SHA’ABAN – A MONTH OF PREPARATION

  By Karimah Bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer A REMINDER TO MYSELF FIRST. We are fast approaching the month of Sha’ban, a month of preparation before the month of Ramadhan. A time to let go of things, just let it go, it’s time to weed out all those all unnecessary things, get…

GREY WATER RECYCLING – WASTE NOT WANT NOT!

By Karimah bint Dawoud, qualified Clinical Nutritionist and Award winning writer, “heavenly Bites, The Best Of Muslim Home Cooking” @Kube Publishers Most of us in the UK take water for granted in this green and pleasant land, but this attitude is far from Islamic and not part of the Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad ,salah la…

FAT FAIRIES CAKES

By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain  & well being writer. Every so often a little bit of what you fancy does you good, so we made fairies cakes for the children at our local Jubilee Street Party, we used British beetroot and inshallah that recipe is coming soon, for now here’s a lovely little recipe to keep you going . These yummy fairy cakes are like a chocolate…

A SMOOTH BREAKFAST DATE

By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. There are days like today where you have just too much to do, people to see, places to go, that sort of out and about thing, as much as you would love to stay at home you cant .For some people this is an everyday thing…… So as part of your  lifestyle changing diet and you don’t have…

ISLAMIC MEDICINE – WATER

by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer. ISLAMIC MEDCINE – WATER Water is maa’ (ماء) in Arabic. It has been mentioned in the Quran over a hundred times. It comes before all other foods and drinks. After air, water is the most important nutrient for our body; by mass, human cells consist of 65–90% water…

Essex Girl Teaches Born Muslim Man Some Manners

by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. I was recently speaking with a brother on a supposedly religious marriage site and he told me he was “lowering his standard talking me to me because I was from Essex”………I think he was trying to make a joke,I asked him to explain his off key comment and told him(a born muslim Asian man) that…

“Heavenly Bites, the best of Muslim home cooking”.

Book Description Publication Date: September 4, 2012 “Karimah bint Dawood has a passion for food that nourishes the body and pleases the senses with every bite. What a pleasure to be able to share this passion through the delicious recipes in this wonderful book—it showcases the best of Muslim cooking.”— Na’ima B. Robert, editor-in-chief, SISTERS…

Spring

Spring by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain& well being writer Spring I love it, the word itself has my spirit jumping up and down in blue bell woods, bouncing  around like Larry the lamb. Spring is a taste of things to come inshallah, sporadic days of sunshine and rain, good days for reflective and sieving our lives  inside…

QUEENS OF CUISINA – MUSLIM WOMAN’S ROLE IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY

by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain & well being writer Over the next few weeks, months we will be taking this to another level, from a talk I was scheduled to give with Mercy Mission at Excel. Through this wonderful medium of technology I’ll share the new and improved lecture notes inshallah. We will be calling this…