“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Parenting is a difficult job, and one in which we all make mistakes at times. Communicating effectively with our children takes time and energy. We need to become aware of our own feelings and automat [...]
15 Parenting Mistakes Well Intentione...
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Parenting is a difficult job, and one in which we all make mistakes at times. Communicating effectively with our children takes time and energy. We need to become aware of our own feelings and automat [...]
25 DO’s & DON’Ts of ...
“Someday I’ll marry the right person, with the right reason and with God’s permission.” – Teejay David
There are a lot of single Muslims trying to navigate their way through the marriage process. It’s not always easy to know what’s permissible, what isn’t, what works and what doesn’t. The [...]
Personality Disorders
“My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession”.
-Joaquin Phoenix
Popular films like Fatal Attraction, Silence of the Lambs, and the more recent Silver Linings Playbook, give us a glimpse of specific personality disorders including delusion [...]
Compulsive Hoarding
“At the end, all that’s left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that’s why I’ve never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that’s why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
― Nicole Krauss
There are people who like to [...]
Creating My Own Path: My Journey Thro...
Guest contributor: Noura Rockwood*
“When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what’s real”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich
In the summer of 1999, I took my shahada in a small, sunlit room in Illinois. I was 13 years old, and had spent the prior year trying to end my own life. Fuel [...]
MH4M Top 10 Articles for 2012
10.) Marriage: Losing a Sense of Self?
Differentiation involves changing the way we think about marriage: Instead of seeing it as the merging of two people into one, as has often been taught, we must learn to maintain a sense of ourselves as distinct from our partner in order to become closer to him/her. – David Schnarch
Many Muslim couples [...]
Can Shopping Be an Addiction?
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking. ~Elayne Boosler
For some going to the mall with their friends and splurging on beautiful items is thrilling. Some go as far as saying it is therapeutic or retail therapy. It feels good to buy a new item and [...]
To Medicate or Not to Medicate? The Q...
“The part cannot be well unless the whole is well” -Plato
For many Muslims who are dealing with mental illness, the question of medication haunts them due to religious concerns. Many have questioned the permissability of psychotropic medications in Islam. From an Islamic perspective, taking medication for a mental probl [...]
This Ramadan, Use Anger to Come Close...
BY SABA MALIK
www.MorningWind.org
Ah, Ramadan.
The month when the doors of the glorious gates of Jannah are wide open. The month when those hunger pangs bring us ever closer to our Creator. The month when wonderful words roll off our tongues.
Umm, hold on a second.
I get the part about the heavenly gates and the hunger pangs, but I’m [...]
Is Your Child ODD? Understanding Opp...
“For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people’s behavior.”
All children, especially when tired, hungry, stressed or upset, can act oppositional from time to time. This oppositional behavior might include arguing, talking back, disobeying, and defying their parents, teachers, [...]