KARIMAH’S ORIGINAL JAMMY DODGERS

By Karimah Bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. Quick & Easy Jammy Dodgers. Makes 12 cookies. When I first saw this recipe I thought, ” We just have to make these bundles of nature’s goodness and add a little twist to give it our signature!” . Oat and almond cookies, fused together with…

SALMON SMOKED AVOCADO BRUNCH IDEA

by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain &well being writer. Healthy brunch idea-smoked salmon on oat biscuits, topped with avocado guacamole, loads of lettuce, cucumber and tomato, olives and capers. Its really important to have loads of alkali forming foods like salad because if your diet it’s too acidic -lots of animal proteins;  eggs, fish, grains, legumes and meat,then your blood…

Jubilee Crazy Karimah

By Karimah Bint Dawoud Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer. “Let none of you despise giving to a neighbor, even if it’s a roasted sheep’s trotters” Malik AL Muwatta, vol 58, number 4. “The best neighbour is the one who behaves best to his neighbors” Timidhi I had known for about a month that we…

JUBILEE WHEAT FREE EGG MAYONAISE SUMMER SNACKS

By Karimah Bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain & well being writer. There is something nostalgic and distinctively British about egg mayonnaise and cucumber sandwiches. We could smoother them in curry powder or paprika and bring them into the elective 21st century but these are a tribute the Queen of England’s Diamond Jubilee and all the wonderful…

ISLAMIC MEDICINE – FRUITS.

By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. Ar-Rad (The Thunder) Chapter 13 Verse 4. “And within the land are neighboring plots and gardens of grapevines and crops and palm trees, [growing] several from a root or otherwise, watered with one water; but We make some of them exceed others in [quality of] fruit. Indeed in that are signs for…

ISLAMIC MEDICINE – AVOCADO.

By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. Ar-Rad (The Thunder) Chapter 13 Verse 4. “And within the land are neighboring plots and gardens of grapevines and crops and palm trees, [growing] several from a root or otherwise, watered with one water; but We make some of them exceed others in [quality of] fruit. Indeed in that are…

FRUIT FIRST -DALEEL/EVIDENCE WHY ITS BEST FOR YOU- IN ARABIC AND ENGLISH MASHALLAH.

By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain& well being writer. In this sunny weather sometimes you don’t feel like herbal tea and honey first thing in the morning, so today we have mixed them .Drink loads of room temperature water first, at least a litre slowly,in stages, if you can, then fruit salad smothered in honey….. well a dessert spoon actually; too much honey…

ISLAMIC MEDICINE – FISH/SAMAK

by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. It was narrated by Imam Ahmed Ibn Hanbal and by Ibn Maja in his Sunan, , from the hadith of Abd Allah Bin Umar, that the Prophet Muhammad, salah la alahi was salem said, ” Two items of dead meat and two of blood have been made lawful for us:…

A IS FOR ALLERGIES

By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. In nature God has provided for us a cure for all illnesses except death, a cure for all illnesses including allergies. Hadith – Sahih Bukhari, Book 25, Number 5466, Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah. Allah’s Messenger said: There is a remedy for every malady, and when the remedy is…

ISLAMIC MEDICINE- THE ADAB OF ISLAMIC MEDICINE

By Karimah bint Dawoud,muslim chaplain & well being writer. ISLAMIC MEDCINE- THE ADAB OF ISLAMIC MEDICINE There is an adab, an etiquette, a manners in Islamic medicine. It is narrated from Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudri and Abu Hurairah [RA]: The Messenger of Allah (صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ) said, “No fatigue, nor disease, nor sorrow, nor sadness,…