Wonder what I have been doing lately?

I have been very very busy with my studies lately. We had a ton of assignments, group works and projects.. one of those projects was about creating a marketing campaign for iPad.. and thats the advertisement we came up with:
(can't see me in the add? Well, I was under the table ;))

How to unlock the iJannah

when I first read the title of this lecture/khutba I was confused and beieved that something had gone wrong.. so out of curiousity I started to watch it.
and the i before jannah is there for a purpose:
it's realted to the hype about iPad, 1 million were sold in 28 days, people slept infron of the store to get an iPad. So, people do anything possible and impossible to attain these worldly pleasures, but what do we do to enter paradise?
So this is a very nice khutba about paradise and how we can "unlock" it's doors.

learn to forgive... and the challenge of teaching your children

Today I was attending a lecture which was about forgiving people.
If you loose something or something os taken from you, it will be recorded for you as if you had given this as sadaqa. And if somebody does bad to you, you should forgive him to seek Allahs appreciation.
Even if a person hates us or is bad to us we should not lower ourself to the same level of bad feelings but do our best to love and forgive that person, praying that he/she will be forgiven.
We don't do this because we are week or because we fear confrontation. We do this because we seek Allahs appreciation abd compensation.

Anyways, the thing that really impressed me and made me think was when my teacher told us the following story:
Sometimes her son would borrow two € from his sister and then refuse to give it back to her.
Her daughter would then come to complain about his wrong doing.
So how would the mother react?
She said to her daughter, you have to possibilities, or you ask him to give it back and you have all the right to do so, or you forgive him.
If the daughter would want to get the money from her brother back, the mother would criticise the son for his behaviour and give two € to the daughter.
If the daughter would chose to forgive her brother, the mother would go and give her daughter 5 €!!!
She would do this to teach her children that you have the right to get what belongs to you but also to teach them that it is better to forgive someone who did something bad to you and seek Allahs recompensation instead of hating that person or wanting bad for him.

This story made me once again realize what a responsibility we have as mothers to teach our children to be good muslims, to understand our religion and our values and to act accordingly. The mother and the education she gives is the basis of the child, so how careful we must be and how hard we must strive to fulfill our responsibility!!!

May Allah let us be a good parent and make it easy for us to raise our children according to his will. Ameen.

A man once asked our beloved Prophet: "What is iman?"
He replied: "When your good deeds make you happy and your bad deeds make you sad, you have Iman."
[Ahmad]


taken from: http://hijabchicblog.blogspot.com/

A Single Man by Tom Ford

While I was back home during my vacations I went to the movies with my favorite cousine. I didn't really care about which movie we were going to see so she chose "a single man" from Tom Ford.

And I have to say it was one of the best movies I have seen in a long long time!!!
The story is about a gay may (colin firth) who looses his partner in a car accident and he cannot get over it. He decides to kill himself but somehow can't di it and in the end he dies on a heart attack.
So the story might not be the most exciting thing about the movie but it's just like the movie was a piece of life..
It's very quiet and very arty, using amazing pictures and fashion!
I loved every second, every scene, every picture and specially every outfit!

amazing movie!!!

happy family

just in case you were wondering were love takes places..
i'm right there!!!

home sweet home

Im back home, just for a few days but still more than enough to make me happy!