The Karimah Procedure…Prayer

We all struggle with prayer at time, lets not kid ourselves; there are times where we don’t feel like praying, there are times when we don’t pray and for those us us who are right now arrogantly rising and puffing our chests up, we are only able to prayby the grace of Allah, not because…

The Karimah Procedure…lead by example

Be your own leader, Lead in your own personal life,   Lead in your family, Lead your friends and keep on learning what a leader realy is in islamic terms, Insha’allah I will share more.

Wheat Free Flour Mixes

DAY 2 of this challenge, ok, so far so good, however I was out and was really craving some sort of cake, pastry you name it “give me white flour and sugar ” my lower desires kept saying, even our local bakers has had a makeover , gone all Costas stylee. Still I have had…

The Friday Khutbah… CONTROLLING YOUR TEMPER!!!

I seek refuge in Allah from shatan the outcast. This is for the sake of Allah. From research and studying prior to Islam for my Fine Art degree, slides of my work in the Schomberg Centre in Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem, NYC and Women’s Artist Slide Library, London… I realized that some women have taken…

Fried Chicken…..just once a week please but not every day!

Oh how we love our fried chicken and boy is it cheap these days!Not even worth cooking dinner for some lazy mums and dads.Know I know some parents work hard, one or two jobs these people have an excuse but the lazy cows who are on welfare and benefits , who do nothing to do…

WHEAT INFLAMMES YOUR BRAIN

Next week insha’allah we are starting the Diary, Wheat and Sugar Free challenge, spurred on by a kick up the backside by the Health Ranger , who said most people are too weak to give up these things. In the stage of contemplation and preparation, I found this wonderful article that goes into  depth  why…

CRICKET LOVELY CRICKET-FIRE IN BABYLON

It’s interesting and necessary to show the world that women and men who love food and love cooking  and are absolutely foodies, refuse to be marginalized into the kitchen without an opinion, have they not learnt yet that the kitchen is the place of meeting , around the camp fire around the heated pot ,…

RAMADHAN- PERIODS OF NOT FASTING

  In the Quran Allah [The Exalted](God) says: “He [Allah] did not place upon you, in the religion [Islam], any hardship.” We are not supposed to unduly suffer where we can help it. According to Sh. Muhammad al-Hassan Wali al-Dido al-Shanqiti and translated by Suhaib Webb, the Shariah states there are 7 types of hardship…

RAMADHAN GET READY – COFFEE DOWN AND OUT !

By Karimah bint dawoud, Islamic Nutritionist. Sha’aban is the month before Ramadan that we are in now.its a month of preparation for Ramadan blessing, its a month of sorting out, weeding stuff out mentally , spiritually and physically.It’s a time to look  at habits that we have in excess like drinking 10 cups of coffee…

KARIMAH COACHING

Some mornings it’s really hard to stick to your routine, mine is water with lemon , then herbal tea and honey, exercise, then fruit or smoothie. We have to understand that it is a struggle between our lower nature connected to gravity that seeks to bring us down(sabotage) and our higher nature that seeks to…