A few years back I had the honour of being invited to a wedding feast in Kupwara. To me a chance to visit the countryside in Kashmir is always something I look forward to – not only does it pristine unmatched beauty thrill me, the simplicity of its people, the sweet smile of the kids who grow up away from the ‘city-life’ makes me feel like this is the real Kashmir. Kashmir away from the ugly influences that makes us [...]

Well here I am again, sharing something I received in my inbox today. I hope you find it useful. May Allah relieve the stress in our lives. Modern Stress And Its Cure From Quran by Shahin Akhtar MD Stress is the most common aliment of modern age. It has been implicated in the causation of peptic ulcer disease, coronary heart disease, depression, auto immune disease, hypertension, diabetes and even cancer. In milder form it manifests in form of unrest, violence, [...]

Read this in a post and reminded myself that Allah is most Merciful and inshaAllah He will give us the best of both worlds. And reminding you all as well!   Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in a Hadith al-Qudsi tells us the words of Allah as He talks to His slaves: “I am as My slave thinks of Me.” So if a slave thinks the Almighty is merciful, he will find His mercy, and if he is disappointed and imagines [...]

Woke up one fine morning to a beautiful sound. I knew he was here – singing eloquently – naats and other songs praising Allah and professing love of the Prophet. Grabbed my dupatta, got my son ready and we ran down to see my parents in law listening as this man sung. There was magic in his voice – and ofcourse the words that he sang. My son sat with his Daadi – grandmother – while I ran back in [...]

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For those of you who have visited my blog before, you might have already read a little something about the Kashmiri Wedding here. While preparation of food (see Khandar the Kashmiri Wedding)  is a very elaborate and lavish affair, the process of finding your soul-mate, the koshur-way is a complicated and tiring process (see Khandar the Kashmiri Wedding – Part 2. ) While talking of the match-making process, I had actually talked of how the ‘thap’ or ‘catching the bride’ [...]

I never thought it would come to this. I have been closing the windows and even suffocating myself in this heat just to make sure that the rats that I have heard of don’t walk in. Yes it’s a pigeon infested area, with rats running around happily. I saw one outside our bedroom window once and I never left the window open. And here I was, walking into the kitchen to get my glass of water before I go to [...]

So says someone who posted on my FaceBook. And she speaks the truth. Talking of this truth makes me wonder how much of the ‘history’ that we have read is the truth? And that takes me to another question, ‘what is truth’? Hope I am not confusing you, but it is a logical question I’d say. For what is true to me, is not necessarily true to another. When I sense something, it goes to my brain which attaches meaning [...]

Now that Osama has been officially declared dead, I wonder who is going to be the next ‘bad guy’. The fight between good and evil always exist (well the good needs to do a lot of good to itself, and needs a bad guy to bear the brunt of it all). We have seen major BIG bad guys defeated – the soviet communists, then the evil Saddam and  recently the Bad Osama. Now the bad guys are dead, should we [...]

Someone shared this note with me on Facebook, and I share it with you all! A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said: “Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 yr. old and I’m pregnant again. I don’t want kids so close together.” So the doctor said: ‘Ok, and what do you want me to do?’ She said: ‘I want you to end my pregnancy, and I’m counting on [...]