never be silenced

and that is the Truth

naz

Back to Religiousness

2010-02-15T04:38:00.000-08:00

i just wear Hijab and Abayah (sheila and abayah)^i dont look like that but oh well
i love niqaabs even though i dont wear one, dont think im going to wear one and dont think its fardh but i think niqaabis are cool :)x

Salaamz

lately i seem to have more work with school, i spent all my time either studying / on the pc/tv when im taking a break from studying , i soend my money on things to do with studying and meanwhile this is the things i have stopped doing:

1) apart from ramadan i havent gone to the masjid much
2) i havent gone back to the halaqas where i used to learn useful islamic stuff
3) i havent gone to the talks that i keep getting invited to
4) i havent read/bought any islamic books/or even normal novels just studying books
5) oh and i quit the tajweed class because it stopped me from studying useless wordly rubbish and then the teacher got banned from my entire area by police (long story) so i cant even go back because i cant be bothered travelling to him.

and apart from listening to quraan random times i dont give as much charity as i used to, im saving up for something so my allowance doesnt go to charity anymore , i feel like i have totally failed besides salah and hijab which im so used to i dont feel like im trying i dont think i do anything islamically useful and the more i think about it the more depressed i get and even though its my new years resolutions i dont think it has changed anything, so inshallah im planning to go umrah in the summer and hajj this year , my family live in saudi arabia so ill stay with them for a while this summer around 3 months hopefuly being in an islamic suposedly islamic enviroment will help me start wanting to do islamic stuff or atleast getting a break from studying and stuff,ill get time to do islamic stuff if that makes sense, because wallah i used to feel so good and peaceful and as if i knew what i was doing and when all that stopped i dont get that feeling anymore and its stupid because every ramadan i feel so guilty for wasting time on stuff that doesnt REALLY MATTER, education and your work and whatever is good but you can still go to JANNAH and please Allah even if your dunno unemployed or poor or whatever and thats what we all here for to please Allah not to buy mansions so why then does no one in my family tell their kids to do islamic stuff. theyll send you wherever you want to study stuff in the world but they wont do it if you want to study islam, theyll pay for private schools but not for islamic courses . i think muslim families parents kids etc should get their priorities right.

Allah help me become a better muslim, and us all
salaamz
naz
xxx

Hey Update and birthdays :)x

2010-02-14T06:32:00.000-08:00

Salaamz everyone
so it was our birthday (me nd my twin) two days ago, and we had a lot of fun, i stayed at home because it was on the last day of school before the half term holidays and i wasnt bothered, so yeah since i stayed up late the night before i spent the whole morning sleeping, my grandma came back and we kept getting a lot of visitors, and i somehow became the little maid or something, anyways it also came with more gifts and stuff , so its alright. then yeah on the day of my birthday i just stayed home and watched movies and ate some cake that my sister amal forced me to make (i cant cook and she can make cakes and i thought twins were meant to be the same )and lazed about, then later at night i got my fiance to drive me and my sister to my cuzins house because my cousins were arranging something and we got our gifts from fiance and his dad in the car,(money) and then when i got to my cousins house i saw that they decorated their house with banners and fairy lights and my cousin actually made chocolate cake which tasted awesome by herself and they put candles there and everything and it said "happy birthday Naz and Amzi" but i didnt get to blow out the candles. then we got our gits i got
a necklace
money
a book
perfumes
makeup set
a dvd
and a badge that said *good girl gone bad* from my sister and a bracelet
yeah thats about it, and then we stayed talking/debating until my fiance and his dad left and then we watched two movies and ate icecream and then i dont know how it got to 5am (we really talk too much), then i went to sleep i felt like i was drunk(whenever i say that they all ask me how i know what it feels like to be drunk, i can IMAGINE) i wanted to go to some resturaunt and it didnt happen :S but yeah then the next morning at like 9am my little cuzins woke me up
"NAAAZ U SLEEPING HERE? YOU MOVING IN WITH US?"
me: huh? noo
"NAAZ DONT GO"
me: im not going anywhere
and coz i thought it was late or something i woke up properly went to the living room and only the boys were awake it was 9 am , so i went back to bed but woke up again by 10am coz they killed my sleep.
so i woke up replied to text messages and emails of birthday wishes and then i went shopping with my aunt, my cuzin (girl) my cuzin (boy) my sister and my brother, i didnt really get much i still have most of my money and im too lazy to go out because its cold and flaming depressive but i just got some books/novels and some revision stuff (geek i know), and then we finaly went to some resturaunt and it was already 6pm by the time i got home, and then my other cuzins who kinda live far and are sisters came and visited us and one of them is called naz (cool name ryt?:P) and kaz and they got us some gifts and it was fun to be with them we kinda grew up together but being busy and all that we dont see eachother much anymore i see one of them every week coz we work together and she stays with us but thats bout it, and then after that random visitors for my grandma and her friend is also staying with us and im like tea lady;p (god somali people drink too much tea).
Salaamz
naz
btw aqilah thanks for ur reali lovely message i loved it :)xxxxxxx <3

Thankyou, Little things do make a difference

2010-02-08T15:47:00.000-08:00

Salaamz everyone how are you all , my fave blog people's :)

this post is just a little update about what ive been up to if anything and how little things make a big difference so yeah, reasonfor post is .because i have been kinda ill for the last week and i didnt even manage to go to school and then when i did try to go some teacher got mad that my folder wasnt organised "ohh how dreadful" im sure the world is going to end now, i was too sick to get out of my bed and come to school surely in between being SICK ill organise my folder as if that gets u A's . (ohh how did this turn into a rant), anyways thats an example of how little things can irritate sick people who are trying to learn dont be like that be erm, more understanding?

anyways because i was ill for the week and then one day i miraculously felt better lol, alhamdulilah , i went to school today and had like a practical exam today, alhamdulilah i was there for the preparations before hand and everything and i knew what i was going to do up until i let a supply give me "advice" which ruined my entire thing and i had to start again like 3 times, and then suddenly my eyes hurt the room went hot in my opinion my head hurt i felt faint and screwed up my exam paper thing (had to do a practical and then graphs and crap), i was so out of it that i handed in the worst piece of "work" you can imagine which was meant to be for an exam, and a guy in my class saw it and he was like ":O naz whats this?" and he came over and told me to calm down and helped fix my table and graph and written crap, and i managed to do my exam and not write nonsense and do it perfectly well, and he kinda saved my life and another friend waited for me while i took my time , meanwhile a random supposed friend just left me (im not usually a dumb student who doesnt know what they are doing during exams) i dont even know what happened to me because afterwards i was perfectly fine :S, anyways helping me didnt seem to bother the guy so much and it made such a big difference to my day, exam result life etc :), thatwe should all try to do little things to help people inshallah.

The rest of today went perfectly well it was my cousins birthday and we went shopping and had cake and stuff and like a mini party and everyone else came to visit , also my grandma came back from her forever long holiday, :) so i had a nice time going out in weird snow (its snowing heavily yet theres nothing on the floor, they said itll snow properly over night), catching up with my cuzins and becoming fat eating cakes,then i did an essay question :S, ohh also its my birthday soon and my sisters birthday lol (on the same day) spread the love <3
wish you guys all the best
loads of love
naz
xxx

Have You Heard of.. Leila and Majnun

2010-02-04T08:33:00.000-08:00

"I pass by these walls, the walls of Layla

And I kiss this wall and that wall
It’s not Love of the houses that has taken my heart
But of the One who dwells in those houses"

The tale tells of Layla and Majnu meeting in school. Majnu fell in love with Layla and was captivated by her. The school master would beat Majnu for paying attention to Layla instead of his school work. But some sort of magic happened. Majnu was beaten but Laila would bleed for his wounds. Word reached their households and their families feuded. Separated at childhood, Layla and Majnu met again in their youth. Layla's brother, Tabrez, would not let Layla shame the family name by marrying Majnu. Tabrez and Majnu quarreled; stricken with madness over Layla, Majnu murdered Tabrez. Word reached the village and Majnu was arrested. He was sentenced to be stoned to death by the villagers. Layla could not bear it and agreed to marry another man if Majnu would be kept safe from harm in exile. Layla got married but her heart longed for Majnu. Hearing this, Layla's husband rode with his men to the desert towards Majnu. He challenged Majnu to the death. It is said that the instant Layla's husband's sword pierced Majnu's heart, Layla collapsed in her home. Layla and Majnu were said to be buried next to each other as her husband and their fathers prayed to their afterlife. Myth has it, Layla and Majnu met again in heaven, where they loved forever.

The Facts

Qays ibn al-Mulawwah ibn Muzahim, was a Bedouin He fell in love with Layla bint Mahdi ibn Sa’d from the same tribe, better known as Layla Al-Aamiriya. He soon began composing poems about his love for her, mentioning her name often. When he asked for her hand in marriage her father refused as this would mean a scandal for Layla according to Arab traditions. Soon after, Layla married another man.

When Qays heard of her marriage, he fled the tribe camp and began wandering the surrounding desert. His family eventually gave up on his return and left food for him in the wilderness. He could sometimes be seen reciting poetry to himself or writing in the sand with a stick.

Layla moved to present-day Iraq with her husband, where she became ill and eventually died. Qays was later found dead in the wilderness in 688 A.D. near an unknown woman’s grave. He had carved three verses of poetry on a rock near the grave, which are the last three verses attributed to him.

this famous story of love originated in Northern Arabia, and went on until Iraq, made its way to persia and India , Turkey,North Africa and even to Somalia, because its a beautiful tale of true love, i think its beautiful because people can learn a simple message from it, like nezami said whatever difficulties you go through if its for love, its allright (i mean any kind of love)

salaamz

naz

Update-Mum,UAE,Marriage?Part 1

2010-01-10T13:40:00.000-08:00

hmm?

(Perfumes over boys anyday :)

Heey Everyonee

Salaamz so my mum came back from the UAE and i got to go home, and i got my bedroom back and my life back and my bed back and my lil bro has grown soo much (hes nearly one years old) and hes sorta learning to stand on his own mashallah, anyways these couple of days have been eventful due to my mum coming back, my auntie going to get her kids back from Africa, my uncle getting married, SNOW allowing schools to close thank god, and my mum came bearing gifts the ones below were for me

!) Elizabeth Arden Perfume set (pictured above)

2) some beautiful Abayahs

£) Soma beautiful dresses

4) gold set (including necklace with my name on it) and my sis was mad she didnt get one but my mum was like " i didnt see one with YOUR name on it, how can i not buy something with my daughters name it literally" LOL

and i also got an interesting marriage proposal and i dont know what to think, so ill post about it in great detail next time when its not 11pm and im not tired as hell

!-Guy is good looking, kind has good job therefore covers income etc Muslim but i dont knw if i want to get married and other factors etc

salaamz

naz

in my next post part two ill recall our conversations and my answer hopefully (cant do the answer part yet as i dont know myself)

London/UK 2010-Snow Pictures

2010-01-06T03:06:00.000-08:00

^which way to go?

2010 has started off with a very cold,start and with lots of snow causing "disruptions",maybe for the goverment but i dont see anyone else complaining, anyways this means that we sorta get an extra long christmas/New years holiday since this country cant function with so much snow, and therefore schools and stuff are closed because roads are too icy and dangerous meaning Snow Ball fights and Snow men and Women and (the first Muslim Snowman and Snowoman :D) and i have been sitting home eating ice cream next to the radiator and drinking cappucino (you know the homemade ones?) whilst watching the Hills and One Tree Hill and eating biscuits for breakfast and watching the snow amaze me by getting heavier and heavier i MIGHT attempt to go outside later,inshallah

Snow Day-*later*- Went out and visited my best friend , did talked did our nails, watched mean girls and ordered pizza and then went out and played in the snow and took lovely pictures (like lil kids) and went shopping in the snow :S? weird i know and just kept laughing and catching up and then later her dad brought me home and we had so much fun and now everyone at home i watching mean girls so i get to be on the computer? im really excited about my mum coming back tommorrow too and schools will be closed tomorrow too and probably for the rest of the week *huuge smiile* inshallah hope you all brits and europeans are enjoying the snow coz schools closing in scandinavia too :)

Have a great time everyone

lots of love

Salaamz

Naz

P.S- i officially Declare Britain to be the worlds funniest country coz they just called the army because 1000 cars got stuck in the highway thanks to the snow haha

Happy New Year 2010-London and the World

2010-01-01T06:14:00.000-08:00

Asaalamu Aleikum Everybody and a Happy New Year

Hey everybody how are you all?, Happy NEW YEAR, inshallah may 2010 bring only goodness, i had fun, last night, the whole family met up at one of the aunts house, she cooked alot ordered take aways, and we all just ahng around and had a family gathering and got to catch up and talk and watch wedding videos and movies and stuff, and the boys bought loads of cakes and fizzy drinks and everyone got fat celebrating the new year, also my cousin got his licence so he went and took us out on his car, (we all thought we were going to die and came to the conclusion that whoever passed his driving test was a little drunk), then afterwards we went outside, saw the fireworks bought sparklers and fireworks watched the london eye stuff (from the tv) which looked totally spectacular jumped up and down when the clock hit 12 (weird tradition) and then did our own fireworks display. Happy New Year Everyone

salaamz

naz

Weddings? How would you like yours?

2009-12-30T13:12:00.000-08:00

(Random Somali Couple, most somali weddings have the bride in a white wedding dress and she will have her hands and elsewhere decorated with Henna just like the bride above but with maybe less make-up :P)

So anyways Salaamz Everybody

this post is all about weddings, i think weddings are interesting as every culture plus religion etc has different very interesting customs, that i enjoy finding out about, so ill post about Somali weddings and maybe you guys can share info on weddings worldwide, :) (post inspired by something i attended last night)

Party number 1)

In the Typical somali wedding (typical depends on whatever is considered fashionable at the time) there is a islamic Nikaah and the men are like given their own sort of nikah party (that means given money from the groom and loads of food) sometimes people hold the ceremony in homes inviting a sheikh/imaam to do the neccesary ritual stuff , and the women wait in another room until someone tells them when the rituals have been completed then the grooms family hand over the dowry to someone of the brides family and give money to everybody in the place so to all the men, and then one of the men takes some money and gives it to all the women and kids and stuff, then after loads of eating of halwa and traiditional sweets and food they all go away, some families then rent a hotel or a hall and hold a party and some dont.

Party Number 2-Wedding Party

Some people throw their wedding party obviously after their nikaah , this is obviously a big occasion the bride wears a white wedding dress, and then later changes maybe to a dirac a somali thing and then a really traditional thing later a guntiino (looks sorta like a sari but its always red) , they get their hair done and decorate their arms and feet with Henna and the bride will be wearing lots of gold because somalis love gold, the party will be ina hotel decorated and everything food will come from a resturaunt and their is Music, hired people to sing, sometimes weddings are "segregated" theres no men there but the singer is a man and so is the camera man and the groom might be there and some of the brides brothers and stuff so not very segregated so i would cover if your invited to a "segregated" somali wedding. at the wedding theres a traditional thing called "baranbur" done its a fun sort of dance percussion is used and its like someone singing poetry which praises the bride and the groom and their families and stuff and then there is dancing to normal "pop" somali music and "Niiko" (whre you shake your ass youtube it) and depending on where from somalia the brides family are there may be other dances, its normally a lot of fun somali weddings start around 8 everybody turns up at 9 or 10 pm and the wedding ends at around 3 or 4 am the next morning.

Party Number 3

7 days after every wedding there is a tradition mostly from south somalia though everyone else follows it now too, called "todobo" which means seven, you knw seven days after a wedding etc, its basicaly when everyone brings this thing called a "shaash" you use to cover your hair with, because before in somalia they only covered their hair after hey got married, its sorta like a bandana or something but people still bring it for tradition , and the bride is showered with gifts from friends, given gold from the grooms family from her own family from her friends, and people give gifts of money and all the guests who are related to the bride or groom also give money this by the end adds up to thousands they are also given household apliances , duvets bed stuff etc

Last night i went to my Cousins wife's "todobo" and it was amazing there was music and dancing and live band and food and cameras and everything there was dances baranbur niiko and some traiditonal dances for south somaliz and traditional dances and songs for somalis from north, there was the gifts and the gold and money and stuff and this todobo was intresting because there was practiced a tradition for north somaliz which has been sorta changed now, there is absicaly this thing called a heedho and it was like a box and they fill it with gold and money and incense and candles and perfumes and jewelry and evrything they want and give it to the bride and some to the grooms sisters, and the bride last night got 8 of those (lucky her) , and at 3am everyone went home after a lot of fun.

how are weddings where you are from?

salaamz

Naz

Happy Birthday sweetheart

2009-12-28T09:09:00.000-08:00

a Ring because i love rings and i love you

lovely fit for a princess necklace from debenhams :)

Gifts i would get you ^ Kate Moss awesome smelling perfume set with creams and everything for a princess like you

Heey-Happy Birthday My angel aqilah
you are a beautiful amazing person with
the kindest of hearts
you are fun, exciting,interesting, kind and helpful
as well as ambitious and religious and determined
and unique and loveable and cute and funny
and beautiful and graceful and polite and well mannered and
kind and the perfect sister, daughter,friend and inshallah Muslimah
a true princess
from sunshine city, in singapore
<3 i love you loads and loads and loads SAYANG :P (haha learnt malay for you)
Habibtii (arabic)
Macantoo (somali)
darling (english)
Alskling (swedish)
May Allah shower you with countless blessings may all your dreams come true may this year be amazing for you
loads of love
Naz (sadly on the other side of the world)

Guys & Girls-The Difference in the rules

2009-12-28T08:17:00.000-08:00

Hey guys , Asalamu Aleikum
this is a post , about something which i have been noticing for a very long time and wondering exactly why, so i thought i would ask my experts (you guys instead), i keep noticing that guys are allowed to get away with so much more then their female counterparts.
example number 1
Recently my cousin moved into my grandmas really lovely apartment, because my grandma went away for ages to another country , however he actually normally lives with his mum and his dad my uncle who are actually very religious (when it comes to themselves) however my cousin is allowed to go to a flat, and invite women to the flat and "talk" and do whatever they want, however i cant imagine any female from like the entire family suggesting something like that to anybody ever, i think they would all have like a simultaneous heart attack or something similar, and be shocked and never peak to her again.

Example Number 2

noticed that at parties or anywhere, things are happening guys who are also muslim and who realise that alchohol is forbidden think its perfectly normal to drink and to smoke , however they are already to find it totally haram for any female to do the same.

example Number 3
boys in my family are perfectly able to talk about their girlfriends to everyone including the grandparents , but the grandparents think its weird if any of the girls even speak to a guy

example number 4

some of my cuzins and bro etc talk about weird things that happened to them in night clubs, yeah night clubs and theyd kill me if i walked past one.

*just so you all know i dont actually want to do any of the things mentioned above, just that i hate it that islamic rules seem to apply on to females (how people act), when the rules are the same for everybody.

and i actually dont understand, if dating is haram for me its haram for guys too and if qamr or alchohol is haram its haram for boys too and no they didnt make smoking halal for guys and haram for girls.

PS-yesterday i went shopping with my friend and went to a cafe where i learnt the art of becoming fatter, but found that ghost perfume set for half price with cream and everything and it smells amazing , also gok wan weird gay dude perfume set which is huge
for £20 each :)
salaamz
Naz

Hii, and Happy New Year -Soon

2009-12-26T13:42:00.000-08:00

Asalaamu aleikum and Happy everything guys, it seems like the world is sorta celebrating lately, it was recently islamic new year as you all know and now its 1431 Muharram, may Allah make this new year a blessed year and help us become closer to him etc inshallah, and ofcourse a lo tof people have been celebrating christmas as you are all aware of , im enjoying the fact that christmas giving me a 2 week holiday i so needed that, and ofcourse its nearly the "official" new year as it is nearly 2010, so best wishes to everyone for this new year, may it bring peace and happiness to everyone throughout the world. as you all know this time last year , the great massacre took place in gaza , so inshallah dont forget the people who are less fortunate wherever they are in the world, especially our muslim brothers and sisters.
anyways today was boxing day and i dont know about you but over here it mostly means lovely sales and therefore shopping ,w hich ofcourse i can have loads of fun with but since its been so damn cold over here lately didnt even go shopping today and evryone else (like the entire country) went shopping to oxford street and the trains and everything was so packed i heard as the sales were huge, but i didnt go because the other day i went out ,when it was snowy and cold and bought some shoes which were lvoely btw and went to meet up with some friends and froze to death so even though i had fun i wasnt temted to go outside yet again (been lviing on pizzas and movies and the hills and stuff :P)but because i cant resist sales as well as a chance to meet up with some friends ill go out tomrorw and hope to get like loads of books and perfumes oh and i have a necklace which sorta broke that i need to fix, my mum went away to dubai and stuff and shes coming back soon :) so im excited about that inshallah as i will be able to go back HOME (that jus explains why i havent been posting lately)
i have kinda "celebrated" or remembered islamic new year twice im so proud of myself coz i never used to know when it is but year last year and this year i did lol, so this year i just went out with a friend we went out to eat and mess about in the snow and then went to her house and did like our own fashion show because of something that was going to happen at school on the last day and had loads of fun , im looking forward to the other new year because i love fireworks so ill probably go in the cold to central london and watch the fireworks by the river and evry year it looks totally spectacular. however i also have exams yet again so inshallah please make duas 4 me and if i see anything lvoely ona baragain ill let you know, btw if anyone lives in the UK boots and debenhams are having awesome sales
;)x
salaamz
Naz-Have a great new year everyone 2009, has been very intersting good things, bad things etc jst like every year hopefuly 2010 will bring excellent news because its a very important year for me i got loads of plans and inshallah kheyr :)xx happy fasting and ashura and everything that has been going on.

To you, From Me, With Love :)

2009-12-07T08:16:00.000-08:00

Salaamz everybody how are you?
inshallah your all doing perfectly well, i havent blogged in a while due to being stalked by teachers and having loads of work to do (actually i have work to do right now plus a test 2 revise for)- my sister found a group on facebook saying the word "studying" comes from the words Student and Dying , i doubt its true but that would make perfect sense in my case.
i went back to the work place after taking 2 weeks off ( i stretched my eid holidays as long as they would go) and now i have too much work to do, i was really looking forward to the christmas holidays (i still am) im staying with some relatives that i havent seen in ages.
right now im staying with my aunt and her family as my mum decided to go on holiday and although we like it here its a bit difficult not having all your stuff etc and i just want to go home not to mention that i miss my mum and my little brother and my room and my stuff ( you get the picture)
but yeah im reali looking forward to the christmas holidays or the winter holidays and whatever and everyones like "but you dont celebrate christmas" like duuh who cares i get to sleep for 2 weeks and eat pizza and watch movies and revise ( im trying to ignore the last bit) and im probably going to go and watch the fireworks and stuff for new year inshallah.
EID
i hope your eids were good my eid was fantastic i went to the masjid saw some friends and then there was a huge party being held somewhere so we all went and met up there, and did that all of friday until night time where we went to eat junk food and sleep the next morning. thursday the day before eid i didnt have school so i just slept and helped decorate the house for eid in black and white and we got lights and candles and mde it really beautiful , saturday went cinema and watched movies then went out to eat got money and broz bought a nintendo wii (which we took over) and sunday spent sleeping and trying to recover from lack of sleep for 3 days gifts were perfumes some jewelry and mostly money , after that some drama stuff happened which im glad is over ,
i.e. my lil bro got ill and they gave him too much paracetemol or something (stupid hospital) but hes alright now alhamdulilah
and my aunty kept getting ill she had to go hospital for 2 nights shes also alright now alhamdulilah
anyways yeah nothing special just what ive been up to lately
PS-im working on a really good surprise and you guys will be the first to see it
pps- i cant wait 4 de holidays
ppps-i cant wait for my birthday seems like everyone elses birthday has gone
btw-im really loving Desperate in dubai if you havent read it yet damn your missing out so check at http://www.desperateindubai.blogspot.com/
and check out the Jacaranda Secret by Ange too amazing :)
xx
salaamz
naz

Eid MUBARAK

2009-11-26T11:42:00.000-08:00

Wishing you All and absolutely WONDERFUL eid-Kulu 3aam wa antum Bikhair <3>

naz

A beautiful Eid

2009-11-20T16:00:00.000-08:00

Asalaamu Aleikum Everyone, and a Eid Mubarak -(woow its already eid again) Alhamdulilah, and im really looking forward to it, though its going to be my first eid without my mum and thats really weird,anyways i dont see many people who are bothered about eid, or celebrating it. It seems they find eid quiete a waste of time and would rather do normal everyday things, however if you told those same people to stop celebrating Bi'dah, Haraam/discouraged events i.e. "Birthdays" They would ignore you/call you an extremist or something.. why? why does everyone like doing everything that they are not alowed to do and dont like doing everything thats encouraged? Maybe Eid doesnt excite you as much as it did when you was 5 years old and all it took to make your day was some sweets.. BUT there IS a reason we celebrate eid a reason thats worth celebrating much more then whatever else people celebrate

1)we celebrate Eid ul Adha to commemorate the beautiful sacrifice our Prophets Ibrahim (AS) and Ismaeel (AS),were willing to do, in order to please Allah (SWT)

2) We celebrate eid to mark the end of the beautiful Hajj Pilgrimage all muslims (who can afford it) are required to take part in and is one of our 5 pillars of Faith

3) We celebrate Eid to mark the month of Ramadan where we abstain from all evil and try to please our Lord most high

4) We celebrate EID in order to remember the BEAUTY and PEACE of our relgion ISLAM , and to feel grattitude for all we are blessed with. (SEE SURAH YUNUS and other surahs in the quran where Allah encourages muslims to celebrate eid with joy and happiness)

so DO celebrate eid , attend the mosque visit family members, pay for qurbanis make the children happy, treat yourself, give charity , realise and attest to the beauty of Islam, the Glory of Allah, The power of Faith and the strength of Iman

as a teenager who grew up in the west its hard enough to compare eid with the glitz of christmas (lights funfairs sales etc always on the tv) to Eid where it is not mentioned anywhere , without your family not bothering to celebrate.

show your children, lil broz/sisters cousins etc that we do celebrate we do have fun and it IS a special day-dont make them feel like they are missing out.

My Eid plans so far include

getting new clothes-(before eid) i got a beautiful Abayah but i want a dress or something too

and i got some jewelry and a bag for eid.

i really want those new swarowski crystal abayah stuff omg :o they are soo lovely

on the first day im going to go shopping and cinema and stuff (want to watch new moon or something i know ill be a week late oh well), ill end up going with my sister and cousins and stuff and then at night go to a resturaunt with the fam

on the 2nd day ill go out with my friends

third day (i dont have school)-ill eat junk food and watch dvds and work on getting fat :P

All my really important exams are over (until after christmas) so im going to relax for a while now

-im currently reading The pact by jodi picoult but finding it hard to get into slightly

-i can no longer wait for chapter 23 of desperate in dubai

-where is the jacaranda secret yaa ange?

I wish you all the most beautiful of Eids, and may Allah strengthen the Imaan of all you beautiful muslimahz

naz

Bonfire night/perfumes

2009-11-06T13:03:00.000-08:00

Salaaaaaaamz :)

it was bonfire night last night but the celebrations are faar from over yet, for the few that dont know what bonfire night is its a night when something happened in british history to do with the parliament and someone trying to burn parliament house which permits people to celebrate the fact that , the plan didnt work and we celebrate by having awesome firework displays (above^) and lighting bonfires ^ and eating out and generally having fun * some non-muslims/ non practicing muslims also get pissed

asides from that ive been having looads of exams and im still having them so as a treat my cousin and sis took me out perfume shopping (my fave) so i bought docle and gabbanna the one smells awesome and a random brand which also smells very good and handbag shopping ( i rli lack handbags) so i bought two cute local brand handbags and then my aunty got me a jewelry set as a gift from her new salon that looks alot like this

i also had a maths exam that went well for once , duaas 4 me plz send this way regarding exams missed yu all lovely blogger people soo much ill visit and comment on all your blogs soon :)

i wanna re-decorate my bedroom so i wanna start a tag where you could all possibly do a post about your room what it looks like add piks of ur room or whats in it if you wish plzz id love that

take care

asalamu aleikum wa rahmatulahi wa barakatuhu

nazzy:)

Return To Bloggin- after slight period of hybernation :P

2009-10-11T07:45:00.000-07:00

Exams and stress have been the like entire cause for my hybernation from bloggin although im always here looking to read all your lovely updates, i erm have like nothing to blog about due to doing nothing apart from studying. i am happy because i got into the finals of a competition :) and i got an A* in a recent exam ( thats how sad ive become my news revolves around exam results) :P erm i knew i was going to do an exam in november but then the stupid board of education (otherwise known as board of torture) is forcing me to do an unwanted exam in novemeber aswell so im kind of stressing i have like 4 weeks left and everyone keeps telling me these are "life changing" exams (NOT helpful) so PLEAAAASE pray for me you guys inshallah.

My mum is going on holiday soon inshallah for 2 months and the baby and im going to miss them so much , we are going to be staying here though and our cousin is coming to stay with us, i really cant wait until the end of my exams as i will finally have something to look forward to such as..

and im really looking forward to the gpu this year if its even happening ive noticed that Islam expo didnt take place this year and im hearing no news about the gpu :(

im also enjoying 2 great books

i recommend you all read

1) love in a headscarf (by a muslim sister who has a blog on here somewhere)

and

2) Why men marry bitches by sherry argov (its awesome)

and ofcourse the Lovely "Jacaranda secret" by sis ange :)

im also looking forward to Eid again which is not far away (27th november)

yes im really that desperate for anything to celebrate already im so BOOORED and tiired and stressed aagh i hate who ever invented exams

pray 4 me you guys

and ill hopefuly find something interesting to blog about

xxx

salaamz

naz

An inspiring Story- a MUST read :)

2009-10-09T14:10:00.000-07:00

Khawlah Bint Al-Azwar
Khawlah was the daughter of one of the chiefs of Bani Asad tribe, and her family embraced Islam in its early days. Her father's name is either Malik or Tariq Bin Aws. Al-Azwar was his nickname. Her brother, Dirar, was the knight and poet of his tribe, and was well known for his wisdom. His love for his sister and confidence in her capabilities were legendary. In fact, the brother and sister were so attached to each other that she was his companion wherever he went. He trained her on all arts of swordsmanship and she became also a perfect knight. Besides that, Khawlah mastered the noble art of poetry. She was a brunette, tall, slim and of great beauty.
Her name remained greatly unknown, until the battle of Ajnadin, not far from Jerusalem, where Drear lost his spear, fell from his horse, and was taken prisoner. She donned a male knight's attire, took her arms and rode her mare through the Roman ranks, using her sword skillfully against whoever tried to stop her. The Muslim soldiers, and their leader Khalid, watched her with great admiration, presuming that she was a man.
The Arab Historian, Al Waqidi, narrates in his book "The conquering of Al Sham (Greater Syria)"
"In a battle that took place in Bayt Lahyah near Ajnadin, Khalid watched a knight, in black attire, with a large green shawl wrapped around his waist and covering his chest. That knight broke through the Roman ranks as an arrow. Wondering about the identity of the unknown Knight Khalid and the others followed him and joined battle,
Rafe' Bin Umayrah Al-Ta'if was one of the fighters. He described how that knight scattered the enemy ranks, disappearing in their midst, to reappear after a while with blood dripping from his spear. He swerved again and repeated the deed fearlessly, several times. All the Moslem army was worried about him and praying for his safety. Rafe' and others thought that he was Khalid, who won great fame for his bravery and genius military plans. But suddenly Khalid appeared with a number of knights. Rafe' asked the leader:
"Who is that knight? By God, he has no regard for his safety!"
Khalid answered that he didn't know the man, though he greatly admired his courage. They were fascinated as they watched the knight appear with a number of Roman knights chasing him. Then he would turn around and kill the nearest before resuming his attacks.
The Romans eventually lost the battle and fled, leaving many dead and wounded in the battlefield. Khalid looked for the knight till he found him. By then he was covered in blood. He praised his bravery and asked him to remove his veil. But the knight did not answer, and tried to break away. The soldiers wouldn't let him do that. And everyone asked him to reveal his identity.
When the knight found that there was no way to avoid that, he replied in a feminine voice:
"My prince, I did not answer because I am shy. You are a great leader, and I am only a woman whose heart is burning."
"Who are you?" Khalid insisted.
"I am Khawlah Bint Al-Azwar. I was with the women accompanying the army, and when I learnt that the enemy captured my brother, which lead me to do what I had to do."
Khalid ordered his army to chase the fleeing Roman Army, with Khawlah leading the attack, looking in all directions for her brother, but in vain. By noontime, the victory was decisive. Most of the Roman soldiers were killed.
Knowing that the prisoners had to be somewhere, Khalid sent Khawlah with a number of knights to find them. After a hot chase, they managed to catch up with a Roman detachment that was taking the prisoners to their headquarters. Another fight took place, the Roman guards were all killed and the prisoners saved.
In another battle in Ajnadin, Khawlah's spear broke, and her mare was killed, and she found herself a prisoner. But she was astonished to find that the Romans attacked the women camp and captured several of them. Their leader gave the prisoners to his commanders, and order Khawlah to be moved into his tent. She was furious, and decided that to die is more honorable than living in disgrace. She stood among the other women, and called them to fight for their freedom and honour or die. The others were enthusiastic to her plan. They took the tents' poles and pegs and attacked the Roman guards, keeping a formation of a tight circle, as she had instructed them.
Khawlah led the attack, killed the first guard with her pole, with the other women following her. According to Al Waqidi, they managed to kill 30 Roman knights, while Khawlah was encouraging them with her verses, which in fact caused the enemy's blood to boil.
The Roman Leader was infuriated by what happened, and led a detachment of his knights against the women, though he tried first to tempt them with many promises. He told Khawlah that he planned to marry her and make her the first lady of Damascus. But she answered him calmly and with great contempt:
"I wouldn't even accept you to be the shepherd of my camels! How do you expect me to degrade myself and live with you? I swear that I'll be the one to cut off your head for your insolence."
In the ensuing battle, the ladies proved their mettle, keeping their grounds for some time, encouraging each other and driving off the attackers with their long poles. Suddenly, Khalid and the army reached the battlefield. In the ensuing fight, over 3000 Romans were killed. The women who took part in the fighting were proud to say that Khawlah killed five knights, including the leader that insulted her.
In another battle, the Muslims were overwhelmed by a much bigger Roman army. Many soldiers fled away, but not for long. Khawlah and the other women met the fleeing soldiers, questioning their claims of bravery and forced them to return to the battle. The men were stunned when they saw Khawlah drawing her sword and leading a counter-attack. They turned their horses and joined the battle, which was eventually won.
One of the knights present that day said:
"Our women were much harsher with us than the Romans. We felt that going back to fight and die was much easier than facing the fury of our women later on".
Khawlah became a legend during her life and remains a legend till this day. She set an example to men and women alike that one should fight for what he or she believes in, and never accept defeat.

with many thanks to the lovely website ISLAMSWOMEN.COM i urge you ALL to visit it

these women inspire soo many, may Allah guide us all towards the right path

ameen

salaamz

naz :)

A golden Eid

2009-09-17T05:41:00.000-07:00

Salaamz everyone!!!how are you all today? i hope you are all good , and i hope you have all had a great lovely spiritual ramadan inshallah,this post is structured weird because i feel weird (didnt sleep coz i went tahajjud then i only slept for a couple of hours only :s) anyways that picture is about the perfume that im going to get for eid which is still somewhere in the shop ,because i didnt get it because people have been distracting me until i became broke :S

^those are similar to the gold shoes and the gold clutch bag ill be wearing for eid ,because ive started to feel extremly un-colourful (ever since i started wearing abayahs my wardrobe has turned BLACK even though they are embroidered and decorated and whatever its still black and i feel so dull so anyways i wanted to be colourful and got all gold stuff on holiday and those two will be part of my eid stuff)

this is not similar to anything but its an abayah and therefore shows you that i will be wearing an abayah my aunt got from dubai for eid (for prayers) inshallah and i think the above abayah is hot and not overly decorated and therefore modest and fun enough for eid :)

^those are a bunch of arabic dresses from a shop located somwhere because i bought a lovely gold and brown silky satinish embroidered and sequined arabic dress and its soo niice i love it and its gold (you see gold eid and colourful and all that ) i thought id be cool and wear some gold jewelry with it so i was searching through my jewelry stuff (my family members randomly "borrow"and never return my jewelry) so i was getting annoyed because i couldnt find half the stuff i wanted so my mum opened the gold jewelry box and i found some gold (i dont normaly wear gold) stuff to wear and a necklace my dad (Allahyarhamha) bought for me so inshallah ill wear that :)

^that is about the fact that my mum and aunt opened a salon somewhere and i dont think its properly complete yet but my best friends mum got her hair done there and its soo lovely so im going to go there and get my hair done and some henna and stuff inshallah for eid and

for eid im going out with my cousins and like family and grandad is taking us out shopping and cinema and lunch and stuff inshallah

and im jus looking forward to all those gifts of money

which reminds me ive bought no gifts for no one yet or cards ive beocme so lazy i used to get people ramadan cards and sent texts and i didnt ,inshallah im going to do it for eid though

i hope you all have a great Eid and that youve already had a great ramadan

may allah accept all our good deeds and reward us with jannah

inshallah

ameen

nazz:)xx<3

Ramadhan in Singapore

2009-08-31T13:19:00.000-07:00

I dont know why the stupid blogger isnt alowing me to post pics up. sigh.

I had proper pretty pics to show what it's like here in Singapore during Ramadhan but sadly just sadly blogger is being some really mean zionist and not allowing me to upload my pics cos im muslim :( lol

Anyway, How are you sisters? Hope Ramadhan's treating everyone pretty well :)
Here in singapore, Ramadhan is more of a festive mood than anything. We have Ramadhan Bazaars in two parts of the country - Geylang serai (better known as the Malay Village) & Arab Street and these streets are lit up with pretty pretty lights. (you know like how they'd light up the streets for christmas?) and banners are already up in every estate, wishing the Muslims "Eid Mubarak" :D

My college's muslim students' society is organising a Ramadhan camp with an Iftar event collaborated with a Mosque and an Orphanage. I'm in the organising committee and alhamdulillah everything's going well. I'm pretty excited about it heehee :D MashaAllah my first proper active Ramadhan!! I really hope it keeps getting better :D

Now pray that blogger gets well soon and becomes Muslim again so i can upload my pretty pics :)

till then, Salam :) Ramadhan Kareem!!

P.S Malays write the best eid songs EVER.
Listen to this one (though you don't understand lol)

A'qilah

Ramadan Happenings

2009-08-25T11:15:00.000-07:00

salaamz everyone

how is ramadan going for you?

my ramadan has been tiring and busy but i havent been that hungry which is a miracle

but ive been thirsty

amzi and my cousins came back from holiday and we always have people either sleeping over or over for iftar atleast so since i cant cook nil i have to clean up most of the time

but ive also attempted to help with the cooking twice

(cutting vegetables):P and ofcourse eating the food our fast here is pretty long for about 17 hours it finishes at around 8:10pm so after iftar its not long until taraweeh so we kinda stay up all night until fajr and sleep all day until like 3 atleast then start making iftar

lol yesterday i went shopping but not fun shopping more like food shopping and it was soooooo Hott and i nearly died due to lack of fanta or pepsi or coke or any other highly tempting fizzy drink and i was so thirsty i would even drink milk and i really hate milkim typing this and theres about 40 minutes left until iftaar *yeeey* and they made the kitchen so messy *boo* im trying to finish the quraan this ramadan too inshallah :)

last year i lost track of it about midway :(

and for some reason i feel so much calmer and just blessed for everything that i have (i.e food ,health,life ,islam) and i guess thats the purpose of ramadan

may Allah Azawajal forgive us all

i really love ramadan

what have you been up2?

salaamz

naz

Ramadan Kareem

2009-08-21T13:16:00.000-07:00

salaamu Aleikum everyone

Ramadan Kareem everyone may you all have a blessed Ramadan may all the countless blessings of Allah descend on you in this month of mercy and may all your sins be forgiven

Ramadan kareem to Somalia,chechnya,afghanistan,iraq,eritrea and all the troubled areas and may Allah alleviate their suffering ameen

i came across this lovely poem which expresses how lovely ramadan is

enjoy

Asalaamu aleikum

naz

One night I heard a knock on my door;Who can it be,I wasn’t quite sure.I open the door and am filled with glee;The visitor ahead is no stranger to me.
I welcome the guest with utmost delight;For I know it has come to give me respite.An air of happiness fills the space;My home now seems, a better place!
Have you any clue who this visitor could be?Yes! its Ramadhan,the month of mercy.The pious and righteous can’t await its arrival;Others seem to greet it, with waves of denial.
For Allah(SWT) we fast from dawn to dusk;For Him our breath is the fragrance of musk.The muslims who pray and fast with zest;Are aware of the rewards of this month manifest.
Throughout this month we weep and repent;Now is the time to strongly lament.And those who shun this sacred month;on the Day of Reckoning will face the brunt.
In the last ten nights,hides the Night of Decree;Allah(SWT) then awaits for his slaves to plea.The angels descend with Gabriel(AS) in the lead;To check on the steadfast and record every deed.
A feeling of grief now fills my heart;As the month of Ramadhan will soon depart.So lets make a start and worship Him alone;Now that the worth of this month is known.

UPDATE

2009-08-18T06:56:00.000-07:00

Salaamz everybody

how are you all today? inshallah i hope you are all in the best of health and Iman, anyways yeah im back from france and i kinda miss it a little bit but in a way im also very glad to be back ive been having fun since i came back and managed to hang out with my friends more, some of my cousins came with us from france and my sister is coming back soon :) i cant wait

and ofcourse its nearly ramadan , also my aunt and my cousin are getting married and we finaly moved into our new house which is totally 100% amazing i love it and the weather in england has been great

also ive found out for any somaliz on here the turkish tv show humus which became "nour" on mbc has been like dubbed in somali on somali tv "universal" and will start in ramadan so now you wont need 2 ask the arabic speakers in your family to translate evry word :) and you can watch it if you didnt watch it on mbc last year (i cant wait for it to start)

another thing my cuzin was in an accident in egypt and has been pretty badly injured and is in a coma so please make dua for us , her family are going through some financial dificulties at the moment and shes in a private hospital because the public hospitals cant treat her and her father died recently so please make dua that Allah makes this easier for them and restores her to good health inshallah wed apreciate your duas greatly

things like that put into perspective the silly things we usually moan about and the many great things like good health we take completly for granted.

Alhamdulilah a thousand times over 3ala kuli shay

may Allah bless us and guide us to the true path and forgive us our sins and purify our hearts and give us good health and iman this ramadan

ameen

salaamz

naz

Orphan

2009-08-13T20:36:00.000-07:00

Salam!

So I went to watch the movie "Orphan" yesterday and it was properrrrrrrrr scary. i swear.

Okay it's not exactly a horror movie, more of a thriller but gosh, after the movie I felt as though I just survived a heartattack yallah.
The starting was slow, like proper slow - yeah so slow that my friend commented "Gosh, this is boring. When is the thrill going to start" but i sweaaaaaaaaar, the minute the "Orphan" came into the movie, GOSH! It was non-stop thriller.

Gross & Gory as hell but for sure a good plot.
The actors and actresses were superb. I'd rate it a 3.5/5 or even a 4/5.

Pretty good movie to me, Catch it!!

Oh wait, NOT for the weak at heart yeah.

;)

A'qilah

france holiday pics :)

2009-08-12T09:04:00.000-07:00

HEY everyone

for everyone that does not follow NAZ (the other one my cuzin one)

then you can see our france villa pics of the villa we stayed in just before we left

yes im BAAACK!! haha much to the delight of sukkar and filfil so yeah one last france related post

though my cousin kindly did not add how DIFFICULT it was to find a nice villa over there for like an alright price

lol ok ill shutup

enjoy!!

Open Air Swimming pools and Long walks

2009-08-02T12:24:00.000-07:00

Salaamz evryone

how are you? (someone will someday answer tht question :P)

inshallah ihope you are all doing well

ok you know whenever i blog i dont even seem to know what im blogging about just generally write what comes into my head as i go along and sometimes change stuff around ;) i dont suspect this post will be any different

for the last 2 days we all left and stayed in some hotel me my brother and all my other toursit cousins coz the familly we are staying with are moving house and it all got a bit stressful and confusing so we went there and it was soo much Fun because it had a lovely outdoor pool which looks precisely like the one above and a lovely huge park thingy near by so me and my anorexic yet weight obsessed cousin who i havent seen in ages went on loong walks (like 5+hours) long walks on and took some picnic food or went and ate kebabs from nearby kebab places (destroyin the purpose of our walks) but it was still fun coz we got to talk loads and take pictures near the pool and there was another pool with such a great view at the park and for some reason i really love outdoor pools so we just mostly had walks picnics and talked at night and stuff and we came back today when the new house was complete
and although at the hotel i had no computer and i dont like french tv and there was no myrna wa khalil ;( it was soo much better
coz in this house thres too many people its impossible to be in a room by yourself or go anywhere to just think or talk on the phone without massive eavesdropping
and your ears are constantly attacked by noise and arguin children and screaming mums
but anyways its not soo bad aslong as you leave at any given oppurtunity :p

lol so yeah thats all that ive been up2
apart from some random somali guy trying to chat me up infront of my aunty until she had to say
"shes not intrested in you" and then him getting offended and saying "you cant stop her from marrying me if she likes me" while i was too shocked to speak
lol anyways
see you guys later
salaamz
naz

NOOO I DID NOT ABANDON THIS BLOG....

2009-07-31T06:06:00.000-07:00

.... I just didn't blog here :P
lol.... :-)

But hey, I do keep track of Naz's posts and the sisters' overwhelming comments masha'Allah.
I just thought that she's well... a much much more interesting person so i'd just let her blog :-P

I DO MISS YOU SISTERS THOUGH :)

Will blog soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon! XD

Love,
A'qilah

Twin thing +homesickness and great shopping and what boredom does to people

2009-07-28T10:00:00.000-07:00

Salaamz everyone yet again
how are you all? inshallah your good

im soo proud of myself regularly updating OUR blog which aqilah never shows up in *HINT HINT* :P

anyways yah what have i been up2

the last couple of days i didnt do THAT much (nealry gt pneumonia from a waterfight):P

and babysitted stupid kids

anyways i went out today and bought some niice stuff the shopping here is great i swear tí bought a dress a bag some shoes and a jewelry set so that was very nice

however im sooooo extremly twin sick

i swear and for some unknown reason i keep seeing loads of twins

(3 sets so far) lol so i miss my twin and for some reason the phone to africa is soo retarded

the connection just goes and due to extreme boredom

i took

highly strange pictures of me making weird faces and sent them to my friends

haha

yeah to be honest i dont really have much to say just trying to do a lot of things before we go back home im meeting up with my cousin who i havent seen in 5 years tommorow so im looking forward to that

wallah so weird how time flies

and im really looking forward to eid (and its not even ramadan yet):)

anyways hope ur all having a great time

naz

Ramadan Is Near!! <3رمضان‎

2009-07-26T04:34:00.000-07:00

Asaalamu Aleikum everybody

this post is about the lovely time of the year called RAMADAN and this is a special time of year

obviously¨because its first of all the time of year when the quraan and all other holy books were revealed to´the prophets of Allah aswell as been a time where we all get the chance to redeem ourselves and do good in this month filled with great blessings anyways inshallah there will be many oppurtunities to do good this ramadan

and we shall all try to embrace them

and its such a great way to stop old bad habits ie smoking

and a chance to be fasting all day and praying all night (taraweeh+tahajud) and if youve never been to those prayers go and try them

eat suhoor for extra ajr

and to all the mums and women and whoever cooks in everybody,s household

its great to eat lovely food

but dont spend your whole day cooking up a feast

read quraan go to a halaqah listen to an islamic talk via the internet or the tv

and dont cook/eat more then neccesary

i hope you all have a great ramadan though us innocent people in the west will be fasting for soooo many hours lol

salaamz

naaz :)

Cook/eat your way to Happiness

2009-07-24T10:47:00.000-07:00

salaaamz

hoow are you all?

i hope you have all been great

i havent been up to that much for the last 2 days except from eating we got invited to a barbeque party today so ive been eating and talking all day but admitedly i had more fun today then yesterday i thought i was going to die of boredom yesterday (got invited to a house where everyone fell asleep) and that was quiet boring but today was more fun visited people ate lovely food and talked alot

it seems like my familly here are quiete keen on food and cooking

and someone is always cooking something or ordering something

and any idea of fun involves food

lol its fun but im extremly worried for my weight

i do NOT want to be labelled the "fat twin" when people try and tell us apart

lol

but damn is the food delicious and everyone will get offended if you dont "try" their food

"try" means eat an entire plate minimum and they keep saying "its alright your on holiday"

anyways im going to go out now

i havent gone out properly in two days and i might go to a theme park next week with my brother my cuzin and his friend

though i dont think my brother wants me to come

too bad his friend invited me

and is paying for me ;p

lool

salaamz every1

naz

So Beautiful

2009-07-22T13:51:00.000-07:00

Salaaaaaaaamz everyody
i cannot beleive im saying this im in love with this place i like it soo much
considering i didnt even want to come here to begin with
we went and had lunch in a huuge shopping mall with an unpronounanable french name and later we visited the eiffel tower and and went for a walk around the river and took pictures on my cousins camera and then later we went to a concert where a somali singer as performing and it was soo much fun
the city is soo totally beautiful
theres a lot of great stuff here and im enjoying seeing the family i dunno why but this year
everyone came to paris all my cousins and stuff and its fun having everyone around
but damn im gng to get fat everyone is always ordering either take away or going to a cafe or having lunch out or doing something
im going to go swimming tomorrow and we are having a barbeque party (what did i say about the food) and i wanna go cinema there seems to be alot of great movies out
i think its nice that we are only staying for a couple of weeks because we seem to get more done when we stay for long we end up generally being bored
and i saw my cousin who i havent seen in 4years and we are catching up on 4 years worth of gossip :p
we plan to finish off when she comes to england with us
yet im already slightly home sick
(i must be the worlds biggest london fan)
i recomend paris to all of you readers
the should pay me for such great advertisement
its great though :)
salaamz
naz

Newss <3

2009-07-22T04:29:00.000-07:00

heeeeeeey
salaaamz
everyone look i got news for you my cousins friend made a blog and like my cousin made a blog too
with this username its somalianarabpriness be nie and and weloming and follow her too
and read her stupid posts :P
i joke i joke shes great
alright i havent done much yet today im going with my cuzin (above mentioned) to see a movie and go shopping
and i really need a camera and my bro wont give me his :(
ok ill update when i have something to say
salaamz
naz

I LOVE it soo far

2009-07-21T05:13:00.000-07:00

salaamz everyone

wassup dudez im in..........PARIZ (well thts hw naz spells it)

and ok

the travel was from HELL we left our house at 2:00am in the morning and got the airport at 3:00 and were torutred at the airport until 5 and the plane left at 6:15 when we spent two hours in the plane been bored to death and i nearly went deaf when the plane was gng down as i my ears hurt alot

then it took us AGES to travel to the house my aunts familly live here

and theen as soon as we got in my bro and my lil cuzin said we r gng out come with us so i did

i went to visit my uncle and they had family over who were from america and doing like a european family tour

(they said europe is better then america so HA americans :p)

bt they were leaving the same day as we arrived but they were going in the night

so we hang out took pictures and went out like the whole day shopping (with my cuzin) and parks and admiring the random scenery

and i found BEAUTIFULLL cheap islamic dresses and perfumes and shoes and bags ohmygod i cudve just died :P and then like later tht evening i tried some french food and ice cream ( i nvr try french nd chinese food)

and then i went home to the family i was staying with and we watched erm guess what

MYRNA WA KHALIL on arabic satelite (im tht adicted) and the people love the show so we had a nice time watching it and some english tv programmes and stayed up all night

(tht meant i didnt sleep for 48 hours+)

and today my bro and my cuzins went to an all u can eat resturaunt which is like jus opening today but like i said im definetly not going to a french all u can eat resturaunt lol

my bro took de damn camera yesterday but if i get it ill take pics

im gng central today and meeting up with my cuzin whos gng back to england with us after these 2 weeks

i reali love the shopping here

oh ok my aunt just invited me somwhere

so salaamz guys

naz

New House :)

2009-07-19T04:59:00.000-07:00

salaamz

my mum had a baby recently and she was talking about buying a new house for a while

but my mum talks about loads of things so anyways i didnt think she was and then on friday she did we are going to move in after we come back from france but the house is amazing i mean when we moved into this house i loved it and then now i love the other one (coz i get a bigger room)

anyway this house is slightly bigger then the one we currently live in

it has 3 floors to it and 6 bedrooms 2 bathrooms a huuge kitchen 2 living roms and a dining room and 2 garden areas and the master bedroom is soo big

and an indoor garden area thing (now we can have an indoor pool)

we had an outdoor one

god u cant imagine what stupid disgusting things get into outdoor pools

its about £400,000 though the one we currently live in is cheaper

houses here are so damn expensive and so damn small and people like have 2 convert two houses into one so i think that house is a pretty good bargain

salaamz

naz

Unleash The Belly Dancer in You

2009-07-16T08:06:00.000-07:00

Salaaaaamz everybody

yes ima explain yesterday i made a post about 10things about me right that was a tag from sis queen and i mentioned somewhere i feel fat

and then everybody said " i feel fat" and "i feel fat" and those who didnt comment and say it said it in their head

anyways yeah the reason that i managed to get my weight to "average" yeh was because last summer i mustve been intent on like being the laziest human being ever

as i quit swimming and belly dancing

i just generally like to dance i dont care if its belly dance street dance all dance (minus break dance as i will break sumthin) right and like before i was a hijabi i learnt belly dancing as a fun
dance and activity to take part in

anyways im pleased to say i got pretty good at it to be honest and i was like in the school dance group thingy and we did loads of different dances and we performed and did competitions with other schools across the country and area and stuff and me and my sister did belly dance together by ourselves as well as the group dances and won a couple of awards and stuff

and performed in the royal albert hall in london (thats an awesome honor im soo proud *weeps*)

lool anyways then afterwards i had this amazing religious thing happen to me where wait for it -I QUIT DANCE

not just belly dance all dance

and thenbut i kept belly dance because its literally the greatest and simplest way to excercise i mean come on put on some great music and dance in the privacy of ur own room and end up with a flat stomach i just did it for that

then last year i stopped that coz i cudnt be bothered anymore

anyways im not suggestin u wear revealin outfits *^ above

and like do belyl dance like that

but if u do join a girls only belly dance class its fun a way to lose weight and keep busy especially if ur staying in the country u live in for the summer

and did i mention that its FUN

so all u bellydancers

COME OUT!! :)

salaamz

NAZ

WATCH THESE AMAZIN BELLY DANCE VIDS-

!)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-BQXhFAZhQ (wonderful middle eastern belly dancer u can defo learn from)

2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkSdXlS62K0-(wonderful turkish belly dancer)

3) AND SURF THE NET :)

10 HONEST THINGS-hmm

2009-07-15T12:27:00.001-07:00

im guessing u all want something u didnt already know so lemme think see and edit wen am dne
!) i changed my name from Sawda to Nasirah when i was two years old i was not conscious of what i was doing i just generally hated my name and refused to answer to it one day i was asked what id like to be called and i said Nasirah

2) im older then my sister by two minutes and am hugely proud of this fact coz it means i get 2 say "yeah bt am older den u and therefore cannot move my limbs get me a drink" :P

3) im terrified of all animals and anything non-human unless its like a useful machine and once i chose running into the road where there was a car zooming over walking beside a dog (yep genius i know)
4) ive imagined how ill die before and could not come up with anything other then car accident so i cross the roads really carefuly for a teenage person (noo dont hate me im nt completly mad)
5) i met my dream guy like a million years ago and realised he was my dream guy last semptember
6) the stuff i like changes really quickly 4 nw perfumes,holidays and abayahz tho dey r black and all facial products massages and i reali love my nails alot alot alot
7) my mum once thought i was anorexic as my weight has all been "below" whatever it was meant to be body mass whatever and now after like 18 years i got it to "average" and i feel flaming FAT
8) i rejected an awesome offer to live in the USA coz i cudnt stand being in the same country as george bush especially not when he ran it (U AINT GETIN MY TAXES)
9) Im extremly anti-jewish and no one can like change my mind and anti-jewish theories (jews israel sme thing)
10) i realli love my friends i love ur blog stories and i love aqilah :)
NAZZY

Lets get Creative with photography yeey

2009-07-15T10:37:00.000-07:00

Seeing as im probably the least creative person in the world except maybe when it comes to writing (im more science,english,history "academic" subjects person) i fell in love with photography coz its a way that i can try to be creative without like using my hands to draw disturbing thing -i reali cant draw anyways i dunno but at some point i started seeing photography as an art ull be amazed how light and angle and space can change a photograph and make it a wonderfull work of art so when i got offered the chance to be a "photographer" for the day i definetly picked up my cannon camera new batteries and a new memory card and set out to take amazing pictures of all the activites going on around me

people

places

objects

thats why when everyone goes on holiday i ask them to take pictures and they never listen to me or take pictures of the breath taking landscape all around them

its a great way to apreciate beauty

*try it this summer*-take a pic of the beach the outside of ur home the shade under a palm tree the view of your city- a babys innocent face

something beautiful

something simple

something inspirational

i also took part in a creative writing task writig poems about love,dreams,home and peace but collectively and had a lot of fun

im most excited about 2moro ill go with a journalist to some debates and make some jewelry with a REAL FASHION DESIGNER and stuff

*yeey*

if i make something remotely succesful ill share it with you

but i did warn you about my creative skills

salaamz

naz

I Was A Soldier -for the day :)

2009-07-14T11:15:00.001-07:00

(Paintballing guns ^)

Salaamz everybody :)

how are you all? inshallah your all doing great

everyyear since i was in year 7 in my 6thform (british college like thingy) and in highschool
we have this week that we do some activities now usually i work with some newspaper and like

anyways every year the british army take some people and we get to do "assault courses"
fun ridicilous challenges

get shouted at by soldiers (i realli fear 4 their health since dey never speak just yell) and be forced to yell our introductions like

HIII MY NAME IS NASIRA AND IM IN TEAM 1 SECTION 1 (dey split us into army things) I HAVE ONE TWIN SISTER AND TWO BROTHERS MY FAVE MOVIE IS TITANIC

etc and then end up with a sore throat we had fun and then they made us do boys against girl tasks which where hugely unfair coz the tasks were like lifting heavy things and tuff like that related so u can guess who won despite our shouts of "GIRL POWER" damnit i always thought girl power worked :S anyways yeah we did assault courses tyre running (put ur feet in two different tyres nd try runnin/rolling or smthin) bouncy castle attack thingy and paint ball shooting wall climbing getting lifted over a weird thing with yellow string

horse riding and the intro screaming thing infront of a fire

and there was some guys from africa who came to like i dunno stare at england and life here and education system and something and they were so amazed the army could be bothered to come to a school (they came soo late anyway) but we couldnt take pictures as everything is hugely "top secret"

and now im going to do some jewelry making stuff with a designer write about debates (coz im a "journalist" i get to go to everyones activities or the best ones and like do wteva) and some african music classes and bollywood and stuff

i always love all these random activites anyways yeah thought id share that with you but now im soo damn tired after being shott with stupid paintball stuff _they actually hurt

p.s- i really miss my sister

pps-im kindaa reali happi coz of alot of random things

ppps-pray tht everything goes right

inshallah ima blog about france this tiem coz last time i went i didnt explain anything i did there

take care

salaamz

**NAZZY **

btw-sis queen i gt ur tag inshallah ill do it soon

xxxx

Another Award :)

2009-07-12T07:37:00.000-07:00

Heloooooo people
wassup i hope you are all very good inshallah
we just got another award *yeeey* this time it was from sis LISA :) thankyuu lisa princess on her lovely blog a journey westward from tartary anyways we got awarded
Most Adorable Everyday Blog and sis LISA said " These blogs are constantly updated, and I find myself at them all the time"
so thanks for awarding us lisa sis and thanks for coming by
:)
salaamz
naz
*no picture 2 go with award sryy*

THANKYUU!!

2009-07-09T08:43:00.001-07:00

lol thankyouu ModestJustice my princess for the lovely award
yeey i feel good now (i know i probably blog nonsense but i atleast u like the nonesense):P
everyones sayin i ddidnt knw my blog was adorable so am gng 2 say it jus 4 de sake of it
"i didnt know my blog was adorable"-naz lol
thanks shukran mahadsanid princess Modest :)
erm yeah im rambling coz i dunno hu 2 pik without re-pickin ppl
sis
*MALEKAT from a blog with a long name :P
*QUEEN from -the life of a bangladeshi wife
*SUKKAR&FILFIL i like ur blog already :)
*DUCHESS
* A MUSLIM WIFE
salaamz sisterz :)
naz

Went to The Airport

2009-07-09T08:08:00.000-07:00

hey salaamz everyone

guess what everyone finally left and my twin sister went on holiday without me for the first time ever

and yeah i stayed here without her for the first time ever and it wass soo freakin emotional lol

and it wouldve been more emotional if we werent all so freakin tired

we went to sleep 4am the"night" before and then we woke up at 10 and we like did facials and henna and weird stuff and started seriously packing (me helping) because the night before hwe was packing me and her and my cuzins just wore the clothes and did a fashion show with them to help "decide" what 2 take

and then we watched american tv shows and talked anyways we had fun but later the packin and stuff was a bit rushed and stressful and we travelled 2 de airport i hte travelling

i get car sick lol den we stayed in the airport 4 ages hangin out in starbucks and i was emotional coz every1 was gng on holiday for de whole summer bt me lol

nd den my aunt sed oh bt its alryt we r going france in 12 days and well have more fun then them so yeah

i came home 2 my aunts house from a long train ride through like the whole of london from the airport reali late and we had our dinner at a resturaunt before we went home and we watched some video of us ages ago wen i was a baby nd cute nd my aunt was lyk ur only wtchin tht because ur sister left innit? and then i went oall sleepy and dying and called my cuzin before falling asleep excuse my english today

after wards in de mornin de house was a bit borin nd i was like i dont know i put on a dress and straightened my hair and put on perfume and makeup and stuff for no aparent reason u see what boredom does to people and then my grandmother was like:

grandma:aww u look so pretty today 2dai like a princess u should dress like amore often bt no you dress so weird usually with trousers nd puffy things wt are they called ? tracksuits nd weird tops a3udbillah

but atleast ur better den khadra (my cuzin) she dresses weird infront of her husband 2 u just stick to dressing weird infront of ur brother who dresses weird himself i mean he wears earings YA RAB

me: lool ok ayeeyo (grandma)

grandma: yes who has heard of girls wearin trousers and boys wearin earings oh these western people making u guys crazi a3udbillah wat weird grandchildren i have ofcourse its because all ur parents r weird and u shd reali learn 2 cook b4 ur husband starves

lool

anyways yeah

thats all from naz

salaamz

naz :)

Its Finally SUMMER<3 Birthdays,parties,holidays...

2009-07-05T11:08:00.000-07:00

its finally summer and im soo happy :)

its my cuzins birthday today and inshallah ill be going to his birthday party later tonight

people whos birthday is in summer are so lucky, everything is better when its summer the weather is better (usually) the days are loonger everything is more intresting and everyone is free to do whatever they want (for once)

yes if you follow this blog ud know that my last post on summer wasnt that great because i had to cancel my holidays and i still dont get to spend the summer exactly how i wanted it BUT ive come to the conclusion that i will enjoy what i can coz it realli changes nothing if i walk around all depressed

my cuzin "leila" went to north somalia/somaliland today but shes not gone just for the summer shes gone for the next 3 years , i cant imagine not seeing her for the next 3 years lol i think its meant to "straighten her out" but she was cool with going, thats what i like about her she makes a go of everything so hopefully shell have a nice time

my other cousin Medina is coming back from some random eastern european country shes been studying in but first shes going to go france (which is where i will be at summer) so i made her book the same dates as me so we can come back and chill in the Uk together afterwards as well (her dad and everyone lives here) and itll be fun to have her around in france coz i dont know what ill be doing there coz my twin isnt cumin and i nvr do things without amal lol (tht prolly sounds ridicilous) but its true anyhows (she wont be there coz my whole familyz gng dubai and Africa bt noo i had 2 go get me a scholarship didnt i :S) anyways after my france trip when i get back ill be going to alot of weddings

from what ive noticed evryone falls in love in the summer :)

AND AND MY CUZINS GETIN MARRIED lol i reali cant beleive it for some reason

and ill be going to loads of random islamic eventS :)

like islam expo inshallah theen im gng 2 become like a saintly muslimah over ramadan inshallah

anyways gotta go learn something now

but hope u all have a great summer

btw in france ima go shoppin nd shoppin nd seight seeing nd shopping nd bbq's lol

SALAAMZ

NAZ

<3Somalia<3

2009-07-01T04:41:00.000-07:00

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and to the people of somalia

may peace be with somalia

and the people of somalia

and to any somali reading this

***have fun celebrating guys :) ***

HAPPI INDEPENDENCE DJBOUTI <3

2009-06-28T04:05:00.000-07:00

Happi Independence day 26 june to The Republic of Djbouti of the coast of Somalia :)
May allah bless you with peace and nabad
may Allah keep your people in Safety
May Allah bless your Nation for ever
May all the Duaz from your neighbours reach you
May the peace and Blessings of Allah be on Djbouti and The people of Djbouti
somaliz.afarz,ormoz and everyone Alike
WE LOVE YOU DJBOUTI
MUCH LOVE
SOMALIA :D

Past Times

2009-06-28T03:38:00.000-07:00

yes yes i am a thousand years behind everyone on the planet coz i just discovered Khaled Hosseini and the wonders of his lovely writing, but i purposefully stayed away from his books because i generally stay away from muslim related books, yes i reali cant take the whole "everyone is soo opressed " etc and anyways i thought it would be the typical horror story lets blame it on islam thing and yes i did realise the writer was muslim but that doesnt make much difference

Anyways WHEN i gave the book a chance (yes it was slightly aww we r so opressed) but anyways it didnt seem to be over exagerated because i do understand the situations and omg it was like an entire history of Afghanistan with a story it was an excellent read i coudlnt put it down and now im reading A thousand Splendid suns by Khaled the books are million times better then the films and the films are awesome

i definetly recommend them to everyone

take care every1

salaamz

NAZ

On Medical Leave for 2 days! :)

2009-06-02T06:43:00.000-07:00

LOL... I'm on Medical Leave for 2 days which means I'm excused from college for 2 days. I'm down with a horrible flu, sore throat and everything else that comes along with these bugs.
Sadly, though I have MC, I have to go back to school for a project presentation tmr ):

My school is 2 hours away from home and I'll be attending it for only about 15-30 mins :O lol....
aaaahhhh Insya'Allah Khayr though.

Oh i nearly passed out while waiting for a bus home; and I decided that it was best to rest before going home. Eventually, a sister sent me home heh :) How sweet of her! LOVE YOU SIS! :)
Oh and my Yoga instructor was really kind. Instead of actually asking me to absent myself today and come in another day for make-up he allowed me to stay put for about half an hour to sleep hehe :P Lucky Lucky Me!

Anyways, what's up with you people? Any new stories to share? Haaaa; oh i'm glad to see Naz blogging frequesntly again hehe! Love you habibty!

I think I'm turning in now; head's starting to spin. Love you gals! W'salam..

A'qilah Saiere

Hay Fever, Parks and Ducks aswell as schools and seeing people

2009-06-01T14:18:00.000-07:00

Salaamz everybody!!!
heya its me again!! you see i did say i was going to bother to blog again actually it feels pretty good to speak nonsense (:P)
so yeah i did go to college today it was so damn HOTT im refering to the weather here and i was wearing a black scarf (genius i know) i actually my brother told me not to wear it and i said "what do you know go away"
then we preceeded on to an argument about who knew what and which one of us was probably adopted from a planet full of aliens (its him i swear)
and then i finally went to college everybody was late and i kinda had some crap-ish lessons and i was very tired but it was good to be back and see everyone again alot of people left and there were some changes but like it said it was good to be back
but anyways theres this guy and we used to fancy eachother and i dont really know what we are to eachother anymore but yeah ok we are friends aparently and i found out he plays for the same weird football team as my brother which is fine
but my brother has a reali strange weird friend who is somehw overly intrested in my relationship status i dont know why and its prety awkward and i know that he reali wanted to go see who the guy i used to like was
anyways my brother told me they know eachother now and talk
somehow im worried the topic of conversation is me and i dont think their lovely friendship will be a good idea
my friends brother freaks me out
and the other guy honestly i just wanna stay friends but ive kinda been trying to avoid both of them
to no avail i saw both of them one i had 2 sit with for a 2 hour period and my lunch hour and the other i saw whilst attempting to go home in peace
*joy*
btw the funfair we went to yesterday is actualy hapenin nxt weekend so we just chilled at the park instead and i took pictures of ducks in the river
some weird gypsie boys were atepting to harass me and noticing that i did not have my usual weapon with me (incredibly heavy bag) or high heeled shoes i preceeded to throw my warm-ish coke over them
and after years or tkin the piss out of my twin sister for having hay fever
i got it too
oh wt an exciting summer *not*
salaamz
naz

College,funfairs and fashion :)

2009-05-31T07:55:00.000-07:00

(picture not related to anything but i like the pic)

Salaamz everybody

how are you all? inshallah good as usual :)

i am going back to college tomorrow after not being there for 3 weeks (2 weeks work placement) and 1 week holiday/half term

anyways it has been fun but i kinda reali missed seeing my friends and all that, and it will probably be fun anyways now its nearly the end of term so it should be fun after we are doing with our exams inshallah itll just be a chill zone for us and we will be visiting some graduate fashion week thing which some people will be taking part in

so that should be fun.

im kinda over the cancellation of my longer holiday now and im just trying to think of all the things ill be doing in france for only 2 WEEKS ive never been on holiday for only 2 weeks not sufficient for "shop till you drop" (for me) :(

lol anyways being the last day of our half term and that its summer in england and the sun is shining we are going to the funfair (im so childish) but its fun until tonight i actually red a book about weird things happening in a fun fair (no i dnt knw why tht is relevant either)

anyways have fun you guys

inshallah

salaamz

naz

xxx**xxx

OMG LOOK WHO'S HERE!

2009-05-30T08:31:00.000-07:00

LOOL! SALAAAAAAAAAMS! Seems like it's been ages since i last blogged here! :/ Lol. Afwan Afwan Afwan! Sorryyyyyyyyyy hehe. Been soo busy that each time i think of things to blog about, I blog on here for the hereafter. heh.

The week started horribly. I was drained in almost everyway; Emotionally, Physically, Psychologically you name it!
College is still as awesomeeee despite the workloaddddd; and that's prolly because of my company. Alhamdulillah am I grateful my friends are but a bunch of the most fun and exciting Muslimahs to be around with.

Honestly, I never expected college life to be like this. After my Induction Day, I vowed to lead an anti-social life there for 3 years but Allah knows better, and He wanted something better for me.

Am I thankful.

Anywhooosssss, Insya'Allah Insya'Allah Insya'Allah I'll try to blog more often here. :)
I MISS YOU SISTERS! lol.
ModestJusticeeeeeeeeee, Lisaaaa and ohhh all of you.

I gtg for now! will be back soon! hehe. :)

W'salam :)

A'qilah Saiere

Helloo Summer ?

2009-05-29T07:57:00.000-07:00

salaamz everybody!!

so its nearly summer,summer break schools clleges jobs everythings out everyone will get a break and we are all excited right? WRONG!!

naz wont :(

ok lemme start from the begining i wanted to do my english exam early for some reason in a private school now the head lady thought i was smart enough to do it so she gave me loooads of work things that people have been learning all year for me to learn in 4 weeks THEN she made me take an exam people have been preparing for 2 years for me 2 take despite being there only 2 months which means 8 days coz its only on in de weekends and then i actually somehow wonderfuly miraculously passed which means i can tke de exam i wanted to take in november anyways the woman said because i was so good she will pay for my examz in some scholarship thing and then when im done she wants me to work for her as a teacher

which is good i think but then she says because of that she wants me to stay and study in the summer for free to make sure i get the best possible grades so i had to cancel a precious already booked holiday and just go 2 france for 2 weeks in the summer instead

i know that its probably good and worth it etc in the long run but i was really angry at the time like come on i thought people got rewarded for working hard not made to spend their entire summer married 2 the books minus for 2 weeks which i had to like beg for aaagh

i am so not even looking forward to summer

lol i hope you all have great summers and just as f it couldnt get any worse the weather here is inisiting on being perfect and summery

so tempting to tell the books to go 2 hell :P

wish you all the best

nazz

All Things Turkish!

2009-05-14T12:54:00.001-07:00

KIVANC TATLITUG AKA MUHANNAD
and His great film Noor / Gumus
made me love turkey and turkish television
and now hes back with Lamees the great actress who acted in another turkish series known in turkey as ehlalmurar altinda i think and known in arabia as sinawat el diyaa3
sorry 4 nt knowing the real names of some of the actors i only wtched de arabic versions
anyway they are back with a great new turkish programme
myrna wa khaleel
check it out
all turkish-arabic lovers like naz
on MBC 9:00 GMT
salaamz
naz

Miss Naz

2009-05-14T10:56:00.000-07:00

So yeah if you are wondering where the hell naz went as she is always disapearing lately im really suffering from permeanant writers block and im not a writer as i write rubbish anyway

but yeah lately

i have turned from a student in a teacher as some part of a placement thing its actually quite cool and interesting and the children are extremly cute and fun to be around

they say the funniest sweetest or strangest things

here are a couple examples

sweetest-

*a little 5 year old gurl* " Heey you are Arab I am Arab too"

me: reaali?

her: "yeah you are arab coz u wearin hijaaab im from moroco my name is umaymah"

me: *hugs her* aww what a nice name habibtii

her: "i knoow i love arabs"

*all english teachers stare at her*

Funniest*

*little boy named erm hari and liam-false names*

Hari-*to me* "missss hes sneezing and not using a tissue tell him 2 get a tissue"

me: "go get a tissue Liam sweety"

hari- "tell him to wash his hands"

me: " and dont forget to wash your hands"

Hari- "yeah coz hes got SWINE FLU"

loooooooooool i cudnt stop laughing

and another little 5 year old went to my friend and said "heloo are you pregnant"?

my friends not even fat

we found tht hilarious 2

but yeah they are soo sweet and fun 2 be around and theyve got me permeanantly smiling :)

i am now known as MISS NAZ :)

salaamz

naz

Baby, it's all good!

2009-05-13T10:23:00.000-07:00

What do you see when you look at me

Do you see someone limited, or someone free

All some people can do is just look and stare

Simply because they can't see my hair

Others think I am controlled and uneducated

They think that I am limited and un-liberated

They are so thankful that they are not me

Because they would like to remain 'free'
Well free isn't exactly the word I would've used

Describing women who are cheated on and abused

They think that I do not have opinions or voice

They think that being hooded isn't my choice

They think that the hood makes me look caged

That my husband or dad are totally outraged

All they can do is look at me in fear

And in my eye there is a tear
Not because I have been stared at or made fun of

But because people are ignoring the One up above

On the day of judgment they will be the fools

Because they were too ashamed to play by their own rules

Maybe the guys won't think I am a cutie

But at least I am filled with more inner beauty

See I have declined from being a guy's toy

Because I won't let myself be controlled by a boy
Real men are able to appreciate my mind

And aren't busy looking at my behind

Hooded girls are the ones really helping the Muslim cause

The role that we play definitely deserves applause

I will be recognized because I am smart and bright

And because some people are inspired by my sight

The smart ones are attracted by my tranquility

In the back of their mind they wish they were me
We have the strength to do what we think is right

Even if it means putting up a life long fight

You see we are not controlled by a mini skirt and tight shirt

We are given only respect, and never treated like dirt

So you see, we are the ones that are free and liberated

We are not the ones that are sexually terrorized and violated

We are the ones that are free and pure We're free of STD's that have no cure
So when people ask you how you feel about the hood

Just sum it up by saying, 'Baby its all good'

I got this off an email so I thought I'd share with my siisters :) Insya'Allah you guys will like it because I loved it!

Allah Y7make.

A'qilah Saiere

Naz's Bank Holiday Weekend !!

2009-05-04T11:15:00.000-07:00

Salaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamz Dudez and Dudettez

lol hows everybody i hope you are all in the best of health and Imaan Ameen

so i have totally run out of things to write or time to write

when i have something to write about i dont have the time and when i do have the time im bored and totally have nothing to write

so anyways i was supposed to have a "Long Weekend" didnt totally work out right since i had 2 wake up at 8:00 to go "work" both days BUT i had fun regardless

ive figured out

waking up early makes my day longer and the work place is

not that bad but yeah i am still moaning about working for no aparent reason but atleast i get to spend my "pay" on swimming as im begining to think owning so many perfumes is like haraam or something

anyways i had fun

saturday went to the work thing for like 4 hours then came home had a shower and went park and stuff and ater watched a movie

sunday went wrk for 4 hours came home had a shower went to sleep my 2 best friends and 2 of my cousins came over went out until 8:pm came home ate pizza played games and wtched half a movie went 2 sleep at 2am in de morning woke up at 9:00 (it was so hott i cudnt sleep) and stayed in bed talking until 11:00 then we went out and had subway for breakfast *yummy will lead 2 a fatt tummy* :P

anyways as it was bank holiday on monday we thoguht to go and just renta d vd but whats de point of having a holiday if everything in the whole damned country is shut?

so yeah the dvd place was shut so we went home and well stayed around then everyone left apart 4rm me and my 2 friends so we went and bought a HUUGE cake

all nice and chocolaty plus cappucino thingy and wtched another movie then we went shopping and then went park and played dumb games and raced eachother and stuff

and i got like duno sum poison ivy thingy hurt me :(

and i dunno we havent had that much fun in a long time

i hope you all had a nice weekend

in 3 days ill be off from skl for 3 weeks *yeey me*

lol

anyways take care everyone

salaamz

naz

Muslim Society Camp'09~

2009-05-03T09:17:00.000-07:00

I was away for 3 days for a camp organised by the Muslim Society in school :D
Masha'Allaaaaaaaaaaaaah :)
Amazingggg experience!!

The Facilitators were reallyyyy fun and exciting people and super spontaneous. It was thanks to them that the camp was an enriching adventure (: The whole Amazing race thing, treasure hunting in the middle of the night, and the night walking in pairs around the whole dark campus and survival dinner and and and we had the Islamic talkssss mannn amazing wallah!

We were living in the most gorgeous apartments EVER, wallah!
It was like a hotel haaaaa :)

I soooo wanna go back there. lol.

I'll let the pictures do the talking. I'm really exhausted :P

Work-great results-jobs-school and friends claiming 2 be raped :O

2009-04-23T13:59:00.000-07:00

Salaamz everyone

guess what being the great wonderfull weirdo i am i actually enjoy going back to school

i missed my friends a little bit too much

dunno why coz my holiday wasnt that bad to be honest but i did

and i got the job i wanted for my placement AND i will be doing it with my twin sis and 2 twins who are our friends (every1 there will be so confused) and 2 of my friends from primary school

so that should be fun inshallah

i also got my science exam results and i was an .........wait for it..........A

omg i cant beleive it i was soo hapi coz i was like panicking the whole time

and its funny me and my sister got the same grade

i kinda have loads of work to hand in

but other then that ive been having fun

yesterday we was playing soome reaalii silly game and HUUGE secret well huuge acording to me

slipped out all thanks to the game

( it was about some guy and hw we like eachother)

but like 2 of the people there were not supposed to know thank god one didnt hear and the other one well is a friend

but yeah it felt soo weird am nt reali bothered though

another thing that is depressing me is that

a friend of mine ran away from her parents coz she claims her uncle tried to rape her now this friend of mine is turkish and what is funny ( as in strange) is that it seems something that has happened to a friend of my sisters is happening to her

and they are both turkish (coincidence)

the girl claims her uncle tried to rape her she escaped to a friends house until she found out the "friend" was dodgy when she asked her whether she wanted to do prostitution with her she called a familly friend who took her back home

to her familly

now you would think they would be releived at her return and try and find out what is bothering their daughter but noooo

her brother decides to beat her up and her parents claim to be "ashamed"

her allegations whether true or false are not taken seriously

and they take her out of school

send her to turkey to get married

well they are trying to do that but the police know about all this now

and are trying to stop it

the sad thing is the girl who askd her to be a prostitute is spreading rumours and the whole school knows about this

even the boys are talking about it

if she does come back itll be awfully hard for her

its just sad people would put their daughters education and happiness on hold for "honour" or destroy it because they feel "shame"

THAT is the most shamefull thing of all

add her to your prayers

salaamz

naz :)

xxxxxx

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SO THANKS 4 FOLLOWING

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Naz is not the only one ya'know!

2009-04-20T22:51:00.000-07:00

So Naz had her first day, SO DID I!
Well, I'm currently in school right now, lol it's so weird to be blogging in the school compunds but what the heck I'm having a 2 hour break; thank God we have wireless internet access in our canteens. yallah i love my college :P

Let me tell you more about it :P
Subhana'Allah the college is freaking hugeeeee. lol; when you're walking from one building to another it feels like you're going on a hike. lol.

We have a Muslim Student's Society and that's where I'll meet all my fellow Hijabees :P I'm freaking excited to be enrolled Insya'Allah hehe.
We have I think about 3 venues that has been prepared for us to pray Insya'Allah; it's pretty convenient, that is if my lectures dont clash with the prayer times, insya'Allah Khair.

I'm honestly loving College life so far; it feels like it's been forever but it's only the second day! lol.

Right gtg now, will blog sometime soon Insya'Allah :)

Wasaalams,
A'qilah Saiere

First Day Back

2009-04-20T13:43:00.000-07:00

After my two week long or nearly three week long

easter holidays i was actually looking Forward to go back 2 school because i was getting bored restless and missing my friends a little too much so to be honest i didnt really mind going back to school today and it was alright the lessons werent THAT great but the company made up for that :P

and i was glad to be back coz wed all be going to placements soon and wont see eachother for another 2 weeks then another holiday so 3 weeks until the new term re-starts THAT IS TOO LONG i mean if u have 2 wake up early in the morning youd want your friends to be where you are going LOL

alhamdulilah 3 of my friends are going to the same placement as me and my sister

and we are not the only identical twins thatll be fun :P

afterwards i went to my aunts house who was re-decorating and the weather was lovely so i went to her kids room opened the windows slept on the bed and watched One Tree Hill whilst eating skittles that was fun

then had some boys vs girls islamic quiz at the tajweed class later and the girls one (as always)

now im attempting to do french coursework via google translate :S

and watching arabic comedies

and now im going back to the arabic comedies lol so take care everyone

that was just my first day back loads of hugs and stories you wont beleive what some of the people at my college can get themselves into in just TWO weeks :O

lol

salaamz

nazzy

Explanation 4 Absence

2009-04-19T11:40:00.000-07:00

Salaaaaamz everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ohmygod i totally miss blogging and blogsphere and reading peoples blogs OHMYGOD i missed u all *ur all thinking crazy oversensitive female* :P

anyways guys WELL i did have a holiday a new baby brother (if i thought my life was hectic before god add baby bottles to the mix)

and i got a joob as some teacher i feel sorry for everybody who works and get this i dont even want the silly job but my parents said its character building

like HELOO my character is soo perfect riight everyone? right? no? ok:(

but i changed my hours so i can do it with my sister and stuff *yeeeeeey*

anyways and now skl is re-starting and everything but actually school gives me something to write about so yeah inshallah ill write more

BTW for anybody here who lives in london or the UK

plzzzzzzz do the GAZA100 charity run for IFCHARITY on 22nd/23rd may 2009 for gaza google it

jazakallah kheiran

much love loads of kissses

xxxxxxxxxxx

*btw my jobs nt so bad i made new friends and it was boss's birthday 2dai reali cool boss too jus reaali long hours nd loads of kids (nt a kid fan dwn here)*

salaaaaamz

************NAZZ**********

Stressed? Drained?

2009-04-02T06:58:00.000-07:00

I attend classes every Saturday and last lesson, I was taught one of the methods of "meditation" or what I'd prefer calling de-stressing the Islamic way.

When you're feeling, tired/stressed/drained/simply just in search of an inner peace;
after a prayer you sit with your hands on your lap; face the kiblah and read al-fatiha; after that say La Illaha ilallah 3 times; slowly so much so you feel a though you're planting Allah's name in your heart
and then end it with another fatiha
Insya'Allah khair

An Akhi suggested 3 times of Al Fatiha before staring and 3 before Ending; I think there is no problem in that Insya'Allah :)

A'qilah Saiere ~

Not to Me you Dont :)

2009-03-31T12:35:00.000-07:00

WE CAN BE ANYTHING WE WANNA BE !! WE CAN DO ANYTHING U CAN AND WE CAN DO IT BETTER! soldier

ATHLETE

MOTHER

SISTERS

PILOTS

DOCTORS

MODELS

OFFICERS

AND WE WILL PROVE IT!!

so yeah the purpose of this post was that yesterday i went to the aiport with my aunt and grandma and you will not beleive how much we were harassed it was so irritating and at one point i got into an argument with some guy who kept swearing at me expecting me to just accept it

we wont get into details but he said he was suprised i spoke english

well i wanna tell all those people who start hyperventilating at the thought of a hijabi speaking up for herself or knowing anything

no we are not stupid

we are not mindless

and yes we can speak

actually we can do wteva u can and we can do it better too

NAZ

Hmm...

2009-03-29T00:46:00.000-07:00

Assalamualaykum sisters, Naz and I kinda lost our readers after the pricate thing so we reckoned that it might not have been very convenient for some of you so it's back on public again.

Insya'Allah all will resume as per normal and we look forward to your lovely comments!
:)

Love you Gals!<3

A'qilah~

Boys Bothering Naz :(

2009-03-25T12:09:00.000-07:00

salaamz everyone

how are you all today? hopefully you are all great and in the best of health and imaan

i dont know if you have or havent noticed although i love blogging sometimes i dont blog about the things i really DO have on my mind because unlike fabulous fellow blogger a'qilah i dont feel really comfortable and im the type of person who kinda thinks somewhere deep down if you dont mention or think about the bad things its like they never happened (thats baaaaaaad)

but although its not nice to walk around depressed all day everyday its im sure equally abnormal to be happy all day everyday (which is what alot of people think i am like)

seriously what am i talking about?

ohyeah back to the topic now that this blog is nice and private and can tell you somethings

a seven months ago i started to like a guy whom ive known for the past 3 years ( i knooow) and i have some guy friends (i knoow shocking init? ;p) infact i have 3 best friends and one of them is a boy but anyways the guy i like is somali and we will call him Hamzah for the purpose of this thing .

Personal Profile of Hamzah

Hamzah same age as Naz

Hamzah really nice Person

Hamzah Muslim

Hamzah prays (most guys my age dont do that)

Hamzah fasts

Hamzah likes Naz too (bloody smart guy innit :P)

Hamzah from same country as Naz (wohoo)

now anyways Hamzah is a really really nice guy and although ive known him for ages it was never a big thing i was friends with his sister whos older then us and who lives in the US and he was just there no biggie you see

but just as luck would have it we started having the same classes and teachers put us together to work and we started talking etc now bear in mind i always thought he was good looking but i think david backhams good looking im not going to do anything about it

it was that kind of feeling anyways we started talking and stuff and one day i gave him something to give to his sister and he said he would

anyways that something had my email adress in it

one day he asked for my email adress and i gave it to him and we talked and talked general things to be honest and at school and stuff then people started saying things like " ohh they would suit innit?" etc

anyways fast forward a little he kinda asked me out 3 times and in the end i said yeah ( bt we are nt reali dng anything like kissin ,touchin etcc thought id make tht clear)

the thing is i DO think we are too young to start a proper serious relationship but i really like the guy and i cant help feeling like im doing something wrong even if i say hi 2 him coz he is "more then a friend" which is what makes things sooooo damn difficult and if he didnt understand or if he wasnt feeling like this either then id probably have some reason to hate him

but he does understand and i dont hate him

(anything about never talk to boys etc i know all that)

also another bad thing happened this guy his name is "samir" anyways samir is my best friends friend and he a cool person etc and we used to talk and stuff now one of my friends "sabah" reaaaliiii likes "samir" (they r muslim2 ) and shes soo brave that girl she actually told him but he wants to just be friends he said

anyways he thought itd be clever to ask me out and when i politely said no

he decided to hate me

he didnt say that ofcourse but aparently he disapears

doesnt reali say hi anymore

just mumbles when he talks 2 me and all that is normal

im soo seatching for some female only uni :P

lol so yeah thought id share my random confusion

all non-offensive opinions welcome

dammit jus comment :P

lol

salaamz

naz

Lets Talk Clothes

2009-03-23T10:27:00.000-07:00

So we are having some sort of "work skills" job thing at school/coll on wednesday right and all lessons are suspended and its a great oppurtunity to meet different people in different careers and find out about what that paticular job entails to figure out if that paticular job is for you or NOT and your thinking thats great right? right

but heres the catch

" Dress apropriate for interviews and job appilications must be worn or you will not participate in activities and be sent home".

er hold on a minute

what exactly is "dress appropriate for interviews"?

so theyve said no jeans and hoodies allowed

somewhere in the middle of my quest to perfect hijabiness (not compelty there yet) i thought itd be quiet clever to ditch jeans unless they are under my abayah but that doesnt count

so anyways because i dont usually dress like "them" in the first place

what am i supposed to wear?

is an abayah innapropriate ? (too Muslim perhaps) or not "smart" i hate that word as if the rest of the time we dress stupid when i asked the tutor she said basically not what you would wear in the weekend

whats wrong with what i wear in the weekend its not as if i go around with a tutu *rollseyes*

so ive come to the conclusion that im going to wear a new black and white dress with a black top underneath and some high heel shoes and my leather jacket and headscarf or they can all go 2 hell :p

i actually know some people who are going shopping because everything is aparently "inapropriate" *sigh*

anywho me and my sister might "colour co-ordinate" she loves that but we end up confusing everyone and i spend the whole day being called by the wrong name etc so i usually cant be bothered

ill do it if she really wants to though aah twins lol

oh and we broke the identical mobile phone record of the year 2

(FOUR IDENTICAL PHONES) LOL

these last 2 are from my bro

inshallah ill be around more now

i really like blogging :)

salaamz

naz

Busy

2009-03-22T13:32:00.000-07:00

why does everything jus have to happen when you are busy?
i have spent the last few .......somethings
doing something to di with school,tuition job thingy, Tajweed classes (failed that)
then my friends birthday and my broz birthday and my aunt coming back from america
abd everything came at once
wallah i dont have any time for anything im being so annoying
i come on msn
and it goes sumthin lyk this
naz: omg i havent see u in ages i missed u
friend: yeaah naz me 2 u dissapeared
naz: i knoow im soo busy
naz: omg im soo sorry i g2g *nvr comes back*
its so irritating
now im nt cheking my msn until i can stay for a very long time
and nw everyone is on msn so ill post when im actually free
see you all soon
ill post picks 2
salaaaaaaaamz
naz

Another Award!

2009-03-22T01:42:00.000-07:00

Thank you Sister Duchess Berry for nominating us in the Sisterhood Award :)
AWWWWW how sweeeeeettttttt <3

NAZ we need to talk and start voting who should we nominate for the Sisterhood Award and the Gold Star Award :)

OH and Naz is very very very busy, can't blame her. PLEASE make dua' all is smooth for her Insya'Allah<3

I've known Naz for 0 months now and it's been 10 freaking AWESOME months. Guess what? We've not even heard each other before :P Lol.

ANYWAY I LOVE YOU NAAAAAAAAAAAAAZ <3

Memories

2009-03-22T01:02:00.000-07:00

I was browsing Facebook; well the profiles of my high school friends that is AND there was this few pics on the class chalet that I apparently missed; CHOSE to miss.

What was it like back then?
Everything came back. You know like how the clock will start ticking backwards and you'll start picturing those days; OH THOSE DAYS...

I sure had my share of fun and laughter and no one said school is easy so I had my fair share of hell.
I met the most amazing people and the people I never want to have anything to do with ever again.
I have to say I grew up there.
That 4 years of High School was the 4 years I learned the meaning of Life; 3 out of which are Jahil years and 1 that turned everything around, Alhamdulillah.

Yes I made my parents proud and made my parents mad but that's part of an average teenage cycle. I had my share of acquaintance, sure do I had enemies, had my fair share of b*tchy friends and a fair moment of being a b*tch myself. LOL.

I've been receiving several texts from my classmates informing of class gatherings and all, a reunion kind of thing. I've replied to none and attended none.

I know this sounds like I'm being a wet blanket but I just don't wish to go back.
Yes, I do keep in touch with a handful of my friends because I've always been close to them but other than that; I don't wish to turn back.

Sometimes memories are to be embraced before we move on but instead, I chose the wrong path and I got over those days. To have gotten over something you don't enjoy would mean to fear going back to those times again.

High School wasn't exactly hell but it was because my last year was more than a hell than anything else for me, I don't wish to have anything to do with my school anymore. This sounds harsh yes but it doesn't mean I'll be forgetting my teachers.

I had 2 teachers that I love sooo much that I miss them soo much right now if I see them i'll hug them wallah. They had a motherly touch and there was nothing I couldn't talk to them about.
And they were Muslims; there was no reason to not love them heh.

Then again there's always a villain in every story aint it? so mine was my Social Studies teacher in the last year. (Insya'Allah she doesn't read this)
LOL
She just loved wallah LOVEDDDDDDD to pick on me. Be it I did her work or not she'll just scold me because she wants to. She embarrasses me in class and her presence was a big stress.
To add on to it, I wasn't doing well and it was my last year; crucial year that is (GCSEs)

Because this is a private blogs and the ones reading this are all sisters I suppose I'm posting up my high school days pictures Insya'Allah :)
WARNING-: School days are Bad Hair days. LOL.

History Class. omg I was SLEEPING. HAHAHA

This picture and the rest were all during Graduation Night.

okay that's all. saalamz peeps :)

-A'qilah Saiere-

Personality Quiz

2009-03-18T03:05:00.000-07:00

You know how scary it is sometimes that a personality quiz you take online is just too accurate.
I did one today; ripped it off a sister's blog & this is what I got.

Your view on yourself:

You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

The seriousness of your love:

Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education

You may not like to study but you have many practical ideas. You listen to your own instincts and tend to follow your heart, so you will probably end up with an unusual job.

The right job for you:

You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:

You are confident that you will be successful in your chosen career and nothing will stop you from trying.

What are you most afraid of:

You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:

You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

Everything there is just really true except that I'm not really concerned about my image. Basically, I don't have issues with my self-esteem; Alhamdulillah.
In fact the one thing that I'm most afraid about is "Separation"
Well... after death that is.

So that's me. Who're you? Wish to give it a try?
Do the quiz @ http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx

-A'qilah Saiere-

When Muslims Get Moderate.

2009-03-17T12:58:00.000-07:00

Islam teaches us not to be on any of the extreme ends; basically to be moderate in whatever we do.
Then again, it doesn't mean we should be a MODERATE muslim.

I've met a handful of these people both on the internet and in reality. I have a friend who prays, fasts and wears the Hijab only during Ramadhan; another who chooses lunch over Jummah and of course another who thinks it's okay to go clubbing as long as you don't drink.

RIGHT.

Firstly, being Muslim means you pray 5 times a day and not just during Ramadhan; it's cool if you don't want to do the sunnah fasts though and about the Hijab issue... hmmm... if you're wearing the Hijab as practice during the month of Ramadhan then it makes sense; other than that. Sheeeeesh, I don't know what to say.

Secondly, if you're really that hungry then grab a snack before you enter the Masjid for Prayers; why sacrifice Jummah for the sake of a plate of rice?

& Thirdly, who the hell clubs without drinking? okay maybe there are a handful but going clubbing is bad enough. think about it; the haram mingling. HELLO?!

Recently, I met a sister online and she asked if I wear the Hijab.
I said "yes, Alhamdulillah"
and asked if she did and she replied the opposite.
What really pissed me the hell off was when she said this;
"I am living in a secular country. It's difficult sister. I will face many criticism if I wear the Hijab. Actually, the Qur'an doesn't tell us to wear the Hijab. Many Muslim women wear it because the Prophet's wives wore it. In fact, what should be the right Hijab is the Hijab that we keep in our hearts. To be modest from inside."

Okay what was that again?
MODEST FROM INSIDE?

Helloooooooooooo? That is just SCREWEDDDDD!

About living in a secular country, I understand the amount of criticism that she would be facing but then again; I always believe that "If you're in Allah's team; you're in the winning team" so why worry about what "people" have to say? Who has the final say here? "People" or Allah?

The Qur'an doesn't tells us to wear the Hijab and we wear it because the Prophet's wives did?
SISTER?! Do you even READ the Qur'an???
I mean seriously, get your facts right!
Surah Al-Ahzab -: 33:59 (59) O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested. And Allah is Oft- Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Surah An-Nur-: 24:31 (31) And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O ye Believers! turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss.

Modest from inside?
So sister, I can just wear my MINIs and let the whole load of men have their share of lust over me and say that I'm modest at heart?
Come onnnnn....

I simply despise it when Muslims start to Halalize what is Haram.
You not doing what is Halal doesn't make it Haram, the same way you commiting the Haram doesn't make it Halal.

So stop interpreting Islam the way you want it to be because Islam is only one way and the way that we should all be.

Sheeeshhhhh

-A'qilah Saiere-

Alhamdulillah :)

2009-03-15T09:07:00.000-07:00

Assalamualaykum wrb sisters, our blog is finally private :) Insya'Allah in time to come there'll be more exciting posts whereby it'll be more convenient for us to put up pictures of ourselves without worrying which sick person is looking at it loll :)

If there are more sisters who have forgotten to leave their emails; Insya'Allah I hope some of you might be able to inform me/naz about it.

Take care and Many Many Many Shukrans for reading our blog :)

Love all of you sisters!

Allah Ma3k!

-A'qilah Saiere-

100 truths

2009-03-13T12:07:00.000-07:00

001. Real name → Nasirah

002. Nickname(s) → NAZ

003. Status → Sumwhere in the middle

004. Zodiac sign → sumthin

005. Male or female → Female.

006. Elementary → cedars

007. Middle Schools → Don't have them here.lol.

008. High School → Phoenix

009. Skin Color→ Brown, light brown sumthin lyk tht

.010. Hair color → brown unfortunately i dunno why

011. Long or short → long (prefer short)

.012. Loud or Quiet → medium i hte ppl tht r 2 loud gimme a headache

013. Sweats or Jeans → Jeans wth is sweats? a jumper?

014. Phone or Camera → IPHONE :P

.015. Health freak → AAAH nvr used 2 be bt due 2 sum ppl lately yeh

017. Do you have a crush on someone? YES lol

018. Eat or Drink → DRINK i must have a drink everyday thts de only reason i mind ramadan i dnt eat anyway

019. Piercing → Ears.

021. Water or Fire → Water

.022. Love of your life or 4 Billion Dollars → LOVE

:023. First fear → Death/hell

024. First best friend → hmm lets call dem Aminah and Amirah

025. First award → sumthin lyk cutest baby award :P

026 First crush → aah dres no way im sharing

027. First pet → Rabbit then some cats i now hate animals

028. First big vacation → er well when i went 2 Bahrain / qatar some country with a red and white flag with my grandad who was minister of somali something and we stayed with their royal familly

030. First big birthday → 14th when my whole familly threw me an awesome suprise party at night i was rli suprised coz i was havin a crappy day

CURRENTLY:

049. Eating → non

.050 drinking→ non

. I’m about to → study something

. Listening ...........> nothing

. Best Friend → Aminah and Amirah

. Waiting for → my twinny

.YOUR FUTURE

:058. Want kids?→ hmm yeah

Want to get married? yep defo

. What career do you have in mind ? doctorness like my mum :)

WHICH IS BETTER WITH MEN?

068. Lips or eyes ...........> Lips

.070. Shorter or taller? → Taller.

072. Romantic or spontaneous → romantic

.073. Chest or Butt?→ er i actually only look at like the guys FACE

074. Sensitive or loud → neither hte those guys tht cry all the time and lud ppl gimme a headache

.075. Hook-up or relationship → Relationship/Commitment :)

077. Trouble maker or hesitant → neither idiots irritate me and i dnt wnt him 2 be hesitant as if hes scared all the time

HAVE YOU EVER:

080. Lost glasses/contacts → glasses sun glasses my sisters expesive real D&G ones :O

.081. Ran away from home → Nope

.082. Hold a gun/knife for self defense→ actually at my grandads mansion place in somalia he has like security guards with guns and i found a gun and held it damn heavy everyone freaked out though :s

083. Killed somebody .....> im not a bloody satanic person

.084. Heartbroken → nt reali i dnt give my heart away much

085. Been arrested → naah

087. Cried when someone died → i cry when i see iraqis or palestinians or afghans or chechens get injured or dead on tv if the person is related 2 me i cry myself 2 sleep :s

YOU BELIEVE IN:

089. Yourself → Yes actually i beleive if i dont no one will

090. Miracles → Yes, Allah does miracles for sure. :)

091. Love at first sight → noo

.092. Karma → hopefully

. Santa Claus → nope

.094. Sex on the first date → NOPE I BELEIVE PPL HU DO SHD BE HANGED OR SUMTHIN

095. Kiss on the first date → naah

.ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

097. Is there one person you want to be with right now → yes dont have 2 tell u who though :P

098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life → ask me that in like 20 years time right now im living in the life my parents created and alhamdulilah its not bad at all

099. Do you have any regrets? → yeah bt wtcha gonna do they aint big tho

100. Post as 100 truths and tag 20 people → TAG YOURSELF

I TAG SONIAAAAAAAAND QUEEEEEENAND MUSLIMA2MUSLIMAAND LISA AND MALEKAT AND MJ AND A MUSLIM WIFE AND NY1 INTRESTED

Notice Number 2 :)

2009-03-13T09:48:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to remind the sisters who have not left their emails just yet. Please do so now Insya'Allah. I'm making the blog private realllllll soon.
Thank you :)
I love you all wallah.

MY email was hacked. so please add my new one if you wish Insya'Allah.
muslimahofthecentury@hotmail.com

<3
-A'qilah-

Thanks Malekat Blog Award

2009-03-11T00:50:00.001-07:00

For giving Naz and Aq'ilah this amazing Award :)

inshallah we will soon pick 11 people together

who also deserve an amazing blog award

thankyou Malekat from islamicidentity :)

much love

naz

Milad Un Nabi

2009-03-09T02:49:00.000-07:00

Hapi Birthday to Rassululah

today someone special was born

today (2000 years ago) peace descended on earth

today his mothers Joy was shared by the entire Ummah

Today Allahs Most beloved came to Earth

today the most precious Gem had been born

Today truth finally had the chance to spread

today perfection was here

Today a sick Naz feels truly happier

today muslims across the world fast to commemorate the day our beloved came to us

Today someone special was born

today MUHAMMAD (PBUH) was born

so yallah go read quraan go be proud go celebrate Islam go thank Allah go remember Rasullulah (saw)

salaamz

naz

Watch Me Boogey!

2009-03-07T00:56:00.000-08:00

Assalamualaikum sisters! How many of you are fans of dancing babies/toddlers??
CHECK THIS ONE & have a good laugh :)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Ya'Allah, bless him <3

-A'qilah-

Leave your emails.

2009-03-05T12:14:00.000-08:00

Sisters, I'm making this blog private soon. Please leave your emails so I can invite you to read it Insya'Allah :)

Allah ma3k.

-A'qilah-

what does NAZ mean?

2009-03-05T11:16:00.000-08:00

aah ima do aqilahz lil quiz
but itll mean i have 2 bait out my name :O
lol
ok here goes
Name: Naz
Real name dammit: Naz OK OK fine Nasirah :O
Nasirah=victorious,helper/pleasant
now
what does Naz mean?
in my familly dre seems 2 be a little obsession with shortening names and adding
Z somewhere

my cousin khadra is called KAZ
nasirah becomes NAZ
and my sis Amal becomes Amzi
dont even ask :p
lol
salaamz
naz (every1 always calls me naz my teacher was like Naz what is ur name again? i always call u Naz
den i was like er hold on lemme remember :p Nasirah :)

What does your name mean?

2009-03-05T10:51:00.000-08:00

Just a quick random quiz.
What does your name mean sisters?
Do you like your name?
If so why?
Were you named after anyone?
TELL US, WHAT DOES YOUR NAME MEAN?

Nur A'qilah

Nur means Light
A'qilah means Intelligent.
Yes I love my name :)
Because I think it's errr....sheessh...errr... oh well I just like it. Because I'm full of myself.LOL..
I wasn't named after anyone; A'qilah comes from the word "Aqal" which means brain in arabic. LOOOL...
So i'm supposed to be brainy. I don't think so. Bleh.

Oh and sisters regarding the Cake recipe. LOL, firstly, thank you for your kind words and compliments :) I accept with much humility and grace. ;)
The recipe, we didn't really come up with the dough ourselves. LOL. it was more like an instant cake. We bought a Cake Mix.
Ours was Betty Crocker Cake Mix something like that yeah.
And erm...
We only made the icing ourselves which was pretty easy.
We only used Icing sugar, Egg White, Colouring of Your Choice & A Zest Of Lime Juice and beat it till it turns really fluffy and heavy.
And of course the fresh fruits to top it ;)

Okay Bye.
-A'qilah Saiere-

When A'qilah starts RANTING.

2009-03-05T10:27:00.000-08:00

I don't understand people sometimes.
WAIT I never understand them anyway.
I feel "all-over-the-place" right now.

I have a racist cousin who wouldn't stop picking on me and asking me to stop speaking in Tamil and Hindi just because my Identification Card says I'm Javanese (Indonesian Extract).
People have issues with my friendship with a Sister.
My Christian Best friend quarreled with her mother and nearly attempted suicide.
Her boyfriend (who is also my friend) wants to quit smoking and drinking and has been repeating the same bloody thing for the past 6 months yet he's not doing anything.
I'm not speaking much to my mother and GOD KNOWS WHY. She's just not happy with me. I seriously have NO IDEA WHY.
My dad is not helping either.
I'm having the worst menstrual cramps at 2.35 am and I AM NOT ASLEEP.
My brother is a bloody nuisance.

OMG WHO NEXT?
Seriously. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.
I need a BREAK.

-A'qilah-

Suprise? No Thanks especially if it involves hospitals

2009-03-05T09:27:00.000-08:00

Salaamz everyone

the other day

whenever it was that i posted my last post as i was sitting on the computer

just about to log out of blogger and read some quraan

the phone started ringing, perfectly normal our phone never STOPS ringing

when i heard my mum screaming something like this

mum: WHAAT? WHO DIED?

naz: *carries on reading quraan thinking mum is just being dramatic*

MUM:RAHIMAA TALK 2 ME WHAT HAPPENED?

from the phone: crying and screaming something *inaudiable*

*at this stage naz finally gets up noticing the conversation full of WHAAT and crying people isnt getting anywhere and takes the phone off mum*

naz:Rahima? rahima whats rong? why are you crying? are the little kids ok rahima?

rahima?: crying,aah i dont know mum fainted died i dont know come over

naz: what? WHAT? rahima calm down breathe we are coming where are the kids stop scaring me whers Aminah?

rahima: Amina? AAMINAAH i dont know where she is *wailing*

naz: alright im coming wait

*now naz is really scared and is trying to decide whether she should pray maghrib or run to the hospital, she chooses pray maghrib but prays the weirdest salah ever whilst crying in the middle of it :S*

*mum is also crying and is really upset she cant drive and there is no one to look after the baby she cries somemore and makes sure everybody visits the hospital*

meanwhile naz is still freaking out and trying to take the bus with a grandma thats totally freaked out and metts another aunt , the injured aunt, and my crying cousin at the hospital waiting room surounded by literally TWENTY familly members everyone is staring atn the huge random muslim familly

naz has exam the next morning but instead of revising is crying in a hospital waiting room

3 hours later a doctor examines aunty and police come to question her, aunti remebers nothing not even her own name and is having serious concussion

auntie is finally allowed to go home later that night and we worked out she tripped and banged her head and cut her eye and broke her nose

very messy indeed

aunty is still ill and recovering and mum finally decided she cant wait any longer and headed off 2 aunties house

i was sleeping there last night

pps: my exam went alright alhamdulilah :)

salaamz

naz

Bad Bad ideaa

2009-03-03T08:29:00.000-08:00

in my sixthform (college attached to a school) a terrible thing has decided to occur

the stupid headteacher thought shed think of a new way to make our learning experience increasingly similar to the conditions of hell

so she thought up this genius idea

wait for it......

SHES GONNA MIX US ALL UP

your thinking what are you talking about

well shes going to mix up the si9xth form students and the year 11 students year 10s etc

all the way down to the YEAR 7 students (the newbies) and we will be in differnt forms and forced to choose 2 people TWO out of the THIRTY people that youve known for the past 7 years of your life aaagh

and thers nothing we can do about it

im so glad this is my last year

aaagh

i hope her genius idea fails terribly

ok enough moaning

lol

salaamz

naz

btw i got an exam 2moro

YALLAH WITH THE DUAZ :P

Private Matter

2009-03-03T08:03:00.000-08:00

hey guys

salaamz

i have a suggestion i think our blog should go private

all our friends will get to view it

but no hidden followers and random people

if it became private i could post pics and it would be more fun

i know aqilah is fine with it like this but

im paranoid lol

and i think ill take the pic below down

anyways tell me what you guys think

mwah

naz

salaamz

Cake :)

2009-03-02T11:47:00.000-08:00

Remember I wanted to bake a cake for my ummi's birthday? Well, I did it & Alhamdulillah together with the help of Sis Fatin; the cake came out jussssstttt riiiiiight :)

Gorgeous isn't she? I'm so proud of US ;)

kay that's all; I need to sleep it's 4am LOL...
-A'qilah-

random post

2009-03-02T09:42:00.000-08:00

(sowwi pic removed) :(

me and my lil couzins ^ :)

heya guys

salaamz

whats up everybody

how are you all? i love who ever invented blog world coz reading everybodyz blogs is so much fun in a 15 minute break from studying

so anyways this post is about

what i have been up2

1) on saturday morning i woke up with a huuuuge headache like i couldnt even move my head

subhanallah and told i had 2 go do some stuff at the masjid

i was there from 11am-6pm but before i left i washed my hair in a desperare attempt to get rid of the headache

lovely by sarah jessica parker is the best perfume in the universe *aaaaaaaaah*

2) saturday afternoon- my cousins where at the masjid and they slept over we spent the whole night talking about studying,work, life,fashion , money and something else :p

then i found some money and bought

4 magazines pizza, went subway, had another pizza (turkish lahmacun) and bought maryland

talk about FAT! ohwell

oh and my mum bought me a whole load of magazines

3) sunday i attempted to revise for a science exam but my cousins where still here and people came to visit my mum

in the week long somali baby shower stuff with money and gifts (people leave gifts in random places in the house and u find them when they leave)

and some one made an awesome chocolate cake it was delicious

and my cousin started wearing hijab it was reali awesome news coz shes a reali awesome person and she looked wonderfully religious :P

4)monday did mock physics and chemistry exams and got an A in both now i need 2 pass the REAL one on wednesday

my aunt came from saudi arabia with abayahs and perfumes and i bought myself a brand new perfume aswell

my other is aunt is coming from america sometime this week and she bought some clothes and a perfume

now i think i need 2 go on holiday myself

ill be visiting my aunt in canada this summer due to a change of plan but anyways

shes paying 4 the ticket

wohoo :p

my friend decided to get me a late birthday gift and due to my obession with books

like i own ALL THE BOOKS in the house

and i think libraries are wonderfull place

bought me 2 books

love in a headscarf _YEEY i so wanted tht

and Mayada daughter of iraq for any jean sasson/book fanz

wait up 4 the reviewz

ohyeah

and i made my millionth "become a better muslim " resolution so far so good

i hope

take care

love u

naz#

GONE 2 BECOME BEST FRIENDS WITH THE SCIENCE BOOKS MKE DUA 4 ME PLZZZ

Twin Thing :)

2009-02-28T16:18:00.000-08:00

heya u guys
i found some random twin thing "facts" anyways this is just for fun so if
you dont beleive them leave em :)

surfing the internet
we found somewhere
that there is atleast ONE person in the world who looks exactly like you
there may be something called a carbon copy of you somwhere in the world
with a much higher chance if your chinese
and an estimated SEVEN yes SEVEN identical lookalikes
guess we r nt the only ones dng the twin thing :P
yallah go find ur carbon copy :P
mwah
naz

MY Cousings

2009-02-28T13:00:00.000-08:00

my cousins are many
but they all have one thing in common
they are all certifiably insane
(i have the certificate folks)
but they are also the most amazing people i know
they are fun and intresting and we have soo many things in common
actually
i have lived directly opposite my cousings
MY WHOLE LIFE
and when i was younger i used to spend the ENTIRE day with them i thought they were my sisters
my other cousings i lived in their house in sweden for a whole year
it was the best year ever, though it did mean i no longer lived across the road from the cousings i had known all my life
and i wanted to go back the first day i arrived in sweden
now those cousings that lived in sweden live 10 minutes from and we regularly see eachother although that does not take away the fact we always have something to talk about
my other cousings live around 2 hours away from me
though i still see them everyweek without fail
and they are still my best friends ever in the whole wide world
we are all of a similar age and i actually have a reali close cousing
called
NAZ aswell (due to our parents being pregnant the same time)
now they are sleeping over
and it reminded me just how much
i love having them around
I LOVE MY FAMILLY (for now.. :P)
love u all 2
naz

Naz and A'qilah

You Have My Heart- Cant Keep Up

Love In A scarf - And Where art though Modestjustice and Sukkar

Some Sweet Story

My Life! My Hijab! My Choice!

Remember, I promised

My weird feelings

Something, a little Sad, Happy and Personal

The Presidents Party

Islamic events, Kebabs,Barbeques and Cakes

...Happiness, Good times, Blogging

Mammas, and Mothers day gifts

Its hard being a parent.

Whats in YOUR handbag?

You and Me are we meant to be?

RIP and Freedom for Filisteen

Back to Religiousness

Hey Update and birthdays :)x

Thankyou, Little things do make a difference

Have You Heard of.. Leila and Majnun

Update-Mum,UAE,Marriage?Part 1

London/UK 2010-Snow Pictures

Happy New Year 2010-London and the World

Weddings? How would you like yours?

Happy Birthday sweetheart

Guys & Girls-The Difference in the rules

Hii, and Happy New Year -Soon

To you, From Me, With Love :)

Eid MUBARAK

A beautiful Eid

Bonfire night/perfumes

Return To Bloggin- after slight period of hybernation :P

An inspiring Story- a MUST read :)

A golden Eid

Ramadhan in Singapore

Ramadan Happenings

~~***Ramadan Kareem*** ~~

UPDATE

Orphan

france holiday pics :)

Open Air Swimming pools and Long walks

NOOO I DID NOT ABANDON THIS BLOG....

Twin thing +homesickness and great shopping and what boredom does to people

Ramadan Is Near!! <3رمضان‎

Cook/eat your way to Happiness

So Beautiful

Newss <3

I LOVE it soo far

New House :)

Unleash The Belly Dancer in You

10 HONEST THINGS-hmm

Lets get Creative with photography *yeey*

I Was A Soldier -for the day :)

Another Award :)

THANKYUU!!

Went to The Airport

Its Finally SUMMER<3 Birthdays,parties,holidays...

***<3Somalia***<3

HAPPI INDEPENDENCE DJBOUTI <3

Past Times

On Medical Leave for 2 days! :)

Hay Fever, Parks and Ducks aswell as schools and seeing people

College,funfairs and fashion :)

OMG LOOK WHO'S HERE!

Helloo Summer ?

All Things Turkish!

Miss Naz

Baby, it's all good!

Naz's Bank Holiday Weekend !!

Muslim Society Camp'09~

Work-great results-jobs-school and friends claiming 2 be raped :O

Naz is not the only one ya'know!

First Day Back

Explanation 4 Absence

Stressed? Drained?

Not to Me you Dont :)

Hmm...

Boys Bothering Naz :(

Lets Talk Clothes

Busy

Ramadan Kareem

Lets get Creative with photography yeey

<3Somalia<3