Mommying While Muslim: Recent Episodes

Zaiba Hasan & Uzma Jafri

Mommying While Muslim is a one of a kind podcast where two American born and bred Muslim moms share their experiences to raise second generation kids. Having experienced both pre and post 9/11 America, they're acutely aware of the unique challenges their families face on top of the regular messes that all moms share. Mommying While Muslim is a space to take back their stories, and tell those no one will air on the news or portray fully or fairly in the media.Zaiba Hasan and Uzma Jafri are moms first, careerwomen second, and global citizens at heart. They meet taboo topics head on because they weren't allowed to do it growing up, not at home or at school and work. They aim to better their immediate households, communities, and their momsisterhood the world over by telling the truths sometimes people don't want to face or to hear. Not everyone has the privileges they have, and they are eager to learn more than they are to share their own experiences. Always looking to give back, they find women and families who need a mic because no one needs a voice; they just need an opportunity to speak. Besides tough social issues, they also tackle political ones because when laws affect their kids, they're coming for them as well as the ones who make them! There's no lane that doesn't get taken here.Along the way, they recruit momallies for Muslim Americans who have been inordinately targeted for the last 20 years. True moms know that ALL our children deserve to be safe, loved, and happy, and we bust every yellow brick on the Islamaphobic road to make sure they all are. If you like good trouble, this one's for you!

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Noha Alshugairi, MS, LMFT and co-author of Positive Parenting in the Muslim Home, joins us today to be thanked for writing THE manual on Muslim American parenting we needed. Just kidding! Even she says that's not what it is, but it IS the text that gave us hope that there were other moms out there who knew our struggles and would help lighten them.

On this episode, Khala Noha covers the role positive discipline plays in shaping emotionally resilient kids. What are the most common concerns that Muslim parents bring her, what cultural influences help or hinder Muslim families, and why must our kids fail? That last one really begs the question about why we parents are so afraid of failure. All this, and more, in store for our listeners.

You might be surprised to learn what this therapist's beliefs and practices are about therapy and who should be doing it. What won't surprise you is her commitment to the spiritual development of Muslim parents and their kids. We didn't even release the episode and got eager listeners chomping at the bit to share how much they love Khala Noha, and everything they've learned from her.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or head to our website to check out the latest. And do share this episode with 3 mom friends no matter what stage of parenting they're in. They'll love you for it!

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1. Resources recommended by Khala Noha: https://sakina.gumroad.com/

  1. Khala Noha's linktree with ALL the info you need: https://linktr.ee/sakinacounseling

  2. Purchase for your home library: Positive Parenting in the Muslim Home

  3. Khala Noha on IG: @nohaalshugairi

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As mothers, we spend years nurturing, guiding, and preparing our children to take flight. And then one day, they do. The once chaotic household grows quiet, and we're left standing in the wake of their departure. It’s a moment we always knew would come, but it doesn't make the transition any less complex. This week's episode dives deep into the feelings of an "empty nest" and challenges the idea of loss by reframing it as an opportunity for growth and reinvention—for both us and our children.

Are we "empty" when our children leave, or are we setting them free to soar, to become who we raised them to be? The truth is, their independence is a reflection of our success as mothers. Every milestone they achieve, every risk they take, is proof that we've equipped them with the tools they need to navigate the world on their own terms.

But this transition is also about us. We aren't just mothers—we are individuals who deserve to rediscover ourselves beyond the role we've played for so long. This is a chapter where we get to ask, "Who am I now?" and "What do I want to do?" It's not about losing ourselves; it's about reclaiming and redefining our identities. From exploring new passions to reconnecting with our dreams, this stage of life is as much about our growth as it is theirs.

Tune in as we explore the bittersweet emotions of watching our children fly the nest and how we can embrace this season of transformation with grace, strength, and a little self-discovery. Whether you're on the brink of an empty nest or already navigating this new space, this conversation is for you. 💖

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This week's episode is all about Zaiba and Uzma's experiences parenting teenagers with the challenges and joys that come with it. If you don't know why they're calling it "The Wonder Years," it's because they are OLD.

How they navigate this phase of motherhood in the bread and circus of American culture is a must listen.

🔏 Limitations of parental control

📌 Teens asserting independence

🚸 Halal gender relations, including dating

☎ Open lines of communication

If you're afraid of this phase of mommying, take a sneak peek now because you can't run away. If you can, let us know you're secret!

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or head to our website to take a listen, and share this episode with a mom of teens to let her know you appreciate the mental and emotional battles she wages daily.

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Parenthood can be a beautiful journey, but it also comes with its share of challenges, right out of the gate.

In this week's episode, we’re discussing the early years of parenting when loneliness, loss of identity, and postpartum mental health often overwhelm, sabotage, and debilitate some of us. We also explore what it means to raise spirited little ones while holding on to faith and hope. 🤍

Join us as we share stories, insights, and encouragement for every mom navigating this season. You’re not alone in this.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or head to our website landing page and let’s walk this path together. 🎧✨ Share this episode with a new mom or mom to be and help her be more than a tablespoon of peanut butter. IYKYK

Links:1. Relationships Post Baby
2. Keeping Toddlers Busy
3. NISA helpline for women 1-888-315-6472
4. Naseeha mental health helpline for teens 1-866-627-3342
5. Domestic violence numbers 1-800-799-7233 or Text “BEGIN” to 88788
6. Suicide risk line-Call 988 for 24/7 help, even if it’s just to talk

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There’s a lot to say about “mothers’ status” in Islam, but sadly, not enough about how to support her to maintain and thrive there. It’s hella lonely and confusing on these pedestals. We aren’t looking for trophies, just Jannah (heaven), but some of us get lost along the way.

Good news! There’s a whole field of study about it! Matrescence, the developmental transition into motherhood, is both spiritual AND practical for Muslims. There’s no other way we know how to do things, but we weren’t always here. It took a long way, through a lot of parenting potholes and pitfalls to get where we are, and we aren’t done yet. Take a walk down memory lane with us and maybe tune in for some familiar experiences and sentiments.

We didn’t mean to start the waterworks this early in the series, but here we are. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or head to our website landing page. Share this episode with a new mama or even better, a mama to be, who can inshaAllah avoid curveballs where we did not.

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  1. What is Matrescence?
  2. Huffpost on matrescence
  3. Neuroscience of matrescence
  4. Read more about matrescence by Dr. Aurelie Athan
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☪☪On this popular replay from 2020 (can you believe it's been that long?!?!?!), podcaster mom, Farheen Raza @freeniraza, shared Shia history, practice, and whether or not sects make a difference in America. During this time of division and change in our nation, it DOES matter when we have schisms within Muslim America. Let's close those gaps together. A lot has changed for Farheen since we recorded this, so follow her and find out what that is.

☪☪Part 2 of this conversation was aired in June 2020, and we encourage you to follow up with that one next. This week, tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music, or head to our website and listen on the landing page. Share this episode with your Muslim friends who you never thought to ask about their sect (and thank goodness you didn't!).

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  1. Musings of a Modern Muslim podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/musings-of-a-millennial-muslim/id1489441261
  2. On IG: @freeniraza

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TRIGGER WARNING:

This is one of our favorite episodes because it's no one is above spiritual abuse, and everyone is vulnerable to falling victim to it. We need to have a means to bring leaders to account in this life so we can protect each other in the next one.

FACE (Facing Abuse in Community Environments) addresses those leaders who have taken major missteps, endangering not just our community members, but our faith itself. The time to identify and repair is yesterday. The good news is, we can do it together.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stiticher, Spotify, or head to our web landing page to listen, follow, and share.

Links:1. Follow FACE on IG: @facingabuse
2. FACE website: https://facetogether.org/3
2. Imam busted in AZ
4. Qari busted in KS and TX
5. The FYI Spiritual Abuse Toolkit: https://thefyi.org/religious-spiritual-abuse-toolkit/

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Trigger warning!

This episode is NOT meant to be heard by children unless our mom audience feels they're ready for it. If you're a survivor of any sexual trauma, as a child or as an adult, you may not be ready for it either, so gauge your ability to revisit the past. We are here for you either way. If you need resources to deal with PTSD due to a history of abuse, we have links for you in the shownotes, and we are always just a DM/PM or email away.

This episode IS meant to prepare us to hear the hard truths about child sex abuse, such as our personal experiences with it, how pervasive it is, and also new things, like how subversive it can be. Learn about grooming, disclosure, even forgivenesss, and how to be the safety net our kids need in the event that the worst should happen; may Allah SWT protect them all always. Ameen.

Shariea Shoatz and our team made ourselves incredibly vulnerable in this episode because we trust our Muslim and non Muslim mom sisters to receive these hard truths in love and compassion, and to offer those in turn to themselves, as well as to their children. We are not alone in this. ... Sexual abuse doesn't happen because we are Americans and that's "this culture." NO! Sexual abuse doesn't monopolize any one country or society. Many cultures within and without the US have to deal with it, but we have the opportunity to dive deep into this difficult topic and figure out how to prevent and treat it. Mommying means rolling up our sleeves for the sake of the kids and our God-given duty to protect them at all costs.

Shariea Shoatz is on the money when she says education is the best prevention, so that's where most of this conversation will be. Hugs for anyone who needs them after this one!

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or click on our bio to listen right on our website. Share this episode with all your mom friends because education is the best prevention.

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  1. Follow Shariea on IG: @shariea_shoatz
  2. Learn more about Buddy Speaks and purchase the book: https://buddyspeaks.org/home
  3. The FYI resources on sexual abuse
  4. Are Muslims Doing Enough to Combat Child Sexual Abuse?

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Anyone ever feel self pity as you pick up in the kitchen at the end of the night, get laundry started or finished in the dark, put toys back where they belong, or end up refilling the tank at the most inopportune time because no one else did it? Are you the only one praying at salah time because your reminders fall on deaf ears or outright refusal?

Review the status of mothers in Islam and be confident in our role as seen by our Creator. We believe in the angels recording even when people are not. Kids’ sense of security in knowing we are always there. They are taught early on “mother, mother, mother” and will never see us as “nobody.” And because Allah SWT sees us, can we ever be invisible?

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or click on our bio for the website to listen and share this with momsisters who may feel invisible. Shoot them a text that reads "I see you" and check out what happens.

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  1. The original article by Nicole Johnson that went viral
  2. Omar Suleiman tribute to his parents
  3. Quranic &Hadeeth references on mothers’ status

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Tina Khan joins us today to discuss her experience watching her son’s spiral into drugs and mental health crises and what it did to their family. This is definitely an episode you want to hear before you choose to let your kids listen in, but it really does merit a listen by young people to hear what drug addiction does, not just to an individual, but a family and community.

Where are we as a Muslim community in terms of supporting our young Muslims struggling with drug addiction, and just as importantly to our momcrew, are we there for our moms who have a child in crisis like this? If not now, WHY NOT. If not now, WHEN?

Tune in at 6pm EST tonight on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or click on our link in bio and SHARE this episode link with 2 moms you know so THEY know they’ve got allies and ears with us. Make sure you use your podcast app to look up the links on this one.

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  1. Ten years of substance use research in Muslim populations: Where do we go from here?: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jmmh/10381607.0010.103/--ten-years-of-substance-use-research-in-muslim-populations?rgn=main;view=fulltext
  2. Substance Abuse and Addiction in the Muslim Community: Facing Stigma and Seeking Support: https://www.ispu.org/substance-abuse-and-addiction-in-the-muslim-community/
  3. Participate in Muslim drug treatment research study: https://betterconduct.org/
  4. Teena’s email: teena.khn@gmail.com
  5. Listen to Teena on King of the World podcast: https://www.rifelion.com/shows/kingoftheworld

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In this episode, Zaiba discusses the concept of embracing challenges to develop many strengths, including the elusive growth mindset. It’s not just for kids, folks!

Takeaways include

  • Leaning into toughness to build resilience.
  • Setting clear achievable goals
  • Breaking down challenges into manageable steps can help in leaning into toughness.
  • And many more!

Tune in at 6pm EST and share this with an accountability partner. Don’t what that is? LISTEN!

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Remember COVID cabin fever? And now it’s the middle of summer with all the kids home and some of us with hot flashes to boot. It’s a recipe for an explosion of tempers, so how do we manage ours?

This is a great episode for those of us struggling to model prophetic behavior to our children, especially when it comes to the critical sunnah of controlling our anger. Luckily, we still get to feel it. But it’s HOW we react that matters. Zaiba pulls out the stops on this one to offer some of her parenting coaching pearls, and Uzma is struggling, but always willing, to put them into practice.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or head to our website to take a listen. Share this episode with your parenting partner and posse because anger management is something we always need reminders about.

Links:Latest July 2024 Human Rights Report
Resources debunking 10/7 atrocity propaganda

  1. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/26/722543/New-York-Times-calls-Hamas-rape-story-false-
  2. https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/1/nyt_anat_schwartz
  3. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-beheading-claims-intl/index.html
  4. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/decapitated-babies-claim-intent-dehumanization.html
  5. https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-2-debunked-accounts-from-zaka-workers-fueled-global-skepticism-of-oct-7-rape/
  6. https://prospect.org/world/2024-03-20-what-really-happened-on-october-7/
  7. https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/
  8. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/atrocity-propaganda-vs-the-testimony-of-atrocity/https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2024/3/2/the-unraveling-of-the-new-york-times-hamas-rape-story
  9. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/21/october-7-forensic-analysis-shows-hamas-abuses-many-false-israeli-claims

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Summers are long and hot, and thanks to global warming, even longer and hotter. But while we’re cooped up indoors waiting for the world to come to its flaming end, we don’t have to be bored. Remember that as our kids grow up, so do we, and we can rediscover old beloved hobbies or learn new ones.

What are Zaiba and Uzma up to this summer and what are some of their inspirations, motivations, and tricks to these new hobbies? More importantly, what hobbies are getting you through this summer? Comment below to share or head over to our FB group. Just know if you don’t answer the questions or pass our vetting, you don’t get in. No trolls allowed.

Tune in at 6pm EST and thanks for listening to our twofer episode drop this week!

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This month’s Chit Chat Series addresses relevant mommying issues starting with the transitions we experience as adult children move out for college. Or go away for summer camp. Grief is real.

So is the mental work WE have to do as moms to accept new roles and identities for ourselves as our kids enter the stage where they will spend the majority of their lives: adulthood. Join the spectators on the bench this episode to discuss important practical and emotional steps we can take with our kids to head out on the next part of this journey.

Tune in at 6PM EST and don’t forget we have a two-fer tonight and may just need some extra time to clean it up and post it. In any case, you should have a listen on your commute before the weekend hits!

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Tune in for this recap of our June series "Children of Immigrants!" We review episodes recorded this months, as well as lessons learned from them, but the meat of the talk is the good and bad things we inherit and how we use them to do better with our own kids.

First generation Muslim Americans, we need you to listen in especially! This whole podcast, not just the episode, was Uzma's dream for you!

Share this podcast with a friend who has an immigration story or two under their belt, too.

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Our guest this week is, Marena Riyad, comedienne, creative, crafter, community builder, and crash courser in life. We got some learning today! From kidnapping to "it takes a village" to "be A LOT uncomfortable" to get where we want to go in life, we found a lot of Marena's talking points really hit home. Young wisdom is so very humbling, especially when it clearly demonstrates how to reconcile immigrant histories and write our own chapters in them.

What does that look like when we grow up with stalwart models of resilience and sacrifice? It often means inheriting a strong work ethic and failure-is-not-an-option gameplan, but there is a room to follow our north stars. Marena demonstrates this beautifully. Whether you're an immigrant, a child of immigrants, or someone striving to make their mark in the world, this episode will resonate.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head to our website landing page for a compelling discussion on ambition, resilience, and the beauty of crafting a life that reflects both where we come from and where we're going.

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  2. Marena Riyad on IG: @thehausofhenna

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We are celebrating Shellie McKinney of @momnetworkusa today, a first generation Muslim American and dedicated community organizer, who channels the resilience and spirit of her immigrant mother from Barbados. Growing up, Shellie learned from her mother's lead and "make lemonade" squeeze, founding an organization that is making the lives of our Muslim moms and children better.

But what ARE the experiences of a first generation immigrant who code switches Bajan so adeptly, you wouldn't guess she's Brooklyn-born? And how do these experiences affect her mothering today? Hear how Shellie's late mother's love and strength lifted new immigrants, and inspired future generations to fully embrace their culture. Today, Shellie works tirelessly to build stronger, more inclusive communities, honoring her mother's legacy with every step she takes.🌟

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head over to our website landing page, and follow MOMNetwork!

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2. Shellie's reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear

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There's so much Zeena on the podcast, and you'll find out why next week!

@zeena_altalib joins us for the first of our Children of Immigrants series this month, recounting her family's move to the US from Iraq, her experience of it as a teen and now, as a mom. At the end of the day, we determine that mothering is the same whether you are an immigrant mom or native born, but the paths to and from there may be different. Certainly, the challenges are!

As a mom of boys and a business coach, Zeena's coping strategies are noteworthy, so grab a pad and pencil and listen to this one! As a child of immigrants, her aid to her parents is also something to write home about.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head over to our website to launch, and share this episode with your immigrant parents.

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We recap this month's moving episodes that acknowledge the incredible burden of motherhood during genocide. Insha'Allah, that weight will be relieved from the shoulders and hearts of the Palestinian people, ameen. 🍉🍉

If you've missed these episodes because you've been heartbroken and gaping at your phones over the ongoing horrors that have surpassed our wildest imaginations, we get it. But remember that our humanity relies on our steadfastness to it. We will NEVER normalize what's happening right now. We will NEVER accept it. And we will NEVER stop resisting. ✊🏾

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stiticher, Amazon Music, or head over to our website and share this episode with someone who doesn't know the difference between "Palestine" and "Pakistan." 🗺

Links:
1. To help transport refugees out of Rafah to Mawasi:
Follow mohamed_elzomar
Follow @oberlin4palestine
Donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-getting-out-of-gaza-death

2. To help Fidaa’s cousin reunite with her family, and her other cousins escape Rafah
https://gofund.me/eb72560b
https://gofund.me/63a801df
https://gofund.me/aec0ca32

3. For an intro to the Palestinian struggle
Said, Edward W. The question of Palestine
Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Pappe, Ilan. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine

4. For a history of Palestine
Doumani, Beshara. Rediscovering Palestine: merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900

5. For Nakba deniers
Abdo, Nahla, and Nur Masalha, eds. An oral history of the Palestinian Nakba
Assad, Dawud. Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre
Khalidi, Walid (ed.), Sharif S. Elmusa, and Muhammad Ali Khalidi. All that remains: The Palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948
Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
Masalha, Nur. The politics of denial: Israel and the Palestinian refugee problem

6. On resistance
Davis, Angela Y. Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement

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Today’s guest, Morgan Cooper @mashjar_juthour, has lived and breathed Palestine for over two decades and is online telling Americans what her experiences have been as a Christian human in the land. She’s witnessed the DAILY government apartheid and violence against indigenous people and hasn’t been shy to speak up, a warrior mom to Palestinian children being raised on their historical land. Your heart will swell with pride, and break when she shares what she has to teach her kids to be safe there. In this episode, you’ll note us trying not to say “West Bank,” given what she’s has taught us about the language of colonization and violence.

Morgan is a mom and environmental activist, preserving Palestinian land and culture in the ways she knows how: by raising proud Palestinian children, and supporting local female artisans so that the crafts of the land can recruit hearts outside of it. Handmade Palestine has been her passion project for almost a decade and through it, we can help support indigenous mothers and their liberation. Her message to Gazan mothers, well, another tearjerker.

We thought about splitting this into two episodes, but it just couldn’t be done because of the efforts we had to let everyone know about on the ground to help Palestinian moms TODAY. So this may take the drive lines as well as your day’s errands to complete. For those out of school, it’s a good way to start a road trip, but we promise you’ll finish before you hit the next state.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head over to our website and take a listen, then share with ten friends who need to hear all about, and shop at, Handmade Palestine @handmadepalestine.

Links:

  1. Follow Morgan on IG: @mashjar_juthour
  2. Email Morgan for a farm stay: Info@juthour.org
  3. Purchase Palestinians crafts from women led co-ops to support artisans and Mashjar: https://handmadepalestine.com/

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Fidaa Elaydi joins us today to share her personal experiences of Al Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza. A grandchild and child of Palestinian refugees to Gaza 76 years ago, she is four generations into a history of colonization and displacement, and now, genocide. As a mom of 4 herself, including a newborn, she has an acute perspective on mothers in Gaza today.

Hear about her family, delivering babies in war, losing everything, trying to evacuate, trying to reunite, and now trying to survive an impending ground invasion on Rafah where they have been seeking shelter. Mothers for 8 months and 76 years have held onto surreal hopes in Palestine, and Gazans in particular have a special coping mechanism we wish we did, too.

Tune in at 6pm EST to Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music or head to our website to take a listen. Share this episode with someone who still doesn’t know exactly what’s going on and how to attain peace in the Middle East.

Links:

  1. Help transport refugees in Rafah to AlMawasi
    1. @mohamed_elzomar endorsed by @oberlin4palestine
    2. Donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-getting-out-of-gaza-death
  2. Help reunite Fidaa’s cousin with her children, and help her other cousins reach safety:
    1. https://gofund.me/eb72560b
    2. https://gofund.me/63a801df
    3. https://gofund.me/aec0ca32
  3. For an intro to the Palestinian struggle
    1. Said, Edward W. The question of Palestine
    2. Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
    3. Pappe, Ilan. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine
  4. For a history of Palestine
    1. Doumani, Beshara. Rediscovering Palestine: merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900
  5. For Nakba deniers
    1. Abdo, Nahla, and Nur Masalha, eds. An oral history of the Palestinian Nakba
    2. Assad, Dawud. Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre
    3. Khalidi, Walid (ed.), Sharif S. Elmusa, and Muhammad Ali Khalidi. All that remains: The Palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948
    4. Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
    5. Masalha, Nur. The politics of denial: Israel and the Palestinian refugee problem
  6. On resistance
    1. Davis, Angela Y. Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement

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Did you know that much of the Palestinian diaspora is forbidden by Israel to return to Palestine, despite Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which requires nations to ensure the safe return of refugees to their homeland? Unless you know a Palestinian, you probably didn’t.

Amal Fayad is one such member of this diaspora, numbering in the millions across the world, who knows Gaza, through the stories of her family. Both of her parents grew up in Gaza, but cannot go back, even with an American passport. Hear about her dad’s survival at sea as a toddler, her grandmother’s strength, as well as what “equal” rights currently means for Palestinian “citizens” of Israel.

Tune in at 6pm EST to Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music or head to our website to take a listen. Share this episode with someone who insists Palestinians are equal citizens of Israel.

Links:

  1. For an intro to the Palestinian struggle
    1. Said, Edward W. The question of Palestine
    2. Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
    3. Pappe, Ilan. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine
  2. For a history of Palestine
    1. Doumani, Beshara. Rediscovering Palestine: merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900
  3. For Nakba deniers
    1. Abdo, Nahla, and Nur Masalha, eds. An oral history of the Palestinian Nakba
    2. Assad, Dawud. Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre
    3. Khalidi, Walid (ed.), Sharif S. Elmusa, and Muhammad Ali Khalidi. All that remains: The Palestinian villages occupied and depopulated by Israel in 1948
    4. Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
    5. Masalha, Nur. The politics of denial: Israel and the Palestinian refugee problem
  4. On resistance
    1. Davis, Angela Y. Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement

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We had too good a conversation not to make an episode out of it, and thank you to Shehla Faizi of @imamuslimpodcast for initiating it! Basically, like the majority of the country, we moms are asking:

  1. WTH is going on on our student campuses?
  2. Why on earth would students put their education, finals, safety and futures on the line for Gazans they don’t even know?
  3. Why are peaceful student encampments met with such brutal force?
  4. Why is everyone vs. the students protesting genocide and not the actual genocide in Gaza?
  5. What can we do in solidarity with our students?

If you take nothing else away from this conversation, SHOW UP.

Tune in to find out how to keep us safe! Stay safe out there, everyone! 👊🏽👊🏽

Links:

  1. The History of Anti War Student Movements
  2. Anti War Student Movements to Explain to Kids
  3. The History of the Young Lords
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THANK YOU to all respondents of our survey so far. Anyone who'd like to receive a a free gift card via email, please head to the link in bio to fill that out by 5/15. Your answers helped us round out and improve the picture we have of you in our minds when we plan and pray for this podcast. 🎧

What topics do audiences want us to cover, how do they want to support us (or don't 😭😭😭), what do they want us to do better, and what comment made us outright cry?

Tune in at 6pm EST to find out and if you are a student who needs info shared or resources sent ASAP, please let us know and we are your moms to get it done. Stay safe out there, everyone! 👊🏽👊🏽

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Today is the first of two episodes reporting the results of our Annual Survey. On this one, find out who our fellow listeners are, where they listen in from, what they do, and what this data means to us. Find out if it's true about you or not, and why this data matters to the podcasts industry itself.

Survey closes on 5/15! Click on the link in bio to fill it out and automatically enter our drawing to win egift cards for participating. Help shape the future of Mommying While Muslim Podcast with your feedback.

Tune in at 6pm EST and remember to cast your Webby People's Choice vote by midnight! Link in bio.

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3. Disparities in the Podcast Industry: https://gitnux.org/diversity-in-the-podcast-industry/

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We are in dire need of it, hence the replay of Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi's episode about impediments to spiritual consistency in our lives. While some folks tried to white knuckle it through Ramadan, we used it to treat our broken hearts and rage. But we are still worried about how to make the essence of this month make the world make sense after Eid. How do we carry our Ramadan routines forward past this blessed month and not lose the spiritual high we SO NEED right now?

Let’s talk about train cars, the myth of parental ownership, suhbah (spiritual companionship), acts of worship we can rely on no matter our stage of motherhood, and insha’Allah walk away feeling energized to maintain the magic of Ramadan, keeping up steam for the rest of the year. Allahuma ameen.

☪☪Tune in to this episode and share it with a friend who needs to keep filling her cup while she hits the streets and phone banks to stop a manmade catastrophe THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED if everyone paid more attention to ALL children, and not just their own.

Links:

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  2. Hosai Mojaddidi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hosaimojo/?hl=en
  3. Hosai Mojaddidi on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hosaimojaddidi/
  4. The Golden Quran app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.goldenquran.freesoft&hl=en_US≷=US
  5. Ustadha Hosai’s book recommendation: The Jewels of the Quran Imam Ghazali
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This week's replay is Dr. Fareeha Malik, DDS, mom of 2 with a history of severe postpartum depression. PPD ended up informing her relationships and and even her reproduction.

Of course, we discuss how she she found healing. Bringing home a baby doesn’t always mean mom’s eternal happiness. Not all mothers feel “the way they should” after the baby is born, and may feel lost if they don’t know where to turn for resources. This endangers not only mom but also a newborn.

In a time when 14000 children have been unalived in a completely manmade g-cide, this episode still has its place as one of the struggles mothers face. And for those of our momsisters delivering via C-section without anesthesia, delivering prematurely due to stress, shock, and manmade famine, PPD is a real threat with deep seated claws. May Allah SWT first and foremost secure the survival of our momsisters and their newborns born in an ongoing g-cide, and protect them from every evil of the heart and mind, and destroy the enemies who threaten their physical states. Ameen.

We were so into the conversation that we didn't get to review the valuable resources we have for our community. check out the shownotes on our website or DM us.

Links:
1. Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: http://perinatology.com/calculators/Edinburgh%20Depression%20Scale.html
2. PHQ-9 Screening Tool: https://www.integration.samhsa.gov/images/res/PHQ%20-%20Questions.pdf
3. American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology patient handout on PPD: https://www.acog.org/Patients/FAQs/Postpartum-Depression?IsMobileSet=false
4. Nisa Helpline: https://nisahelpline.com/who-we-are/ 1-888-315-NISA (6472) available 12 hours during the day, or email info@nisahelpline.com anytime
5. National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 available 24/7 for help

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This hiatus replay features Shaykha Tamara Gray, founder of Rabata, an online institute for and by Muslim women to educate themselves in Islam. She’s also an experienced mom who has a lot to share with moms about allying with their kids as part of their mothering.

Mic drop moment 32:36 when Shaykha Tamara reminds us about the etymological relationship of the words “umm” (mother) and “imam” (one in front of whom we study, or leader), but on a lighter note at 44:15 “Shaykha Tamara: I am green beans!” Serious butterflies and chills in this episode, so don’t miss it!

Tune in at 6pm EST and share with a momsister in search of female scholarship. Remember to pray for those memorizers of Quran and scholars we have lost in the past several months, in G@z@ especially, due to a siege that was 100% manmade and 100% avoidable.

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  1. Find out more about Rabata: https://www.rabata.org/
  2. Rabata on IG: @rabata_org
  3. Find out more about Ribaat programs: https://ribaat.rabata.org/
  4. For more information on the teen program “RabaTeens”: rabateens.rabata.org
  5. For more information on the children’s program “Dragonflies”: dragonflies.rabata.org
  6. Anse Tamara on IG: @tamaralgray
  7. Anse Tamara’s p

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Sumiya Khan, RD was recently on during our Where Are They Now series, and this is her original story from Season 2, in case you haven't heard it or don't know how to find it on your podcast app.

She shared her devastating loss and was on the path to overcoming it at the time of this recording. Her advice on the do’s and don'ts during grieving are golden and should be printed for general public use! She’s truly a model of resilience, and since like-minded folks get together, Sanctuary Kitchen was [is] her passion, outlet, and work empowering refugees. We look forward to her supportive endeavors in Muslim bereavement based on her personal experience. Trigger warning: If you've experienced profound personal loss, you may not be prepared for this.

As a role model for all, she lives life outside the box in her work and at home, showing us that through and in grief are opportunities for our growth and sanctuary. Make duaa for our sisters across oceans who have had their love stories cut abruptly due to siege and assault that was 100% manmade and 100% avoidable. Tune in at 6pm EST and share with a momsister who is working to increase her gratitude this blessed month.

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Thirteen thousand children and counting....and as you heard on our hiatus announcement, at home, moms are losing their kids, too, to the continued shock of the community. Why are we so shocked? Are we untouchable, above grief and trials from Allah? No, He's promised them to us, and we pray to pass all those tests. Ameen.

One of the moms who came on before is our beloved teammate, Saira Sufi, who even recently moved us to tears at our gala when she shared the story of her son, Hadi. She is our role model, who embodies beautiful patience and imaan while facing what we can only imagine is lifelong grief. Despite losses that we would describe as "crushing," she crushed them, and instead has built a legacy for Hadi that will make those of us who never met him, truly regretful.

This may be a triggering episode for anyone who has suffered immense loss and grief, so maybe listen in a group so you can support each other through this episode. Remember to pray for our sisters and families abroad who are waking up every day to the wrenching reality of an unalived child or relative. Their grief is so tragic because it was 100% manmade and 100% avoidable.

Also, let’s never forget to support medical research and to join minority blood registries in case we can ever help another family avoid illness and loss. This episode is for every mom, sibling, and family who’s ever experienced the loss of a child, and we pray for their continued healing and reward with Allah SWT. Ameen.

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  1. Team Watience Website: https://www.teamwatience.com/
  2. Team Watience FB: https://www.facebook.com/TeamWatience/
  3. Team Watience IG: https://www.instagram.com/sairasufiandteamwatience/
  4. Help reach Saira’s $60K research goal by donating to the Hadi Abdu Rasheed Research Fund for Aplastic Anemia: https://aamdsif.salsalabs.org/eoyp2pfundraisingcampaign/p/hadiabdurrasheedsresearchfund/index.html
  5. Be the Match and register your bone marrow with the minority registry for a child or human in need; it just takes a cheek swab, no blood! https://bethematch.org/support-the-cause/donate-bone-marrow/join-the-marrow-registry/

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Zaiba and Uzma discussed how they faced the biggest "mommying challenges" during Ramadan 2019, and how they break us and make us. In light of the current siege in G@z@, we feel broken indeed and for that reason look forward to Ramadan.

We were inspired to replay this due a recent post by @drhanaa,peacewithinhome, because the ummah is sharing survivors' guilt while our brothers and sisters suffer across the world because of our tax dollars. Everything sticks in our throats where our rage and tears are balled up, but her recent post about how to explain this Ramadan to our kids is key, and this episode is a reminder of the lengths we have gone to in the past for our families in Ramadan. This year, the stakes are higher. Oh, Allah, You are The One Who forgives greatly, and loves to forgive, so forgive us. (Tirmidhi).

And let this be the Ramadan that brings forgiveness, mercy, and peace to the ones who need it most. Allahuma ameen. Tune in at 6pm EST and share with a momsister who also can't remember the excitement of this most beloved guest of the year, Ramadan.

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We are still recovering from this past weekend’s Eman Entrepreneur Expo and Empower & Elevate Gala. Thank you to all who participated, attended, donated, and supported in all the ways that matter. But who knew two events in one day would be this exhausting?

Jokes aside, we are blessed to do the work we do, but full steam ahead since 10/7 has left us little to contribute to our own households of late, namely, those who gave us the credentials we value the most: M.O.M.

We want to continue our activism but rest, reset, and reconnect with our kids during Ramadan right around the corner. So while you might catch a story or two, we will be on both social media and new episode recording fasts until April. We will be back insha’Allah with the best version of ourselves that y’all deserve. Right now, our kids and our mom hearts need each other.

Tune in at 6pm EST to hear the announcement, and every Thursday this March for replays of past guests sure to help you stay in sajdah a little longer. Worked for us! We hope to see y’all back in April insha'Allah.

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If this month's series title scared you, we can imagine today's episode title will, too. Rest assured, we have very tame info for everyone. In fact, it's info meant to help tame the problems we think are really big and we have all to ourselves, when, in fact, many people suffer silently with the same. And silence helps NO ONE. Getting control in the bedroom is everyone's right.

We've talked pathology all month, so let's talk about practical equipment to help with some of those physical changes with time. What we use to get control CAN be used for kink, but it's not all about that at all. Drop your judgements at the door and grab your headphones for this one--not for easy listening while you're at the park with the kiddos!

Tune in at 6pm EST and share this episode with your mom, sister, and daughters, as well as the men in your life who you love.

DMW we can't wait to see you this Saturday 2-24-24!

Links:1. Start the conversations!-Surviving Marriage Couple Card Game NOTE: We do not have a financial relationship with Br. Rufus & Sr. Jenny. We just appreciate this game that much!
2. Adaptive wedge-NOTE: copycats on Wayfair or Amazon available at a fraction of the cost. We do not have a financial relationship with these products.
3. . Adaptive chair-NOTE: copycats on Wayfair or Amazon available at a fraction of the cost. We do not have a financial relationship with these products.
4. Learn about Judeo-Christian sex negativity’s effects via colonization of the Muslim world-Islamic Perspective on Sexual Intimacy
5. Learn about the role of sex equipment ie sex “toys” and how to get them-Taking Control in the Bedroom. NOTE: We do not have a financial relationship with these products.
6. Last chance to get your Empower & Elevate Gala tickets on 2-24-24!

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"Name it to tame it," as Zaiba likes to say on the podcast and today, she has to DO IT! We don't say "hooha" anymore after this episode because we learn the correct anatomical terms for female external genitalia and the pathologies that affect it.

Dr. Sadaf Lodhi OBGYN is on today to provide medical insight, sex coaching, and a good dose of hope to those women and moms who've given up on the idea of ever enjoying sex again (if they ever did at all!). It's time to drop our cultural baggage and embrace kink and control in the bedroom. Our favorite word after this episode is "sensate" and we'd love to hear what yours is after!

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, @goodpods, Amazon Music, or head to our website landing page and share this episode with partners, sisters, daughters, and even our own mothers! Good sex(ual health) for you, and for you, and for you.....

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Apologies for the late drop this week, but we had to bring you Gynogirl, our favorite supershero, Dr. Sameena Rahman, MD, and OB/GYN. She's an expert on all things sexual dysfunction and menopause with a CV as long as our arm mashaAllah.

While she dives into vaginismus, she also dispels hymen mythology, and teaches us about female Viagra. Yes, there is such a thing, so tune in to hear all about it and don't be ashamed, those gents who listen to us, to send it to your partners you think might need it! This series is about getting control in the bedroom, and there is no better way to do it than to name the pathology and get it treated.

We are on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music or you can head to our website to tune in.

Links:
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2. Find a sexual dysfunction doctor near you: ISSWSH
3. Find a menopause expert near you: NAMS

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We kick off our February series with the theme: Kink & Control in the Bedroom. Who better to teach us control there than Dr. Neda, NP, who joins us today to talk about sex during early conjugal relations in Muslim American bedroom life, and in later phases. While she’s better known as @hijabiluscious, her professional career has her taking care of people and their health needs first. And sex is a vital health need, as well as a marker of good health.

Body autonomy is something near and dear to her, and she takes it a notch up by teaching us how to keep those luscious bodies autonomous and satisfied once they’re participating more often (emphasis on “often”) in sexual activities. Find out how to troubleshoot what’s not feeling right and more importantly, how to talk to both your doctor and partner about it.

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Dr. Maytha Al Hassen from the team at ‘Ramy’ is BACK to talk about the media shift that MAY BE happening as a result of mainstream being called out (finally!) for yellow journalism that vilifies Arabs and Muslims (at least this time in history). The Golden Globes just happened, so what about narrative shifts in entertainment media? Listen up, Hollywood!

Ignore Uzma’s doom and gloom, and pay attention to Dr. Al Hassen’s takes on social justice influencers and events that may compel narrative media changes, and those that may continue to quell it. This conversation is sure to ignite some cerebral sparks, so put your smarty hats on!

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or head to our website landing page.

Links:
1. Dr. Maytha AlHassen on IG: https://www.instagram.com/lealishalabi/
2. Send esims to journalists in Gaza now: https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/
3. Follow Palestinian journalists on IG
a. @motaz_azaiza
b.@wizard_bisan1
c. @gazanewslive
d.@gazamedicvoices
e.@lealishalabi
4. Follow Palestinian voices on IG
a. @imeu
b.@iampalipina
c. @sbeih.jpg
d. @jenanmatari
e. @paccusa
f. @dcipalestine
5. Palestinian allies on IG
a. @jvpaction
b. @greg.j.stoker
c.@owenjones84
d. @breakingthesilenceisrael
6. ALL the movies! a. Paradise Now (Hany Abu Assad, 2005)
b. Salt of This Sea (Annemarie Jacir, 2008)
c. Slingshot Hip Hop (Jackie Reem Salloum 2008)
d. Anything starring Hiam Abbas (Ramy's mom, among other roles)
e. Israelism
f. Tantura
g. The Occupation of the American Mind
h. Born in Gaza
i. The Shaikh
j. Sniper
k. Rules of Engagement
l. Black Hawk Down
m. Argo
n. The Murder of Alex Odeh ( Jason Osder and William Youmans)
7. ALL the shows!
a. Ramy on Hulu
b. Mo on Netflix
c. Ramy's animated series on Amazon Prime

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Our Muslim Moms and the News Series this month is an offshoot of our series of a similar bent from 2021. Sadly we aren't saying anything different this time around.

In this replay, Zaiba and Uzma cite past big headlines that affected their physical and mental safety. Ask yourself how news coverage would have been different, and HAS been different for non-Muslims suspects. When do Muslim Americans hold their collective breaths and why? And how is it all the same now?

Our expectations from media coverage must be higher and the biases of news coverage, because it endangers affected people, must be held to account., News coverage, and now social media coverage, result in perpetual Muslim grief. But only one of them is trying to undo oppression, while the other is a tool of it. Let's work together to prevent and punish dissemination of Islamophobic news coverage.

There’s slamming of our hands on the table so watch your ears. We apologize! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, or head to our website to listen.

Links:

  1. Book mentions by Uzma: Mornings in Jenin and The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa
  2. Book mention by Zaiba: City of Brass by S.A. Chakroborty
  3. San Bernadino shooter coverage: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/04/458502872/frenzied-media-pour-over-home-of-san-bernardino-killers-during-live-broadcasts
  4. John Ritzheimer and the Phoenix Masjid Free Speech Rally: https://youtu.be/55b3-jBqztU
  5. Ahmed Mohammad and the atomic clock: https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html
  6. Las Vegas shooting coverage: https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html
  7. Phoenix doctor fired for speaking out: https://www.newsweek.com/thirst-kill-us-pediatric-doctor-fired-accusing-israel-cannibalism-1604992

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For those of you who are counting on news from the ground in Gaza, you know and follow journalist Leali Shalabi who consistently provides daily 24-hour newscaps from Gaza. She’s not only sharing her process and commitment to covering Palestine, her insights into being a Palestinian American are mind blowing for us. We’re never too old or too proud to learn something new alhamdulillah.
There’s been a lot of discussion about how Gen Z is changing the conversation on Palestine through social media. Hearing it from a Gen Z trained journalist who is also on social media to provide accurate information we can’t otherwise get from mainstream media means a lot to us. It’s changed the language we are used to media using, as well as the news coverage being shared. As we say on the podcast, we have never been able to speak so openly on Palestine before 2023, and we really think social media has a lot to do with this. How is mainstream media falling in line and how is it not?
The tides have turned, as the ICJ trial today proves, and we credit the new language of media fueled by the visual story of Palestine and thank journalists by choice as well as the journalists doing it under duress directly in the line of fire. We pray for their protection, reward, and freedom, as well as for justice on the world stage today. Allahuma ameen.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music or head over to our website to listen today and share it with a young person considering journalism.
Leali Shalabi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lealishalabi/ Send esims to journalists in Gaza now: https://gazaesims.com/esim-purchase-tutorial/ Follow Palestinian journalists on IG@motaz_azaiza@wizard_bisan1@gazanewslive@gazamedicvoices@lealishalabi
Follow Palestinian voices on IG@imeu@iampalipina@sbeih.jpg@jenanmatari@paccusa@dcipalestine
Allies on IG@jvpaction@greg.j.stoker @owenjones84@breakingthesilenceisrael
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We want to credit @trtworld for its article "What's it's like to be a parent in Gaza" that informs today’s episode. This is an older article from late October 2023, but it's awful how 90 days seems ages ago when we are talking about tens of thousands of unalived humans. It's critical to share the stories of 🍉's when many in the world, and in our own country, still think it's okay to dehumanize people. This is the way they've been able to justify politicizing "ceasefire" when as moms, we know it's the only way to keep ALL our children safe.

This month's series is Muslim Moms in the Media, discussing our hope that the misinformation and disinformation campaigns that assume we are all too stupid to look things up are seeing their days numbered. May it be so Allahum ameen. Criticism is not racism when we question actions, not beliefs. Join us this month as we follow the narrative and fact finding changes that have come with the democratization of information, but how to do it responsibly, and humanely. The time to humanize Black and Brown bodies was yesterday, but we know we can catch up God willing.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Googleplay, Amazon Music, or head to our website landing page using the link in our bio. And share this episode with anyone who doubts the humanity of anyone for even a second.

Links:
1. What it’s like to be a parent in Gaza 2. Follow Palestinian journalists on IG
@motaz_azaiza
@wizard_bisan1
@gazanewslive
@gazamedicvoices
@lealishalabi
3. Follow Palestinian voices on IG
@imeu
@iampalipina
@sbeih.jpg
@jenanmatari
@paccusa
@dcipalestine
4. Palestinian allies on IG
@jvpaction
@greg.j.stoker
@owenjones84
@breakingthesilenceisrael

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Mariam Muhanna comes on today with experience both working and living as an expat in Gaza for several years prior to coming back to the United States. Hear about her day to day experiences and why she wants to go back. Also remember to pray for her many immediate family members who have been killed within the last 80 plus days. May Allah SWT reunite them all in Jannah (Heaven). Ameen.
We get some insight into how Gazans are deeply affected by any losses in a tight community, but it’s still unimaginable. It’s a crime to dehumanize this place and its population in the ways the media and those in power have done, and we’re more than humbled to have Palestinian voices on our podcast to affirm the humanity of all people. We’re pretty sure, like us, you’ll want to go there one day to feel the beauty of the land and its people. May it be a reality soon insha’Allah.
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Find Mariam’s blog about life in Gaza on IG: mariammuhanna21@gmail.com To learn the basics about Palestine: https://www.thepalestineacademy.com/https://teachpalestine.org/ https://www.visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/six-wars-old
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Vice President of Operations at Pillars Fund Kalia Abiade. Pillars Fund is dedicated to empowerment and support of Muslim voices. We know that Muslims have plenty of voices, but no one to hear them and no mainstream platform where they’ll be taken seriously without having to first perform someone else’s self-righteous qualifier.

Kalia was in Palestine tracing her family history when October 7th happened. Her chilling experience to get home is still being written in her heart and mind, and we pray she can make sense of what happened there. As we all are since. Connect all resistance movements with Black America, press accountability, and how to talk to our kids about oppression are packed in here.

In addition, as someone genetically endowed to lead social justice movements, Kalia shares the humanity of Palestine as well as the atrocities of occupation she witnessed before 10/7 to provide context of what that attack meant for all oppressed people. Her quiet wisdom is critical in considering our roles against all injustice, and to maintain humility while doing it.

Links:Pillars Fund Website: https://pillarsfund.org/

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Decorated Educator Dr. Sawsan Jaber comes on to discuss how our students are dehumanized in schools through curricula, bullying, and well intentioned harm created by school districts who create environments of “invisible” Palestinian and other Arab students at a critical juncture in their and our collective histories. While media violence is definitely at play in making Arab and Muslim students unsafe on campuses, educational violence is also taking place. As she told us after the recording, every Representative, every Senator, every President was once in school, so education can certainly make a difference in how they understand and legislate and conduct foreign policy. 🎤

Despite the multitude of harms our students encounter in schools as their Palestinian identities are retold for them, Dr Jaber identifies several action items for us to rectify it. This is certainly an episode where we can make change happen right after we turn off the episode insha’Allah, so don’t miss the opportunity! 💬

Tune in at 6pm on Apple podcasts or head over to our website landing page to hear the latest in our Series this month: What’s Going on in Palestine and share the link with a friend. Links:

  1. Transcript
  2. Ending Curriculum Violence
  3. Educator Toolkit
  4. Countering Islamophobia
  5. Dr. Jaber on IG: @sjeducate

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Nayyera Haq describes herself as “the intern who never left” government where she has become seasoned in politics through her work on Capitol Hill and even in the White House. Foreign affairs and national security policies have been her day to day convos at work for a couple of decades now, and she shares her insights into the current Palestinian genocide and what we can expect to come. There’s good news and of course, bad news, but she’s honest about her predictions.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts or head to our website to listen to the latest episode and share this episode with anyone frustrated or bent hopeless by the humanitarian crisis in Palestine right now.

Links:

  1. Nayyera’s Website : https://www.nayyera.com/
  2. Nayyera on Instagram: @nayyeroar

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Zaiba & Uzma come on today to not only endorse that podcasting kicks a$$, but that they do, too. A far cry from where they started 5 years ago with imposter syndrome and trying to do it all, to where they are now and what’s cooking for the future at Mommying While Muslim.

Find out about next month’s very important series: All About Palestine, to their new nonprofit, and why 2-24-24 needs to be circled in RED on your calendars. If you want to be on next month’s series or participate in the Expo 2024, email us NOW at salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com.

Tune in now on Apple podcasts, Stitcher or head over to our website and you can listen from the landing page.

Links:
1. Uzma’s book recommendation: Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
2. Zaiba’s book recommendation: Win Every Argument by Mehdi Hasan
3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Mindful Muslimah joins us today because listeners of her podcast of the same name may believe, “Oh my God, she does it all!” From homeschooling, to cooking with multiple aged kids with multiple food issues, to running businesses and teaching, she has her hands in everything. How DOES she do it all?

As our title suggests, she doesn't do it all…at once. And definitely not without her secret sauce, which she describes during the course of this episode. Moms in all stages of mommying should tune in, but moms who were just born or are early on in their journeys, please tune in. Had we had this episode early on in our own mommying careers, we would have felt a lot better.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher or head over to our website and you can listen from the landing page. Share this episode with a mom you believe is doing everything, and with a mom who tells you she’s afraid that she isn’t.

Links:
1. Mindful Muslimah’s Website : https://www.mindful-muslimah.com/
2. Mindful Muslimah on IG: @mindfulmuslimah
3. Muslimah Professionals FREE 1-Day Free Workshop on December 16th: https://mindful-muslimah.clickfunnels.com/muslimah-professionals-1
4. Mindful Muslimah’s book recommendationns
a. Reclaim Your Heart by Yasmin Mohaged
b. Level Up: How to Get Focused, Stop Procrastinating, and Upgrade Your Life by Ron Dial

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Khalila Lister, founder of Power of Voice Academy, comes on today as a TedX speaker and homeschooling mom of 4. Today, she trains people to take the stage or just gain confidence in public speaking. In this time of trial for the ummah and particularly for the people of Gaza, we are seeing more people speaking up for liberation. They’re making their cases more freely than they’ve ever been able to do before. Thanks, social media!

If you’ve always shied away from the stage or the mic because “it’s not my place,” or WORSE, “I can’t” speak in front of audiences. This month’s series is Muslim Moms Kick Ass because they CAN do great things even with great odds. We ALL CAN do the same.

For those who’ve ever dreamed of being on TedX, learn the process and listen to Khalila’s huge special project coming up in early 2024, as well as her free offering coming up SOON in case you’re ready to speak about your passion. The time to be kickass has come.

Tune in at 6pm EST on your podcast apps or check out our website to land on the latest episode.

Links:1. Power of Voice Academy Website: https://www.powerofvoiceacademy.com/
a. Free webinar on November 22, 2023
2. Khalila Lister on IG: @powerofvoiceacadem
3. Email Khalila: Khalila@powerofvoiceacademy.com
4. Khalila’s book recommendations:
a. A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam
b. The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett
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Dr. Nour Akhras is a pediatrician infectious disease specialist who has gone on multiple medical missions during her career, even while pregnant! And then she wrote a book about it. That definitely kicks a$$ for our series this month!

Listen to her medical mission journey, from the life-changing first trip to now, and how she was able to put that into words. Publishing a book is hard, too, so she describes all the hard things she had to face that helped her write it. It’s hard to say it now given the state of the world, but so timely. We can all do hard things because all of us have kicka$$ in us. Let’s find Allah and our peace now.

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Links:
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2. Purchase Just One: A journey of perseverance and conviction
3. Dr. Akhras’ book recommendations
The Monk of Mokha by Mukhtar Al Khanjali
The Problem from Hell by Samantha Powers
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Varghese
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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
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Someone we've followed online was later recommended by prior guest @hindmakki, and y'all know we don't believe in accidents! We kick off our November Series: Kickass Muslim Moms with her.

Yasmin Turk recounts her journey from GED to mommy to PhD. It's not a normal path for everyone, but the takeaway is definitely, never underestimate the power you have within you to accomplish things.

Especially at this time in history, it is critical to channel our talents, and we each have them, towards making the world safer and peaceful. We can do this. We can do great things.

Tune in at 6pm EST wherever you listen to podcasts or head to our website landing page and take a listen.

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  1. Yasmin’s book recommendation: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

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Saira Sufi was specifically requested by listener fans who remembered her story and resilience and wanted to see how she’s doing today.Saira rejoins us this year, 5 years after the death of her son. The last time she was on, it was just 2 years after her great loss and since then, she’s had A LOT happen, including personal and emotional growth, and a couple of trips with Zaiba and Uzma. We admire her unwavering faith, love of Hadi, gentle wisdom, and support of this podcast, among other spectacular things she does. We are so fortunate to call her a role model, momsister, and beloved friend.
Tune in at 6pm EST wherever you listen to podcasts or head to our website landing page and take a listen.
Saira’s Website and Blog: http://www.teamwatience.com/ Saira Sufi’s last appearance on Mommying While MuslimWhat is aplastic anemia? Saira’ book reccs: Once More With Feeling Learn essential Islamic rulings related to end-of-life care Yaqeen Institute’s Coping with Grief: A Spiritual and Psychological Guide The Soul by Imam Ibn Qayyim al-JawziyahOn Remembering Death Imam Ibn Rajab Al-HanbaliLife in Al-Barzakh (the Inevitable Journey) by Muhammad Al-Jibaly Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Why would United States Senators sign into law, a bill that combats the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement this past May 2023? Probably because BDS works. What is it and why does it matter so much to our lawmakers and to all Americans? While we find out, let’s ask ourselves, “Why do we consider Rosa Parks a momshero?”
States led the way in passing anti BDS laws, and have been doing so for years. Returning to the podcast is Bahia Amawi, a mom who was scheduled WAY BEFORE October to speak with us. This episode was recorded just after October 7th and since then, the world is witnessing what’s happened.
Bahia Amawi lost her job overnight when she refused to sign an employment contract with a school district that stipulated she would maintain an anti BDS stance. As a Palestinian and mom, she fought the state and came to us at that time when the ruling was pending. Find out what happened and where you can catch her right now on the screen.
Tune in at 6pm EST where you listen to podcasts (we aren’t on Spotify!) or head to our website and you can hear her there. You can click on the Shownotes tab there; click on the link about the BDS movement tonight!
Bahia Beats Texas Watch Boycott Bahia’s last appearance on our podcast when her case was pendingWhat is BDS Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions?Combatting BDS Act of 2023 in the United States Senate
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Warning: neonatal loss
Abeeha Hasan contacted us several years ago after experiencing the neonatal loss of her precious Jennah. It was really raw the first time around and since then, listeners asked us how she is, what’s up, and even notified us of her goings on since she was last here. There’s a LOT of big things she’s gone through and she was kind enough to come back and talk about it again as well as fill us in on what grief looks like now.
If you take nothing away from today’s episode, remember therapy, therapy, and more therapy. Abeeha will explain why. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or head to our website landing page and share this episode with a friend.
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Sumiya Khan trusted us with her raw story of love and loss 3 years ago and she’s back to let us know what she’s been up to. You’ve asked about her over the years, about her passion projects and profession, so we have some wow updates straight from Sumiya herself. Make sure to check out @widowedandmuslim, her biggest production since she was last on the podcast! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or check out our website landing page. Remember to tune into the last episode where she was on, linked in our Shownotes you can also find on our website.
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Listen to Grief, Growth, and Sanctuary when Sumiya Khan was last on the podcast.
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Widowed & Muslim online: www.widowedandmuslim.org Sanctuary Kitchen on IG: @sanctuarykitchenct
Sanctuary Kitchen online: www.sanctuarykitchen.org Sumiya’s book recommendations
Month of Mocha by Dave Eggers
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom by Rabia Chaudhry
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In this FIRST episode, Zaiba Hasan and Uzma Jafri introduced themselves as two American Muslim mothers, born and raised in the USA and their unique places in history and geography. What did it mean for their kids who were also born here?

They have a combined eight children and over 25 years of parenting experiences to share. So for those moms who feel alone dealing with Islamophobia, getting their kids to pray, enjoining the good and forbidding the evil, all while managing their emotions during drivelines and PTA meetings, this episode, nay, this podcast, is your place to vent, to be seen, to be heard, and to be held.

The tech in this episode has improved VASTLY since, so bear with it--it only gets better the more episodes you tune into. If you haven't listened yet, what are you waiting for? Tune in wherever you listen to podcasts at 6pm EST every Thursday and SHARE THIS PODCAST with your friends.

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Are some things meant to be?
Indeed! Sevim Kalyoncu’s earth consciousness and motherhood as it’s inspo is inspo for us! As Director of Green Muslims, she’s showing us how to get our hands into work to make real change. 🌍
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or head over to our website and SHARE this episode!
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How does a fashion designer’s daughter get obsessed with lizards and oil spills? Hear Sama Wareh’s inspiration for becoming a naturalist and Director of the Art & Wilderness Institute. What is a naturalist? You’ll find out in this episode!
Having met our very own female Indiana Jones, we don’t have enough good things to say about the work of the Art & Wilderness Institute and its programs. They’re getting Muslim families outside to learn about the earth and its many gifts. You don’t have to be a survivalist to be a good steward of the planet, but you do have to get to know the planet to steward.
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| Zaiba's very own daughter, Zara Hasan, speaks to the fears of young people regarding climate change and our Islamic duty to work together to save the planet.  Find out what single change you can make to be a good steward of the earth and how teens can get active in their own communities.  Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or on our website. 

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Neil Matthews had us on when we first started podcasting for a captivating episode that helped US change what our views about Evangelicals were. We fully arrived ready to be attacked and were pleasantly surprised. We can really learn so much when we are willing to step into other people's shoes. 🌟 

It's an episode you won't want to miss! 🎧✨
EVEN though this was back in the day when Zaiba would multitask during recordings, so you can hear her filing her nails. 🧐 Uzma has since reformed her. Tune in tonight anyway at 6pm EST.

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🎙️ Unveiling the Power of Unity 🌟

Get ready for an extraordinary episode where we delve into the incredible journeys of inspiring leaders who are making waves in the world of interfaith collaboration. Join us as we sit down with the remarkable Rachel Doll O'Mahoney to explore the stories, insights, and triumphs of these remarkable "Queen Bees of Interfaith."

🐝✨ Stay tuned for an empowering conversation that's bound to leave you uplifted and inspired! Available at 6pm EST.

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We're sharing part TWO of the BYU Religious Freedom Review Podcast Panel and plan to put Part 1 either in our Facebook group you hear about on this episode or at our Patreon--maybe both. Let us know if you want that part, but this one is pretty dang awesome.

Zaiba sits with two members of 3 Black Men podcast, Sam Gay and Robert Monson, as they all discuss their audiences, topics, inspiration to podcast, mistrust of religious institutions, as well as how podcasting frees them to be faithful.

Their conversation is candid and concise, but you'll want to tune in to these podcasters to hear more of their truths and wisdom. Go follow today and let us know that you did below!

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We made new friends over at BYU this summer with In Good Faith Podcast where host Steven Kapp Perry interviewed both 3 Black Men Podcast and Mommying While Muslim cohosts (that's US!) during Brigham Young University's Annual Religious Freedom Review. And there's nothing more freeing than being able to share your POV with other people who are receptive to learning and understanding. Building bridges is the way to build allyship, for ourselves and for our kids, as we like to say.

Please note that Uzma got pretty excitable at about 45:54 and misspoke about the miraculous conception, but you know she means Jesus and not what she actually said. Interfaith incites passion, indeed!

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Mariam Ardati is a death doula and funeral director based in Sydney, Australia, walking Muslim families and their dying loved ones to their final destination for 17 years. Find out how a near death experience led her to transform her life, career, and helped her lead a true life of service as a doula during the most trying times of people’s lives.

If your idea of doulas is pretty set, this is a must listen! Mariam has been doing this for a VERY long time and has some valuable insights for anyone who wants to know how the end of life looks for us. The trends she notes in Muslim families are sadly familiar and also beautifully near to our hearts. We all have something to learn at her feet.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, or land on our website, and don’t forget to share the link with a loved one after listening.

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  2. Mariam’s Death cafes: https://deathcafe.com/deathcafe/11863/
  3. Find a death doula stateside or learn how to train to be one: https://deathdoulas.com/deathdouladirectory
  4. Learn essential Islamic rulings related to end-of-life care
  5. Yaqeen Institute’s Coping with Grief: A Spiritual and Psychological Guide
  6. The Soul by Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyah
  7. On Remembering Death Imam Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali
  8. Life in Al-Barzakh (the Inevitable Journey) by Muhammad Al-Jibaly

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| Rishma Govani is on today to share her experience of losing her husband during COVID lockdown and the blessings and curses of being widowed of her greatest love so early. Her experience of death and dying is a personal journey down memory lane and we are so honored that she is sharing that with us today. Take her advice and ours, and prepare as soon as possible by adding her beautiful children’s book to your library. Tune in at 6pm EST wherever you listen to podcasts, but we recommend going to our website or tuning in on Apple podcasts. Share this episode with a friend today so everyone gets a chance to learn something new. FYI: you need Kleenex. You’ve been warned.
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Buy The Stars That Shine for You by Rishma Govani Learn essential Islamic rulings related to end-of-life care
Yaqeen Institute’s Coping with Grief: A Spiritual and Psychological Guide
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Our very own cohost Uzma Jafri joins us on this episode to explain why and how she specialized in medicine, "walking with" her patients at the end of their lives, and why it's Islamically important to know how to help families face the end of life. A lot of Muslims do not understand the difference between palliative care and hospice, so swipe left to read some easy definitions about them.
This episode is for anyone who is a caregiver because if it's not our kids, we are also taking care of an older generation at some point in our lives. As always, if you have further questions, stay tuned this month or DM us because we mean it when we say we are available for you.
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Our favorite Muslim chaplain, Kristen Jawad, is the essence of compassion and understanding in serving the spiritual needs of Muslims nearing the end of their earthly journey. Knowing that she is providing comfort, solace, and support for individuals and families during these challenging times makes us so hopeful for our community getting its needs met by strong warriors willing to do this hard work. 🤝

Kristen recognizes the unique challenges and specific religious requirements that Muslims face at the end of life, helping Muslims find peace and fulfillment as they navigate this sacred transition. How is her work different from that of an imam’s and why is it necessary? 🕌🌺Her guidance fosters understanding and empowers families to support their loved ones in a manner that aligns with Islam. Considerate and critical community aftercare as well as the end of any relationship are all related to death too, and we dive into those topics as well.

Our favorite Muslim chaplain, Kristen Jawad, is the essence of compassion and understanding in serving the spiritual needs of Muslims nearing the end of their earthly journey. Knowing that she is providing comfort, solace, and support for individuals and families during these challenging times makes us so hopeful for our community getting its needs met by strong warriors willing to do this hard work. 🤝
Kristen recognizes the unique challenges and specific religious requirements that Muslims face at the end of life, helping Muslims find peace and fulfillment as they navigate this sacred transition. How is her work different from that of an imam’s and why is it necessary? 🕌🌺Her guidance fosters understanding and empowers families to support their loved ones in a manner that aligns with Islam. Considerate and critical community aftercare as well as the end of any relationship are all related to death too, and we dive into those topics as well. Tune in on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or click the link in bio at 6pm EST tonight to hear about her work supporting Muslims and their loved ones at the end of life.
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Sorry we are late to publish this week, but travel called and we answered big. Check our stories!

Enjoy this replay where we talked to Amin Shams, founder of BLOOM Charity, about her journey to adoptive motherhood, and how she didn't stop there. What moms stop at step A when there's so much more we know we can do for others?

Amina took it several steps up and started a charity funding play gardens for orphanages in Morocco. This supports the staff who care for the children, as well as provides social and emotional growth for the young residents of these homes. InshaAllah her deeds weigh heavy on her scales as you hear about her work at home and abroad. Allahuma ameen.

Use this episode to incentivize yourself to watch our Reels about one of the BLOOM Charity-supported play gardens we are visiting on our trip to Morocco this month. And find out how to get involved in this important work for orphans.

Tune in ASAP to listen!

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Representative Nabeela Syed is the youngest Democratic member of the Illinois House and discusses her battle for gun reform. She gives us FOMO and nostalgia for our birth state (even Uzma is proud to admit this now), and so much hope, because the legislature was able to pass a law banning military-style assault weapons. Common sense gun control IS possible, y’all!
From her earliest memory of active shooter drills as a young child, Rep. Nabeela knew that it was messed up to deal with guns this way. Hear about gun reform and what the Muslim community can do to help make her job easier. Remember, as the youngest member of the state legislator, she is helping make America safer for our children and grandchildren and will be around a while insha’Allah to do it. So answer her calls to action!
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Senator Nabilah Islam from Georgia State joins us today to discuss why she dove into politics. As she profoundly states, “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu,” and is both the youngest member of the Georgia State Senate as well as the first Muslim women in this important governing body. As a minority community in America (just 3%!) Muslim Americans literally cannot afford to ignore gun control in America like yesterday. @everytownusa is doing the research the government is NOT ALLOWED to do because of the powerful gun lobbies that don’t want Americans to have the real numbers about gun violence in America.
As you’ve seen on our socials, guns are the number #1 killer of American kids under 18 in this nation, and 59% of Americans have been affected by gun violence in this country. These are deplorable numbers and as voters and taxpayers (over 81% of Muslim American are citizens in this nation; source: Pew Research Center) we say, “NOT WITH MY MONEY!”Learn what permitless carry is, and what it’s being sold as by state legislatures and governors signing executive orders to bring guns into hands without background checks, blocking red flag laws, and worse. You know, common sense gun laws?
Most importantly, find out how bills that the majority of Americans don’t want get passed. Say, what?!?!?! Let’s work together to make democracy work for us again. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head directly to our website. Find the Shownotes on your podcast app for the helpful links you’ll want for resources and links.
Senator Nabilah Islam’s Website: https://www.nabilahislam.com/ Senator Nabilah Islam’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nabilahislam Senator Nabilah Islam’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NabilahAIslam Georgia Constitutional Carry Georgia Criminal CarryBlog article on types of carryGun Violence Archive Learn about how gerrymandering was set up in America in the 80s (among other important topics, the true story of Michael Hess of the RNC) in the book Philomena by Martin Sixsmith
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State Representative Ruwa Romman joins us from Georgia where she is working hard to represent District 97, as well as advocating for better background checks, studies on preventing gun violence, and solutions to keep guns out of the hands of abusers. In 2022, she became the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Georgia State House of Representatives. 🙌
Do most of us even know that the simple statistical STUDY of gun violence is not even allowed on a federal level in the US? No, and that’s why we have no clue how deeply guns affect us. Let’s find out what our closest politicians, the ones at the state level, are doing in order to support and make the study of gun violence imperative to our understanding of how urgently we need to address it starting at the kitchen table and masjid levels. 🕌
This is a public health issue, NOT a control issue, as Rep. Romman tells us in this episode.Tune in to Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head to our website to take a listen to the full episode and share it with your momfriends. 🎧
Follow Rep. Romman on IG: @ruwa4georgiaRep.
Romman’s website: https://www.ruwa4georgia.com/ Letter requesting specific gun safety legislation Rep. Romman and colleagues have signedFind your state legislators so you can start spending just 10 minutes a day letting them know how important gun safety or gun control are to you and to your Muslim family!
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Ayesha Nava is our candid guest who shares notes with Zaiba today on PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), which is more common than we think and often interferes with one’s attempts at having children.
Learn the signs and symptoms that could indicate PCOS in our bodies or in our daughters’. Yes! Look for signs in our young pubescent daughters because extreme pain and super heavy menses are not normal. Doctors are much better at helping us identify this condition earlier now and can help us plan for all of our future fertility journeys. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head directly to our website. Find the Shownotes on your podcast app for the helpful links you’ll want for resources and links.
Embryo Grading in InfertilityIVF & Islamic POV white paper by Fordham UniversityHow IVF WorksEthics of SurrogacyIslamic POV on IVF by Sh. Yasir Qadhi
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Whoa, is this late! Did y’all notice?

Ashlea Angel joins us to discuss how lightning struck her (or her tubes) twice, affecting her choices of infertility treatments. Not only does she share her experience with retrievals and transfers, but shares that embryos get report cards! 🤯Tiger moms to be, this is the first of many grades your baby to be is gonna get.

You’ll note some recurring themes and behaviors of moms with fertility struggles, but this is an episode where the ins and outs of testing and treatment are very clear in Ashlea’s case. Please remember that every BODY is different and everybody is different, so Ashlea’s experiences may not resonate with everyone else. Learn what you can and move on.

The most poignant moments in this episode are Ashlea’s journey to Islam and the effect of infertility on her faith, as well as the toll it takes on a marriage. Keep listening for a surprise about ⅔ of the way into the episode and remember to remember all our sisters in your duaa.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head directly to our website. Find the Shownotes on your podcast app for the helpful links you’ll want for resources and links.

Links:
1. Embryo Grading in Infertility 2. IVF & Islamic POV white paper by Fordham University
3. How IVF Works 4. Ethics of Surrogacy 5. Islamic POV on IVF by Sh. Yasir Qadhi
6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 7. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com 8. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
9. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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**Aneesa Husain is as proactive a Muslimah as we’ve ever met, and we LOVE it. She joins us on our Muslim Moms Overcoming Infertility series this month and has the deets on a few of the reasons why women pursue egg freezing, how to get the process started, and special considerations. We apologize for the coughing because #allergies, and the slight echo because #audiotech sometimes stinks. You can totally stand both because this is MUST KNOW info.
We are getting A LOT of DMs and comments about the legality of fertility options in Islam, and we continue to urge everyone to find their trusted imam for those answers. WE are not qualified to speak on that. But we give space to everyone to share her story, and if it offends you, then it’s probably not for you. If it worries you, it’s meant to. If we aren’t worrying about these issues as Muslim Americans, then we are doing something wrong. Please don’t drop your fatawa here because we have imams who do that for us when we ask them for help.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head directly to our website. Find the Shownotes on your podcast app for the helpful links you’ll want for resources and links.

Links:
1. Learn more about Kindbody IVF & Islamic POV white paper by Fordham Universit*y
2.* How IVF Works*Ethics of SurrogacyIslamic POV on IVF by Sh. Yasir Qadhi
3. Sign up for Moms Demand Action to reform gun legislation
4. Aneesa’s book recommendation: The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates 5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 6. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com 7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w*

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Warning: Language

Sarah Khan joins us to discuss her journey finding and following through with a gestational carrier not just once, but TWICE 👶🏽👶🏽. What's a gestational carrier? You'll have to listen to find out. 🎧

We learned some new things in this episode about the emotional pathos a mom goes through in this situation BEFORE and during pregnancy 💔. It definitely makes us think there's more to mothering after fertility issues than we knew, and we are so grateful for the insight. Finally, the discussion of "to surrogate or not to surrogate..." is what you've been asking for!🎺🎺

We apologize in advance for the sound in this episode but we did the best we could! A little late to the ball, but dance with us anyway on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head to our link in bio. Links:

  1. Find Sarah’s chronic care company online: https://phamily.com/
  2. Email Sarah for any questions or considerations about surrogacy: sarah@phamily.com
  3. IVF & Islamic POV white paper by Fordham University
  4. How IVF Works
  5. Ethics of Surrogacy
  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  9. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  10. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Trigger warning!

Listen again to Abeeha Hassan's experience of stillbirth after her IVF journey. All that heartbreak, anticipation and work to come home empty-handed. Early on in her recovery, she wanted us to broadcast normalizing grief. In this episode, she taught us sabr (patience), shukr (gratitude), and tawwakul (unshaking faith in Allah SWT).

Her process of closure may seem familiar to someone else who has gone this journey alone, and we are so touched that Abeeha chose to share her story with us. We pray a momsister finds comfort in knowing there’s someone sharing her story of loss and is available to talk about it. Say her name: "Jannah."

Tune in at 6pm EST for this important replay wherever you listen to podcasts, or head to our website (link in bio).

Note:

1) Miscarriage-pregnancy loss before 20 weeks

1) Stillbirth-pregnancy loss after 20 weeks (intrauterine fetal demise)

2) Neonatal death-death within the first 28 days of life

Links:

  1. Discrimination vs. hijab in Kansas City, MO: https://apnews.com/article/73d2c6104c891672e4d9cad88290a8f6
  2. Find Abeeha on IG: @mamaofalittleangel
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  6. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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| Rabia Rajab is a survivor of infertility and IVF 🌟. Call it mother's intuition, but she knew before the doctors did about how tough her journey was going to be and initiated a decade long trip that would make most of us cut and run. Certainly, the Force (and the 4th) are with her. 💰 The costs of treatments are not only financial, but as you'll hear, social and emotional as well. For anyone considering it, this is a MUST listen💕. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Rabia and her husband did not have a supportive community of Muslims going through the same process. That's on all of us, y'all. That is not okay. We need to fix that by speaking up about infertility awareness and treatments🤝. Note: Make sure you swipe left. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head to our website landing page and listen there. #IVFjourney #Infertility #MuslimsAndIVF #HopefulParents #EmotionalSupport #CommunityLove #FindYourVoice #notalone #muslimmoms #muslimfamily #musliminfertility

  1. Follow Rabia’s journey on IG: @ivf.x7
  2. IVF & Islamic POV white paper by Fordham University
  3. How IVF Works
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  5. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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That had to be a record for Ramadan--over before it started subhanAllah. Here are our short reflections on the month and prayers for you, our wonderful audience. Eid Mubarak!

Tune in for our message tonight and then next week for a full length episode. 

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Rabia Faisal of Chaishaiusa comes on to satisfy all our chai craving questions. Uzma and Zaiba fell onto their blends a few years ago and have been devout drinkers since. It’s the company they share with friends who ask which chai to buy. Learn the international chai curating process Rabia uses as well as the custom blending secrets she shares today. @chaishaiusa is SUPER generous to our loyal listeners and is giving away THREE freebies to the first 3 people who get the code word back to us by emailing salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com or DM us ASAP. Make duaa for @chaishaiusa for their generosity this Ramadan and we promise, you’ll be sending Rabia more prayers after your first sip! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head to our website to take a listen.
1. Find the Chai Shai on the web: https://www.chaishaiusa.com/
2. Chai Shai on IG: https://www.instagram.com/chaishaiusa/
3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
4. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
6. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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​Fatmah Muhammad founder of Knafeh Queens is on the podcast for making knafeh konverts of Uzma and Zaiba. This is a dessert that can be daunting for anyone who doesn’t know about it, and your favorite podcast duo avoided knafeh like the plague until they encountered Fatmah’s unique family recipe. From her refreshing mommying philosophy, commitment to family, and commitment to spreading joy and unity through her culinary creations, you will NOT be sorry you hear about Knafeh Queens and its origin story. Don’t forget to tune in for the code word and be the first one to report it back to us at salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com or DM us to get a FREE half dozen knafeh cupcakes, courtesy of @knafehqueens. We hope you get them in time for Eid al Fitr because it will just make the holiday sweeter. There’s also a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT from Fatmah to her knafeh krew you will hear right here first! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or head to our website to hear the episode.
1. Find the Knafeh Queens on the web: https://www.knafehqueens.com/
2. Knafe Queens on IG: https://www.instagram.com/knafehqueens/
3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
4. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
6. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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| Subhaan Ashrafi, founder of Sabr app, joins us today to tell us why he developed this for Muslim audiences and how it can help our families. His story of making a dream required resiliency and relationship-building, which he speaks on at length, an inspiration to us and to our kids. With persistence, he was able to create a unique app of its kind that is serving our families at the podcast so well. In these times of increased mental health and spiritual needs in our community, we need quick coping skills at hand and to teach them to our children who’ve been born into social media FOMO culture. Sabr app serves this purpose and our kids use it to center themselves, focus on shukr, or gratitude, when things get rough, and it’s made a huge difference in our home lives. Don’t forget to get back to us with the code word mentioned in the episode to win one free premium yearlong membership, courtesy of Sabr app. Email us at salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com or DM us ASAP because it’s first come, first served! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or check it out on our website.
1. Find the Sabr App on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sabr_app/
2. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
3. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
4. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
5. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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| Artist Natalia Dar describes her journey toward healing personal losses via art and the resulting devoted following of admirers she has now. At least this podcast is a devoted follower! We love watching her process, which she shares at length on IG and you could watch those videos FOREVER. We discuss her choice of the hardest things to paint and draw in the art world, which include architecture, her link to her parents, may Allah SWT be pleased with them. Let’s also touch on. the loss of patrons of the arts in the Muslim world and how to fix that. Listen to this episode for the code word and one lucky listener will win one of her most popular prints, which you will hear are not really prints at all! All you have to do is be the first to DM us or email salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com and we will pass on your info to Natalia so she can send you your win. We are so grateful to all of our guests this month for their generosity and what they make for us in this world, may Allah SWT increase and reward them! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or check it out on our website.
| 1. Find Natalia on IG: @nmdsart 2. Check out her gallery on the web: www.nataliadar.com 3. Nadia’s book recommendation: Gone with the Wind 4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 5. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com 6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 8. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Fahd Al Binali of IQRA Network joins us today to discuss his role in creating the platform to teach Quran and Islamic studies without children hating either or both. His specific interest in gearing education toward Western audiences is especially important because it focuses on application of these principles in students’ lives. This requires innovatively training and treating instructors in an organized way with accountability on all sides. IQRA fosters the relationship between teachers and students instead of the fear and dread that a lot of us experienced when learning Quran. We certainly didn’t have teachers with such integral preparation to engage Muslim American kids in our childhoods. Uzma’s experience with the platform has been exemplary and her son is busily memorizing Juz ‘Amma, angry at her for not doing so herself. IQRA’s created a monster! Listen to this episode for a free course offered by IQRA Network to one blessed listener, and the first person to get the code word to us via DM or email at salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com will win. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or click on link in bio to hear this episode.
1. IQRA Network on the Web: https://iqranetwork.com/ 2. Fahd’s book recommendation: 3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 4. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com 5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 6. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 7. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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@browndages co-founder Instisar Bashir joins us today to describe the product she created with her husband in order to provide POC with options to cover up their wounds with products that actually blend in with their skin. For too long, we’ve had to explain the mainstream bandaids when people can clearly see them on our darker skin when it’s really not relevant to discussions at hand. Can we just cover them up and move on already? Heal in silence! Find out how this mompreneur created Browndages with NO EXPERIENCE in creating such a product and ended up on Shark Tank. There they won the support of no less than 3 Sharks, including Mark Cuban, who committed his NBA franchise to wearing only Browndages. This is a terrific example of how to support Black owned businesses AND to learn how to pursue our mompassions. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or click on link in bio to hear this episode.
1. Buy Browndages online
2. Learn about Browndages on Shark Tank
3. Intisar’s book recommendation
4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
5. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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| @covermecutee founder and mompreneur, Idayat Sambo discusses her inspiration for launching a modest clothing brand, the origin story of her massive talent, and the utility of African American fashion fusion. As it turns out, our favorite piece, the Aisha hoodie, is also Idayat's favorite creation! Hear about affirming African standards of beauty that have us convinced we were born on the wrong continent, the amazing charitable work she is doing to empower women with her talent, and how to shop her store. Sign up for the new edition Aisha hoodies coming soon (WE are!). One lucky listener will win a brand new Active Abaya and Full Coverage Active hijab SET if they respond to us via DM or via email salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com with the code word heard on this episode. First come, first served. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or click on link in bio to hear this episode.
| 1. Shop covermecutee on the web: https://covermecutee.com/ 2. Follow Idayat on IG: @covermecutee 3. Support Empower Her with sewing machines for a living. 4. Idayat’s book recommendation: Becoming 5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 6. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com 7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 9. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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| Hanane Jamili discusses her inspiration for art, and her creative process as a busy mom of 3. Find out what products from her we use every day to beautify our homes, and check out her new Ramadan line as you prepare your home for the holy month, or for your Eid gift lists. One lucky winner will win a new piece from her limited edition Ramadan line IF they're the first to email salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com or DM us with the code word heard on this episode. This giveaway is entirely sponsored by Artsy by Hanane and we are so grateful to be able to be a part of their family. Tune in at 6pm EST tonight to find out what the code word is. You can listen on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or go to link in bio.
| 1. Find Hanane on the web: https://www.artsybyhanane.com/ 2. Follow Hanane on IG: @artsy_by_hanane 3. Hanane’s book recommendation: The Awakened Family 4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 5. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com 6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 8. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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| Welcome to the launch of the Muslim Moms’ Favorite Things Series this month! Zaiba & Uzma are introducing the audience to products they use and love, and how to win some yourself in time for Eid. Fellas, this is where you want to shop this year because “happy wife, happy life,” right? If you’re a business that was contacted to be featured on this series, get back to us already! Uzma is exhausted from all the stalking. If you weren’t contacted and think you should be, email salam@mommyinghilemuslim.com. #podcastwork #sharekhayr Sorry we were late to the show tonight, but are SO GLAD you are tuning in to listen on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music or head to our website to listen to the episode.
1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
2. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
4. River of Silver by S.A. Chakraborty
5. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
6. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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Jenny Triplett is a multimompreneur, author, and podcaster who joins us today to share her POV on surviving marriage, also the title of her podcast! Jenny and her husband Rufus give us tips online and in their programs, and she shares how she survived her own marriage and kept the spark alive through love and loss.
We take a curve down the dowry lane based on a recent post that generated a lot of conversation @rufusandjenny, but we bring it back. Her take on the Islamic marriage is conservative, so apply what works for you as we have. Feminists, take a deep breath. There is learning here for all of us, especially because the Black Muslim experience is different in key ways that many Muslims of immigrant heritage do not consider. Sit back and validate experiences.
Find out how couples can keep the spark alive in the bedroom through their decades together. It’s not all communication, but there are exercises we need to do outside of family logistics. This is the real meat of the episode, so don’t miss it!
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She's BAAAAAAACK.....Y'all loved Cliteracy Consciousness last year with Dr. Shaakira Abdullah @thehalalsexpert, but now she's talking to us about the pressures Muslim kids face in and around sex. Is it just Hollywood hype, and how do we prep our kids to keep it halal and locked up until marriage?
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​WOW! Let us apologize for the echo on this episode. However, we think it’s tolerable. Our DMs have been popping through the year with questions about yoni or vaginal steaming, so we needed to find a practitioner who knows more about this.
Chantal Blake joins us from Dakkar, crossing the sea just to teach us about the globally ancient science of yoni steaming, a technique that addresses common issues women encounter daily. Heavy periods, infertility, sexual issues, watch out! Steaming may be the key to plumper, healthier vulva and uterus. In addition, let’s talk herbs, hot and cold foods, and diet as it relates to overall women's health.
Of course, none of this episode is medical advice, but it is information about female reproductive and sexual wellness that we deserve to know is out there as an option when maybe we’ve hit a wall with everything else. Ask a doctor you trust, or check out our links in Shownotes for certified vaginal steaming practitioners near you.
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We kick off this podcast episode by apologizing to the Michigan Spartans! IFYKYK. Dr. Sadaf Lodhi OB/GYN sets us straight REAL fast on this episode! She is not only a practicing doctor to women, she is also host of The Muslim Sex Podcast and a certified Sex Coach.
THEN we start talking about the good stuff to launch our “Muslim Moms Aren't Nuns” series this February. What are the silent conversations Muslims are having with themselves about sex, or what are the stories we make up about sex because we aren’t comfortable admitting what we don’t know? Where our sex baggage comes from boils down a lot to where our thoughts originate, and on our ability to separate THOUGHTS from FACTS. Let’s figure out where some of those thoughts are born and how to stop bearing them forward.
What are the keys to raising our kids to have a healthy understanding of sex without making it sound too good to miss? Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music or check out our website to listen to our episodes.

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| Zaiba & Uzma share the details of putting together the Uyghur Muslim Mom narrative podcast series and why they presented it this way to you. Hear what their overarching vision for the Oppressed Mother Series is and how you can support it right now. Check out the Shownotes for each Uyghur Muslim Mom episode and find out what you can do today to help raise awareness and DO SOMETHING. Mihrigul’s experience proves that moms will do it all, even in the face of the most heinous atrocities against them. Also, sign up for the Patreon and help start R&D on the next narrative podcast series. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, ask Alexa or click on the link in bio to find it on our website.

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In this finale of our limited series “Oppressed Mother,” hear how Mihrigul Tursun fought the PRC, and how her government demanded she relinquish her Egyptian citizenship or have her family in China imprisoned. Impossible choices a mother, daughter, sister, victim, must face.
At the cost of family reunification, Mihrigul testified through translators to Congress. Not only can she never return to her homeland, she is raising her living children alone and apart from her husband who is forced into hiding, all while contesting state led propaganda denying her trauma and that of millions more Uyghurs.
Tune in at 6pm EST to learn the rest of her story and how to help a single mother who has survived unimaginable trauma maintain hope and get justice. Share our Shownotes with friends as they are FULL of calls to action to make “Never again” more than just a quote for the history books. May all our mothers and children live in peace and safety across the globe.
Read her full story Place of No Return: How I Survived China's Uyghur Campsby Andrea C. Hoffman and Mihrigul TursunTell your Senator to pass Uyghur Policy ActBecome an advocate and use these premade tools and resources to ACT NOW and save Uyghurs from continued genocide. “Never again” is NOW.Donate to support displaced Uyghur Muslims in TurkeySign up for FUYC in Dallas this February: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/fuyc-retreats Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/ FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Trigger warning: torture
Mihrigul Tursun, Chinese citizen, recounts her journey out of China to higher education and global awareness: now she was surrounded by donkeys instead of chickens! Outside the PRC she also experienced her Islamic awakening, which would end up costing her freedom and threaten her children’s lives. Something as simple as what she newly wore on her head identified her as the “other” in the PRC, and landed her in a concentration camp. That’s not what they’re called by any media, Chinese or otherwise. They’re called “re-education centers.”
She recounts her torture by the PRC and the conditions of her release. What she saw behind the walls of these centers is beyond our imaginations. It’s mind blowing to think that any government could sell her limited options as choices, laced with threat and death, to barter her release to civilian society. Only it wasn’t, as all of her limited civil liberties in the PRC, were shrunken further just because she was Muslim.
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Read her full story Place of No Return: How I Survived China's Uyghur Campsby Andrea C. Hoffman and Mihrigul TursunRead The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority by Dr. Sean R. RobertsLearn more from Dr. RobertsLearn more from Uyghur TribunalDonate to support displaced Uyghur Muslims in TurkeySign up for FUYC in Dallas this February: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/fuyc-retreats Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/ FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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We launch our special limited Oppressed Mother Series: Uyghur Muslim Mom featuring Mihrigul Tursun, a witness and victim of genocide being waged against civilian Uyghur Muslims in the People’s Republic of China.
Learn the history of the Uyghurs in PRC, political developments that created a soft crackdown of Muslim citizens of the country, and in a sad twist of irony, the idyllic memories of her childhood village that Mihrigul recounts. Tune in to tonight’s episode and don’t worry…..we continue her story next week. Share this episode link with friends who can help make a difference for civil liberties of ALL people.
Read her full story Place of No Return: How I Survived China's Uyghur Campsby Andrea C. Hoffman and Mihrigul TursunRead The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority by Dr. Sean R. RobertsLearn more from Dr. RobertsLearn more from Uyghur TribunalDonate to support displaced Uyghur Muslims in TurkeySign up for FUYC in Dallas this February: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/fuyc-retreats Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/ FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Dr. Sheba Shah, MD comes on to talk about her path to helping patients with refractory depression and acute suicidality and newer methods to treat, namely, ketamine infusions. These centers are popping up all over the country and we want to make sure that our audience families know what to look for and what to run away from ASAP.

Not insignificant is a nod to Dr. Sheba Shah’s mom because behind every successful person is the driving force of a mom. Make duaa for her and ameen. Further, learn the history of and criteria for ketamine treatment, the types available, and what steps to take with your primary care doctor and/or psychiatrist to find out how to set it up for those who qualify. We want to make sure that those in our audience who regularly struggle with suicidal thoughts have HOPE, but we cannot a guarantee a cure. We are praying for all of you over here.

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We want to thank our audience for a fruitful 2022 and look forward to spending time with you in the car, on your walks, or while you do the dozen and 100 other momtasks you do everyday while you tune in. We’ve compiled a custom montage of some of our most popular episodes this year for you to walk down memory lane, and if you’ve never heard them before, to catch up! We are so sorry it's late getting up, but how were we supposed to choose from FIFTY-TWO plus episodes?!?!?! We did not do justice to all the guests and topics, and went by the numbers, but our podcast is so much more than what you will hear on this montage. You can find the full episodes linked on our Shownotes that you can find on our website.
This podcast is for our Muslim American moms and women who we love to hear from, so keep those DMs and emails coming! You can easily reach out to salam@mommyinghwhilemuslim.com. Have a safe and Happy New Year.
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Zaiba & Uzma tackle the topic of suicide among Muslims in America. They tell you about the importance of knowing the telltale signs, including what KYS means. Also, learn how to talk to your kids about preventing suicide because prevention is key. Research on Muslim suicidality is sparse, but preliminary data shows us that religious groups with the highest rates of suicidality include Muslims in the #1 spot! That is not a trophy we want to be winning, y’all. Hear about the social determinants, ie Islamophobia and western media biases lending toward higher rates of Muslim suicide.
The FYI Suicide Prevention Toolkit: https://www.thefyi.org/toolkits/suicide-prevention-toolkit/ American Muslims Are 2 Times More Likely To Have Attempted Suicide Than Other Groups https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1025430083/muslims-suicide-attempts-study-religion-american Suicide in Muslim world and way forward https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9178353/Muslims face a suicide crisis in America. The taboo of talking about it must end. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/01/02/american-muslims-must-break-taboo-confronting-suicide/9043880002/Suicide Attempts of Muslims Compared With Other Religious Groups in the UShttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2782161 Do People Who Commit Suicide Go To Hell Forever?https://seekersguidance.org/answers/islamic-belief/do-people-who-commit-suicide-go-to-hell-forever/Suicide in the time of the Prophet (SAW) Omar Suleiman: https://fb.watch/hyzpprnyEd/ Dealing with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts Omar Suleiman: https://fb.watch/hyztcunn6v/ Youth helpline at Naseeha: (866) 627-3342 Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988The Khalil Center: https://khalilcenter.com/mental-health-services/counseling-services Visit us on the the Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comLearn about our FUYC Retreat in February: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/fuyc-retreats Email us: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Sudduf Wyne of Salam Sadaf business coaching is a self proclaimed recovering perfectionist and mom of triplets. You’ve probably seen her speak on the toughness of mothering on social media. She is on today to address the overwhelm and pressures of mothering that make us feel inadequate. Say no to “supermom mythology!” It’s a scam, y’all.
Our guest has amazing tips on what to do to prevent mommy burnout and shame about admitting that as moms, we all need help. Let’s consider the blessings we withhold from our friends who offer to help and we refuse because we “should” be able to “do it all” ourselves. Motherhood is not meant to be done in a silo, and our Islamic traditions exemplify community caring for children.
The effects of absorbing those pressures from without and within can wreak havoc on mothers’ mental health and we insist on outsourcing and asking for/accepting help. It’s hard to acknowledge that we really cannot do it all, but we shouldn’t be expected to do it all. Definitely not all at once. Why is that considered successful anyway???
Work smart, not hard, so we can prevent mommy burnout and show up 100% for our kids, NOT for the cultural narratives that unequally burden mothers more than other members of the family. Tune in at 6pm EST wherever you listen to podcasts tonight and leave a review.
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Shehla Faizi host and producer of I’m a Muslim & That’s Okay wears a lot of hats as a graphic artist, podcaster, and mom extraordinaire. Add to her repertoire, mom of a child with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and you have a recipe to learn A LOT.
We are too aware of the difficulty in helping our children get assistance with any kind of mental health assistance, but consider how hard it is to get a diagnosis as Shehla did. What did she notice, where did she go, and what has happened since? If you don’t need to hear it, SHARE this episode with the mom of a neurodivergent child or child with ADHD to let her know she’s not alone.
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National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988Shehla on the Web: https://www.imamuslimpodcast.com/Shehla on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/imamuslimpodcast/Shehla on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ImAMuslimAndThatsOkayPodcastShehla’s book recommendation: The Union - YA Dystopian Romance: The Union Series - Book 1Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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We kick off our Muslim Mental Health Hot Topics series this month with Functional Medicine Coach Momina Salim who discusses problematic behaviors in children and how preventive measures like good, pure food can make a change for the better. We want to extrapolate behaviors such as ADHD to mental health on what we eat and how we live. Hear how functional medicine inspired her own health journey and passion to help children.
While NO substitute for therapy and medication, we hope that by purifying our daily practices like clean eating, regular activity, and refreshing sleep, we can circumvent the mental health issues that plague our community. For those who suffer from mental health issues, please pursue medical attention first and then circle back here to help you maintain your optimum health status. If you are considering hurting yourself, please call or text 988 for the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
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Dr. Jamillah Karim with academic qualification as long our wingspans joins us today to dispel several Muslim biases vs polygyny: she’s educated, she’s financially capable, she’s independent, she’ authoritative, she’s confident, and she CHOOSES polygyny as a way of life for herself. She is both frank about her support of it as a source for authentically loving and supporting Muslim sisterhood, as well as recognizing the role of jealousy in polygyny. She does an excellent job of weighing pros and cons aloud in this episode so if anyone has never entertained both sides of polygyny, consider doing it. Hear about how polygyny serves her spiritual purposes, which in and of themselves are enviable mashaAllah.
Furthermore, for all those viscerally anti polygyny, consider the pervasive barriers to mere SURVIVAL that Black Americans, specifically Black Muslims, face and why polygyny may be a critical tool they need to perpetuate healthy Muslim families. For anyone slamming polygyny willy nilly this month on our socials and DMs, consider the anti Blackness of your prejudice to choices made by our brothers and sisters in America. Are you ready to be a bigot? Are you ready to marry Black Muslim women into your non-Black Muslim family?
Note: For those who don’t know what the “Warith Deen community” mentioned in this episode is, it’s the community of primarily Black Muslim Americans who followed the son of Elijah Mohammad, Warith Deen Muhammad, to mass conversion from The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam in the 1970s.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, or right on our website landing page and get caught up on all the episodes of this month.
Dr. Karim on IG: https://www.instagram.com/jamillahkarim/Dr. Karim on FB: https://www.facebook.com/jamillah.karimhttps://www.musawah.org/blog/rethinking-polygamy-lets-talk-about-the-consequences/Dr. Karim’s book: American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)Dr. Karim’s other book that also includes a lot of discussion about polygyny: Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni IslamBook cited by Dr. Karim in this episode: Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects EveryoneBook cited by Dr. Karim in this episode: We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: African American Women Who Practice Polygyny by ConsentPrivate polygamy in America: https://www.npr.org/2008/05/27/90857818/some-muslims-in-u-s-quietly-engage-in-polygamy Info on polygamy:

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You thought we wouldn't be fair and present all sides of the poly argument? Sorry, we must not have met before....
Ustadha Saba Syed joins us to discuss her personal and professional experiences of polygyny in Islam and how it won't work. Let's explore the history of Islamic polygyny, the hadeeth of Fatima a follower wanted to know more about, origins of immigrant misgivings, men's rights (and ahem, women's), and more. For those of you who know WHO Ustadha Saba knows, this episode has a couple of truth bombs you weren't ready for, so brace yourselves!
But then, she's never come on the podcast before without dropping our jaws!
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When you visit Houston, TX and want an AUTHENTIC hammam experience go to Oasis Moroccan Bath: https://oasismoroccanbath.com/ Loving Muslim Marriage video series from Muslim Matters: https://muslimmatters.org/lmm/ Pay special attention to episodes 2, 3, and 5There’s a 21-part series! Look out for all of them and watch!Sex Matters: Love, Marriage, and the Sunnah by www.muslimmatters.org “Hysteria” the movie is available on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Hysteria-Hugh-Dancy/dp/B009CPGQHASaba’a novel for young adults An Acquaintance: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/an-acquaintance-saba-syed/1126967439Re-examining Polygyny in Islam in The Muslim Women Times: https://themuslimwomentimes.com/2021/01/13/re-examining-polygyny-in-islam-exegesis-and-clarification/ Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Coach Fatimah and Coach Nyla of Outstanding Personal Relationships join us today to talk about their lives as cowives. Anything that rhymes is our cup of tea, as are these two ladies who teach us what sisterhood can look like if we get good with Allah SWT first. It’s a conversation you don’t want to miss, especially when we talk about how polygamy is practiced in the Black Muslim American community for reasons that some of us from immigrant roots have not considered before.
Again, no one is trying to convince Muslim moms to be co wives. But listen to these ladies talk about how they focus on their individual faith, support women, and use their advice to support a momsister in your life; and see what changes can come for both of you. Life could be beautiful if we applied what we learn from OPR to our own (monogamous) lives.
Tune in at 6pm EST tonight and share this episode with someone you know wouldn’t give polygyny the time of day! We are trying to educate, not convert here, don’t worry.
Outstanding Personal Relationships on the Web: https://www.outstandingpersonalrelationships.com/ Outstanding Personal Relationships on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outstandingrelationships/ Outstanding Personal Relationships on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/outstandingpersonalrelationshipsOutstanding Personal Relationships on YouTube: www.Youtube.com/OutstandingPersonalRelationships.com Get a Polygamy Road Map Ebook for men and one for women: www.PolygamyRoadMap.com Polygamy questions: https://www.musawah.org/blog/rethinking-polygamy-lets-talk-about-the-consequences/Private polygamy in America: https://www.npr.org/2008/05/27/90857818/some-muslims-in-u-s-quietly-engage-in-polygamy Info on polygamy: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/12/07/polygamy-is-rare-around-the-world-and-mostly-confined-to-a-few-regions/ Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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The CoWife Coach Mecca Nandi breaks down her family unit and how it’s evolved to its present place, addressing important topics such as jealousytrust and beliefemotional work of momssisterhood (what’s it mean to you?)women’s empowermentstrong marriages
If you’re coming with criticism of polygyny in Islam to this episode, you might find yourself laying your biases down at the end of it. That’s what we need: new POV or different POV from our own experiences and knowledge.
Tune in at 6pm EST tonight and SHARE this episode with 3 friends you are willing to have an open conversation with about this.
The CoWife Coach on https://www.thecowifecoach.com/ The CoWife Coach on IG: mecca_nandiMecca’s book recommendation: Communication Miracle for CouplesWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Will Perry represents the men of the masjid for us today and boy is he gracious about it because we really dug into him: Where are all the men when it comes to DV in the Muslim community? Good news! The urban legend of the Muslim American Posse is well and alive, so sisters, you have your soldiers available to you if you’re willing to call on them. Brothers, build more posses.
Unique POV we gain from Brother Will who takes us upstream to remind Muslim men, and in many cases teach for the first time, their role as protectors of women in Islam (if you want to scream, “We don’t need protection,” please relax and take a decaf. No bigger feminists than us here). MIDC works with many middle aged men who have never been married and have to re enter the ummah after decades of incarceration and trauma that fuels the dysfunction of some marriages. This happens to Muslim and non Muslim FYI.
How do we prevent another Muslim mom from dying when we can prevent it? Find out what MIDC is doing and help them continue this work through the community’s trauma after Alwiya's untimely death, and ask how to support the affected family. May Allah SWT grant her the highest level and protect her daughter from any harm seen or unseen. Ameen.
As always this month, if you’re not safe, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233, DM or email us salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com.
Learn more about Milwaukee Islamic Dawah Center: https://www.dawahcenter.org/ If you are in an unsafe situation please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233RYOC that Br. Will mentions to help young men re enter community: https://doc.wi.gov/Pages/OffenderInformation/AdultInstitutions/RacineYouthfulOffenderCorrectionalFacility.aspx Peaceful Families Project Imam Training: RYOC that Br. Will mentions to help young men re enter community: https://doc.wi.gov/Pages/OffenderInformation/AdultInstitutions/RacineYouthfulOffenderCorrectionalFacility.aspx Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Hope comes on anonymously today to discuss her experience of emotional abuse–the scars that NO ONE SEES. Find out the walls that women in this situation run into: from perpetuating cycles of emotional abuse, cultural toxicity and the dearth of healing resources (including finances) that don’t permit them to leave.
Have you ever wondered if what you’ve experienced is abuse? Hear what Hope has to say and understand that what an abuser considers benign, he (10X more likely to be “he”) will make her believe it is, too.
If you need help, call the National Domestic Hotline just to talk and explore what you’re experiencing: 1-800-799-7233. As always, you can DM us or email salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com if you don’t know about the culturally competent, Muslim-friendly local hero organizations near you.

  1. If you are in an unsafe situation please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233
  2. Nisa Helpline for ANYONE but specifically geared to help Muslim women: 1-888-315-6472
  3. A Continuous Charity Women’s Empowerment program: https://youtu.be/rCIOy3VaMzM
  4. Narcissists by Dr. Judith Joseph: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkGR2tgA8Yy/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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This is a special REPLAY of Madiha Schader’s experience of hiding the painful details of her emotional abuse from family and friends. The cultural reasons she did this are very clear in her story. She’s not unique, especially because her lived domestic violence wasn’t always physical. Mental, emotional, verbal abuse, financial/social isolation, witholding necessary care, and unreasonable demands from a place of control that endanger a person’s psychosocial wellbeing are equally suffocating, and a matter of life and death. Madiha’s freedom came through her own son and her body. Find out how her closest friends identified what was happening and supported her until she was able to decide it was time to save herself. If you know someone you suspect is in danger of physical violence or mental oppression, help her using the resources listed below. Don’t wait until your phone rings with the worst news ever; text her and let her know you’ve got a listening, non judgmental ear and shoulder for her. If you’re someone who is in danger, having kids WILL NOT change an abuser towards you and might direct abuse toward your kid(s).
NISA helpline for Muslim women’s helpline: 1-888-315-NISA (6472)National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Program Director of Nisa Homes, Yasmine Youssef joins us today to inform us about the differences between transitional homes and shelters, how to set them up in your own community, and how we can work together to put them out of business. Who else goes to work everyday wishing they don’t have to, any more than a domestic violence worker?
Nisa Homes has to open a 9th and 10th transitional home in Canada ASAP and you can help by visiting them @nisahomes. Donate right now so every victim has a choice, a literal safety net. She could be a momsister you know.
Tune in at 6pm EST tonight and share this with a friend who thinks they have no way out. Allah always makes a way.
Learn more about Nisa Homes and the services they can provide: https://nisahomes.com/ If you are in an unsafe situation please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 Nisa Homes on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nisahomes/ Nisa Homes on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nisahomesYasmine’s book recommendation: Dare to Lead by Brene BrownWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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If you don’t know Mona Kafeel of Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation, you have to hear this one. Her wisdom and insight regarding women’s safety and empowerment, allyship, and raising Muslim men plucks our heartstrings, and it’ll do yours too.
Why do we continue to fight domestic violence as Muslims? If we are following our religion correctly, there shouldn’t even BE a fight! What TMWF provides to Dallas metro Muslims, and how it’s grown with Mona is a model for all community resources, especially those tackling DV.
As a recipient of AMWGC’s grant last year, TMWF is above and beyond deserving of support and we hope y’all lend it. Check the shownotes for links to donate ASAP and share this with a momsister at 6pm EST tonight.
Learn more about The Muslim Women’s Foundation and the services they can provide: https://tmwf.org/ If you are in an unsafe situation please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233Mona’s book recommendation: See No Stranger by Valarie KaurUzma’s letter to Muslim men featured on the Haute Hijab blog this month: https://blog.hautehijab.com/post/dear-muslim-men-when-will-you-really-show-up-for-victims-of-domestic-violence Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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| This is not-to-be-missed episode where we learn about investment paths and products to help generate wealth, courtesy of Investment Advisor Rezwana Abed of Sharia Portfolio. Find out which ones to avoid as a Muslim, which ones to pursue whether or not you’re risk averse, and alternative money generators, some of which we’ve never heard of, like sakk.  Tune in at 6pm EST, especially if investing intimidates you!
 | Sharia Portfolio: https://shariaportfolio.com/ Contact Rezwana: rezwana@shariaportfolio.com Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Janan Sarwar of now Global Bookshelves discusses leaving a six figure career for what really makes her heart sing: books. Well, they make our hearts sing, too. Learn about some of the mindset shifts moms may need to make if they’re leaving the workforce for kids, or find that the careers they trained for in school no longer work.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Stitcher, Apple podcasts or ask Alexa (Uzma forgot on this episode that we are NOT on Spotify). You can also click on the link in bio and follow the podcast.
Learn more about GlobalPublishing: https://globalbookshelves.com/ Email Janan Sarwar: rxjanan@gmail.comJanan’s book recommendation: Atomic Habits by James ClearWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1wYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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We LOVE seeing women in the Boardroom and those that help Muslims moms get rich, well, they're just our favorite. How DID she become an expert in Sharia compliant investments, and why does she keep doing it? Find out on this episode with Jane Carten of Saturna Capital, or as we know it in the Muslim community, AMANA Mutual Funds.
Jane Carten has been President and Director of Saturna Capital since 1997. She oversees Saturna's daily operations and directs information systems, managing technology and marketing activities. She also directs Saturna’s continuing education program and philanthropy. Find out her tips to generate generational wealth.
Tune in at 6pm EST and share with a momsister you want to get rich with now.
Learn more about Saturna Capital products and request a prospectus: https://www.saturna.com/ Jane’s book recommendation: Measuring Success A Practical Guide to KPI by Greg BrisendineJanes book recommendation #2: How Millenials Can Lead Us Out of the Mess We’re In by Mordecai Schreiber, Iqbal Unus, Ian Case PunnettWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Lisa Hashem joins us as someone who witnessed the financial illiteracy of her community and did something about it. Not only has she continued to educate and coach her community members, she challenges the traditional methods of financial support and wealth building our parents modeled.
“Money magnifies who you are already.” We all know of someone who experienced financial infidelity and abuse. This episode is for her.
It’s too important NOT to know what she has to say. Tune in at 6pm EST tonight and share with a Muslim mom you know.
Listen to the Muslim Women and Finance podcast: https://anchor.fm/muslimwomenandfinanceFind Lisa on the Web: https://hashemconsulting.com/Lisa’s book recommendation: https://getgoodwithmoney.com/ Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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| Dr. Saima Ali tells us how she navigated the choice between Wall Street and the hospital, and how she continues to follow her passion to help other Muslim women get rich, too. She’s a Financial Coach who helps us answer: ● What are our money hang ups and why? ● Did you know there’s survivors’ guilt over having money? ● Is money a fitna (affliction, trial) or barakah (blessing)? Find out why women are better investors, the stigma associated with being rich Muslim women, why financial independenc is critical to Muslimahs, and how Islam brought financial idependence to women via, wait for it, Sharia Law!!! Tune in at 6pm EST wherever you listen to podcasts and SHARE this episode with someone who calls you “greedy” when you dream big.
| Listen to Wealthy Muslim Women podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wealthy-muslim-women/id1471075461 Find Dr. Ali on the Web: www.wealthymuslimwomen.us Dr. Ali Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wealthymuslimwomen/ Dr. Ali Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WealthyMuslimWomen The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins: https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Path-Wealth-financial-independence/dp/1533667926 Saima’s book recommendation: Moderate Muslim Marriage by Suzy Ismail: https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Muslim-Marriage-Finding-Succeed/dp/1590080718 Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life

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The entire Embracing Your Power team answers all your questions on this special BONUS Live with QA. We decided to air it as an episode in time for listeners to take advantage of the Early Bird discounts.
We look forward to more questions and interest in the limited seats and beds remaining for this Retreat.
What questions do you have? Tune in at 6pm EST on Spotify, Stitcher, or click the link in bio and SHARE this episode with a girlfriend you love to travel with so y’all can talk each other into coming together.
Register for EmbracingYour Power: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/merch/all-inclusive-wellness-retreat-embrace-your-power Moxie Living on IG: moxieliving21@gmail.comMoxie Living on the Web: https://moxielivingbsf.com/ Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Trigger warning: sexual abuse
Mina is our guest today, anonymized to protect their identity. They share their experience with childhood sexual abuse and the effects it had on them, their parents, and their extended family. There are a lot of dynamics to consider and our inner justice-seeker may be triggered; however, the insight as a therapist and survivor they offer is really important to think about.
Let’s talk about second generation trauma, family expectations vs social expectations, our own healing journeys, and how severed ties are navigated in these terribly delicate circumstances.
Tune in at 6pm EST and don’t forget to check the MANY resources we have in our Shownotes for you (on our website). Share this episode with someone you think would benefit AFTER you summarize the content with them. Let them choose if they are ready to hear it or not before you send the link or share this post. Please refrain from re-traumatizing someone.
RAINN: https://www.rainn.org/ Reporting Sexual Assaut and Abuse: https://www.abuselawsuit.com/resources/how-to-report-abuse/ Reporting Child Sexual Abuse (training offered!): https://www.stopitnow.org/ohc-content/reporting-child-sexual-abuse Circles of Safety Brochure: https://www.stopitnow.org/sites/default/files/documents/files/cos_brochure_online_version_final.pdf Body Safety via Buddy Speaks: https://buddyspeaks.org/ and hear founder Shariea Shoatz on Mommying While Muslim podcastMuslim Youth Helpline: https://naseeha.org/ Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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#boymom Farheen Raza Abbas joins us to discuss the circumstances that caused her to limit relationships in her own family. We didn’t expect bullying to show up in our series this month, but this episode really highlights what that can look like, some of the cultural bases of it, and how to set it straight.
Learn how to set healthy boundaries and protect our inner children as well as the next generations from toxic cultural behavior, i.e. bullying and body shaming, that can literally break apart families. Also find out how Farheen teaches how to end any tantrum in 5 seconds and avoid hostile family confrontations she learned from TikTok.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or click the link in bio to hear it right off our website! Share this episode with a bully you might be related to to help them gain some insight into their hurtful, un-Islamic behaviors.
Hear Farheen’s podcast: https://backtracks.fm/discover/s/authentic-unfiltered-with-farheen/dde0da6ef8b8f5b5 Wonder Hoodie: https://wonderhoodie.com/collections/wonder-hoodie-bulletproof-clothing/products/wonder-hoodie-x-adult-bulletproof-hoodie-nij-iiia?variant=40605263167599 Stop the Bleed Kit: https://shop.stopthebleedcoalition.org/product/stop-the-bleed-intermediate-kit/ Farheen’s Book recc: The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch AlbomMWM Retreat info: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/merch/all-inclusive-wellness-retreat-embrace-your-power Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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**Wow, get ready to gain insight into one of the most painful situations some families must deal with: severed ties of kinship. As Muslims, family is everything. But what happens when it’s not?
Uzma kicks it off this month by sharing a major family rift and how she justifies severing ties, as well as where her reasoning falls short. We don’t ignore our own mistakes at this podcast! It’s a very intimate journey of self reflection and might help someone out there who has estranged family and wants to know how to deal with it in a healthier way.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or click on the link in our bio. Don’t forget to listen to the ad about our Retreat. Details on our website.

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| We want to make sure you don’t miss catching up on all the episodes of THE GREAT MUSLIM AMERICAN ROAD TRIP following Mona Haydar and her husband Sebastian Robins along historic Route 66, exploring Islam’s deep roots in America. This series highlights the diversity of Muslims across the nation and thereby, the world.  So we’re publishing it AGAIN to make sure you go back to PBS to watch it with the kids. Share it with your friends tonight!
 | Watch The Great American Muslim Road Trip streaming: pbs.org Follow Mona Haydar on IG: @themostmona Learn more about Estevanico Mustafa Azemmouri: https://biography.yourdictionary.com/estevanico Additional reading on Muslim American Black History: Islam's Black Slaves : The History of Africa's Other Black Diaspora by Ronald Segal Mona’s book recommendation: My Soul is a Woman by Annmarie Schimmel Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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​Dr. Rand Diab joins us to discuss her empowering Reels and what she brings to the table that's different than other accounts. She even broaches the difficulties of parenting adult kids that are harder to divulge on social media. A conversation that can't be missed!​​Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or click on the link in our bio. Share this episode with a mom doc friend or three.
Dr. Rand Diab on the web: http://www.randdiab.com/Rand on IG: https://www.instagram.com/rdiabmd/ Rand on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmtnCAit78aGVDz5Y5GTdtg/featured Rand’s book recommendation: Ordinary Grace by William Kent KruegerWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Yasemin spills the beans on what social media was like when she first took our feeds by the hijab, how it's transitioned, her content evolution, hasad and evil eye, and mommying while Muslim of course. You'll want to hear her advice on social media for kids and how to keep these virtual spaces authentic.

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​We are so happy to finally have her on and we know you'll love hearing from her as much as you love following her online. For moms who feel overwhelmed by curated feeds and pics, this is an episode for you because as Yasemin says, "We're all just people."

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​Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or click on the link in our bio to listen. Share the episode link with a momsister today.

Yaz on the web: https://www.yazthespaz.com/ Yaz on IG: https://www.instagram.com/yazthespaz89/?hl=enYaz on FB: https://www.facebook.com/YazTheSpaz/Yaz on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YazTheSpaz89/featured Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Honestly Aisha better known as Aisha Thabet joins us today to discuss her journey to social media: the good, the bad, and the scary. This is a terrific listen with kids and tweens so they know the reasons why they need to stay off social media. Why is she so frank about the perils of the Internet when she’s an influencer herself? Hello, she’s Honestly Aisha!
For Muslim moms, if commiseration, validation and inspiration is what you seek, then hop on a ride with today’s episode and you’ll love Aisha’s sincerity and passion as much as you do online. If you’re not already a follower, you’ll become one.
Tune in at 6pm EST and share this episode link with a friend.
Learn more about Aisha’s classes for kids: https://www.honestlyaisha.com/Aisha on IG: https://www.instagram.com/honestlyaisha/Aisha’s book recommendation: Purification of the Heart by Hamza Yusuf https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/272724.Purification_of_the_Heart Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Anse Najiyah Maxfield returns to the podcast to discuss her conversion story with us today. As an OG at Rabata, she traces its history and the birth of Project Lina. So we’ve discussed lots of issues in women’s conversion journeys last month,, but we’d be remiss to not approach it from a solutions focused lens.
Get an insightful dose of new Islam, from feeling alienated from family, toxic new Muslim education, and learning Muslim-ese (Anse’s term). Also learn what Project Lina does to help address all of these issues and more. You’ll walk down memory lane from a seasoned mother and momsister who has dozens of pearls to share with our community. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, or click on the link in our bio to listen to the latest episode.
Daybreak Press Website to purchase Project Lina: https://daybreak.rabata.org/products/projectlina Anse Najiyah’s book recommendations: The Bible, The Qur'an and Science by Dr. Maurice Bucaille and Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice by Pam FesslerRegister for Project Lina new Muslimah online: https://www.rabata.org/convertcare/ Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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A three-part documentary series, THE GREAT MUSLIM AMERICAN ROAD TRIP follows a millennial Muslim American couple on a cross-country journey along historic Route 66 as they explore Islam’s deep roots in America. Making more than a dozen stops between Chicago andLos Angeles, rapper Mona Haydar and her husband Sebastian Robins meet with authors, entrepreneurs, medical students, performers and others to better understand the centuries-long Muslim experience in the United States. This series highlights the diversity of Muslims across the nation and their contributions to history and culture, weaving a colorful story of what it means to be a Muslim in America today.
We are so excited to welcome Mona Haydar back to the podcast to discuss her latest amazing project with PBS. Tune in at 6pm EST tonight on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, or click on our link in bio.
Don’t forget to turn in Tuesdays July 5th, 12th, and 19th on @PBS at 10pm EST and #MuslimRoadTripPBS below in the comments once you have to let us know what you think!
Watch The Great American Muslim Road Trip streaming: pbs.org Follow Mona Haydar on IG: @themostmona Learn more about Estevanico Mustafa Azemmouri: https://biography.yourdictionary.com/estevanico Additional reading on Muslim American Black History: Islam's Black Slaves : The History of Africa's Other Black Diaspora by Ronald SegalMona’s book recommendation: My Soul is a Woman by Annmarie Schimmel Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Kai Wingo’s energy in this episode is so refreshing mashaAllah. Her conversion story is another example of a uniquely easy one. With parental and community support as well as her own quest for knowledge, she was able to get her questions answered and revert to Islam. From Intro to Islam classes to sisterhood in sohbet (Turkish halaqa) culture, to creating unique reusable stickers to help her daughter feel represented.

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  1. Kai’s Website: https://www.splitmoonpublications.com/
  2. Kai on IG: https://www.instagram.com/splitmoonpublications/
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Nye Armstrong of Happy People Podcast joins us to discuss her path to Islam and how her education showed her the life she was living (with a self titled Muslim) wasn’t jamming with the religion she was falling in love with. Hear her hurdles and advice to both non Muslims and Muslims alike, especially premarital advice to women considering Islam. Let’s all think on our own “shahadah moment” (coined by Nye).
Warning: We mention abuse physical and sexual abuse and advise parental guidance.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, or click the link in our bio.
Nye on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyearmstrong/Nye’s inspiration from Martin Lang’s classic seerah book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/muhammad-martin-lings/1000343642 Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Alex Khouri of the Aweea brand is on today to tell us her story about coming to Islam and how hers might actually be kind of exceptional. She kind of hit the lottery a couple of times masha’Allah, but hear her repressed memories of things that traumatized her upon her conversion! For real, she’s figuring it out on this episode.

In her prior life, Alex was committed to cosplay and is a seamstress extraordinaire. Check out her products to confirm!

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or click on the link in our bio and share it with a mom friend.

Links:

  1. Website: www.AWEEA.com
  2. Alex on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Aweea_
  3. Alex on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aweea/?ref=share
  4. Alex on IG: https://www.instagram.com/aweea_/
  5. Alex’s reading recc: Becoming by Michelle Obama
  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Muslim women know fashion, and as such, they know Lisa Vogl, spokesperson for modest fashion and domestic violence, and convert to Islam. Her revelation about converts post shahadah (coming to Islam) is an important reflection of the Muslim community, but even more important are her tips to step up to and for new Muslims. A good point she alludes to is that while Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, there are still a lot of people leaving Islam, and we have to consider why that’s true. A 2017 survey found 24% of Muslim Americans have left Islam, and that 55% of that group no longer identifies with any religion. Collective shudder.

Tune in at 6pm EST tonight on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or click on our link in bio to share this episode with a momsister.

Website: https://verona-collection.com/Lisa on FB: https://www.facebook.com/lisamvogl/Lisa on IG: https://www.instagram.com/lisamvogl/?hl=enFind out more about EMBRACE: https://embracereverts.org/ Lisa’s book recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Emptiness-emotional-spiritual-well-being/dp/B09XZH8DD4 Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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​This is one of our favorite replays, not just because of Amanda Moutakki's alternate identity as @marocmama, but because her conversion story is so unique. She just isn't afraid of a challenge, or a new experience, and everyone deserves to "meet" her, if only on this episode. But for reals: Go find her in Morocco.

If you’ve been a fan of Maroc Mama, you’ll be so excited for this one. For those who don’t know her, you will fall in love. Amanda Moutakki  joins us today to discuss her expat achievements and challenges, and running a tourism business in a pandemic. Her POV about how she met her husband and now lives her life of adventure is both inspirational AND aspirational. Tune in to also find out about momcations and how she curates them.

Links:

  1. Find Amanda Mouttaki on on IG: @marocmama
  2. Check out her travel blog: www.marocmama.com
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Samihah Huq joins us to discuss her experience with food addiction and how she’s hit a wall with her doctor in terms of understanding, naming, and taming it. There are barriers to wrapping our brains around food addiction in the Muslim community, starting with the doctor’s office and leading right up to an auntie’s buffet table.
Just like any other addiction, food affects neurochemistry and failure to look at it as a passing issue, a phase, or anything other than a disease unto itself is leading us on a dangerous path. Hear about some tools to help us identify the problem, work with our doctors to name it, and come up with a recovery plan.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music and Alexa. DM us after you’ve listened to tell us what you think, or email us at salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com.

  1. Mecca a Journey Through Time: https://lightartvr.com/#:~:text=Our%20revolutionary%20project%20%E2%80%9CMecca%3A%20A,greatest%20hub%2C%20then%20and%20now
  2. DSM IV criteria on addiction: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92053/table/ch2.t5/
  3. Yale Food Addiction Scale: https://www.centrahealth.com/sites/default/files/yale-food-addiction-scale.pdf
  4. Food Addiction: https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/eating-disorders/binge-eating-disorder/mental-health-food-addiction
  5. Find out more about burning energy from Fit Muslimah: @fitmuslimah
  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
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Like almost every episode this month, there’s explicit content so please be mindful of tiny ears within listening range.
Dr. Madiha Tahseen from The Family & Youth Institute joins us today to discuss what The FYI research has learned about porn consumption in the Muslim American community, its effects, and how to prevent it. There are some super surprising facts to learn today, not the least of which is a spike in Muslim porn viewership during the pandemic, but shocking to us: religious kids watch porn, too.
This is neurological issue as well as a behavioral issue, so please listen in to find out how to help Muslim children and family members avoid the path to porn addiction. The first step is to listen to this episode, and the second, per Dr. Tahseen is DON’T FREAK OUT (loosely translated). No Kitty Catty about it ;).
What are porn consumption tells, resources if porn is a problem in your Muslim household, treatments, and prevention? It’s all in this episode and the Shownotes on your podcast app.
Dropping at 6pm EST tonight on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, ask Alexa, or click on our link in bio. Share this episode with your momcrew to add to their mommying toolkit!
TheFYI Website: www.fyi.orgTheFYI Porn Addiction Toolkit: https://www.thefyi.org/toolkits/porn/ TheFYI Digital Parenting Toolkit: https://www.thefyi.org/toolkits/the-fyi-digital-parenting-toolkit/ Dr. Tahseen’s book recc: The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan TheFYI on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thefyi_org/?hl=enTheFYI on FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheFYI.org/ TheFYI on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFYIdotOrg?app=desktop TheFYI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheFYI_org?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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We have a BONUS episode for you this week! There’s explicit content so please be mindful of tiny ears within listening range.
Salah Abu Muna shares his research study that seeks to determine the need for Muslim-centered substance abuse recovery. He needs 10 more Muslim subjects by May 31st and it’s a paid study to boot! Twelve steps isn’t the only way; find out why! We pray this episode will get him the data set he needs to provide a critical resource to Muslim Americans in crisis. Ameen.
Hear about Salah’s personal experience with addiction, the near death experience that fueled his spiritual and physical recovery, as well as his passion for Addiction Studies. His will be the first of many surveys to inform the foundation for Muslim American substance abuse treatment insha’Allah.
Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, ask Alexa, or click on the link in our bio. Share this episode with a friend who may be contemplating an end to their substance use or abuse, or a mom whose loved one may be in crisis.
Note: In this episode, it’s “carotid,” not “cathartic” artery.
Learn about Better Conduct and participate in the Barriers to Muslim Addiction study TODAY deadline 5/31: https://betterconduct.org/Dr. Malik Badri bio: https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/the-father-of-modern-islamic-psychology-dr-malik-badri-s-legacy-44255 Institute for Social Policy & Understanding: https://www.ispu.org/substance-abuse-and-addiction-in-the-muslim-community/ Learn about Millati Islami: https://www.millatiislami.org/Get 24/7 help finding addiction recovery help at SAMHSA: https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline or call 1-800-662-HELPWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Tina Khan joins us today to discuss her experience watching her son’s spiral into drugs and mental health crises and what it did to their family. This is definitely an episode you want to hear before you choose to let your kids listen in, but it really does merit a listen by young people to hear what drug addiction does, not just to an individual, but a family and community.
Where are we as a Muslim community in terms of supporting our young Muslims struggling with drug addiction, and just as importantly to our momcrew, are we there for our moms who have a child in crisis like this? If not now, WHY NOT. If not now, WHEN?
Tune in at 6pm EST tonight on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, ask Alexa or click on our link in bio and SHARE this episode link with 2 moms you know so THEY know they’ve got allies and ears with us. Make sure you use your podcast app to look up the links on this one. **Links:

Ten years of substance use research in Muslim populations: Where do we go from here?: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jmmh/10381607.0010.103/--ten-years-of-substance-use-research-in-muslim-populations?rgn=main;view=fulltext Substance Abuse and Addiction in the Muslim Community: Facing Stigma and Seeking Support: https://www.ispu.org/substance-abuse-and-addiction-in-the-muslim-community/ Participate in Muslim drug treatment research study: https://betterconduct.org/ Teena’s email: teena.khn@gmail.com*Listen to Teena on King of the World podcast:* https://www.rifelion.com/shows/kingoftheworld Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com*Email:* salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com*FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube:* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w**

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Due to the mind-numbing circumstances of this week’s Supreme Court decision, we decided to re-release our abortion episode. Right, critics, we know if our moms got abortions, we would not be born to tell the tale. Your fallacy of logic is too exhausting to even address.

As women, moreover as mothers, we are consumed with grief and anger over what is happening on the daily to threaten our children, but now, even the bodies of our female children? While we regroup and figure out how to take action, we want to reshare our thoughts and some facts about Islam and abortion. Check our shownotes on this one for sure to get the links.

For all these years, the cockroaches have been warning the world about Sharia Law when their own religious laws are SO MUCH more dangerous to women. The irony is maddening. Tell us what you think about Roe v Wade being overturned in comments, but if you identify as male, you should observe and remain silent. As owners of the only set of organs to have laws created to control them, we are hypervigilant right now and have given fair warning to tread lightly or not at all.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon, or ask Alexa. You can also click the link in our bio to SHARE THIS EPISODE with a woman you love.

  1. Islam and the Abortion Debate from Yaqeen Institute: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/omar-suleiman/islam-and-the-abortion-debate
  2. Abortion in Islami animated information from Yaqeen Institute: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/omar-suleiman/abortion-in-islam-animated-video
  3. For parenting courses on how to talk to Muslim kids about sex: @thehalalsexpert
  4. State by state restrictions on abortion at Planned Parenthood: https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion
  5. Muslim Kids and Sexual Activity:https://muslimmentalhealth.com/lets-talk-about-sex-and-muslim-mental-health/
  6. Sex Education Reduces Unplanned Pregnancy:https://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/study-finds-comprehensive-sex-education-reduces-teen-pregnancy
  7. Who is Alex P. Keaton?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_P._Keaton
  8. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  9. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  10. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  11. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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    https://youtu.be/OpbMZseC8Ko

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Join Zaiba and Uzma with their Eid reflections, prep, and favorite resources. We appreciate our audience following along these last two months during our episodes to prepare for Ramadan, stay strong with our worship in Ramadan as moms spread so very thin, and now we are more than happy to share our holiday with our momsisters.
Learn about easy family-friendly sadaqa projects that can be done the day of Eid. Keep up the good work and see what Zaiba is doing with the sadaqa jar money her kids have collected. Check out the shownotes for awesome links we aren’t paid for, but are happy to share for your Eid prep as well.
Uzma’s recommendations for Eid clothing:Urban Modesty dresses and abayas: https://www.urbanmodesty.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjw9qiTBhBbEiwAp-GE0T9pGcj1GAXVhoPThDat6Abfa0jbIKQIzDJHY3kAahXfbIT0VbPx0RoCIfMQAvD_BwE Aab dresses and abayas: https://us.aabcollection.com/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=USA_EN_Search_Brand_EXT&utm_medium=adwords&utm_campaign=&utm_source=&utm_content=modest_clothing_branded&gclid=CjwKCAjw9qiTBhBbEiwAp-GE0Qm-1rXte8zEyp2Tyso7TtxJFxRyP73XMt13NweViU9UvV5esu8mBRoCq7UQAvD_BwE Brands Just Pret South Asian fashion: (832) 886-4084Poshak Houston South Asian Fashion: (713)532-3232 Ask for Anas and say Uzma sent you! MWM does not get any compensation for any of these recommendations.BTS box: https://www.amazon.com/Include-Postcards-Stickers%EF%BC%8CGift-Daughter-Granddaughter/dp/B081DJ19SZ/ref=sr_1_52?keywords=bts+mystery+box&qid=1651174847&sr=8-52 Duck Donuts Virginia: https://www.duckdonuts.com/locations/ Zair Zabr Play for the Names of Allah game: https://zairzabrplay.com/ or contact her on IG @zairzabrplay Hen Khan books for representative literature: https://henakhan.com/my-books/ Iftar boxes Google doc with product links: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IMO5MbNAYziXydmbNqjB--Lf0SibVKGP_vj6ax9FyWE/edit?usp=sharing Uzma’s book recommendation: Zen Parenting by Cathy Cassani AdamsZaiba’s book recommendation: The Awakened Family by Dr. Shefali Tsabary and Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Ustadha Safiya Ravat of Suhbah Institute reminds us how to focus on our Ramadan as moms–beyond the food, the rat race, the decor, and all the things we have to continue doing–to build our safe spiritual spaces with Allah SWT.

Uzma sniffs a lot in this episode after Ustadha shares the tafseer of a commonly misquoted and misused hadith. We couldn’t cut out all that helpful audio from our guest. This one’s for all the girls who grew up being told they didn’t belong in the masjid.

Share this episode with 2 moms you know to remind them how amazing they are and how loved they are by Allah SWT. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Links:

  1. Suhbah Institute Website: https://suhbah.com/
  2. Suhbah Institute IG: @suhbah_institute

  3. Ustadha Safiya’s book recommendations

    1. The Character of the Muslim Woman: Women's Emancipation during the Prophet's Lifetime (Islamic Economics) by Abd Al-Halim Abu Shuqqah
      1. Secrets of Divine Love by A. Helwa

    3. Ustadha Safiya’s YouTube recommendations:

    4. Prophet Yusuf series on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t2CpKjogBT8

      1. People of the Cave “Men of Angelos”: https://youtu.be/tdnJCaMPzyI

    7. Ustadha Safiya’s podcast recommendation

    8. The Quantum Chronicles: https://thequantumchronicles.com/

    10. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
    11. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
    12. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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We are so honored to have Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi talk to us about impediments to spiritual consistency in our lives. While some folks are trying to get through Ramadan day by day, we are excessively worried about the month coming to a close and not having learned anything. Y’all know we are an anxious duo at the podcast! How do we carry our Ramadan routines forward past this blessed month and not lose the spiritual high?

Let’s talk about train cars, the myth of parental ownership, suhbah (spiritual companionship, which is coming up later this month, by the way!), acts of worship we can rely on no matter our stage of motherhood, and insha’Allah walk away feeling energized to maintain the magic of Ramadan, keeping up steam for the rest of the year. Allahuma ameen.

Links:

  1. Hosai Mojaddidi’s Website: http://hosaimojaddidi.com/about/
  2. Hosai Mojaddidi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hosaimojo/?hl=en
  3. Hosai Mojaddidi on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hosaimojaddidi/
  4. The Golden Quran app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.goldenquran.freesoft&hl=en_US≷=US
  5. Ustadha Hosai’s book recommendation: The Jewels of the Quran Imam Ghazali
  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  9. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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| Zaiba and Uzma discuss their Ramadan 2022 plans and fears because let’s not continue saying “the pandemic is over” and go back to normal. It’s still a worrisome time, but less stressful alhamdulillah, and to that end, what does their mindset look like after preparing last month with their Nutrition & Fitness series? We hope you find yourself less stressed about “doing it all” this month. Bonus content about QuadMShops and our experience meeting listeners for the first time. We want to make it a first of many so take a listen to what we want to do in the future with and for our audience, and our potential audiences! Excuse allergy voices and discussions about luscious dishes in the community that will have your mouth watering. If you’re fasting, maybe listen to it AFTER sunset! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music or ask Alexa. Subscribe today and share an episode with a momsister.

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  1. Uzma’s book recommendation: The Enneagram and You by Gina Gomez
  2. Zaiba’s book recommendations: NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming by Tom Dotz, Go Back to Where you Came From by Wajahat Ali, Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty, and Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  6. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Dr. Tina Siddiqua, MD explains some remarkably frightening stats and trends she’s noted as a pediatrician, that fuel both her counseling of parents and kids, as well as how she shows up for her own. They also inform her often funny Tik Toks and IG Reels.

Follow traumatic relationships with food and body image to her fitness journey as the youngest after a baseball lineup of brothers. A self proclaimed foodie, both food and fitness comprise her lifestyle now. Leading up to Ramadan, she teaches us how to address both our kids’ and our health needs during the holy month.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music or click the link in bio for our listening page. Subscribe today so you don’t miss and episode.

Links:

  1. Tahrin Siddiqua’s Website: https://www.nwcypressmd.com/
  2. Tahrin Siddiqua on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fitdoctor.siddiqua/
  3. Tahrin Siddiqua on TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/fitdoctor.siddiqua/
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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FitMuslimah Mubarakah Ibrahim tells us about what keto is today, and what it is NOT. Specifically, how is a ketogenic lifestyle (y’all know we don’t like to say “diet” on the podcast!) conducive to fasting in Ramadan in particular? Ketosis is our friend when it comes to fulfilling our worship goals during this holy month. There’s a reason FitMuslimah calls Ramadan “Shahr al Ketosis” (month of ketosis)!

Trace traditional diets of colonized people and learn the origins of our foods, and how those were forced to change to the detriment of global health. Find out FitMuslimah’s recommendations on the best food choices for our bodies to prevent metabolic syndrome and diseases associated with it, which is easier than we think. The key is “insulin spikes.” Tune in at 6pm EST to learn how to choose wisely.

Subscribe to the podcast and share this episode with 3 friends tonight!

Links:

  1. FitMuslimah on FB: https://www.facebook.com/FitMuslimah/
  2. FitMuslimah website: www.fitmuslimah.com
  3. FitMuslimah on IG: https://www.instagram.com/fitmuslimah/
  4. FitMuslimah’s book recommendation: Will by Will Smith
  5. Another book recommendation: You Got Anything Stronger by Gabrielle Union
  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  9. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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Mona Khalil, MS, RD, LD reminds us today about the prophetic model of eating for LIFE, not just for Ramadan. When did we put the role of pleasure on food when it’s supposed to be fuel for our work and worship?

Let’s bust the myths of “making up for lost calories” and hear some mad cool mom hacks to prepare for Ramadan and mommying on the daily so fasting doesn’t shock our systems. There are some life-changing recommendations on where we wish we’d known before! K.I.S.S., mamas!

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon, ask Alexa, or click on the link on bio to hear our podcast! Leave us a review if you’re listening for the first time and tell us what you think.

Links:

  1. Email Mona on: mkhalil2@twu.edu
  2. Find Mona on IG: @nutrigirl5
  3. The Whole Brain Child https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Child-Revolutionary-Strategies-Developing/dp/0553386697
  4. White nectarines: https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/White_Nectarines_4211.php
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Abdiya Iman joins us to discuss the Modest Fitness movement and how that has morphed from a response to the pandemic and lockdown to now elevating Muslimah wellness. From creating safe spaces online to elevating moms’ experiences in person, Abidya and her team are pioneers in the Muslim wellness industry. Learn how Modest Fitness is now offering more programs as a woman-led business, including the Ramadan Program, which is coming BACK for the second year in a row to power our fasting this year!

We are pretty sure you’ll want to “aubergine” and “courgette” with us after this episode, especially.

Seek mind-body-spirit wellness to power this year’s worship and tune in on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Alexa, or Amazon Music. OR just click on the link in our bio and go to our website landing page and click “Listen.”

Links:

  1. Find Modest Fitness on FB: https://www.facebook.com/modestfitnessweek
  2. Abdiya’s book recc: The Invisible Muslim Medina Whiteman
  3. Sign up for the Ramadan Program on IG: @modestfitnessweek
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  5. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
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Zaiba & Uzma were so excited to talk about Ramadan prep and the physical, spiritual, and mental work that has to start now, that they recorded an episode together documenting what’s worked so far for them. While Zaiba has been on her journey longer than Uzma now, it’s useful to find out what we aren’t saying correctly to ourselves, and within earshot of our kids, that can sabotage our success before we even begin.

Sorry, but the conversation that one CAN’T do something like make up their fasts, run a mile, or complete a perfect Pinterest Ramadan tableau is untrue. Allah SWT made us capable and barring any actual disabilities, we can and need to stop convincing ourselves that we aren’t enough to reach our fitness goals. Yes, we are.

Now get to work and tune in at 6pm EST on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon, ask Alexa, click the link in our bio or go to our website mommyingwhilemuslim.com and click ‘Listen.’ Share this episode’s link with a friend today!

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Megan Wyatt of Wives of Jannah joins us today to discuss sex positive sunnah practices, and the real history of Islamic sexual tradition subdued by colonization and toxic cultural beliefs. From observations of sexual belief systems she’s made from coaching couples for years, learn about about:

● sex positivity in Islam the RELIGION

● the spiritual nature of sex in Islam

● the role of pleasure in Islam for either gender, and especially for women

● giving vs. getting and their significance, sexual dissatisfaction, boredom, emotional abuse, and porn among many others

● how sex positivity and shame CULTURE of colonization replaced the sunnah of sex

We could NOT cut out the excellent advice and wisdom shared by Megan today, so sit back and absorb this one, singles and partnered people! Tune is at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Pandora, or just go to our website and click on the home page to listen.

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Links:

  1. Find Wives of Jannah online and on Instagram:https://wivesofjannah.com/ http://www.instagram.com/wivesofjannah
  2. Dua before sexual intercourse:

بِسْمِ اللهِ اللَّهُمَّ جَنِّبْنَا الشَّيْطَانَ ، وَجَنِّبِ الشَّيْطَانَ مَا رَزَقْـتَنَا

In the Name of Allah. O Allah, keep the shaytaan away from us and keep the shaytaan away from what You have blessed us with.

Note: *The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said, “Whoever says this dua and the wife was pregnant from that night, Shaytan will never be able to harm the child.”

  1. Will the Angels Curse Me? free ebook: https://wivesofjannah.com/wtacm/?fbclid=IwAR3i0KFKnmyFyA6eiTYdiLrpCkS7kfvoI-NEO_HO5FNgqj2x6bOlvCIcqnA
  2. For those dealing with porn or sex addiction: https://purifyyourgaze.com/
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Half Our Deen’s team member and mom of 4 Maryam Adham joins us today to talk about how the company’s matchmaking algorithm works, what to expect when one signs up, and what certain results may mean. As a special treat, HOD reviewed Uzma and her husband’s online profiles to see if they were compatible and essentially, the right match for each other. Tune in to find out what they learned.

Explore how we determine compatibility and find our partners for life insha’Allah. There are some terrific tips in this episode on some of the internal work and questions we have to ask ourselves before we go trying to get married to another person. Do not miss!

Mommying While Muslim is offering ONE yearlong subscription to Half Our Deen for FREE, but you have to tune in to hear how to get it. That’s an $84 value with priceless rewards if a compatible match results insha’Allah.

Links:

  1. Find Half Our Deen online and on Instagram: https://www.halfourdeen.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/halfourdeen/
  2. The Psychology and Meaning of Colors: https://colorpsychologymeaning.com/
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Dr. Shaakira Abdullah aka The Halal Sexpert joins us today to talk all things clitoris because let’s be real, how many of us know exactly what it is….or WHERE it is? And it’s a part of our bodies!!! As Zaiba says in this episode, “We don’t know what we don’t talk about.”

Find out about our God-given organ (and He does NOT make mistakes!), its power, and the ways in which men have tried to oppress us through it. Good news: female circumcision is another failure of men and internalized female misogyny to thwart female pleasure. This episode includes terms like “lick,” “kink,” “orgasm,” and “squirt,” so stay tuned for that, preferably without the kids.

Let’s fix that today and appreciate the candor and passion Dr. Abdullah brings to the topics of intimacy, sex, and Muslim sexuality. Don’t miss her advice to parents on how to talk to our kids about sex.

And let’s all get cliterate!

Links:

  1. Find Dr. Shaakira Abdullah and her classes, resources, and oh-those-Reels on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehalalsexpert/
  2. Find Dr. Shaakira Abdullah online at her website: https://halalsexpert.com/
  3. Read Blackness in Islam: https://www.imamghazali.org/store/blackness-and-islam
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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We kick off our series this month breaking down some of the toxic practices and mindsets associated with sex and sexuality in the Muslim community. Who better to address some of those taboos than Zaiba and Uzma themselves? No guests for this episode, folks!

Your favorite cohosts are talking about some of their sexual hangups and breakthroughs, how they got over them, and how they’re raising sex-positive kids who aren’t afraid to talk or learn about sex or to be ashamed of the sexual beings they were created to be. Let’s be our kids’ role models for sex positivity, mamas! Cheers to breaking sexual trauma and sexual negativity!

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Pandora, or head over to our website landing page to catch the episode. Leave us a review and share this month’s episodes with 3 friends.

Links:

  1. Islamic Perspectives on Sexual Intimacy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/islamic-perspectives-on-sexual-intimacy/id1457266799?i=1000465568550
  2. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  3. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Aisha Jalali joins us today to discuss her survival guide to raising a 6-pack (of kids, not soda or beer) and being the hot, hot, hot mother in law she is now masha'Allah. The good news is, she is winging it while making it look easy. Like Aisha, WE want to "wing it" via many road trips, sujood ash shukr (prostrations of gratitude), family halaqa traditions, mama self care, and keeping all our ears and doors open, even when there's cucumbers and watermelon sugar involved. Yes, we said it. You'll have to listen to find out why!

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​Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, ask Alexa, click on our bio, or go to our website and hit 'Listen' on the landing page. Share it with 3 friends and leave reviews!

Links:

  1. The US commits war crimes: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-says-any-pentagon-officials-who-approved-reckless-war-crime-in-kabul-should-resign/?ms=Dailynewsbrief&emci=bf7ccf68-2d7a-ec11-94f6-c896650d4442&emdi=6ae75a01-317a-ec11-94f6-c896650d4442&ceid=68826
  2. Find Aisha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aisha-jalali-78913559/
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Chaplain Kirsten Jawad joins us today to engage in thoughtful conversation about parenting mindfully in an era when our young people are so much more dynamic than in the past–from flying the nest to staying in it and what work is required to keep our relationships healthy, faithful, and rewarding. While it’s great that our kids don’t want to leave yet, we still serve in our maternal roles to support their continued independence, resilience, and to help our mom-adult child relationship reach another level. Even when our kids fall off the path of Islam, there is a place for us to guide them back as adults without going nuclear (Uzma!!!) using the Kristenism “carefrontations” to bring them back home. It’s about maternal mindset and truly having tawwakul (truly trusting God’s plan) Allah, as well as tawwakul in our kids and our momselves! Write down her 5 rules to mommying that can make a difference with all ages, but really apply to our adult Muslim kids!

Links:

  1. Compassionate Spiritual Care With Kristen Jawad: https://illuminatedlifeways.com/
  2. Kristen’s inspiration on positive parenting and maternal inner work: https://www.amazon.com/Continuum-Concept-Happiness-Classics-Development/dp/0201050714
  3. Find the poem Kristen quotes in Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting: https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Blessings-Inner-Mindful-Parenting/dp/0786883146
  4. CAIR’s press release on the moles working for Investigative Project on Terrorism: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/breaking-cair-to-release-new-evidence-showing-anti-muslim-hate-group-used-paid-spies-to-surveil-prominent-muslim-leaders-groups-for-more-than-a-decade/
  5. Tariq Nelson’s statement on why he defected CAIR: https://www.cair.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Statement-Tariq-Nelson.docx.pdf
  6. Proving to Zaiba that “hotboxes” are real: https://mohavedailynews.com/news/85597/patience-key-in-winning-contest/
  7. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  9. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  10. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  11. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

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When we asked Joy Turner, mom of 3 adults

● How do we conduct ourselves when adult kids don’t practice or act according to what we expect?

● How do we retire the red panic button?

● What keeps a mom from going nuclear?

we didn’t expect to end up in tears. Joy threw us a curveball on this one because y’all know we like to end on a laugh, but instead we shared happy snot. “Just love them.”

Thank you for bringing back joy, Joy. We pray that mommying these adult kids will build far better than what we shared before. Allahuma ameen.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, ask Alexa, or land on our website where the ‘Listen’ button will take you to all of our episodes, starting with this one. Tell us what you think by leaving a review, a new feature on Spotify!

Links:

  1. Watch with the kids! Inside Out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/
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Nora Abbasi, mom of 4 adult children, joins us today to share motherisms that helped her reach this glorious point as grandmother to 12 little Muslims, mashaAllah. Her advice and reflections are so helpful to those of us on the cusp of being empty nesters or those of who fear reaching that point. All things our kids face with us at their sides can be good. Caring about “what will people say,” sabotages us, though and her tips on how to avoid doing that are GOLDEN.

We learned SO MUCH about how to have healthy mindsets about our kids growing up, avoid opening the door to Shaytaan, and how to keep the spark alive with our partners while raising kids and especially after!

Tune in at 6pm EST tonight and let us know what you think on the reviews on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google play, or go to our website and hit the ‘Listen’ button on the landing page. You can send us a message about what you think about the episode there, too. We LOVE hearing back from you.

Links:

  1. Standard info on raising Muslim children: https://www.iqrasense.com/muslim-character/raising-children-in-islam-how-to-raise-children-into-responsible-muslim-adults.html
  2. The first 21 years, but we know mommying doesn’t stop when the kids turn 21: https://withaspin.com/2019/12/22/principles-of-islamic-parenting/
  3. On Being the Best Muslim Parent (it’s an online manual but Nora assures us THERE’S NO MANUAL!!!): https://www.isacademy.net/admin/uploads/29617_On_Being_the_Best_Muslim_Parent.pdf
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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Our 9/11 special was featured by Fireside this month as one of the most compelling episodes of the year. For those who don’t know yet, Zaiba & Uzma host Breakfast Byelines weekly and WOC Book Club once a month on this innovative app that can best be described as “Clubhouse married Facebook Live.” Don't miss out on Fireside, but if you don't want to check out another app, get the recordings by joining our Patreon!

**This recording was our inaugural episode on Fireside, when amazing panelists and audience members shared their collective experiences and heartaches about the historic date that made or broke a lot of us. Find them all using the links below.

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Warning: expletives on this episode, so you might not want to listen with the kids.

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  1. Join Mommying While Muslim on Breakfast Byelines every Friday at 11am EST: https://f.chat/4zXJ. If you can’t attend live, no worries! The recordings are posted on our Patreon every week for members for as little as $5/month so you’ll never miss an episode! https://www.patreon.com/mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  2. Find King of the World Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/king-of-the-world/id1581471980
  3. Find Shahjehan Khan: https://www.shahjehankhan.com/
  4. Find The Free to Be Show by Cordelia Gaffar: https://www.cordeliagaffar.com/free-to-be-show-podcast
  5. Follow and find Stephanie Mcgann-Jantzen on Fireside: www.firesidechat.com/stephaniemcgannjantzen
  6. Follow and find Victoria Medina on Fireside: www.firesidechat.com/victoriamedina
  7. Follow and find Kris Kosach on Fireside: www.firesidechat.com/kriskosach
  8. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  9. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  10. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Aisha Mshood joins us today as a mom who fostered to adopt and continues to foster children in America in hopes of building the family of her dreams. Her commitment to her children is awe-inspiring, as is her COMPLETE reliance on and in Allah SWT during a process that is not easy. From catfishing to fostering, to all the blocks falling into place just when they needed to be to be called “mom,” Aisha is a resource for anyone who has considered all the reasons not to foster or adopt…..we only need one reason to do something good, y’all.

Please remember to pray for ease for Aisha and her family so that all the kids in her care get the best possible in this world and the next. Ameen.

Links:

  1. Omicron updates: https://www.newsweek.com/lack-booster-uptake-risk-us-surpasses-100000-cases-omicron-1656789
  2. Muslim Foster Care Association: https://muslimfostercare.org/
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Cultivating Families out of Texashas this core belief: when all faith communities care for foster and adopted children, NO CHILD WILL BE LEFT TO NAVIGATE LIFE ALONE. This really resonated with us and Executive Director and Rev. Amy Becezny and Board member Sarah Haider Alam of CF are on today to share their journeys of adoption, but more importantly, a lot of the challenges that come with building a family through adoption. These challenges can break a mom in the making before she even lifts off, unless she has faith, and to that end, CF brings together families of faith to fulfill their dreams of closeness to God as well as to serve His creation as he commands. The spiritual development of our children is as important as their physical and emotional safety, and this is why we mom every day.

Listen to some of the domestic and international requirements for adoptio, common questions that come up specifically for Muslim considering either path, and get inspired.

Links:

  1. Find out how Project Nimbus in Israel is a violation of human rights and civil liberties: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-google-and-amazon-workers-demand-to-cut-ties-with-israel-s-project-nimbus-1.10290462
  2. Sign the petition so we don’t have to boycott Amazon and Google! No Tech for Apartheid: https://www.notechforapartheid.com/
  3. Cultivating Families: https://www.cultivatingfamilies.org/
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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As co-founder of @muslimfostercare, Ranya Shbeib knows how to address deficiencies in the community. Namely, Muslim families licensed for foster care to take care of the 405K American children in need of fostering. There are only just over 13K licensed foster homes in America as of 2020. Do the math!

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​With the current discussion about Afghanistan and states gearing up to receive hundreds of unaccompanied refugee minors, Americans of all faiths are stepping forward to help and "adopt." Slow your roll, folks. There are laws, protocols and people's lives at stake, not to mention so many children in America who are also in the system right under our noses.

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​It's not just about feeling good about ourselves for doing the right thing; it's also about what needs to be done for the children at the center of it all, regardless of where they're from. Ranya clarifies all that today and tells us what the Muslim Foster Care Association in particular is doing to advocate, assist and support families embarking on this critical sunnah.

Links:

  1. Muslim Foster Care Association: https://muslimfostercare.org/

  2. Repercussions of Rittenhouse verdict:

    1. https://time.com/6122142/kyle-rittenhouse-verdict/
      1. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/19/1057422329/why-legal-experts-were-not-surprised-by-the-rittenhouse-jurys-decision-to-acquit
    4. The Hague Convention on Refugee Minor Adoption: https://www.unhcr.org/3bd035d14.pdf
    5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
    6. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
    7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
    8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Dr. Alia Irshad, pediatrician and adoptive mom, joins us today to talk about some of the hindrances to domestic adoption for Muslim parents, and the process of going international as she did. The process is demystified for us today, and her personal experience is the happy ending we want for every child of every faith and background. Let’s address some of the problematic beliefs the Muslim community has about adoption, and reveal the religious stipulations of adoption for our non Muslim audiences.

Dr. Irshad is a wealth of knowledge and expertise on her experience as well as on the rights of orphans in Islam, the mandate by Allah SWT Himself and the sunnah we are SO SLOW to fulfill, but ask about 4 wives and everyone wants to fulfill that sunnah! Check out the resources she’s collected for us and you won’t be sorry.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts OR visit our website. Link in bio.

Links:

  1. Contact Superintendent Pantoliano to say ‘thank you’: Lpantoliano@ridgefieldschools.com

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      1. Or call at 201-945-7747 to leave a message.

    3. Adoption Agencies providing services for Moroccan adoptions

    4. New Beginnings: https://www.new-beginnings.org/adopting-a-child-from-morocco-faqs/

      1. Hopscotch: https://hopscotchadoptions.org/pages/morocco.html
    6. Religious recommendations at
    7. Yaqeen Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0BidbbUScc
    8. Wise Muslim Women: https://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/WISE-UP-Adoption.pdf
    9. Muslim Adoption Network: https://www.muslimadoptionnetwork.org/
    10. Muslim Foster Care Assocation: https://muslimfostercare.org/

    11. Want to help but can’t foster or adopt:

    12. Bloom Charity: https://bloomcharity.org/

      1. Islamic Relief Sponsor an Orphan: https://irusa.org/orphans-and-children/
    15. Adoption reading: https://adoptuskids.org/?r=u
    16. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
    17. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
    18. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
    19. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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Hazel Gomez of Muslim Power Building Project joins us today to talk about Latinos at the forefront of social justice in America. As leaders in the movement for change, Latina Muslims especially are culturally endowed with assets and experiences that lend them towards success. She’s a great reminder of history and how Muslims have always been a part of social and political change in America, such that no movement is for any one people; we are all touched by the othering of any community. Her anecdotes are sure to tear your hearts out and make you want to fight the good fight.

Find out how to get active and effective, the necessity of allyship for and by Muslims from all backgrounds, as well as current projects Hazel is organizing both locally and nationally, WITH a bun in the oven masha’Allah. The work doesn’t stop, y’all. We aren’t a complacent people per our faith tradition, and the time to get educated and involved is always. Si se puede habeebti (yes we can [Spanish] my love [Arabic]).

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music, your smart TV or ask Alexa. Subscribe and share the link with 3 friends!

Links:

  1. Blue Wolf mass surveillance of Palestinians and civilian databasing in Israel: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211116-from-pegasus-to-blue-wolf-how-israels-security-experiment-in-palestine-went-global/
  2. For more information about the Muslim Power Building Project: https://www.lavoice.org/muslim-power-building-project/
  3. Dream of Detroit: https://dreamofdetroit.org/
  4. Believers Bail Out: https://believersbailout.org/
  5. 21 Faith Leaders to Watch in 2021: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/21-faith-leaders-watch-2021/
  6. History of the Prophets Volume I Suzanne Haneef: https://kitaabun.com/shopping3/history-prophets-islam-suzanne-haneef-p-1081.html
  7. Email Hazel: hazel.l.gomez@gmail.com
  8. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  9. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  10. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  11. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  12. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Monica Traverzo talks to us about being a Puerto Rican Muslimah, and how her intersectional kids are being raised in their PaliRico (@mon.del.tra is trademarking it) Arab Latino household. Her points on ethnic, cultural and religious pride should be listened to on repeat because they’re so simple, yet so many Muslim Americans miss the mark on these. What is the point of parenting Muslim children in America anyway? Let’s revisit that, too. Common interactions with Muslims, though, is what breaks our hearts more when we hear it from a convert’s POV. We can do SO MUCH BETTER!

Take aways include “convertible names” (@zaibathasan is trademarking that one), the secret ingredient to mommying all the kids while doing all the things, and how NOT to act or what NOT to say when someone looks visibly Muslim and has a “non-Muslim sounding name.” Spoiler alert: There’s no such thing as a non-Muslim sounding name! C’mon y’all!

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, ask Alexa, or click the link in our bio to land on our website directly onto our “Listen” button. Tell your friends!

Links:

  1. For more information about the Salam Girl! Podcast: https://www.salamgirl.com/
  2. Find Monica on IG: @mon.del.tra
  3. Find Salam Girl on IG: @salamgirlpodcast
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  8. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Sakinah Gutierrez, co-founder of IslaminSpanish @islaminspanish discusses her journey to provide Islamic resources in Spanish besides just a translation of the Quran. Her media vision for the community is leaps and bounds ahead of what masjid boards consider mashaAllah, and we want her knowledge shared with the WORLD. Learn about her conversion story, her calling, raising her intersectional kids, support systems, and the work of el Centro.

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​There are all kinds of herstory lessons here: past, present, and future. Tune in at 6pm on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, ask Alexa, or go to our website and share with 3 friends who’ve never heard about a masjid and cultural center like this one.

Links:

  1. IslaminSpanish: https://www.islaminspanish.org/
  2. Contact your Representative for Uyghur human rights. Click “Contact your member.”
  3. ISPU study on Latinos and Islamophobia: https://www.ispu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ISPU-Infographics_1_WEB.pdf?x46312
  4. Read Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo from Sakinah’s favorites list.
  5. Sancocho recipe: https://antojandoando.com/recetas/sancocho/. Cook it and send us pics!
  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  9. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  10. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Eva Martineau, Afro Latina of Mexican and Haitian lineage and nurse midwife, discusses persistent racial disparities in birth care that traumatize primarily minority populations in America. Find out why this researcher didn't stop at stats, but collected degrees as she decided to set the stirrups straight and serve her community to prevent further harm to future generations. She's taking names and kicking false stories we tell about birth in the...well, take a guess.

​​​We've touched on birth work as a social justice movement in the past, but never like this! Hear how poor healthcare affects Latina Muslimahs and their children, get mad and get busy fixing it.

​Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music, ask Alexa, or head over to our website landing page. Link in bio. Share the episode with childbearing Latinas that you know, Muslim or not.

Links:

  1. Follow Eva on IG: @reclaiming_luz
  2. Who are the Inape?: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-native-new-yorkers-can-never-truly-reclaim-their-homeland-180970472/
  3. Learn more about the Papa Doc regime in Haiti: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210420-50-years-after-papa-doc-haiti-democracy-still-work-in-progress
  4. Immigration is a Birth Justice Issue: Considerations of Health in the Haitian Refugee Crisis: https://pretermbirthca.ucsf.edu/news/immigration-birth-justice-issue-considerations-health-haitian-refugee-crisis
  5. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy-Related Deaths — United States, 2007–2016: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6835a3.htm
  6. Pregnant Hispanic women's views and knowledge of prenatal genetic testing: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jgc4.1383
  7. Maternal Mortality in the United States: A Primer: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-brief-report/2020/dec/maternal-mortality-united-states-primer
  8. Analysis of State-Level Immigrant Policies andPreterm Births by Race/Ethnicity Among Women Born in the US and Women Born Outside the US:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2778205

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There have been a lot of new listeners recently, and we thought, what better way to give them an intro to the podcast than to provide a montage of our top 5 most downloaded episodes? If you’ve already heard these, you’re ahead of the game, but take a listen to this production to see what the common theme is. Lucky guesses what your fellow listeners prefer to tune into every week?

Tune in every Thursday 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music or ask Alexa. You can always just go to our website listed below and take a listen, but don’t forget to share the khair with 3 friends. And if you’re new to the podcast, catch up on past episodes!

Links:

  1. Read the PATRIOT Act if you have a lot of time or just really want to get mad: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-107publ56/pdf/PLAW-107publ56.pdf
  2. Read the Countering Islamophobia bill proposed by Reps. Omar & Schakowsky: https://omar.house.gov/sites/omar.house.gov/files/OMARMN_042_xml.pdf
  3. Find your Representative’s contact info to send an email/letter of thanks: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
  4. Representatives co-sponsoring the Countering Islamophobia bill:

Omar, Schakowsky, Bass, Bowman, Carson, Correa, Dean, Dingell, Eshoo, García (IL), Green (TX), Grijalva (AZ), Jacobs (CA), Jackson Lee, H. Johnson (GA), Jones, Kim (NJ), Lowenthal, C. Maloney, McGovern, Newman, Norton, Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Pascrell, Payne, Phillips, Pocan, Pressley, Rush, Sires, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, and Williams

  1. 5 favorite episode: FEB 18, 2021 SEASON 2 EPISODE 52 “Exploring Sex & Intimacy with Islamic Spiritual Perspectives”

  2. 4 favorite episode: SEP 09, 2021 SEASON 2 EPISODE 28 “Queer Muslim Moms”

  3. 3 favorite episode: SEP 16, 2021 SEASON 2 EPISODE 29 “Queer Muslim Kids”

  4. 2 favorite episode: FEB 13, 2020 SEASON 1 EPISODE 49 “Islamic Perspectives on Sexual Intimacy”

  5. 1 favorite episode: SEP 10, 2020 SEASON 2 EPISODE 30 “Spiritual Sustenance with Secrets of Divine Love”

  6. Our Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/
  7. Facebook: Mommying While Muslim
  8. Instagram: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Which one of us has met a deaf Muslim? Chances are, very few, but it’s most likely because we aren’t creating spaces where we can, as Andaleeb Elayan, Executive Director of Global Deaf Muslim discusses today. We learn A LOT about accessibility and inclusivity and the most important pearl of the day from Andaleeb herself, “Your deaf child can do EVERYTHING except hear.” Treat them as such.

​For our podcast audience, please be mindful that the voice you hear is that of voice interpreter, Cheryl, because Andaleeb speaks ASL. If you want to see Andaleeb speak, visit our You Tube channel: Mommying While Muslim. Remember that like all our guests, Andaleeb has her own voice and speaks for herself.

We had some connectivity issues and lost Zaiba during the course of this interview, but she’s in here in spirit! Don’t forget to check our notes to sign up for low cost ASL courses hosted by GDM. Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, your smart TV, or ask Alexa.

Links:

  1. For more information about Global Deaf Muslim and Andaleeb Elayan: https://globaldeafmuslim.org/
  2. Email Andaleeb: andaleeb@globaldeafmuslim.org
  3. Sign up for low cost ASL classes with GDM: tinyurl.com/aslgdm
  4. Find out more about Gallaudet University: https://www.gallaudet.edu/
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  9. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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It’s hard to imagine that schools would discriminate against students with disabilities, but Saadia Qureshi leaves us breathless as she discusses her fight to obtain inclusive education for her daughter with Down syndrome. The system is not designed to help our disabled students succeed, and the “separate but equal” model is anything BUT.

Learn not just about the emotional weight of a diagnosis without community or medical support, but how we can do better by insisting on equity in our educational settings. We pay for them, so they may as well serve us and our kids!

Links:

  1. Follow Saadia on IG: @ketomuslimmom
  2. Email Saadia: saadiasketokitchen@gmail.com
  3. Get involved with advocacy work for Down syndrome: https://www.ndss.org/programs/national-advocacy-public-policy/
  4. Find a Buddy Walk near you: https://www.ndss.org/play/national-buddy-walk-program/
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  9. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Sara Minkara continues our Disability Awareness series this month by talking about her blindness, the challenges of blind Muslims, and how to change the disability narrative from one of charity to the “suffering,” to one of value-based inclusion: you are important because you are you in every way you are created. The current “favor” dynamic perpetuates ableism and disempowers the disabled, so we have to undo the pity perspective. Accessibility and integration are RIGHTS that will change the problem, not favors done by the abled to others.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google play, Amazon Music, ask Alexa, or hit our website to take a listen.

Links:

  1. For more information about Sara Minkara LLC: https://saraminkara.com/
  2. Email Sara: info@saraminkara.com
  3. Facebook documents leaked: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/facebook-documents-show-how-toxic-instagram-is-for-teens-wsj.html
  4. WSJ report on Facebook’s effects: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739?mod=hp_lead_pos7
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  9. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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​Dilshad Ali shares a day in the life of a mom raising an adult child with autism, inspiring and teaching us today. Tune in to hear all the things we take for granted, and all the beautiful things we miss. Rather than perpetuate cultural behavior and silence around disabilities, we break the sound barrier for Muslim Americans to better support moms in the same position as Dilshad. We don't pity, other, ignore, and pretend disabled Muslims don't exist anymore!

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​Get inspired by Dilshad's mutiple roles in autism advocacy, including her work at MUHSEN, a nonprofit dedicating to fighting for disabled Muslims who've been marginalized for far too long.

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​Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon, ask Alexa, or click on the link in bio.

Links:

  1. For more information about MUHSEN: https://muhsen.org/who-we-are/
  2. Email Dilshad: dilshad@hautehijab.com
  3. Find Dilshad on IG: @DilshadDAli
  4. Find Dilshad Twitter: @DilshadDAli
  5. Read her blog: @muslimahnextdoor
  6. Read the Haute Hijab blog Dilshad edits: https://blog.hautehijab.com/
  7. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  9. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  10. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  11. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Feroza Syed speaks about her experiences as a transgender Muslim, her transition, and what made her go public with her history. Adoption discrimination against LGBTQi+ couples is the anti motherhood story we know will touch us today.

​We learn terms, more about unmosqueing marginalized Muslims, and how we can be better allies to our momsisters and their kids from all walks of life.

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​It's a double episode drop this week, so plan a podcast binge! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, Amazon Music, or ask Alexa. Leave a review if it's your first time listening to us.

Links: (Often guests provide their social media handles or websites)

  1. Feroza Fights for Fair Housing: https://www.vogue.com/article/across-the-south-a-trans-housing-movement-grows
  2. Contact Feroza on IG: @ferozasyedatl
  3. Find out more about Muslims for Progressive Values: https://www.mpvusa.org/
  4. CAIR-MD letter to PAHC: https://www.cair.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PAHC-Grant.pdf
  5. Why we don’t say “transexual”: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/transgender-vs-transexual#transsexual
  6. Understanding terminology: https://www.glaad.org/reference/transgender
  7. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  9. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  10. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  11. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Fawzia Mirza AKA Ayesha Trump, storyteller, actor, and director, (oh, yeah, AND lawyer) joins us to talk about all the transformations we make as humans in order to learn our personal identity. It's not just queer Muslims who have to come out--we all have to decide at some point who and what we are going to be. The path is unique, just like us. We all get to decide what we do about people who think we aren't "Muslim enough."

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Dare to unwrap the magic of us.

Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play or click the link in bio.

Links:

  1. Learn more about Fawzia: https://www.fawziamirza.com/
  2. Fawzia on IG: @thefawz
  3. Post Pulse shooting article on queer Muslims: https://www.wbez.org/stories/from-tragedy-some-hope-muslim-lgbtq-look-to-dispel-taboos/9a15cf82-3aae-47eb-afeb-467fdec9fd5f
  4. Masjid Al Rabia: https://masjidalrabia.org/
  5. Texas’ criminalization of abortions and its effects: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1279961
  6. Catch our old episode “Hasan vs. Jafri”: https://www.buzzsprout.com/271577/6098098
  7. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  9. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  10. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  11. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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We get a lot of SOS messages from queer Muslim kids and what better way to answer them than by bringing on Erum Rani, founder of Iftikhar Community, who shares her journey of coming out and what that meant mentally and spiritually for her. Hear firsthand what it’s like inside the mind and heart of a queer Muslim child before rejecting them, and how cultural taboos oppress the most important relationship they have: with Allah.

Special note: Talking about something that the general Muslim community fears or ostracizes does not make it an endorsement or convert anyone into being queer. Talking about it WILL humanize the people we are so quick to love when we “control them” and often too quick to reject when they make adult decisions that ultimately they’re responsible for. It’s not love them “anyway.” It’s, just love them.

Links: (Often guests provide their social media handles or websites)

  1. Contact Erum at iftikharcommunityoftexas@gmail.com
  2. Learn more @iftikharcommunityoftexas
  3. Support for South Asian parents of queer kids: https://www.desirainbow.org/
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  8. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Shenaaz Janmohamed of Queer Crescent joins us today to discuss her experiences as an LGBTQi+ person. Find out how that informs her exploration of and work towards social justice and equity. What do I do if my kid comes out? How do masajid make ALL kids feel safe? What is gender and what is sex? These are a few of the questions we discuss today.

​Tune in at 6pm EST on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple podcasts, or click the link in bio after air time.

Links:

  1. Learn more about Queer Crescent: www.queercresecent.org
  2. Affirming Masjid Al Rabia: https://masjidalrabia.org/
  3. Too Cute To Be Binary by Pidgeon Pagonis: http://pid.ge/
  4. Unico Como Yo:
  5. https://socialjusticebooks.org/one-of-a-kind-like-me/
  6. What Makes a Baby:
  7. https://www.corysilverberg.com/what-makes-a-baby
  8. Against White Feminism:
  9. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1027660980/against-white-feminism-is-an-urgent-call-to-action-for-solidarity-and-justice
  10. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  11. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  12. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  13. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  14. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Noor Tagouri, journalist and storyteller, talks today about representative stories and how THAT's news. Or the NEW news. Find out how she uses stories to unearth truths we want to hide, or ones we just don't know because mainstream voices aren't telling them. WE need to do it. Pick up the mic or the pen.

It's our turn. 

Links:

  1. Learn more about Noor: https://www.noortagouri.com/
  2. Noor on IG: @noor
  3. Noor on Twitter: @NTagouri
  4. Email Noor: contact@nourtagouri.com
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  9. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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Nargis Rahman joins us today to talk about her dreams, her path to journalism with its U-turns forced by motherhood, and how she practiced her mommying philosophy of “wing it” with her own return to work. Her gems on our God-given potential, and the right of the people upon us to use it, are more than inspirational. They’re aspirational.

Learn about storytelling as a function of community journalism and how mainstream coverage often misses the treasure box of stories under its nose, when sisterhood elevating its individual members fosters our collective success, and about Nargis’ favorite community piece.

Links:

  1. Learn more about Nargis: https://nargisthewriter.com/about/
  2. Nargis on IG: @nargisthewriter
  3. Nargis on Twitter: @nargisthewriter
  4. Email Nargis: nargisthewriter@gmail.com
  5. Read about Bismillah Kabob: https://civileats.com/2019/05/24/the-halal-restaurant-helping-build-community-in-suburban-detroit/
  6. Pediatric COVID hospitalizations: https://www.businessinsider.com/record-high-rates-kids-hospitalized-with-covid-as-delta-spreads-2021-8
  7. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  9. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  10. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Rowaida Abdelaziz joins us today to talk about the accidental journalism bug and why it’s important in our endeavor to experience fair and balanced news coverage.

We also discuss moms’ roles in supporting their kids’ dreams, role models and mentors when there are so few, keeping our heads down and ears up listening for the scoop, and getting paid in pizza. What opportunities does the media landscape offer to writers and consumers of news?

Fighting disinformation and misinformation is our job, not just as humans, but as Muslims, and supporting truth in all its forms is critical and true diversity takes work, even in the news!

It’s not us, we’re not crazy, per Rowaida! Studies prove that news coverage, much of which is informing policy, is not unbiased or stereotypical. Nuance is news, and we can pick up our pens to do that. Get writing!

Links:

  1. Learn more about Rowaida: heruproar.com
  2. Rowaida on FB: Rowaida Abdelaziz and Twitter: @Rowaida_Abdel
  3. When Swimming as a Muslim Woman is a Political Act: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/muslim-women-are-fighting-to-swim-in-america_n_5d5594d1e4b056fafd08aa70
  4. Motivated Muslim Voters: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/muslim-voters-impact-swing-states_n_5f99d1c1c5b6a4a2dc81c9eb
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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The first to kick off August’s Muslims in the News series is Laila Alarian, Emmy and Peabody award winning journalist and Executive Producer of the Al Jazeera English investigative documentary program Fault Lines. She takes over the soapbox today, which is not to be missed.

While she’s breaking news on narcotics and Palestine, she’s also dealing with pandemic homeschooling and the emotional struggles working moms, which is ALL moms on our podcast to be clear, deal with, so it should resonate on multiple levels. Gem from the episode: “Perfect is the enemy of the good” (Laila Alarian is #smartmomgoals).

Find out what the mainstream news agenda is and if there is a conspiracy making Muslims look bad in the news. How do we break through that while we break glass ceilings at the same time?

Links:

  1. Watch Fault Lines: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines
  2. Made in Bangladesh by Laila Alarian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aubn7BKi47g
  3. Email Laila Alarian: Lailaa@gmail.com
  4. Palestinian teen shot at funeral of Palestinian teen July 2021: https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/palestinian-teen-shot-by-israeli-forces-dies-hundreds-attend-funeral-47606
  5. Jonathan Brown Georgetown faculty (See, we included you, Jonathan!): https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RYoCAAW/jonathan-brown
  6. Lama Alarian on Sheikh Jarrah for Vice News: https://youtu.be/ZiSRCPiklhI
  7. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  9. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  10. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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As we kick off our August series, “Muslims in the News,” Zaiba and Uzma review past big headlines that affected their physical and mental safety. Ask yourself how news coverage would have been different, and HAS been different for non-Muslims suspects. When do Muslim Americans hold their collective breaths and why?

This is a series asking the hard questions about what we expect from the news and how biased news coverage can endanger Muslim American moms and their kids. Learn about their perpetual grief process and follow along this month as they highlight some solutions to prevent the dissemination of Islamophobic news coverage.

There’s slamming of our hands on the table--we apologize!

Links:

  1. Interim Recommendations for Fully Vaccinate People: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html
  2. Book mentions by Uzma: Mornings in Jenin and The Blue Between Sky and Water by Susan Abulhawa
  3. Book mention by Zaiba: City of Brass by S.A. Chakroborty
  4. San Bernadino shooter coverage: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/04/458502872/frenzied-media-pour-over-home-of-san-bernardino-killers-during-live-broadcasts
  5. John Ritzheimer and the Phoenix Masjid Free Speech Rally: https://youtu.be/55b3-jBqztU
  6. Ahmed Mohammad and the atomic clock: https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html
  7. Las Vegas shooting coverage: https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html
  8. Phoenix doctor fired for speaking out: https://www.newsweek.com/thirst-kill-us-pediatric-doctor-fired-accusing-israel-cannibalism-1604992
  9. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  10. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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When we discuss entertainment, we think about music, too. Muslimahs have been making music for centuries, but a lot of us haven't been taught that. Amira Daugherty talks about her path from law to music, from activism to making history on American Idol, all without encouragement or accolades because Muslimah voices don't get them. This rapper, singer, and spoken word artist is literally using her voice to communicate across boundaries and connect with humanity, facing hurdles within and outside of her community.

She’s also got a special ability you'll want to hear about as she attempts to create more inclusive American Muslimah representation.

Hit the high notes with us on this episode airing at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, or Alexa.

Links:

  1. Find Amira online and SUPPORT HER ALBUM: https://amiraunplugged.onuniverse.com/
  2. Follow Amira on IG: @amiraunplugged
  3. Follow Amira on YouTube: Amira Unplugged
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Serena Rasoul, founder of Founder of Muslim American Casting, LLC joins us today to talk about Muslims in Entertainment. After House of Cards and other acting opportunities, Serena decided to pursue authentic representation of SW Asian, North African and Arab Muslims. Like other sheroes on the podcast this month, she addresses miscasting, Muslim tropes, and compromises that Muslim talent may have to make in Hollywood because the industry doesn’t understand their values and work ethic. It certainly doesn’t understand Muslims telling their own stories, which is why Muslim writers and filmmakers can get support from Serena and her company. Through Muslim American Casting, Serena is “Creating spaces, adding new faces.”

​Hear her on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, or Alexa tonight at 6pm EST.

Links:

  1. Find Mama Africa Muslimah: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdxJPUOBuLbgnj8Uqqsa3Zg
  2. GoFundMe for Mama Africa Muslimah’s legal fees: https://gofund.me/8580557a
  3. Find Muslim American Casting, LLC: https://www.muslimamericancasting.com/about
  4. Find Serena Rasoul on IG: @iamserenara
  5. Watch “We Are Lady Parts” on Peacock TV
  6. Website: mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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Kicking off this month’s Muslim Representation in Entertainment series is scholar Dr. Maytha AlHassen. We explore the historical origins of the most common Muslim tropes, discuss the findings of recent studies done on movies that negatively depict Muslims, and discuss how we can counter them. You may even hear some hints about what’s coming next on a popular TV series that Dr. AlHassen co-produces.

Links:

  1. Learn more about Dr. AlHassen’s work: https://www.mayalhassen.com/
  2. Haqq and Hollywood: Illuminating 100 Years of Muslim Tropes and How to Transform Them: https://popcollab.org/learning/haqq-and-hollywood/

  3. Muslim Narrative Change Cohort: https://pillarsfund.org/culture-change/muslim-narrative-change-cohort/#:~:text=In%20January%202020%2C%20we%20launched,behaviors%20and%2C%20ultimately%2C%20society

  4. Missing & Maligned: The Reality of Muslims in Popular Global Movies: https://assets.uscannenberg.org/docs/aii-muslim-rep-global-film-2021-06-09.pdf

  5. The Blueprint for Muslim Inclusion: https://pillarsfund.org/content/uploads/2021/06/SOURCE-The-Muslim-Blueprint.pdf

  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com

  7. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Aseel Elborno joins us today to discuss her longtime research of a particular country where she would like to transplant her family, even if temporarily. Her reasons for doing so should resonate with ALL moms in need of a village and who feel burned out. From community building to family planning, to how to prepare for an international move, we talk about all of it with this amazing expat in the making. 

Let it open our eyes to more opportunities for our families, and convince us that Allah’s world is big enough and worth it to experience FULLY! 

Links:

  1. Support high school senior Huda attacked at her graduation: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/protect-students-we-stand-with-huda
  2. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  3. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Isra Hashmy joins us today to discuss her epiphany during the rat race of life and following Allah’s guidance to pursue her dream until it manifested into reality. Following the expat life isn’t as easy as we think, so she explains some of those details that could provide hiccups to a family planning on living overseas. Then there’s the hiccups you DON’T plan for, like a pandemic that separates your family and you’re with the kids in a country where you don’t speak the language. So, not traumatic at all. The hard parts didn’t make it on House Hunters International, but the fun ones did, so check out her family on there.

Get the details tonight at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or ask Alexa.

Links:

  1. Find Isra on FB: Muslimah Simple and Decluttered Living: https://www.facebook.com/groups/simpledeclutteredlife
  2. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  3. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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If you’ve been a fan of Maroc Mama, you’ll be so excited for this one. For those who don’t know her, you will fall in love. Amanda Moutakki  joins us today to discuss her expat achievements and challenges, and running a tourism business in a pandemic. Her POV about living abroad is inspirational AND aspirational. Tune in to also find out about momcations and how she curates those.

Links:

  1. Find Amanda Mouttaki on on IG: @marocmama
  2. Check out her travel blog: www.marocmama.com
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Author mom Adeeba Jafri @adeebajafri_official comes on to discuss what precipitated her move abroad, what life is like, and shares info on the IB program for teens. On top of all that, she's a teacher and author with a new book on the way.

Can you believe she stayed up all night nervous about coming on? For NOTHING! She is terrific and you can find out more on your podcast apps! Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or iHeartRadio. Or, ask Alexa!

Links:

  1. Find Adeeba Jafri on IG: adeebajafri_official
  2. Check out her writing and books: https://www.adeebajafri.com/about/
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Hurunnessa Fariad joins us today to talk about how masajid can and DO do it right by appointing female leadership. As an employee of a major Muslim American masjid, she’s experienced that representative leadership exists and succeeds.

Huri’s takeaways today include ALL women have talent. Plug in to her strengths and watch her soar because she will always take her kids and community with her! We also talk about women vs women in the masjid. Don’t miss it!

Tune in 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or ask Alexa!

Links:

  1. Find Hurunnessa Fariad on on IG: @sisteract
  2. Listen to Sister Act podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ytEwMpRfrZzVaGrM1o2qW?si=-KIcqc8VQyin3P3eCnkWzg
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Hind Makki discusses all-male panels and additional exclusionary practices that marginalize Muslimahs, both in the audience and in expert spaces, at conferences, seminars, and in the masjid space itself! These under-represented panels are hurting our institutions and driving financially independent and Islamically educated women away from the masjid and Islamic organizations. Since many of us had to learn how to live without the masjid during key parts of our worship, are we going to go back if we continue to be under-represented there? Let's discuss the bottom line.

For anyone who isn’t Muslim, there are some great breakdowns about Islam in here for you, too.

​​How do you feel when you see all-male panels on parenting?

Links:

  1. Find Hind Makki on Twitter: @hindmakki
  2. Find Hind Makki on IG: @sideentrance
  3. ISNA statement on The Inclusion of Women in Masjids http://dvmcf.net/files/sacredspaces/2016-ISNA%20Statement.pdf
  4. Fatwa by Fiqh Council of North America on women in the masjid: http://fiqhcouncil.org/the-inclusion-of-women-in-masjids/

  5. MuslimMaleAllies

  6. The picture that brought international attention on panels: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/28/saudi-arabian-womens-conference-picture_n_3515062.html
  7. Side Entrance on Women’s Experiences in the Masjid: https://sideentrance.tumblr.com/about
  8. How the pandemic brought Muslim female scholarship forward: https://religionnews.com/2020/05/18/coronavirus-restrictions-on-mosques-bring-women-to-the-fore/
  9. Study on Muslim Prayer Spaces by Sara Abdelghany at Georgetown U: https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/1059375/Sara%20Abdelghany%20-%20Making%20Space%20Muslim%20Americans%20and%20Progressive%20Gender%20Activism%20in%20Mosques%20after%209%2011.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
  10. Celebrate Mercy elevating women: https://celebratemercy.com/
  11. ISNA elevating women: https://isna.net/
  12. Women’s Quran recitation at Islah LA on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R7-9wBSdaos
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  14. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gm

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Kristy Sabbah joins us today as a former masjid board member and community leader. She reveals issues women on the board face and what they need from the community to support them. Let’s talk under-representation, leadership accountability, cultural relevance, tokenism, and modeling board leadership for our daughters. The Muslim American masjid experience is so diverse, and our masjid (and organization) board representation must be as well.

Note: This podcast is not a place to obtain medical information and you must follow up anything you hear with your doctor.

Links:

  1. Find Kristy Sabbah IG: @kristysabbah
  2. Mom misinformation about COVID vaccine: https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/05/05/elle-reeve-vaccine-hesitancy-mothers-facebook-groups-ebof-dnt-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/top-news-videos/
  3. Muslim task forces on COVID vaccine: https://sharedsystems.dhsoha.state.or.us/DHSForms/Served/le3592A.pdf
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  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Mommying While Muslim has never been late to drop an episode except Eid al Fitr 2021! We hope our lovely audience understands how excited we were to celebrate with our families and we wanted to edit something worth your listening ears.

Today is an opportunity to hear about our experiences in the masjid that hurt our hearts because we know the masjid can do better by us as women, mothers, and for our children. Hey, no one’s perfect, and no masjid is perfect, and we don’t want perfection. Can we attend masjid (once it’s safe again) without women, our very own sisters, calling out our kids or what we are wearing (or aren’t wearing), and judging each other over stuff we really don’t have too much jurisdiction over. Let’s do our work, and let Allah do His work. But we have to start by addressing what’s wrong and what each of us can do better ourselves.

Our goal is to get our unmosqued Muslim families mosqued again. Let’s make it home again.

Links:

  1. Biden Steps to Address Gun Violence: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/07/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-initial-actions-to-address-the-gun-violence-public-health-epidemic/
  2. American Muslim Women’s Giving Circle: https://amuslimcf.org/donors/giving-circles/womensgc/
  3. RSVP “YES” to Mommying While Muslim Virtual Tea for AMWGC recruitment event: https://fb.me/e/dH3OIF98Q
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Zaiba and Uzma “call the midwife today” because how can you have new mommy memoirs without one?!?!?! Krystina Friedlander, Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) joins us today to talk about her journey to midwifery and its foundations in social justice work and original motherhood. Some of us know how miraculous these bodies are, but a lot more of us don’t know how much at risk those magnificent machines are outside of a maternal village of birth workers and momsisters. Birth trauma and poor outcomes are becoming more prevalent when we have a lot of privileges our female counterparts don’t have outside the United States. What gives? Let’s look at what happened particularly in America to create one of the many “mommy wars” we witness (and do not condone at MWM!) today.

Remember that the day a baby is born, so is her mother. Let’s explore moms’ options and elevate those who walk us into motherhood the way it can be done.

Links:

  1. Find Baraka Birth on IG: @barakabirth
  2. Baraka Birth on the web: https://www.barakabirth.com/
  3. Krystina’s book recommendations:
    1. Lying In: A History of Birth Work in America https://www.amazon.com/Lying-History-Childbirth-America-Expanded/dp/0300040873
    2. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning https://www.amazon.com/Lying-History-Childbirth-America-Expanded/dp/0300040873
    3. In the Dream House https://www.amazon.com/Dream-House-Carmen-Maria-Machado/dp/1644450038
  4. American Muslim Women’s Giving Circle: https://amuslimcf.org/donors/giving-circles/womensgc/
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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In the Dream House: A Memoir
Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America

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We meet the incredible Saadia Qureshi, The Keto Muslim Mom, today who jogs us down memory lane to discuss common new mommy issues: complicated diagnoses, health problems, pandemic pregnancy, body image, mompreneurship, and her personal journey to live a particular lifestyle that brings her joy. This is one that requires a mental seatbelt as only Zaiba can manage, and some chill which Uzma will never ever master, as you ride a roller coaster of new mommy experiences and memories.

Links:

  1. Find Saadia on IG: @ketomuslimmom
  2. Academic Freedom and Potential Increase in Islamophobia: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/scottsdale-professor-whose-quiz-offended-muslim-student-gets-155k-11544885
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Sadia Jalali is the founder of Muslim Bliss and Uzma’s college roommate, and back on this podcast to talk about why Muslims moms CHOOSE to go back to the nursery. On this episode of our New Mommy Memoirs series, we change it up by discussing life’s changes that sometimes necessitate having another child in the second (or third) phase of life.

She poses her zen approach to parenting and the epiphany that made her change her “never” to “maybe” to “okay” NINE years later. It’s worth thinking about for anyone who is on the fence and doesn’t want to say “what if” in a few years. Cheers to second chances and intentional pregnancies, as well as anyone who weathered a pandemic or single pregnancy! You’ll REALLY want to catch the very end of this episode for a fun gotcha moment.

Links:

  1. Find Sadia Jalali, LMFT on IG: @muslim.bliss
  2. Find Muslim Bliss on the web: www.muslim-bliss.com
  3. Contact AG Keith Ellison (who happens to be Muslim!) in MN to pursue 2nd degree murder charges against Derek Chauvin accused of murdering George Floyd: https://www.ag.state.mn.us/office/contactus.asp
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Our good friend Shmila Javed is on today to share her new mommy memoirs in the context of a blended family. We are thankfully losing our hang-ups about Muslim nuclear families in America, thereby getting closer to the prophetic model of a happy, healthy household alhamdulillah. She surprises us and confirms a lot of what we imagine it must be like to start all over with diapers and breastfeeding. Alhamdulillah it was HER and not us!

We love our gf and the blast from the past. We hope you'll have as much fun at this reunion as we did!

Links:

  1. Shmila Javed on IG: @shimms3
  2. How American police gets away with killing people: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/police-killings-prosecution-charges.html
  3. Contact AG Keith Ellison (who happens to be Muslim!) in MN to pursue 2nd-degree murder charges against Derek Chauvin accused of murdering George Floyd: https://www.ag.state.mn.us/office/contactus.asp
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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After a tough month in March, we are ready to talk about BABIES! We’re taking a walk down memory lane with a mom who recently had one in the strangest year on record. Sofia Kamal received a “subhanAllah surprise” when her then youngest was 10 years old and she’d been “done.”

Her journey to motherhood was fraught with tests including PCOS and a challenging career as a lawyer, but even the tail end of that was a lesson in patience and gratitude. Take a listen and share this episode with someone who might not be clicking her heels when she reads two blue lines for a much needed audio shoulder squeeze and a vote of confidence. “You got this!”

Links:

  1. Legal Islamaphobia: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/frances-anti-separatism-law-aims-to-legalize-islamophobia-experts/amp
  2. Check out Zaiba on a French Muslimah’s podcast: https://youtu.be/0U1FhmcLMJ0
  3. Attend Mommying While Muslim’s First Ever Virtual Iftaar on 4/18 to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: https://fb.me/e/5DUWoDsTJ
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Mom doc Sarah Syed tells us what it's like on the other side of the bed--when you're not the doctor, but the mom with a critically ill infant. Her story of duaa and dawa is not to be missed. ​She's not just Imani's mom. She's our shero so much so, that she inspired us to collaborate with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We found out this year that not only do they cure the sickest cancer patients, they aren't religiously affiliated and serve all patients regardless of race, religion, or the ability to pay.

​This Ramadan, join Mommying While Muslim in support of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Cancer kills more children under the age of 14 than any other disease. Children undergoing treatment for cancer and other life-threatening diseases often need transfusions, physical and cognitive therapy. Your sadaqah can help St. Jude provide the best care and treatment for patients.

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​Plan to donate sadaqah to support the treatment of childhood cancer at our Virtual Iftaar for St. Jude this year on 4/18. If you can’t attend, then hit the link in the evite to donate your sadaqah generously.

Links:

  1. Imani’s story as told by her dad: https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/GiftFunds/GiftFunds?px=6728581&pg=personal&fr_id=39300
  2. Attend Mommying While Muslim’s Virtual Iftaar on 4/18 from 6-7pm EST: https://www.facebook.com/events/251564906503605
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Madiha Schader joins us today to talk about her experience learning early on that she married someone who wouldn't be safe for her, yet how she continued to hide the details from her family and friends. The cultural reasons she did this are very clear in her story. She’s not unique, but what she focuses on today is that abusive domestic relationships don’t always include physical violence. Mental, emotional, verbal abuse, financial/social isolation, and unreasonable demands from a place of control that endanger a person’s psychosocial wellbeing are equally suffocating and a matter of life and death.

Madiha’s freedom actually came through her own son and her body. Find out how her closest friends identified what was happening and supported her until she was able to decide it was time to save herself.

If you know someone you suspect is in danger of physical violence or mental oppression, ASK her. Then help her using the resources listed below. If you’re someone who is in danger, having kids WILL NOT change an abuser towards you and might direct abuse toward your kid(s).

Note 1: pronunciation correction Madiha Schader (SH ay der)

Note 2: If you are in danger, make sure to “clear history” on your browsers if you’re searching for help. Use the phone numbers we listed below and delete your call history if you have access to a phone.

Links:

  1. NISA helpline for Muslim women’s helpline: 1-888-315-NISA (6472)
  2. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
  3. Elderly Asian woman attacked unprovoked: https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/03/12/asian-grandma-reportedly-knocked-unconscious-in-random-attack/amp/
  4. Elderly Asian woman attacked unprovoked and strikes back: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/elderly-asian-woman-attacked-san-francisco-fights-back-sends-alleged-attacker-to-hospital/
  5. Chinese Filipino man attacked unprovoked: https://www.asianjournal.com/usa/northerncalifornia/filipino-chinese-man-attacked-during-lunch-break-in-san-francisco/
  6. President’s call for Congress to pass anti-hate legislation: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/19/biden-urges-congress-to-pass-hate-crime-legislation-over-violence-against-asian-americans.html
  7. Muslim Jewish Advisory Council to send a message to your representative to pass the Jabara-Heyer act to call a hate crime a hate crime: https://actnow.ajc.org/LZloT1U
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  9. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  10. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Samia Masood joins us today to talk about her harrowing experience through her son's illness and how she survived it. Life pre diagnosis and post-diagnosis is a real thing and very delineated in a mom’s mind and heart for life and we work out some trauma together. Her ordeal didn't end after her son’s initial fight was over, but the hot coals propelled her to do MORE--not just for her family, but for her community as well. Find out how. Check it out at 6 pm EST on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Alexa, Audible, Roku, Amazon Music or iHeartRadio.

Note: In the soapbox, Uzma definitely meant to say CAIR-FL “condemns” not “condones.

Links:

  1. Islamic Network Group Educator Resources: https://ing.org/school-overview/
  2. Call CAIR-FL to find out how to support the Muslim student attacked at Chiefland Middle School: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-florida-statement-on-recent-bullying-and-violence-at-chiefland-fla-middle-school/
  3. Find Samia on IG and Facebook: @thinkandteach
  4. Find Samia on the web: https://www.thinkandteach.com/
  5. St. Baldrick’s Society: https://www.stbaldricks.org/get-involved?gclid=Cj0KCQjw0caCBhCIARIsAGAfuMxWP2ZHn43WxRiCXGdWwow6pxPdqd3S0tLU5gZlZm3zGs8zIcVh1hEaAssXEALw_wcB
  6. ACCO American Chidlhood Cancer Organization: https://www.acco.org/blog/hospital-network-program/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw0caCBhCIARIsAGAfuMz5x-iK_vB11ziNDKARYbaekwg7691Q9UxRxmIznufRnzhwJh9MFz0aAmJrEALw_wcB
  7. ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation in Virginia: https://www.askccf.org/
  8. Mom support for childhood cancer: https://momcology.org/
  9. Resources for kids with cancer: https://andrewslaughinggas.org/news
  10. Special cakes for kids who have cancer: https://www.icingsmiles.org/
  11. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  12. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  13. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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If you haven’t scheduled to listen in on our Firewalker series this month, you’ll want to. These moms aren’t just walking over hot coals--they’re doing it through billowing blazes while taking names and kicking butt.

Whether you're ready for it or not, Shazia Imam, host of the Feminine & Fulfilled podcast joins us to drop truths about what it looks like when NOTHING works out. She's faced the worst of what we daily pray for protection against. How she overcame everything is a story to hear, and now it informs her important work for women! Her declarations to Allah SWT are aspirational and affirming so listen in to learn them.

Cool fact: This episode was recorded live on Facebook and YouTube but ran unrecorded for the first time on Clubhouse with live QA afterward! Super fun.

Links:

  1. Biden on School Reopening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/biden-schools-reopen/2021/02/11/3a63e3ee-6b2d-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html

  2. Get the 100 Dreams template: https://www.thelifeengineer.com/dreams.html#ck_modal

  3. Find Shazia on IG: @thelifeengineer

  4. Find Shazia on the web: https://www.thelifeengineer.com/

  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com

  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com

  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group

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This month’s Love & Marriage series closes out with the expertise of Tawakaltu Busari of Hitched!, a Muslim matchmaking service based in Houston. Not an app-based method, Hitched! provides halal opportunities for singles to meet organically and not in the traditional survey method historically used to match people. There aren’t speed dates or elaborate networks to figure out who can plan forever together at Hitched!. Instead, the company focuses on spiritual matchmaking as more important than the pedigrees that traditional matchmakers used to determine compatibility. This is NOT how Sima Auntie works on Netlfix! A Muslim company specializing in how couples need to operate with a goal of success in Islam as much as success in this world is the one we want to talk about, and talk to.

With rising divorce rates in the Muslim community, this is important for parents, young adults, new adults, single women, newly single women, and those men who listen to us on the DL. We know ya’ll are out there!

Links:

  1. Find more information on Muslim matchmaking online: www.hitchedsoon.com

  2. Purchase your own set of Fair Play cards (we don’t have anything to gain from it): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647409/the-fair-play-deck-by-eve-rodsky/?aid=9490&linkid=PRHA7471D3EF7&pdivflag&ref=PRHA7471D3EF7

  3. Charter school in AZ charged with fraud: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox10phoenix.com/news/goodyear-charter-school-co-founders-accused-of-fraud-theft1.amp

  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com

  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com

  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group

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We're all about love and marriage this month. Until we're not. Not all marriages work out, and we don't say "succeed" or "fail" because marriage isn't an Olympic event, y'all. Sometimes two people just don't belong together, and when kids are involved, decisions must be made.

Rayesa Gheewala, The Muslimah Divorce Coach, talks to us today about the heartbreaking truths of divorce, including the aftermath that can leave a mom gutted if she doesn't know where to get help. The answer is already one we know, and Rayesa is so gifted at leading us back to natural, nonverbal knowing, or our fitra. The role of ego in anything, especially in divorce, really needs more exploring in ways that we’ve never heard of before. We also touch on what’s causing Muslim divorces during this pandemic, and how to identify when it’s the end of the road.

Take notes! The pearls in this episode are for anyone even CONTEMPLATING a relationship.

Links:

  1. Find Rayesa on IG: @rayesagheewala
  2. Join The Divorced Muslimah Network FB group
  3. The Divorced Muslimah’s Website: www.rayesagheewala.com
  4. Take your personality test with your spouse: https://www.16personalities.com/
  5. Muslim American divorce: Divorce among American Muslims: Statistics, challenges & solutions | SoundVision.com
  6. On immigration: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/02/biden-executive-orders-family-separation-464816
  7. On immigration: https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20210218/news/302189894/
  8. Follow the money: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/12/19/ice-detention-private-prisons-expands-under-trump-administration/4393366002/
  9. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  10. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  11. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Sameera Qureshi of Sexual Health for Muslims joins us today to discuss the effects of colonized gender-based fallacies have on Muslim sexual health and practice. Not only does she have comprehensive sexual education from an Islamic perspective online, she is keen on connecting sex as a means of spiritual fulfillment, “God-consciousness,” tawheed, within an Islamic context.

Learn the difference between sex and intimacy, and maybe even redefine them! We are ALWAYS asked when and how to talk to our kids about sex at the podcast. This episode is for all those people who ask that question. If it’s sexual trauma that a parent or child has endured, Sameera helps with that as well and offers trauma-informed healing to her clients. The good news is, we can achieve the goals Allah SWT set for us when He gifted us with sexual relations: achieve God-consciousness, but only when we get comfortable talking about ALL of it.

Links:

  1. Find Sameera on IG: @sexualhealthformuslims
  2. Find Sameera on FB: Sexual Health for Muslims
  3. Find Sameera on the Web: https://sexualhealthformuslims.com
  4. Purchase Good Pictures Bad Pictures Kristen A Jenson to prepare kids early for pornography
  5. Purchase one of MANY early childhood books on autonomy, agency, consent over one’s body to teach kids before something happens: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=my+body+is+mine&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
  6. Find Firoza Osman on IG: @halal_birdsandbees.talk
  7. Purchase Firoza’s Osman’s book How to Talk to Your Muslim Child About Sex: https://www.amazon.com/Talk-your-Muslim-Child-about/dp/177727320X
  8. Purchase Shariea Shoatz’s book My Voice is My Superpower: https://buddyspeaks.org/shop-1/ols/products/my-voice-is-my-super-power
  9. The Village Auntie on IG @villageauntie
  10. Secrets of Divine Love A. Helwa
  11. Spiritual Gems of Islam Jamal Rahman
  12. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  13. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  14. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  15. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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Sadia Jalali, LMFT from Muslim Bliss joins us today to talk about how to develop ourselves before and during marriage in order to make it work. Gone are the days when marriage was the panacea for all things: mental illness, neurodiversity, land or money disputes, homosexuality.....marriage is a blessing but it's not a cure. In fact, there are so many cultural approaches to marriage that do not jive both Islamically, or for Americans raising Americans. Let's start approaching it with realistic expectations and not with the fantasy-driven views that our mother cultures often taught us. We break the cycles of trauma here today.

Links:

  1. Find Sadia on IG: @muslim.bliss
  2. Find Muslim Bliss on the web: www.muslim-bliss.com
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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We got a lot of flack last year for "getting too political" because white supremacy, fascism, and corruption aren't in our lane. Our argument has always been that as Muslim American moms, politics MATTERS to us because it directly affects our families and kids. From misguided counter violence and extremism to unbridled capitalism to straight up racism, Muslim Americans have suffered for decades in this nation, so we ARE in our lane.

Mona Haydar @mostmona joins us on this episode to round out our January How To's and discusses the hard work of using art for social justice and reform. She went viral in a very pregnant body and called out the otherism that hijabi women encounter every day, and since then, has gone on to produce epic protest rap that makes us yell "Atta girl!" and "Alhamdulillah." Truth makes waves because it hurts. But truth is NEVER controversial. Mona is proof of that, and of our Divine duties to make change with the skills we have. Be different. Be courageous. Like a mother.

Links:

  1. Find Mona Haydar and her music on her the website: http://www.monahaydar.com/
  2. Find Mona Haydar and sign up to text her on IG: @themostmona
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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We continue talking about hard things, including writing and publishing on today's episode. There's a HUGE writers’ community on IG! AND there a lot of Muslimah writers out there with terrific stories and projects. How do they do it? Najiyah Maxfield of Daybreak Press is here to give us the scoop!

Links:

  1. Submit your momstory for our anthology: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dxCQGrErKj91RYu2Vd2WIu1ki_7mzYh68hxxOk1HsUA/edit?usp=sharing
  2. Shop Daybreak Press’ online bookstore: https://daybreak-international-bookstore.myshopify.com/
  3. Daybreak Press Book Award book nominations: https://www.rabata.org/daybreakpress/daybreak-awards/
  4. Submit a proposal for the fall 2021 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: https://www.rabata.org/daybreakpress/literary-conference/
  5. Learn more about Rabata: https://www.rabata.org/
  6. Find Anse Najiyah on Twitter: @najiyah
  7. Find Anse Najiyah on IG: @clickedmyrubyslippers
  8. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  9. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  10. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  11. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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This month is all about hard things, and one of the hardest mommy jobs is taking care of medically complex children. Moms don't get a break to start, and these moms NEVER get to stop.

How do we step up to be better sisters to them? How do we avoid avoiding the elephant in the room and normalizing different bodies and abilities and supporting ALL of our kids on this journey?

Tune in to find out more from our role model of resilience Ashley Marshall @mommyweek.

Links:

  1. Check out Ashley’s blog: http://mommyweek.com/
  2. Find Ashley on IG:@mommyweek
  3. Find Ashley on FB: Mommy Week
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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"Would you be willing to come on a podcast and talk about that?" Zaiba asked Uzma almost 3 years ago about racial profiling of Muslim Americans by TSA.

"Sure. What do I have to do?" Uzma had no idea what a podcast was, or that she could find them right on her smartphone!

Find out our how-to's on getting started, podcasting (while staying friends), and how-to party on this with our giveaway we did live for our audience. This is our 100th episode alhamdulillah.

Links:

  1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  2. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Trigger alert: child loss

Abeeha Hassan joins us today to discuss the very recent stillbirth of her newborn. She talks to us about how she grieved her daughter and talks about normalizing it contrary to what most Muslim cultures permit in society. Her process of closure may seem familiar to someone else who has gone this journey alone and we are so touched that Abeeha chose to share her story with us. We pray a momsister finds comfort in knowing there’s someone sharing her story of loss and is available to talk about it.

This month's series is about how to do hard things, and in our opinion, burying our own children is the hardest. Abeeha is a model of sabr, taqwa, as well as normalizing our emotions. She helps us understand that saying Jannah’s name is normal. We always seek to better support our moms in all their situations, and the education she provides on how to do that is invaluable. Grab a Kleenex, but there are moments where we find gratitude and laugh through the tears.

Note:

1) Miscarriage-pregnancy loss before 20 weeks

1) Stillbirth-pregnancy loss after 20 weeks (intrauterine fetal demise)

2) Neonatal death-death within the first 28 days of life

Links:

  1. Discrimination vs. hijab in Kansas City, MO: https://apnews.com/article/73d2c6104c891672e4d9cad88290a8f6
  2. Find Abeeha on IG: @mamaofalittleangel
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  4. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  5. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  6. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Shazia Siddiqi MA, LPC, ATR-BC of Let’s Art About It studio rejoins us today to talk about art therapy, a misunderstood or poorly understood therapeutic modality for trauma, anxiety, or depression. She’s here to explain the science behind it, and your co-hosts will share some of their experiences with art that accidentally healed them or their loved ones. Find out some easy ways you can use art therapy in your virtual school or homeschool schedule! We will use whatever we need to protect our mental health and that of our kids. Wouldn’t you?

The sound on this episode is not our usual quality, but it’s the jinn in Uzma’s computer that did it. You’ll still get a lot of it God willing.

Links:

  1. The truth about the podcast Caliphate by the New York Times: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retracts-hit-podcast-series-caliphate-on-isis-executioner
  2. Contact the New York Times to pull Caliphate off all podcast platforms: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/homepage/contact-newsroom.html
  3. Let’s Art About it for virtual or in-person art therapy informed activities on IG: @letsartaboutitstudio
  4. Let’s Art About it website: https://letsartaboutit.com/
  5. Contact Shazia by phone to set up a virtual event: (248) 210-5118
  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  8. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  9. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Summayah Poonah joins us today to talk about an important resource to assist our Muslim teens’ mental health needs. She is Head of Operations at Naseeha Mental Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting communities and individuals in their journey towards positive mental health and wellbeing. Did ya’ll even know that there is a hotline for Muslim teens to call or text a counselor 7 days a week no matter where they live? Yes, that’s Naseeha! Why is a safe space like this necessary, and what can we do to support our teens? Research has shown that mainstream resources often cannot understand the cultural backgrounds of our kids’ families of origin, and what they don’t know can hurt our kids.

Muslim teens have indicated they’re FIVE TIMES as likely to feel depressed this year, but only about 20% are accessing mental health care in person or electronically. They’re FOUR TIMES as likely to hurt themselves—this is a Muslim public mental health emergency.

We talk coping, crisis, confidentiality, and continued support that Naseeha has been offering since 2007. It’s a gem in our midst we need to grow, especially during these times when our older sets are suffering, some in silence.

Break the silence. Break the stigma. Help our teens use Naseeha’s free phone-based peer support counseling, group counseling sessions, and psychoeducational workshops for racialized youth.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Naseeha website: https://naseeha.org/about-us/#meettheteam
  2. Naseeha IG: @1866naseeha
  3. Naseeha hotline: 1-866-627-3342 call or text FREE and CONFIDENTIAL 7 days/week from 12-9 pm EST
  4. Help Naseeha help others! https://naseehaus.kindful.com/
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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This year has brought a lot of changes we weren’t ready for, moms, and this episode brings on Dr. Saba Maroof, MD, a very busy psychiatrist whose work tripled as a result of the pandemic! She’s seen a lot and has had her pulse on the Muslim American psyche pre-pandemic, but there are some specific Muslim mental health needs she’s seeing arise as a result of the lockdown.

Let’s address what the hang-ups are in the Muslim community, as well as without it, about mental health, address the burdens of motherhood that put her mental health needs on the back burner and further at risk of crisis, and figure out how to identify what we can and cannot control of our emotions and minds. Don’t wait until it gets out of hand, ya’ll! If you FEEL something is off, DO something ASAP.

Find out the names of what you might be feeling and let us know, “How YOU doin?”

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Find Dr. Saba Maroof, MD on IG: @artofpsychiatry
  2. The COVID Cloud by Dr. Jessi Gold, MD, MS: https://www.instyle.com/lifestyle/covid-cloud-concentration-memory-issues
  3. Find a Muslim therapist: https://muslimmentalhealth.com/directory/ or try https://seemamentalhealth.com/find-a-therapist/
  4. FREE Physician Support Line for doctors coping with coronavirus staffed by volunteer psychiatrists helping their colleagues on the front lines: 1-888-409-0141, non-physicians can dial “1” for help and physicians can dial “2” to get someone to meet their specific needs
  5. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for resources on COVID coping for adults: https://www.aacap.org/
  6. Child Mind Institute: https://childmind.org/
  7. American Psychological Association: https://www.apa.org/
  8. The Jed Foundation: https://www.jedfoundation.org/?gclid=CjwKCAiA_eb-BRB2EiwAGBnXXsmMEvh6EtxIztbu6v6Ce48r2HaYobw_GKbQEoFdfgQz0rJM9dqheBoCcCYQAvD_BwE
  9. Minnesota Masjid 2017 bombing story: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/09/944870427/militia-group-leader-guilty-of-minnesota-mosque-pipe-bomb-attack
  10. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  11. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  12. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Dr. Rukhsana Chaudhry comes on today to kick off our mental health series and gives us SO MUCH insight into our anxieties and how to deal with our kids’. Let’s face it: this pandemic has kicked our collective butts and we’ve seen changes in our kids and in ourselves we haven’t handled well all the time. We can do better by learning better, and when we do that, we MOM better.

Learning to sit with discomfort to teach our kids how to do the same can hit childhood anxiety head-on. Dr. Chaudhry addresses teen needs as well, sharing current research on pandemic-induced social isolation as potentially more hazardous in teens. Filtering information to quell teen anxiety and learning to recognize the signs of mental discomfort and illness in our kids will be key, and the resources she shares with us are amazing. Most importantly, continuing to work against the stigma of mental illness in some Muslim communities is going to be key, so HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS, ya’ll!

Don’t forget to click on the links in the show notes to recognize the signs, be mental health first aid proficient, and learn the lingo of mental health. Tune in to the rest of our episodes on mental health dropping this month, every Thursday at 6 pm EST on Alexa, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Recognize the signs! Mental Health First Aid virtual training via the American Muslim Health Professional Association: https://amhp.us/virtualmhfa/
  2. Learn the lingo! Reducing mental health stigma with National Alliance on Mental Illness: https://www.nami.org/Home
  3. UCLA Childhood Anxiety Center: https://carescenter.ucla.edu/
  4. Wellness Toolkit in the Time of Coronavirus from The FYI.org: https://www.thefyi.org/toolkits/coronavirus/
  5. Muslim American mental health issues with Muslim Wellness Foundation: https://www.muslimwellness.com/aboutmwf
  6. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: https://afsp.org/
  7. CDC Coronavirus schedule: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6949e1.htm
  8. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  9. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  10. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  11. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Zaiba and Uzma discuss the final stage of Kubler Ross’grief: Acceptance today. They skipped over bargaining for religious reasons!

As Muslims, “acceptance” doesn’t mean lie down and relax. The work is NOT DONE! There’s much to do to keep the momentum going and to undo all the damage that’s been done to our nation in the last 4 years, and particularly to Muslim Americans.

Local and state elections matter because of school curricula, zoning laws that determine when and if masajid go up, law enforcement, where our tax dollars go directly, and so much more! There are some easy things we can do, and even work that our kids can do to get involved or to stay involved in the political process and protect democracy and justice. Never underestimate the power of what ya’ll can do, mamas!

Links:

1) All eyes on GA: Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/

2) Purchase this workbook on anxiety if your child has it--or even if YOU do! What to Do When You Worry Too Much: https://www.amazon.com/What-When-Worry-Much-What/dp/1591473144

3) What to Do After the Election: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/health/election-getting-involved-actions-wellness/index.html

4) Find my Congressperson: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative and https://www.senate.gov/senators/index.htm

5) Points of Light to get matched up with volunteer opportunities: https://www.pointsoflight.org/our-mission/

6) Find other volunteer opportunities based on your interest in Volunteer Match: https://www.volunteermatch.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAk53-BRD0ARIsAJuNhpsPDNaDVM6wY7Moi6qBdq0ZBc8GMSSL85E2dnF33nsQBxRa8pCqfMUaApSFEALw_wcB

7) Better Arguments Project: https://betterarguments.org/

8) Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/

9) Facebook: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group

10) IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

11) Twitter: @MWMpodcasting

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The next step in grief in this Part III of our election series is depression, which may feel worse today because it’s a holiday in pandemic, and it doesn’t look like what we’re used to. With social distancing protocols, many lives lost to this disease, and a third surge with no end in sight, we could dive right into depression, the next stage of grief, but today we choose gratitude. It’s not one of the stages of grief, so here we go replacing it! December will be our mental health series, so stay tuned for that.

We have to acknowledge the role of colonialism and white supremacy in the origin story of this holiday, and how gratitude isn’t a holiday sentiment: it’s daily Muslim practice. Let’s call the bleaching of American history what it is and share what we still hold onto of ourselves despite it. Reflect on Surah Rahman and the joys, big and small, of 2020.

Links:

1) How to support your teens through COVID-19: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/COVID-19/Pages/Signs-your-Teen-May-Need-More-Support.aspx

2) All eyes on GA: Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/

3) CAIR-CA report on Islamaphobia on campus: bit.ly/cairca-campus-climate-2020

4) CAIR action on apps spying on Muslims: https://www.votervoice.net/CAIR/campaigns/78170/respond

5) The FYI toolkit on dealing with election stress: https://www.thefyi.org/toolkits/election-debrief-toolkit/

6) The FYI toolkit on wellbeing under COVID-19: https://www.thefyi.org/toolkits/coronavirus/

7) CDC study on COVID-19 impact on Native Americans: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6934e1.htm?s_cid=mm6934e1_w

8) Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/

9) Facebook: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group

10) IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

11) Twitter: @MWMpodcasting

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Since they couldn’t find a Muslim mom who voted for Trump, Zaiba recruited her husband, Zafar, to return to the podcast for this episode to help understand the 35% of Muslims surveyed by the Associated Press who said that they planned to vote for Trump--and probably did. It was CLOSE, y’all! Could the Muslim vote afford to be so split? What are the reasons that it wasn’t a landslide with 100% of Muslim Americans voting against the current POTUS?

Zafar does a great job calming Zaiba and Uzma down in this episode to demonstrate that 35% of Muslims voting in a way we don’t understand isn’t so significant, statistically or historically, and diversity of opinions is considered a blessing in Islam. Does everything he says resonate with your favorite podcasting duo? NO! Hear about white grievance vs. privilege, the right to return, the Democratic party’s role in turning away the Muslim vote through doublespeak, and the silver lining in having lived through the last 4 years under this administration.

Tune in for the discourse! “All dialogue is good dialogue,” as Zafar Hasan says.

Links:

1) All eyes on GA: The New Georgia Project: https://newgeorgiaproject.org/

2) All eyes on GA: Black Voters Matter: https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/

3) AP VoteCast Survey results: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/03/929478378/understanding-the-2020-electorate-ap-votecast-survey

4) Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/

5) Facebook: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group

6) IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

7) Twitter: @MWMpodcasting

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Zaiba & Uzma discuss election results which, at the time of this recording, was not yet called, but was highly suggestive of results they did not expect. Why don’t they have cause to celebrate regardless of who is elected this year?

This is a darker episode, with some sad reflections about what the turnout means in terms of the moral compass of America and who our real allies are. Conscience does not have to be consistent with only a political ideology, rather requires us to think, act, and vote along economic and social plans as well, especially those of us who are Muslim Americans. A close election isn’t just a close call, but a larger revelation about the limitations of white liberalism/privilege, a two party system, and political rhetoric in this nation.

Now that we know who the President of the United States is, this is a great reflection of where so many of us were one week ago. This month will be a Kubler Ross stages of grief series reflecting on this election and what it means about our society. When we know better, we vote better, we do better.

Links:

  1. Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/
  2. Facebook: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  3. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  4. Twitter: @MWMpodcasting

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Dr. Hodon joins us today to talk about how to maintain pregnancy health during a pandemic when most of us are barraged with conflicting medical advice and everyone and their president wants to be the doctor giving it.

While providing her personal story of losses after surviving COVID TWICE this year and losing her dad unexpectedly (to Him we belong and to Him we return), Dr. Hodon emphasizes that what worked for her is not medical advice to listeners; it’s her experience on how she recovered and continues to fight back against this disease and its after-effects. Bottom line: COVID isn’t without consequence so stop saying that. We still don’t know the extent to which it can harm us.

This episode is a quickfire of the special considerations COVID pregnancies require and guess what: it involves Zoom, too! We also go through the various decades of women’s lives to emphasize which preventive steps they need to maintain good health for life. Gardasil, PAP smears, mammograms, and vaccines are all here!

Links:

  1. Submit your Momstory to Mommying While Muslim this week: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdM7vejV0_M2wNMMGeIreJZjFFzuO5TiaFLiPJnN0IfZfzGBQ/viewform
  2. Dr. Hodon Mohamed’s website: https://www.drhodon.com/
  3. Dr. Hodon Mohamed FB group: https://www.facebook.com/DrHodon
  4. Dr. Hodon Mohamed on IG: www.instagram.com/drhodon/
  5. Hooyo's Chat with Dr. Hodon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/443058729615505
  6. Transform Your Life With Dr. Hodon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1206638969699648/
  7. Dr. Hodon Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGci...
  8. Dr. Hodon Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dr_Hodon
  9. Dr. Hodon LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drhodon/
  10. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  11. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  12. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  13. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Zaiba and Uzma ended up having to have a conversation about abortion, as well as their religious and feminist views on the topic. This is not a scholarly episode, rather a discourse between friends on personal, very individualized choices they would or would not make if they were faced with an unplanned pregnancy as Muslim American moms.

To get an Islamic opinion on abortion, please talk to your favorite Islamic scholar. You can refer to our September episodes on female Islamic scholarship available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify. For more information on abortion in Islam, take a look at the links for resources.

Links:

  1. Summary of Islamic Opinions by SCHOLARS on abortion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1haB1QyE1JeUpuJy_EEqC_hvaHXqUO7Fyx3AHFbjMfY0/edit
  2. Islam and the Abortion Debate from Yaqeen Institute: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/omar-suleiman/islam-and-the-abortion-debate
  3. Abortion in Islami animated information from Yaqeen Institute: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/omar-suleiman/abortion-in-islam-animated-video
  4. For parenting courses on how to talk to Muslim kids about sex: @thehalalsexpert
  5. State by state restrictions on abortion at Planned Parenthood: https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion
  6. Muslim Kids and Sexual Activity: https://muslimmentalhealth.com/lets-talk-about-sex-and-muslim-mental-health/
  7. Sex Education Reduces Unplanned Pregnancy: https://www.aclu.org/blog/reproductive-freedom/study-finds-comprehensive-sex-education-reduces-teen-pregnancy
  8. Who is Alex P. Keaton? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_P._Keaton
  9. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  10. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  11. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Zaiba and Uzma talk about expected symptoms of “the change,” and what exactly that is and is NOT. Menopause and genitourinary syndrome of menopause are the topics of the day. Super exciting, right? It IS! If we aren’t in the neighborhood of these things happening to us, we can at least walk our moms through it for sure, and they certainly deserve it. If you love an older mom out there, share this episode with her! God knows she won’t talk to her doctor or to us about it! Don’t forget to listen to our public service announcements for preventive health during the last third of this episode.

We brush on vaginal rejuvenation do’s/don’ts and “should we even”…..but mostly: hormones, cancer and osteoporosis risk, and treatments for symptoms are also discussed, so not to worry: there’s hope!

Links:

  1. Genitourinary syndrome of menopause: https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/vulvovaginal-health

  2. Vaginal symptoms to know about: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0301/p321.html

  3. Treating Menopausal Symptoms: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2016/1201/p884.html

  4. Purchase a copy of Love Meets Life: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com

  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com

  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group

  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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We continue our Women’s Health series by focusing on our spiritual health today with Zahra Aljabri, founder of Practical Muslim. She joins us on the podcast today to discuss developing our relationships with Allah SWT in order to strengthen what we have with our kids. She is a spiritual coach who reminds that motherhood is an act of worship and in itself is a way to gain closeness to Allah SWT.

One of our biggest complaints is often feeling disconnected from God because of our daily human work of raising kids: laundry, school, meal prep, working outside the home, etc and not being able to experience extra acts of worship. This happens to ALL of us, Ummi/Ammi/Hooyos! This conversation helps unburden us from feelings of inadequacy and shame that undermine our motherhood/personhood, and helps us break unhealthy cycles of spiritual and emotional trauma before we pass them onto the next generation. This is a rainy day, sit by a window with a cup of tea and slippers episode you don’t want to miss. Zahra’s perspective, practice, direction right back to our fitrah (original nature) and enthusiasm for Allah SWT are enough to listen and replay.

You [Prophet] cannot guide everyone you love to the truth; it is God who guides whomever He will. He knows best those who will follow guidance. (Surah 28:56)

Links:

  1. Find Practical Muslim on IG: @practicalmuslim
  2. Practical Muslim website and blog www.practicalmuslim.com
  3. Email Zahra: zahra@practicalmuslim.com
  4. The Thought Model that is key to resetting mindframe (and personal coaching can help you do this see 1-3 above): https://smbwell.com/the-thought-model/
  5. Zinn Education Project: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials
  6. This Week Junior current magazine for kids: https://theweekjunior.com/
  7. Indy Kids newspaper for kids: https://indykids.org/
  8. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  9. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com

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Dr. Tayyaba rejoins us today on the podcast to talk about endometriosis, a condition that can cause pelvic pain in 10% of women in the WORLD, regardless of whether or not they still have periods. This affects quality of life and sometimes fertility, so it’s important to ALL of us.

Special cohost Solat Zaidi shares her personal experiences with this condition and Dr. Ahmed gives us LOTS of facts, differentiating endometriosis from painful periods, which we are more familiar with. Sadly, we will find out that the medical system doesn’t encourage diagnosis or all treatments equitably, and as many Muslim American women are of color, they will have to advocate for both. We end with a #believeher, and Dr. Ahmed wants listeners to know that treatment options are available, although we didn’t get to all of them in this episode. They include pelvic therapy, oral NSAIDS (anti inflammatory medicines like ibuprofen), neuropathic drugs, suppositories, pelvic floor injections, supplements (Semain health, magnesium, vitamin D), acupuncture, yoga, and meditation. Go to those annual health exams and tell your doctor what’s happening so we can stop normalizing pain in women’s health. Also, ASK QUESTIONS of your doctor.

Links:

  1. Dr. Tayyaba Ahmed on IG @drtayahmed

  2. Dr. Tayyaba’s IMANA webinar on endometriosis and vaginosis: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/5925176206548162050

  3. Dr. Tayyaba’s practice Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine clinic in Manhattan and Long Island New York

https://www.pelvicrehabilitation.com/

  1. Book recommendation by Dr. Ahmed: Beating Endo By Dr Iris Orbuch and Amy Stein DPT

  2. Dr. Ahmed’s recommended education on FB:

a. Nancy’s Nook for Endometriosis Education

b. The Endometriosis Summit (also on IG)

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Let’s grieve Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week and talk about feminism as we end our month of Female Islamic Scholarship with Reem Shaikh. Reem is a graduate student at the Harvard School of Divinity who speaks to us about her singular path toward earning her position as a shaykha. Her goal is to provide the ummah with diverse voices in scholarship so that Muslim women don’t have their religion mansplained to them anymore. When women get and give information to each other, especially our most sacred knowledge, we protect our authentic traditions as well as the role of women scholars in Islam. Reem is #daughtergoals so say a mashaAllah during your listen.

How we ensure the preservation of Islamic American scholarship, particularly female scholarship, is explained and exemplified by Reem, who is inshaAllah one of many hopes and plans we have toward that future. Her pearls humbled your cohosts today, who have a new and much needed parenting perspective as a result of this conversation.

Links:

  1. Find Reem on LinkedIn:
  2. Find Reem on IG: @daysofreem
  3. Find Reem on Twitter: @reemoshaikh
  4. On Boys podcast on Helping Boys Listen: https://on-boys.blubrry.net/helping-boys-listen-learn/
  5. Authentic & Unfiltered podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/authentic.unfiltered/
  6. Reem’s mom Saba Syed: https://muslimmatters.org/author/umm-reem/page/7/
  7. Saba Syed on our most popular episode to date Islamic Perspectives on Sexual Intimacy: https://www.buzzsprout.com/271577/2735836-islamic-perspectives-on-sexual-intimacy
  8. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  9. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  10. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  11. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Dr. Saadia Mian joins us today to discuss her unexpected journey toward memorization of the Quran, and love for it. As moms, we generally have the primary burden of Quranic study for our kids, but we lose our own relationship with it. Let’s talk about making it a daily practice using baby steps, and touch on how to make the Quran beloved to our kids as well. Dr. Mian’s 4 tips to get closer to the Quran are golden.

Today we answer the relevancy and blessing of the Quran in Muslim American life. It’s not just a mom goal to teach our kids the word of Allah SWT; it’s a mom goal to learn it ourselves.

Links:

  1. Find out more about Dr. Saadia Mian and shop The Crowning Venture: https://saadiamianmd.com/
  2. Find Dr. Saadia Mian on IG: @saadiamianmd
  3. Pursue Quranic study online at your pace: http://ribaat.rabata.org/
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Anse Tamara Gray, founder of Rabata, an online institute for and by Muslim women to educate themselves in Islam. She’s also an experienced mom who has a lot to share with moms about allying with their kids as part of their mothering.

Mic drop moment 32:36 when Anse Tamara reminds us about the etymological relationship of the words “umm” (mother) and “imam” (one in front of whom we study, or leader), but on a lighter note at 44:15 “Anse Tamara: I am green beans!” Serious butterflies and chills in this episode, so don’t miss it!

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Find out more about Rabata: https://www.rabata.org/
  2. Rabata on IG: @rabata
  3. Find out more about Ribaat programs: https://ribaat.rabata.org/
  4. For more information on the teen program “RabaTeens”: rabateens.rabata.org
  5. For more information on the children’s program “Dragonflies”: dragonflies.rabata.org
  6. Anse Tamara on IG: @tamaralgray
  7. Anse Tamara’s picks for Muslimah American scholars to know
    1. Dr. Ingrid Matteson: http://ingridmattson.org/about/
      1. With reference to Dr. James Jones: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/team/dr-jimmy-jones/
    2. Dr. Zainab Alwani: http://www.zainabalwani.com/
    3. Jamillah Karim: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/jamillah-karim
  8. To buy Joy Jots or other titles by Muslimah authors at Daybreak International Bookstore: https://daybreak-international-bookstore.myshopify.com/collections/all
  9. Women as Religious Authorities: What A Forgotten Histor

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The author of the incredibly popular and much loved book Secrets of Divine Love, A. Helwa, joins us today to talk about her book and what it brings to our souls during these turbulent times. Her popular blog @quranquotesdaily inspires and reminds us of Allah SWT daily as we scroll through fashion and makeup on IG. Secrets of Divine Love is a motivational and inspiring guide to help experience the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition from a place of love, passion, and joy.

She explains the anonymity of her persona, as well as the importance of authentic connection with each other. She also candidly reminds us that Allah is in control during a time when we all live under delusions of control. More pearls are in this episode than we document here, so take a listen and get the book!

Note: ‘namaz’ is Islamic ritual prayer in the Urdu language; the traditional word for ritual prayer is ‘salah’ in the Arabic language.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Purchase Secrets of Divine Love: www.secretsofdivinelove.com
  2. Find inspiration: @quranquotesdaily
  3. Find the Jeem Journal: https://jeem.life/
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  8. Purchase Jeem journal (journaling) https://jeem.life/

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Hurunnessa Fariad of Sister Act podcast joins Zaiba and Uzma today to discuss how her marriage abruptly ended and under the most unique of circumstances. The video on this one is a must watch, so we’ve linked it below (YouTube) so you can see Uzma’s blooper. Poker face much?

We talk about abandonment, women led households as a more common situation worldwide and in America, financial stressors, facing and raising resilient daughters alone. Hurunessa is a pillar of her active Muslim community and a poster child for what true freedom of body and faith look like. Define “broken home,” do better for our single mom sisters who’ve been with their kids all the time way before this pandemic was a thing, get our divorced sisters remarried (in the manner of the sunnah that Muslim men don’t want to follow), and stop identifying ourselves by our marriage status! Our jobs are to not only break the cycles of trauma that lead to divorce but also to prevent the further traumatization of single moms after the fact.

For any single moms or moms in the middle of a divorce out there, let us know what you think and how we can help do better for you. Check out our links below for Muslim centered resources.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Listen to Sister Act here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ytEwMpRfrZzVaGrM1o2qW

  2. The Family & Youth Institute Divorce Support Toolkit: https://youtu.be/NDk0Y7AMovw

  3. CDC FastStats on Marriage and Divorce: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/marriage-divorce.htm#:~:text=Number%20of%20divorces%3A%20782%2C038%20(45,45%20reporting%20States%20and%20D.C.)

  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com

  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com

  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group

  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

  8. Youtube: https://youtu.be/NDk0Y7AMovw

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Umaima Jafri very own sister comes on to share her experience with single motherhood and the conspiracy of Counter Violence and Extremism that made her live this life. If you’re familiar with Free Ibrahim Now, you’ve heard about Ibrahim Muhammad and how the FBI held him for 3 years without trial with trumped-up terrorism charges and after strongarming him into a plea bargain, deported him this summer to India. Umaima shares the details of the case and how she’s been forced to be a single mom for 5 years and how it’s not as uncommon as we’d like to belive for Muslim Americans.

She’s a hero and her fortitude has trickled down to her amazing children who are everyone’s soft spot on the show today. As an American citizen, she’s been put through this due to laws like the Patriot Act that permitted Muslim surveillance and entrapment of primarily Muslim men. Whatever happens to these women’s husbands, happens to their women and children. To that end, the Coalition for Civil Freedoms steps up to support them in the ways that we would not consider and is an awesome place to donate funds. Check them out on the links below.

Links:

  1. Free Ibrahim Now FB: https://www.facebook.com/FreeIbrahimzm/
  2. Coalition for Civil Freedoms: https://www.civilfreedoms.org/
  3. Vox on “America’s Childcare Problem:” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/parenting/working-moms-coronavirus.html
  4. The New York Times on “They Go To Mommy First”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/parenting/working-moms-coronavirus.html
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
  9. YouTube: https://youtu.be/3MKuDfqB0Mk

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Dr. Aneesah Nadir, a lifelong social worker, professor, and director of the Islamic Social Services Association of America and attorney Zarinah Nadir join us today to discuss the paperwork we need to LIVE WELL. Their backgrounds in the law and social work are huge resources to our community and their experience is GOLD. We aren’t inviting death to us by getting our affairs in order; rather we need to be prepared for it as Muslims are instructed to do by God.

We talk about the cultural barriers to advanced care planning, the specific documents needed to live well and in peace, where to go to get them ready, what happens if we don’t prepare, and Janazah preparation. These are all things that if lined up, inshaAllah will protect us and our families when catastrophe hits.

Pray for all good things, but tie your camel as well!

Links:

  1. Find out more about the ISSA: https://issausa.org/
  2. Contact Dr. Aneesah Nadir for a subscription service to help get your documents in order: draneesah@hotmail.com or 480-233-6547
  3. Yaqeen Institute on end of life decisions: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/maryam-sultan/pulling-the-plug-the-islamic-perspectives-on-end-of-life-care/
  4. Conversation Project starter kit: https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/patient_care/conversation_project/cp-starter-kit.pdf
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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The vertically multigenerational family is not new to America, or to the world. We discuss the pros and cons of vertical and horizontal generations in a household, talking about the trauma we’ve witnessed and how we take the good parts of our histories to build future families.

Alternatives to intergenerational families are explained, as well as the costs. The economic realities that are forcing families into multigenerational households is going to be faced head-on in this episode. This opens a can of worms on HOW to run a multigenerational family within American culture with Islamic values? It comes down to how we culturally define “family” and what that looks like and works like for us.

Links:

  1. NYT on Emotional Labor of Moms: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/parenting/working-moms-coronavirus.html?searchResultPosition=1
  2. The Multigenerational Household: https://www.gu.org/explore-our-topics/multigenerational-households/
  3. The Legacy Project: https://www.legacyproject.org/guides/intergenbenefits.html
  4. The Graying of America: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/03/graying-america.html
  5. Statistics on Multigenerational Households https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/05/a-record-64-million-americans-live-in-multigenerational-households/
  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  8. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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We continue our discussion of the evolution of the Muslim American family in this episode: What does that look like and why? An anonymous guest shares her personal experience of marrying a non-Muslim man with Zaiba and Uzma today. What led her to do it, and what takeaways does she have?

The social landscape is just different in America and with that comes changes from our understanding of the “traditional” Muslim family. There are opportunities and challenges here that don’t exist in Muslim countries, and we do the best we can with what we have. How do we do this within the constructs of Islam and maintain our Muslim identities and practices? And will the lota ever NOT be an issue?

Whether we agree or disagree with individual choices, we always come way with something learned, and this episode is no exception. The lesson provided by our guest gave us a lot to think about, and we are so grateful she shared her experience with us.

Note: Terms used in the episode not everyone may know

“namaaz”=salat=established ritual prayer in Islam

“roza”=sawm=ritual fast in Islam

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Go Fund Me for the Diol family: https://gf.me/u/ym324g
  2. Muslim American interfaith marriage article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/can-a-muslim-woman-marry-a-non-muslim-man_b_589aae92e4b061551b3e05a8
  3. ISPU Muslim American interfaith marriage statistics: https://www.ispu.org/to-have-and-to-hold-interfaith-marriage-just-as-common-among-muslim-americans-as-christians/
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Zaiba & Uzma hash it out over outlaws...no, the IN laws on this episode. Having been in these relationships for a while, they talk about interference, childrearing disputes, social and ethnic expectations, and most importantly, communication gaps that lead to an outlaw situation. The audience really participated in this one and their answers to MWM’s survey questions are terrific and telling. They’re not just talking about having outlaws; they’re also talking about how NOT to be one themselves!

Check out the links in the show notes for this one and find some good reads on the Islamic perspectives on good relationships with in-laws, as well as some funny ones.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Muslim Matters article on living with in-laws: https://muslimmatters.org/2014/11/06/whats-the-matter-should-i-marry-a-good-man-and-live-with-mother-in-law/

  2. Yaqeen Institute on Social Justice: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4713562/40HadithLectureNotes/40nSocialJustice-Week-28.pdf?__hstc=251652889.ddb475c8347a94f159eafcfc3d682597.1583214108496.1583214108496.1583393341401.2&__hssc=251652889.2.1583393341401

  3. Funny read on inlaws: https://scoopempire.com/how-to-handle-the-five-different-types-of-mothers-in-law/

  4. Interesting albeit limited and arguable read: https://www.arabnews.com/node/992636/saudi-arabia

  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com

  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com

  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group

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Yasmin El Hady, lawyer, mom, and comedienne joins Zaiba and Uzma to talk about her out of the box career. Is our dream job REALLY our dream? Why or why not? These are important topics explained, as well as the wealth of comic relief in mothering, “Ramy,” what “move over” means, Muslim porn stars, and the halal and haram of entertainment.

Despite the sound difficulties in this episode, it delivers the laughs and perspective needed to chase down “what might have been” so that it becomes a reality TODAY insha’Allah (God willing).

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Find Yasmin on IG: @yasguru
  2. Yasmin’s comedy on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCURpYI86UnAFDzoEAJ4FjXQ/featured or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmPHDe-VpmsgNdAWF0S8t6Q
  3. Shows discussed in today’s episode
    1. Ramy https://www.hulu.com/series/ramy-4bcb6c3a-3d9a-4d49-b8e0-57fb7de9c8d6
    2. Unfair & Ugly https://strangermagic.com/unfairandugly/about-unfair-and-ugly/
  4. Comediennes discussed in today’s episode
    1. Zainab Johnson https://www.zainabjohnson.com/about
    2. Teen Vogue’s article on Nadirah Pierre https://www.teenvogue.com/story/nadirah-pierre-instagram-comedy
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Sumiya Khan, RD comes on today to discuss devastating loss and overcoming it. Her advice on the do’s and don'ts during grieving are golden and should be printed for general public use! She’s truly a model of resilience, and since like-minded folks get together, Sanctuary Kitchen is her passion, outlet, and work empowering refugees. We look forward to her supportive endeavors in Muslim bereavement based on her personal experience.

As a role model for all, she lives life outside the box in her work and at home, showing us that through and in grief are opportunities for our growth and sanctuary.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Sumiya on IG: @sumiyaswholekitchen
  2. Donate to the awesome work of Sanctuary Kitchen www.sanctuarykitchen.org / IG @sanctuarykitchenct
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Rubina Cohen, our podcast’s Marketing Manager and partner, joins Zaiba again today to talk about how incredible losses in her childhood prepared her for success in the future. From a critical death in the family to running away and exploring faith, Rubina and Zaiba discuss imposter syndrome, difficult relationships, fear-based parenting, and COVID related anxieties that we all share.

Learn about mindful marketing and seeking the authentic goals that make the most sense for us during these turbulent socioeconomic times. Rubina is a genius at focusing businesses on their “why” and making sure that her clients don’t just hit their financial goals, but also their spiritual ones. Her business know-how “crown” can be worn by moms as well as we run our own human “businesses” trying to be as productive and fulfilling as possible.

For those wondering, “pahli” is green beans! Maybe Rubina will share her recipe with us on social if ya’ll ask!

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Find Rubina for marketing genius at Firefly Strategies, LLC: https://www.fireflystrategies.com/
  2. Peace of Genius Planner: http://www.peaceofgenius.com/the-planner9733.html
  3. Join Rubina’s Ritual Power FB group to access the ritual boxes premiering soon: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ritualpower/
  4. Businesses wanting to promote themselves maximally can join Genius Illuminated FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/geniusilluminated/
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Continuing our series on “moms outside the box,” Lt. Col. Mona Johnson USA, Retired joins Zaiba and Uzma today to discuss her military career post-divorce, the unique experiences she had as a single Muslim mom in the Army, and the cultural hot topics she saw then and now. As an immigrant to this country in the late 50s, Miss Mona has literally seen the United States transform in progressive ways, yet remained stagnant in others. Some of these discussions are heartwrenching and leave us wanting more or to cover our ears because they’re difficult to hear. We don’t shy away from her accounts because they are our shared American history.

Her insights are useful, especially to those Muslim Americans who question their ability to serve openly in the Armed Forces as people of faith. Hot off the presses, her autobiography is a must for our sons and daughters to learn about their worth, their Muslim identities, and how to change their circumstances against all odds.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Find Mona Johnson online: https://monajohnsonauthor.com/
  2. Purchase Not Created Equal: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Created-Equal-Immigrant-Equality/dp/1734731702/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mona+johnson&qid=1588900625&sr=8-1
  3. Specialist Vanessa Guillen’s murder: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vanessa-guillen-death-fort-hood-soldier-military-sexual-assault-harrassment/
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Not Created Equal: An Immigrant Muslim Woman's Pursuit of Equality in her Family, the Army and America

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Zaiba and Uzma’s dads join them on this bonus episode for Father’s Day talking about their immigrant experiences and how they contributed to their daughters’ Muslim identities in America.

It’s a rare to have male voice on the podcast, but as moms themselves, the cohosts know how important fathers are in their children’s lives. These dads are friends in real life, developed generational relationships and resilience, and pray that their Muslim American grandchildren inherit and practice the truest version of Islam as they create their own culture.

Hear about immigrant “speed dating” experiences, the sage advice of fathers now passed, new daddyhood, and the ultimate raising of kids without a manual of any kid.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Gateway to India is still open in Illinois! Zaiba and Uzma do not have any financial interest in this restaurant, just in its history: https://www.gatewaytoindia04.com/#restaurant-information
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To kick off this month’s theme of “moms outside the box,” momfounder of Emar Italy, Dr. Najwa Javed joins the podcast to talk about her line of high heels THAT ARE GOOD FOR YOU! For those of us in slides and flip-flops, because comfort is Queen, this is great news, especially coming from a foot and ankle surgeon.

Najwa talks about the research and hustle required to launch a new product, gives golden advice on how to find a cheering section, and reassures us about the challenges of COVID new companies face. She is the ultimate in forgiving mom selves and giving us credit where it’s due. For any mom who’s doubted if she CAN, this episode is a TUNE IN.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Find the high heel that’s actually good for your feet: https://www.emaritaly.com/
  2. Find Najwa on IG @offiviallyinheels
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I continue our conversation with podcaster and radio personality, Farheen Raza, mom of 3 rambunctious boys.  We're talking about what Shiism is--history, practice, and whether or not it matters which sect we identify with in the United States. During this time of division and change in our nation, it matters whether or not we decrease or broaden the schisms between our neighbors and mom sisters.

We barely touched the tip of the iceberg on this topic in the first part.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Musings of a Modern Muslim podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/musings-of-a-millennial-muslim/id1489441261
  2. On IG: @themodmuslim
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Dr. Sylvia Chan Malik joins us today to talk about social justice as achieved and achievable in America through the work of Black Muslim women, or first mothers in this country. As an American historian, Dr. Chan Malik shares her study of race, religion and gender as agents of change, and how Muslim moms can leverage their identities to force equity and equality still missing in our social fabric.

For those of us with biases about Nation of Islam, buckle up as we talk about her insightful book that taught us a lot of what we DON’T know. For anyone who shakes her head at liberal feminism, this may be the conversation she needs to hear. Finally, listen to how we apply our collective history to what else we model and teach at our kitchen tables.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Dr. Chan-Malik online: https://sylviachanmalik.com/
  2. Purchase Being Muslim: https://nyupress.org/9781479823420/
  3. With Stones in Our Hands anthology: https://www.amazon.com/Stones-Our-Hands-Writings-International/dp/0816696128
  4. Leila Ahmed’s book Dr. Malik mentions Women and Gender in Islam: https://www.amazon.com/Women-Gender-Islam-Historical-Modern/dp/0300055838
  5. Watch “The Hate That Hate Produced” (1958): https://youtu.be/BsYWD2EqavQ
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With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire (Muslim International)
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

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Ikhlas Saleem of Identity Politics Podcast joins us today to talk about her intersectional experiences as a Black Muslim female and mom, or as she prefers to be identified, Moorish American mom. There are so many things to be learned on this episode!

Non black Muslims are discriminatory toward black Muslims and guess what--black Muslims know it! Due to black erasure that starts in our history books on US soil, there are hard truths non black Muslims will never know, and it’s time to find and face the facts of our collective history. We reflect on the story of our beloved Musa (Moses--may God be pleased with him) and see a direct correlation to our current movements for equity and justice thanks to Ikhlas’ beautiful analogy and mind blowing connection.

We are so grateful to gain insight and forge relationships that we hope bridge gaps created by our misperceptions and ignorance of other moms’ experiences. May Allah make us able to change the world by recognizing and changing what’s missing within ourselves first. Ameen.

This is a can’t miss episode, and the links below will help anyone who questions the history we were taught.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Identity Politics Podcast: http://identitypoliticspod.com/
  2. Muslim Anti Racism Collaborative: http://www.muslimarc.org/
  3. A History of Muslims in America presentation on Islamic Network Group; you must register for access to the curriculum: https://ing.org/a-history-of-muslims-in-america/
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Not all second-generation Americans were encouraged to be overtly “American,” or to adopt the cultural practices that make us unique on the planet: our innate senses of justice, equality, work ethic, and our history of rebellion weren’t exercised and flexed in traditionally Muslim countries, but then our parents came here and some felt slapped in the face by these traits. Others embraced them.

Sabeeha Rehman, a grassroots activist, community builder, mother, grandmother, and author joins us today to talk about her mothering journey in America and how that shaped her Muslim American identity as an immigrant to this country. The framework and permissions she gives us may not be for everyone, but they are a relief to others. We welcome the discussion and opportunity to remember that this nation, while in pain right now, is the perfect soil to cultivate an authentic Islam we couldn’t practice anywhere else.

Links:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLo9wx_Xj98

  1. Sabeeha Rehman on the web and her blog: http://www.sabeeharehman.com/
  2. Follow Sabeeha on Twitter @SabeehaRehman
  3. Purchase Threading My Prayer Rug: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1628728620/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1628728620&linkCode=as2&tag=sabeeharehman-20&linkId=fba5c16304c4688ddcdd5f610c222949
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Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim

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Podcaster and radio personality, Farheen Raza, mom of 3 rambunctious boys, joins us today to inform us about what Shiism is--history, practice, and whether or not it matters which sect we identify with in America. During this time of division and change in our nation, it matters whether or not we decrease or broaden the schisms between our neighbors and mom sisters.

We barely touched the tip of the iceberg on this topic, so watch out for a second part coming this month as we continue to discuss Muslim identity. There’s already a hot difference of opinion we are having and we cannot wait to continue it on our part deux.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Musings of a Modern Muslim podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/musings-of-a-millennial-muslim/id1489441261
  2. On IG: @themodmuslim
  3. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
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Kaitlin Abdelrahman joins us today to talk about how and why she launched On-Call Halal, delivering halal meals at suhoor AND iftar to Muslim healthcare workers in Kansas City. When all things are tough and we have to juggle so much. Kaitlin added one more thing to her amazing repertoire in order to turn lemons into lemonade. Of course, she’s sparked a conversation and movement that we hope will continue and span the breadth of our nation’s front line workers. What a power mom mashaAllah!

Whenever we feel it’s hard, it’s refreshing to know that we can always rise up to face the challenges we meet. Allahu Akbar.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. On Call Halal delivering meals to Muslim healthcare workers during Ramadan: https://www.oncallhalal.com/
  2. On IG: @oncallhalal
  3. On Call Halal in the news: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kansas-city-group-delivers-meals-for-fasting-muslim-medical-workers_n_5ea88850c5b6e50adaf4c2a6
  4. Kaitlin Abdelrahman on IG: @AmericanMuslimmama
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A mother who adopted her child thought she would walk away and enjoy her life with her new family, but she was never more wrong. In this episode of Mommying While Muslim, find out what happened that changed this mother's life forever, what she's doing now to help future generations, and how her son's adoption 3-years ago will have a lasting impact for generations to come.

You will also discover how you can help in her quest to make life better for hundreds, if not thousands, or orphans.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. To obtain more information on BLOOM and how you can support its work: https://bloomcharity.org/
  2. Yaqeen Institute on adoption and foster care in Islam by Omar Suleiman: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/omar-suleiman/reviving-a-lost-sunnah-adoption-and-foster-care-in-islam/
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A newly converted Muslimah and a new immigrant Muslimah met 40 years ago in Chitown and discovered they had more in common than they thought. Darlene Hussain and Qurrat “Annie” Jafri join us today to spill the beans on what happened when they became Muslim moms in America!

We talk about the painful things: mom guilt, reverse Muslim discrimination, postpartum depression, social isolation, first generation woes, kids being bullied….and let’s not forget the fun stuff, like how Zaiba and Uzma are each their moms’ favorite kids!

There was some great news in all of this as our moms shared what they thought was the hardest part of parenting...it gave us hope for the future. We share tears, dirty laundry, and a lot of giggles on this audio therapy session you don’t want to miss. It was awesome to share notes on the role of mom with our own moms!!!!We hope it inspires ya’ll to do the same with your own moms or with the women who mothered you.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

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Durdana Razvi Rahman, mom of the first Muslim American news reporter to don hijab on the air, joins Zaiba and Uzma today to discuss how moms help kids face adversity, even if it comes from an unjust source. While quick to downplay her wisdom, Durdana shares some excellent parenting tips, from kids friends, their personal and professional choices, and how the thread of Islam brings it all together seamlessly.

This is a terrific launch to our Power Moms theme this month, so stay tuned for moms who raise great kids or face great challenges with faith and fortitude.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. TODAY article on Tahera Rahman: https://www.today.com/style/tahera-rahman-first-air-tv-reporter-wear-hijab-t124701
  2. The closest reference we could find to the parenting book Durdana mentions about the hadith on the 3 stages of childhood: https://ummassadhomeschool.com/tag/hadith/

Full disclosure: We could not find an authentic source of the hadith, but it is attributed to Ali (RA) as well as to Ja’far as Sadiq (RA) in other sources.

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Yasmin El Hady, or the comedienne and social media sensation known as Yasguru, joins us today to help make sense of how to juggle mommying, work, and the kids this quarantined Ramadan.

What is timeboxing, what does it look like, and how can it help make sense of the new mom juggle we all have to do? Find out how we can manage our tasks better if we can determine what activities cause high stress vs low stress. Best of all, it’s FREE!

The live on this episode left us in tears laughing, our cheeks hurting. She helps us laugh at our type ‘A’ selves and reminds us that Allah is The Best of Planners. Yasmin is a true gem of a mom who makes it look easy, but is genuine about how hard all of it still is, especially on her videos on IG.

Check them out and watch out for our episode with her dropping tonight at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Google play, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, and other podcast platforms. Don’t forget to rate, review, subscribe, and SHARE.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Watch for some hilarious videos with Yasmin El Hady on IG: @yasguru
  2. Yasmin on the web: www.yasguru.com
  3. Info on Timeboxing: https://clockify.me/timeboxing
  4. Mommying While Muslim’s Launchgood Ramadan Challenge--give to a different cause each day of Ramadan: https://www.launchgood.com/ramadanhome/#!/ramadan?src=189224
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Eissa Albinali joins us today to discuss life in lockdown in Spain and what we are taking for granted here in the States. He’s a super creative expat with some amazing ideas to share, and projects he’s got started on YouTube we can bring right into our living rooms. He’s also got great advice for teens to utilize their time, get their creative juices flowing, and advice for moms on how to support our kids this quarantined Ramadan.

Remarkable kids come from remarkable moms, so let’s not forget to make duaa for both Eissa and his mom, and pray for the reunification of their family ASAP. Ameen.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Catch Kid Khutbah every Friday on Muslims in KidLit on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WwhI43AgP3w
  2. Muslims in KidLit to get referrals on the best Muslim kid reads: @muslimsinkidlit
  3. Eissa Albinali website and blog: https://eissaalbinali.com/
  4. Eissa Albinali on IG: @ealbinali_
  5. Find Lingo boy on IG: @lingoboy
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Senator Ghazala Hashmi representing Virginia District 10, the first Muslim elected to the Virginia State Senate, represents historic political change and joins us today to discuss how 2017 rhetoric propelled her from education to politics. How does a normal Muslim American mom make change like this and why is it important for Muslim immigrants and their kids to be actively engaged in American politics? This lifelong educator also gives us tips on success within the world of online learning, so you’ll want to hear those gems!

Learn about EMGAGE and its role in serving Muslim Americans running for office across the nation. Organizations like this are training young people to do important work towards political and social change, so don’t forget these groups during Ramadan!

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. To learn more about Senator Ghazala Hashmi: https://ghazalahashmi.com/
  2. Learn more about EMGAGE and donate to their work if you can: https://www.emgageusa.org/
  3. Senator Hashmi’s book recommendations
    1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    2. Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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Uzma’s son and daughter guest on our episode today while they explain their worries and excitement about a Ramadan without the socialization and masjid influences we’ve been used to.

Hear some dirty laundry about our co-hosts and their experiences of Ramadans past, and how we plan to make the best of Ramadan 2020, especially for the young ones who are looking forward to it so much. There’s also a very important correction to what we stated about praying taraweeh with a live stream at home, so please check out link #1!

This is going to be a blessed month no matter what the world looks like outside; even if Uzma has to die cooking through it!

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Is praying taraweeh with a livestream permissible? Answer from Sh. Yasir Qadhi: https://faithiq.org/Ramadan/Can-I-Follow-The-Live-Broadcast-Of-Taraweeh-In-Makkah-From-My-Home
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Join expert homeschooling mom and community volunteer extraordinaire, Priscilla Martinez, as she shares what Ramadan entirely at home can look like. What are the traditions we will be grieving, but what can we look forward to? Seriously, some of us are missing the forest for the trees here, so let’s shift mindsets and make the best of what we’ve been dealt!

Ramadan 2020 will definitely be one for the history books, and as the makers of festivities and home comforts, let’s make it happen together, Mamas, Ammis, and Hooyos!

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iam

  1. Have your kids join The Apostrophe online Muslim youth community hangout space: m.me/apostrophemoretosee
  2. The FYI Webinar (register to receive the recording) Preparing for Ramadan with Family in the Age of Quarantine: https://us04web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N6W_heruQK2vOhzZ5S-eyQ
  3. Penny Appeal for Coronavirus Emergency Fund to assist families who can’t work right now: https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/coronavirus_emergency_response_financial_hardship_grants#!/
  4. The FYI Toolkit on Wellness during the pandemic: https://www.thefyi.org/toolkits/coronavirus/
  5. Awesome video from AJ+ on the day in the life of a first-time faster: https://youtu.be/h1779_E1A20
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Get real news on the pandemic from a scientist rather than a politician or your neighbor who swears by elderberry or summer heat to kill coronavirus, or your Amo Sami who swears it’s all a conspiracy to rig an election year. Doctor Syra Madad is not just a novel infection chaser and someone who maintains readiness to fight them, she headed for Ebola on US soil when the rest of us were running away from it. From bioterrorism to now hunkering down in New York City to stem the spread of infection in her city and even in ours, she shares her mom life and work with us.

We’re most proud of sharing this space today with someone who demonstrates a passion for her work and dedication to humanity, but we also love that Dr. Madad represents and lives Islam in her own voice. Her newborn daughter and ours are so lucky to have role models like her, and guess what? Like US and like YOU, too. All the moms holding down the fort and living resilience that our kids need to witness right now--not only can you do this, and you’ll get through this. We’re here for you.

Thank you to the ER and hospital staff doing so much right now, sacrificing everything to keep us healthy. Thank you to first responders, food retailers and everyone affected financially by social distancing--your patience and fortitude help us grow ours.

Links:

  1. Find Dr. Madad on Twitter @syramadad
  2. She’s also on Instagram: @syramadad
  3. Read more about her work and many interviews on her joint art and science website she shares with her husband: http://scty.org/
  4. Penny Appeal for Coronavirus Emergency Fund to assist families who can’t work right now: https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/coronavirus_emergency_response_financial_hardship_grants#!/
  5. Web: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: muslimmamas@mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and mommyingwhilemuslim FB group
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Saira Sufi joins us today to share the story of her son, Hadi, and how he remains her guide today. She has weathered innumerable losses in the last couple of years, and still holds her chin up as she advocates for her son’s disease and mom resilience. This may be a triggering episode for anyone who has suffered immense loss and grief, so maybe listen in a group so you can support each other through this episode.

Also, let’s never forget to support medical research and to join minority blood registries in case we can ever help another family avoid illness and loss. This episode is for every mom, sibling, and family who’s ever experienced the loss of a child, and we pray for their continued healing and reward with Allah SWT. Ameen.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Team Watience Website: https://www.teamwatience.com/
  2. Team Watience FB: https://www.facebook.com/TeamWatience/
  3. Team Watience IG: https://www.instagram.com/sairasufiandteamwatience/
  4. Help reach Saira’s $60K research goal by donating to the Hadi Abdu Rasheed Research Fund for Aplastic Anemia: https://aamdsif.salsalabs.org/eoyp2pfundraisingcampaign/p/hadiabdurrasheedsresearchfund/index.html
  5. Be the Match and register your bone marrow with the minority registry for a child or human in need; it just takes a cheek swab, no blood! https://bethematch.org/support-the-cause/donate-bone-marrow/join-the-marrow-registry/
  6. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  7. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Dr. Saba Maroof joins Zaiba and Uzma on their quest to provide a one-stop-shop for mom answers while we navigate our Muslim American families.

As a mental health resource brought to our audience by MWM, Dr. Saba will be able to offer professional insight into some of our families’ most concerning issues and questions. We look forward to exciting offerings online for our audience with her and having one more on this team to help us expand what we can do for our Muslim American mom sisters!

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Dr. Saba’s podcast on Apple podcasts is Unsung Heroes: Stories to Inspire: http://www.podcastdetroit.com/show/unsung-heroes/
  2. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  3. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  4. Reach out to Dr. Saba on our FB group! FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  5. Reach out to Dr. Saba on our DMs! IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Maryam Munir, the founder of The Parent Empowerment Project, joins the Mommying While Muslim team in order to bring positive parenting expertise to our repertoire. Even though out on a family emergency, Maryam kindly joins us from overseas today to talk about key buzz words in the parenting field today.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. The Parent Empowerment Project: https://teepep.com/
  2. Mommying While Muslim doesn’t have any financial relationship with Life360, and Zaiba is glad they’re taking her money: https://www.life360.com/
  3. Hadeeth on kindred souls: The Prophet (SAW) said: "The souls are like an army joined in the world of spirits. Whichever souls knew each other in that world are attracted to each other in this world, and whichever remained distant and indifferent there are disinterested to each other in this world." (Saheeh al-Bukhari)
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Do we hang up our womanhood, our God given sensual selves, once we have kids? And if we do, WHY?

The Village Auntie spills it all, as she does best, to help us reclaim our feminine histories in order to be better mothers. Part of that reclamation includes restoring the fundamentals about what Islam teaches regarding feminine sexuality, and how critics are quick to forget or minimize those religious truths in order to feed cultural taboos and shame culture.

Find out about her journey, her book, and hear how she exudes all things sensual, sensitive, and safe.

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. The Village Auntie on IG---Seriously, check out the videos to learn SO MUCH!: @villageauntie, also where you can click on the bio to buy Passage: A 31 Day Guided Journey with The Village Auntie
  2. The Village Auntie to schedule a workshop: angelica@thevillageauntie.com
  3. The Village Auntie monthly series Lights On at the Amaliah podcast: https://www.amaliah.com/post/56963/brand-new-sex-series-on-the-amaliah-podcast-angelica-lindsey-ali-village-aunty
  4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  5. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Do you know if you have a “loosey goosey” or a “tight pelvis?” Let’s talk wetting our pants while we wet our pants (it’s on the video if you missed it), as well as pelvic pain, its causes, the physical and sexual dysfunction that results, and treatments.

You may not have heard about vaginal massage before, but here’s where you can find out how terms like that and valium suppositories are actual medical interventions for real women’s problems.

Links:

  1. Dr. Tayyaba Ahmed on IG @drtayahmed
  2. Dr. Tayyaba’s practice Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine clinic in Manhattan and Long Island New York

https://www.pelvicrehabilitation.com/

  1. Dr. Tayyaba’s IMANA webinar on endometriosis and vaginosis: https://register.gotowebinar.com/recording/5925176206548162050
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Zaiba & Uzma learn how prophetic sexual tradition is really female-centric. Saba explains the effects of Eurocentric and colonial influences on Islamic sexual beliefs and practices. Normalizing sex again, and normalizing our need to be fulfilled, especially in this aspect of our God-given nature, is our right and we need to learn to exercise. We also need to teach that to our kids, who are often wondering about orgasm, masturbation, and other sexual practices we were taught as “deviant,” but it turns out, we were taught wrong.

Come breathe a sigh of relief with us today, and then later when you practice what you’ve learned!

Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA

  1. Loving Muslim Marriage video series from Muslim Matters: https://www.acog.org/Patients/FAQs/Your-Sexual-Health
    1. Pay special attention to episodes 2, 3, and 5
    2. There’s a 21-part series! Look out for all of them and watch!
  2. Sex Matters: Love, Marriage, and the Sunnah by www.muslimmatters.org
  3. “Hysteria” the movie is available on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Hysteria-Hugh-Dancy/dp/B009CPGQHA
  4. Saba’a novel for young adults An Acquaintance: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/an-acquaintance-saba-syed/1126967439
  5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  6. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
  8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Three Muslim moms take on the glass ceiling of sexuality, exploring taboos on Muslim women’s sexuality and addressing the truths and half truths about it. Rather than have sex happen TO them, moms deserve to experience sex as active and important recipients of sex as a God given right. Hear Zaiba and Uzma channel their inner adolescent as they learn to talk about sex, baby, just like grown ups!

Aalia truly brings on the blush by discussing sexual paraphernalia by Pure Romance that you won’t talk about at an average Muslim tea party.

Links:

  1. Aalia on FB VIP group: Ignite the Spark: Pure Romance by Aalia
  2. Aalia on IG: @ignitethesparkbyaalia
  3. Email Aalia: ignitethesparkbyaalia@gmail.com
  4. Pure Romance web: Pureromance.com/aalia
  5. American College of Obstetricians & Gynecology on Your Sexual Health: https://www.acog.org/Patients/FAQs/Your-Sexual-Health
  6. Female Sexual Dysfunction: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2015/0815/p281.html
  7. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  8. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  9. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
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Rubina Cohen, our recurring contributor, joins us today to give insight into her unique experience with PPD. We compare notes, commiserate, provide some more facts, and talk about resources available to mom sisters. It’s just not talked about enough in our regular circles and we don’t want to see another mom go through this. So let us remove the multicultural stigma Muslim American moms face for our community.

Rubina's experience inspired her to create a product for postpartum moms as well as a safe online space for mothers dealing with postpartum depression. She turned her pain into gain. Check it out!

Links:

  1. Rubina's FB group online:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/postpartumpower/about/
  2. Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: http://perinatology.com/calculators/Edinburgh%20Depression%20Scale.htm
  3. PHQ-9 Screening Tool: https://www.integration.samhsa.gov/images/res/PHQ%20-%20Questions.pdf
  4. American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology patient handout on PPD: https://www.acog.org/Patients/FAQs/Postpartum-Depression?IsMobileSet=false
  5. Nisa Helpline: https://nisahelpline.com/who-we-are/ 1-888-315-NISA (6472) available 12 hours during the day, or email info@nisahelpline.com anytime
  6. National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 available 24/7 for help
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  8. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Dr. Fareeha Malik, DDS, and mom of 2 joins Zaiba & Uzma to describe how she felt after delivering her children, how it impacted her relationships, and how she found healing. Bringing home a baby doesn’t always mean mom’s eternal happiness. Not all mothers feel “the way they should” after the baby is born, and may feel lost if they don’t know where to turn for resources. This endangers not only mom but also a newborn.
Our audio sounds different on this episode, so bear with us. We were also so into the conversation, we didn't get to review the valuable resources we have for our community. Please call in for help, or DM us.

Links:

  1. Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale: http://perinatology.com/calculators/Edinburgh%20Depression%20Scale.htm

  2. PHQ-9 Screening Tool: https://www.integration.samhsa.gov/images/res/PHQ%20-%20Questions.pdf

  3. American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology patient handout on PPD: https://www.acog.org/Patients/FAQs/Postpartum-Depression?IsMobileSet=false

  4. Nisa Helpline: https://nisahelpline.com/who-we-are/ 1-888-315-NISA (6472) available 12 hours during the day, or email info@nisahelpline.com anytime

  5. National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 available 24/7 for help

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  7. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com

  8. FB: Mommying While Muslims

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Zaiba and Uzma review how they fed their babies, what led to those decisions, and the social backlash they received for their choices. What’s normal, what’s real, and what’s the Islamic perspective on our Muslim American boobs and bottles?

Links:

  1. Find Senators up for re-election in 2020: https://www.270towin.com/2020-senate-election/
  2. Breastfeeding duration recommendations: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/breastfeeding/conditioninfo/recommendations
  3. La Leche League on Muslim perspectives on Breastfeeding: https://www.llli.org/islamic-cultural-practices-breastfeeding-2/
  4. Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine on Infant Supplementation: https://abm.memberclicks.net/assets/DOCUMENTS/PROTOCOLS/3-supplementation-protocol-english.pdf
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Join your co-hosts today as they discuss their personal journeys of pregnancy and delivery, sprinkled with the Islamic tenets by which they tried to conceive and receive their little blessings from Allah. It may not always be rosy or even healthy, but it always happens when the time and His plan is right.

Links:

  1. Our Precious Sprouts by Muhammad Jibaly
  2. What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff
  3. Quran Weekly video by Omar Suleiman on pregnancy loss: https://youtu.be/98e-lm6wLj4
  4. Muslim Central Podcast Fiqh of Pregnancy and Newborns by Omar Suleiman: https://muslimcentral.com/omar-suleiman-fiqh-pregnancy-newborns/
  5. Children of Jannah online support group for pregnancy loss: https://childrenofjannah.com/home/
  6. Adoption in Islam by WISE UP: https://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/WISE-UP-Adoption.pdf
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  8. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Fact check! Uzma misstated the TLC show as "Arranged Marriage," but it's actually "Married at First Sight." Neither is a very good reflection of the arranged marriages discussed today, but of the two shows, the first is a closer version, but we never got around to talking about it! We focused on the absurdity of never talking to someone before you marry them.

Some people (Muslim and non Muslim) think Muslims get hit over the head and dragged to the mimbar to get married on their big days. That's not what arranged marriage means on this show, or in this American Muslim experience. Hear about two very different marriage setups, the expectations we have for our kids, and some of the fallout of marriage in general on the Muslim mommying journey.

Links
1) Read about istikhara prayer for easing affairs: https://seekersguidance.org/answers/hanafi-fiqh/istikhara-the-prayer-of-seeking-guidance/
2) Check our facts on marriage longevity under "Stability":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranged_marriage
3) Muslim meetup up Minder: https://www.minder.app/
4) Challenges of making a millenial Muslim American match: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/muslim-millennial-and-single-a-generation-struggles-to-find-love/2018/02/14/0e81763a-085a-11e8-b48c-b07fea957bd5_story.html#comments-wrapper
5) Check out our new website: mommyingwhilemuslim.com
6) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
7) FB: Mommying While Muslim page and group MommyingWhileMuslim
8) IG: @ mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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In this first episode of the Mommying While Muslim of 2020 we discuss the rebirth of our popular podcast, changes that both Uzma and Zaiba are making in 2020, plus we will be talking giveaways. We have researched and have aligned ourselves with some extraordinary products. Now, we want to share what we have discovered. And, wait until you hear the promise that Zaiba makes to Uzma.   

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2) Email: mailto:mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
3) FB: Mommying While Muslim
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Is it still a dilemma? When does assimilation cross the line into imitation? And what happens when you have a non-Muslim family that observes Christmas? These and many other questions, including above all, how to maintain our kids’ Muslim American identity are on today’s show.

Fun fact: This episode was recorded fall 2018 as we started planning the podcast, edited ourselves, but it hasn’t aired until now, so we’re especially nostalgic about our intentions in this episode. All the feels!

Please rate, review, subscribe, and DM/PM to let us know what you need to hear about and how we’re doing!

Links:
1) Web—under construction for our new launch 2020: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
2) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
3) FB: Mommying While Muslim
4) IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast

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Today's episode features TWO special guests, CCF Associate Director Leena Al Arian and Legal Director Kathy Manley. Leena has lived through the arrest and detention of a family member and can speak to the psychological effects on families of laws that target and entrap Muslims in the United States since 9/11. Ms. Manley describes the legal realities uniquely faced by Muslims in the United States, forcing us to pay attention to the laws in our country and working to support those affected by them.

1) CCF, its work, scope, and read about actual cases of Muslim entrapment: https://www.civilfreedoms.org/
2) Post 9/11 the United States passed the USA Patriot Act: https://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/highlights.htm
3) How the court can use "secret evidence" against Muslims: https://www.justice.gov/jm/criminal-resource-manual-2054-synopsis-classified-information-procedures-act-cipa
4) Support the CCF by lobbying your representatives to pass the Entrapment and Governmental Overreach Relief Act (EGO): http://www.civilfreedoms.org/?p=26318
5) Documentary on the Sami Al Arian case and its effects on his family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaGQ1fn9_Cs&feature=youtu.be&mc_cid=f72caa9b05&mc_eid=9cb265aff7
6) Mistaken identity and freedom after 15 years: http://www.yassinaref.com/index.php
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8) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
9) FB: Mommying While Muslim
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FACE is helping us spiritually and physically cleanse our worship spaces of the crimes of hidden marriages, physical, sexual, and financial abuse that sometimes occurs by leadership. Although our minority Muslim community plays ostrich, MWM is not about that game. We want our masajid to recruit the right people to guide our families, and stop protecting leadership at the expense of those affected by abuse--the ones abused, which could include our children and families. Brush the sand off your backs and tune in!

Links:
1) Read the full reports of those accused on FACE and find out how to support their very important work:  https://facetogether.org/
2)  Get more information in mandatory reporting laws in your state: https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/mandatory-reporting-laws-child-abuse-and-neglect.html
3) Website: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
4) FB: Mommying While Muslim
5) IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
6) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com

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This episode is NOT meant to be heard by children unless our mom audience feels they're ready for it. If you're a survivor of any sexual trauma, as a child or as an adult, you may not be ready for it either, so gauge your ability to revisit the past. We are here for you either way. If you need resources to deal with PTSD due to a history of abuse, we have links for you below, and we are always just a DM/PM or email away.

This episode IS meant to prepare us to hear the hard truths about child sex abuse, such as our personal experiences with it, how pervasive it is, and also new things like how subversive it can be. Learn about grooming, disclosure, even forgivenesss, and how to be the safety net our kids need in the event that the worst should happen; may Allah SWT protect them all always. Ameen. We have made ourselves incredibly vulnerable in this episode because we trust our Muslim and non Muslim mom sisters to receive these hard truths in love and compassion, and to offer thosein turn to themselves, as well as to their children. We are not alone in this.

Sexual abuse doesn't happen because we are Americans and that's "this culture." NO! Sexual abuse doesn't monopolize any one country or society. Many cultures within and without the US have to deal with it, but we have the opportunity to dive deep into this difficult topic and figure out how to prevent and treat it. Mommying means rolling up our sleeves for the sake of the kids and our God-given duty to protect them at all costs.

Shariea is on the money when she says education is the best prevention, so that's where most of this conversation will be. Hugs for anyone who needs them after this one! Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review this episode on your podcast app of choice, or engage on social media with us. We can't wait to find out if this was helpful to you or not.

Links:
1) Contact Shariea Shoatz directly to buy My Voice is MY Superpower:
2) Email: sharieashoatz@gmail.com
3) FB Shariea Shoatz
4) IG @shariea_shoatz
5) Find out more about Megan's Law and how you can access sex offender registries in your state: https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/megan-s-law-resources-by-state.html
5) Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
6) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
7) FB: Mommying While Muslim
8) IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
9) Contact RAINN for 25 years of sexual abuse resources such as a 24/7 helpline: https://www.rainn.org/
10) Contact Naseeha for Muslim youth helplines: https://naseeha.org/
11) Contact Seema for Muslim mental health resources: https://seemamentalhealth.com/

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While holidays may look different for everyone, the spirit of the season is gratitude and family. Zaiba and Uzma discuss their "Thanksgiving" histories and how they became enlightened by motherhood, adulthood, and "getting woke" to all the hidden truths they didn't learn as American kids. How do we come to grips with our dark past to push a better way forward?
Pull up a chair to find out.
Don't forget to SHARE, SUBSCRIBE, RATE, AND REVIEW this episode!

Links:
1) To learn a more just view of American history the average school board will not approve, read A History of Us by Joy Hakim:   http://www.joyhakim.com/ (MWM has no financial interest in this series; this is what Uzma ACTUALLY uses to teach US History at home!)
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3) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
4) FB: Mommying While Muslim
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Zaiba & Uzma, as big fans of FYI, want all moms to know about the amazing resources FYI makes available on teen device use, suicide, being a black Muslim teen, how to talk to our kids, and SO MUCH MORE. You don't need to have kids to benefit either! Share what you learn today and earn hasanah (reward) for it. All of our links should be SUPER EASY to memorize!
And don't forget to RATE, REVIEW, AND SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss an episode of Mommying While Muslim.

Links:
1) The Family & Youth Institute: https://www.thefyi.org/--don't forget to check out the infographics and toolkits section, as well as the workshops you can bring to YOUR halaqa, masjid, community center, etc.
2) Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
3) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
4) FB: Mommying While Muslim
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When are we being paranoid and when are we being stereotypical ourselves? Muslim-American moms have to be extra careful to be friendly enough, but also safety savvy in a way other moms don’t. The identity of “being stuck” or “ABCD” vs. the firmly planted identities of native-born Muslim-American children will be addressed as well as offensive vs. intentional curiosity.
Let’s talk about discrimination, hijab, Muslim identity, and how we plan to shape the paths our kids will tread in the future.

Links:

  1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
  2. Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
  3. FB: Mommying While Muslim
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On retreat this week with a special and recurring guest, Rubina Cohen, Zaiba and Uzma review the last 6 months of podcasting: what they’ve learned, what else is coming, and how they plan to improve to suit their Muslim American mom sisters.

Links

1) The Conscious Parent by Dr. Shefali Tsabary, PhD

2) Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com

3) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com

4) FB: Mommying While Muslim 

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Zaiba and her husband take time to sit down and talk about the importance of being on the same page while raising children.   How they set goals for themselves, their children and learn their secret to raising kids that are not attached to their phones. 

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This week, Uzma's pre adolescent son, Usman, provides points for Muslim American moms to be successful and operate better on their day to day. See if you think what he says is just for Muslim American moms or not, and maybe you'll find a pleasant surprise.
There are plenty of revelations for some here, at least for those who have been raised with some "back home" style parenting, but most of this young man's sage advice is now common knowledge, and we hope to break cycles of negative parenting with better tools. We're all a work in progress. Even better is the great news Usman offers about his own experiences with discrimination at school, and we can only hope that every Muslim kid in this country feels the same way.
A nice pearl today is a quick guide for the Muslim American, or any, family, so make sure you listen to the end! Don't forget to rate and review this episode, or DM/PM on FB or IG.Links:
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Come unpack all the guilt Muslim moms feel and what we can do about it. We try to prove that everything we feel guilty about is made up, and remind ourselves about the Thought Model as well as, oh yeah, Allah's promise to us! Explore the limited resources we have to learn more about Muslim mom guilt from the professionals (why aren't more people studying this?!?!?), but mostly feel better about the choices we have to make on a daily basis for our families.

Links:
1) Definitions and clinical info: https://www.mindfulreturn.com/mom-guilt/
2) Information on Muslim mom guilt that is a unique resource for us: https://productivemuslim.com/guide-for-working-muslim-moms/
3) A layperson's perspective on mom guilt and deciding between work or being SAHM ( also one of the WORST articles we’ve ever read on the subject): https://muslimmatters.org/2010/06/16/my-dear-sister-submit-for-your-babys-sake/
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Zaiba and Uzma explore the mom bully and how she is definitely one of the toxic people in our lives. They discuss how to identify bullying behavior some adults demonstrate, review instances of being bullied themselves, and how to avoid becoming one. The mom field is supposed to elevate all of us, not push anyone down! How can we work so hard to raise awesome humans and not strive to be the same ourselves?!?!? This is one you want to listen to until the end because there are a lot of pearls in it to attain our best Muslim mom selves.
Thanks to the wonderful listener who asked us to talk about this today. We welcome more ideas and concerns you want us to discuss.

Links:
1) Rising above mean moms: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/dorathy-gass/i-was-bullied-by-another-mom-so-i-put-on-a-smile-and-rose-above_a_23347952/
2) 7 Ways to deal with moms that bully other mothers: https://www.verywellfamily.com/ways-to-deal-with-mean-moms-that-bully-4125597
3) Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
4) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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After a singular incident, Zaiba and Uzma talk about what it feels like to be invisible despite showing up every day in a million big and small ways for our kids. They recount what it feels like to be "the one" as well as "the none" in the family. Maternal identity, being seen, being appreciated and the opposite of all those show up on today's episode. Review some more thought models and come feel better about our common pitfalls and how we get out of those negative spirals through prayer and reflection.

Links:
1) Nicole Johnson's article on several sites: https://justbetweenus.org/relationships/parenting-advice/the-invisible-mother/
2) Mothers' rights in Islam: https://justbetweenus.org/relationships/parenting-advice/the-invisible-mother/
3) Molly DeFrank's article about 4 kids and all the browsers was actually on "Scary Mommy": https://www.scarymommy.com/what-to-expect-four-kids/
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Tara Ijai has been the Muslim poster child of combating Islamaphobia and all hate since the Women's March. Her journey to make the world a more loving place has been original and necessary, affecting how she lives as a Muslim American and how she raises her kids in this environment. Early on she made the front page of USA Today on 2/27/17 right under POTUS' picture! Her latest projects in El Paso are inspiring, as is this conversation about how to be true to oneself. Check out her website and get your own original Love Glasses. get 10% off with code "mommying," and take the Love Pledge to see the world through love.

Links:
1) Get your Love Glasses with code "mommying" for 10% off today: https://www.myloveglasses.com/
2) Subscribe to LG On YouTube, or just check out their special project in El Paso: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxkqUPZWNog1d08ZU2vrYdQ
3) FB: Love Glasses Revolution
4) FB: Love Rebels Unite
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Links:
1) Check out the MIST website to find the region closest to you to get started/join a team at your school: www.getmistified.com
2) Email for more info on MIST: info@getmistified.com
3) Find out more about MWM and read our blog on "Voices": www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
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5) Also on IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
6) Email us questions or ideas you have for the show: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
7) Watch Netflix "Resurrection" to see how a famous international series STOLE the MIST logo! We were ROFL!

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How are we all doing the same thing, how are we different? We will talk about lunch prep, to snack or not to snack, "over" scheduling, bulletproof backpacks, and protractors, school dinner nights, and what back to school brings to our lives (and sometimes takes from it!). Join us to commiserate or to feel better about how you do things at home.

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3) FB: Mommying While Muslim-check out Zaiba's beautiful lunch prep fridge and bike lock here!
4) IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast-check out Zaiba's beautiful lunch prep fridge and bike lock here!
5) Google "bulletproof backpack" to get a bunch of companies selling these--Zaiba thought about it, Uzma did not!

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In this episode of Mommying While Muslim, Zaiba goes on location to her parent’s house.  That’s where she sits down with her mother and mother-in-law to ask them provoking questions about mothering, Islam, and America.  Zaiba hears for the first time exactly why her mom converted from Christianity to Islam and why her mother-in-law’s first experience in the United States was so disappointing. 

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Susan Yasen Tirhi, PhD joins Zaiba and Uzma to discuss the multiple stressors facing our families today and the coping skills they may need to help build resiliency. We really encourage everyone to go through the links below as they're terrific resources in helping us understand how to better our community. This is a great listen for allies who want to support their Muslim friends, neighbors, and families.

Links:
1) Check out Susan's study abstract:
https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-12gn-m557
2) Nabra Hassanen case:
https://wamu.org/story/19/03/28/virginia-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-in-murder-of-nabra-hassanen/
3) Microaggressions and Islamaophobia by Afshana Haque, PhD, LMFT:
https://www.meta.org/papers/microaggressions-and-islamophobia-experiences-of/29855055
4) Racial microaggression pictures to study:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/racial-microagressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis
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The 56th annual ISNA Convention is upon us---that's right, over FIFTY years!--providing crucial family programming as well as opportunities for individual development of faith, business, and personal growth. This is THE PLACE to go every Labor Day weekend, especially for those of us wanting to instill the value of Muslim American identity in our kids. They need to feel like they belong, as do we, and where better than at the single largest convention of Muslims on the continent?

Don't forget to register and attend as spots are still open for certain limited engagements. Ahem, "Trevor Noah," and Uncle Bernie in the house!!!! There are loads of free opportunities at the convention as well, so don't miss out.

Contact us if you ever want to get in touch with our speakers or have a question we can pass on for you!

Links:
1) Register for ISNA ASAP! https://isnacon.com/
2) FB: Islamic Society of North America
3) IG: @isnahq
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5) Email: mommyinghilemuslim@gmail.com
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Ishaq Pathan of Islamic Network Group joins Uzma in discussing alarming statistics of Muslim students bullied for their religion in America. Find out about Islamaphobia networks and unique opportunities and programs ING as developed to combat them.

Links:

  1. ING Know Your Neighbor Curriculum https://ing.org/kyn-curriculum-educators/#rights
  2. CAIR Islamophobia and bullying study http://www.islamophobia.org/reports/200-civil-rights-report-2017-islamophobia-in-educational-institutions.html
  3. Student Rights in School https://www.cair.com/your-legal-rights-as-a-student
  4. Muslim Student Resource Handout on Bullying https://ing.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Student_Resources_Handout.pdf
  5. Muslim Parent Resource Handout on Bullying https://ing.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Parental_Resources_Handout.pdf
  6. INGYouth Program https://ing.org/youth
  7. ING Webinar on Supporting Children in Schoolhttps://ing.org/parent-webinar/
  8. ING Bullying Prevention Guide https://ing.org/bullying-prevention-guide/

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For all moms who care about our kids' learning, this is what you've been waiting for. Also, if you don't care about how our kids learn, please contact us because we've always wanted to meet a unicorn.
You're in for a treat to hear what Saira Siddiqui, M.Ed of Confessions of a Muslim Mom breaks down about traditional schooling, and the answer to educating our children to be "confident, compassionate, critically thinking changemakers." Totally stole that off her new course website (check it out below). We talk timelines, cultural norms and research, and their play on both secular and religious education. This may be the key to educating our children both in and out of the home, and to transforming our households.

Links:
1) "Unschooling Unveiled" a comprehensive how-to course sairasiddiqui.mykajabi.com/unschooling-unveiled
2) Unschooled by Kerri McDonald https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unschooled-kerry-mcdonald/1129581165?ean=9781641600637#/ (support your local bookstores!)
3) FB: Confessions of a Muslim Mom
4) IG: @ confessionsofamuslimmom
5) Web: https://www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com and click on "Voices" for our blog
6) Email: mommyingwhilemuslim@gmail.com
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Do moms really need to be on the front lines of protecting free speech? Are moms responsible for organizing protests and being patriots? No, we aren't talking about backtalk today.

It's all about our civil liberties and one wonder mom's fight against Texas legislation that threatens them. We will discuss our roles and responsibilities in protecting our freedoms so that our kids and country benefit.

Links:

1) Background on Bahia's case (short summary) https://www.npr.org/2018/12/26/680129742/texas-school-employee-suing-over-pro-israel-oath

2) Background on case https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/18/she-lost-her-school-job-after-refusing-sign-pro-israel-pledge-now-shes-filing-lawsuit/%3FoutputType%3Damp
3) Background on case https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.texastribune.org/2019/04/26/Texas-bahia-amawi-speaks-out-against-anti-israel-boycott/amp/
4) Bahia's big win! https://theintercept.com/2019/04/26/in-case-brought-by-school-speech-pathologist-texas-federal-court-becomes-the-third-to-strike-down-pro-israel-oath-as-unconstitutional/
5) Bahia's letter to the state https://cairaustin.org/an-open-letter-from-bahia-amawi-on-texas-house-bill-793/
6) Intercept video summary of the case https://youtu.be/f_j5pNTGnkM

7) Find your local CAIR chapter and support! https://www.cair.com/

8) Find your state and see if it has illegal and subversive legislation threatening your free speech and protest https://palestinelegal.org/righttoboycott

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All our kids are at different stages, as are we on our individual parenting journeys. Let's help each other with our experiences so we're not daunted by what sometimes our cultures or histories have made unnecessarily taboo for us. Let's talk about sex, baby!
We want to make sure we don't perpetuate the cultural biases against normal development, within the framework of the Islamic household and its training. Join us as we tease through "appropriate" sexual education, and visit some of the resources we've found helpful in our field research we're conducting on our kids every day.

Links
1) Sex Education https://muslimmatters.org/2007/06/26/sex-the-muslim-ummah-part-1/
2) A Muslim Boy's Guide to Life's Big Changes https://www.noorart.com/A-Muslim-Boys-Guide-to-Lifes-Big-Changes
3) A Muslim Girls' Guide to Life's Big Changes https://www.noorart.com/A-Muslim-Girls-Guide-to-Lifes-Big-Changes
4) A newer resource we have NOT vetted yet, but encourage our listeners to try out and give us some feedback https://www.noorart.com/How-to-Get-Hijab-Ready
5) Where Uzma first learned the term "menstruation" in 3rd grade and scarred her mom http://judyblume.com/books/middle/margaret.php
6) Natural deodorant https://www.nativecos.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInpjXlbS94wIVkyCtBh2XpgBTEAAYAyAAEgISW_D_BwE

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Zaiba sits down with Asma Uddin.  She is the author of When Islam is Not a Religion.   Find out how her father inspired her to fight for religious freedom, not only for Muslims but for people of all religions.  Plus, how she’s inspiring her kids to be proud Americans and Muslims. 

Asma T. Uddin website: https://www.asmauddin.com/

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Are you using the summer to get all “the things done?” Potty training, no matter when you do it, can be challenging, physically and emotionally for us. Sit back and get in your giggles this episode as we take a walk down memory lane and try to ease some of those pressures for you.
Links:
1) https://www.parenting.com/toddler/potty-training/potty-training-methods/

2) https://www.parenting.com/toddler/potty-training/how-3-day-potty-training-method-works/

3) https://www.amazon.com/Potty-Time-Watch-Blue/dp/B001AH8JNC/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=1B802FC3GQVWP&keywords=potty+watches+for+toddler+boys&qid=1562584592&s=gateway&sprefix=potty+watch%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1∣=A1I92AWG7FJSCV

4) https://www.amazon.com/Kalencom-Potette-Travel-Potty-Trainer/dp/B0016L0MMS/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=portable+potty&qid=1562584647&s=gateway&sr=8-5

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Uzma is off this week, but Zaiba is joined by Rubina Cohen from Firefly Strategies.  Zaiba needs structure, Rubina moves with the ebb and flow.  Together, they tell us how they tackle summer break with the kids, including how to run a business when a “little one” tags along.    

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We often have a lot of brain chatter about food as some of us struggle with our health, specifically weight loss. Zainab has a few unique solutions in her practice that have worked for her clients and for her. There's no reason NOT to change for the better since we spent so long working on it in the very recent past. Let's keep going and start with ourselves.

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Zaiba and Uzma host Nour Zibdeh, MS, RDN, CLT as they discuss what moms miss on their tables and in their diets and why (we didn't have this problem during Ramadan as we shoveled in all the goodies!). In taking care of everyone else, we often miss what holds up the house--moms. We touch on the latest and greatest in autoimmunity, nutrition, not DIETING, and how to optimize our physical well-being. Don't come to lose weight; come to lose the baggage we bring about losing weight and inflammatory conditions that may be tripping us up. We provide some helpful tips on approaching your health responsibly and realistically, and we talk about personalized nutrition, like intermittent fasting, who can, who can't. Disclaimer: There is no medical advice being provided here so please make sure you're improving your health under the supervision of a physician and/or healthcare provider.
Links:
https://nourzibdeh.com/
The Detox Way by Nour Zibdeh:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/the-detox-way-nour-zibdeh/1125625212/2660739706192?st=PLA&sid=BNB_ADL+Marketplace+Generic+New+Books+-+Desktop+Medium&sourceId=PLAGoNA&dpid=tdtve346c&2sid=Google_c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4feum_j44gIVhcpkCh1xAAQKEAYYASABEgLlpvD_BwE
Division of Responsibility: https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/
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Post Eid, we are housecleaning: our lives, not the actual house, don't worry! Saleheh Vahaji of Storm Breakers Consulting joins Zaiba and Uzma to address our fears of money and debt. Hopefully, no one got into any while Eid shopping! As a financial coach, Saleheh provides tips on reducing debt and how to have those uncomfortable conversations about money we avoid every day. Start by having that conversation with yourself. Teaching kids important lessons on saving and giving is also big here. Leave this episode feeling empowered and able to control your money rather than have it control you.
Links:
1) Storm Breakers https://www.stormbreakerconsulting.com/
2) Mint app https://www.mint.com/
3) Acorn app https://www.acorns.com/
4) EveryDollar app https://www.daveramsey.com/store/product/everydollar-budget-app
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In this episode, if you haven’t heard it before, you meet Zaiba Hasan and Uzma Jafri, two Muslim American mothers who were born and raised in the U.S. They’re trying to figure out how to raise their native kids here, and want to do it with you! Do you have questions or stories to help navigate this mission? 

They’ll address some common pitfalls and challenges Muslim Americans have faced, all the more complex since 9/11. 

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There's some great advice here on inclusivity and how to tackle Eid during school days/finals! There may also be some crying, so have a hanky on the ready.

1) Ramadan Eid tree: 

https://modernwallarts.com/shop/crescent-ramadan-eid-moon-in-3-to-5ft-size/

2) Uzma's Sheer Khorma

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vvvTBzskdhvqBeqnVVpcqz8D0DrOHXtpDTKXVjKoles/edit?usp=sharing

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Zaiba and Uzma share notes discussing what prep tips worked and didn't work so far during the month. Successes and challenges are addressed, as well as how to make the rest of this blessed month count more. Don't forget to get your zakat (required annual charity) in early!

Links:

Muslims of the World Yemen campaign: 

https://www.gofundme.com/save-starving-children-in-yemen

IG:muslimsoftheworld1

Remember, it's super hard to give in certain countries at war, and Yemen is one of them. Yet MOTW has a trusted partner NGO on the ground that is able to get aid it to those who need it most.

Helping Asylum Seekers:

https://www.facebook.com/828920351/posts/10162120459545352?s=1050814894&v=i&sfns=mo

Zaiba's link to her charity:

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Busy baby mom Ndaa Hassan shares her journey with Ramadan Around the World, from writing to living it. Zaiba and Uzma receive and share busy mom hacks and great information on the writing process for Muslim moms with a narrative to share.

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Join Zaiba and Uzma as they learn from supermom of seven, Nadia Khan, about how to navigate getting older kids to fast, what it takes to keep your sanity through it, and how to plan for the blessed month of Ramadan.  

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This week Zaiba and Uzma discuss how they face the biggest "mommying challenges" during Ramadan, and how they break us and make us.

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Zaiba and Uzma talk with Atiya Aftab and Sheryl Olitsky. Atiya and Sheryl founded Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom. In this episode, Zaiba and Uzma talk about sisterhood and forging connections, and how minority groups in America can and must ally for the betterment of our children.

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Join Dr. Sara Kureshi in this episode as she reveals the latest research on implicit biases and what this means for society. Learn how we can identify biases and protect our children from them, internally and externally. We can’t get mad about biases against Muslims until we get mad about ALL biases!

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Uzma Jafri and Zaiba Hasan talk to Omar Khawaja.  He is the creator and author of Ilyas & Duck. A children's book series for young Muslim kids. Omar discusses the effects of rhetoric on his parenting journey to teach his kids universalism and how to be good neighbors. 

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Uzma talks with Sajjad Shah, the Founder of Muslims of the World.  She learns first hand about the project, why it was necessary for the Muslim Community and Sajjad's theory why Muslim Youth are embarrassed to be Muslim. 

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Uzma Jafri and Zaiba Hasan reflect on the tragic loss of life after the shootings at two mosques in New Zealand and discuss the possible reasons for the violence. Zaiba and Uzma are two American-Muslim mothers who were born and raised in the U.S. They have a combined eight children and 25-years of parenting experience to share.  You will learn about how they are raising their American-Muslim children in an American Culture.   You can find out more on our website mommyingwhilemuslim. 

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In this episode, Zaiba Hasan and Uzma Jafri introduce themselves as two American Muslim mothers, born and raised in the USA and their unique places in history and geography. What does it mean for their kids who were also born here?
They have a combined eight children and 25 years of parenting experiences to share.  This podcast will be a collaboration of podcasters and listeners so we can all raise our American Muslim children to be their best without the baggage we were saddled with. Find out more on our website mommyingwhilemuslim. 

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