What made you take Islam seriously?

Sometimes in our lives things happen where it shakes us, breaks us and makes us turn to Allah.

Sometimes you get an epiphany and question yourself ‘what have I been doing in all my free time?’

Some people have dream about themselves thinking it was real.

So my question is in the title.

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 6 hours ago

Restaurants, cafes, desserts and activities recommendation - Manchester edition

Planning a day trip and I wanna know your favourite places to eat and visit.

Please advise us there’s a train station nearby.

Thanks in advance.

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 9 days ago

Which exercise and gym machine is best to target everything from the thighs up?

I’ve lost weight and I’m now looking to tone up my body.

My legs are slim because I walk everywhere and have done so for years, my top half is wider than my bottom half.

I’m female 5’6.5 is it matters?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance 😊.

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 11 days ago

Midweek catch up - what’s everyone been up to?

BEFORE WE GET STARTED:

Sssooooo we’re expected to have 10 days of heatwave, Subhan Allah I’m happy because I’ve had enough of constant rain and storm.

That being said I know it’s not normal for the UK to reach the temperatures we’re getting and it’s too early.

PLEASE STAY WELL HYDRATED MY BELOVED AND NIQABI SISTER. MAY ALLAH REWARD YOU GUYS ABUNDANTLY 🌸💕.

Now… fill me in and inspire me 🥳🌸!

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 13 days ago
▲ 10 r/Hijabis

Some of my colleagues ask why I’m still single. I’ll never tell them it’s because I have massive trust issues

Asalamu alaikum sisters 💕🌸.

Let me preface this by saying my team is really supportive of me, I’m the only Muslim girl of colour in my team and they have my back.

We all choose our own seat and naturally sit on our regular seat, a couple of colleagues I regularly speak with can’t believe I’ve never been in a relationship, never married and am single by choice.

They say I’m good looking and have a great personality so they don’t understand why I’ve actively chosen to stay single.

My responses are like ‘I’m happy being single, I’m content being single, one less person to worry about’ and other lines similar to these.

My heart sinks without showing them, because of things I’ve experienced and witnessed it’s thrown me off getting married.

I’m making this post to simply get my feelings off my chest because it’s actually sunken my heart. Despite being lively, optimistic, enthusiastic and bubbly, I’m so guarded and even my female colleague says the same thing.

Sometimes I feel angry at myself because it’s draining keeping a mental check on things I shouldn’t mention about my past history and my personal circumstances that I see no change happening in the near future.

If I can kindly ask my lovely sisters to keep me in your duas. Please pray I stay happy and content remaining healthy and protected by Allah’s mercy and protection. I’ve made it this long without a man’s presence in my life, I have no intention of going down the wrong path.

Btw I’m not looking for advice and suggestions, I just need you to remember in your duas on and off the prayer mat.

Jazak Allah Khair for reading this far.

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 13 days ago

Would you mind if your wife was a chatterbox (talks too much)?

Asalamu alaikum 🙂.

It was just a random thought I had, thought on one side it would be nice and on the other it can become too much so please share your thoughts.

I know and understand it depends on the topic but regardless of that.

EDIT: question for the brothers 🤦🏽‍♀️

ANOTHER EDIT: Jazak Allah Khair for the responses, keep it coming brothers (and sisters I see what you did here 👀)

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 21 days ago

HOW TO CLOSE YOUR DMS

Mods do not delete this post, it’s for safety purposes, we have vulnerable people here.

PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE

STEP 1. Tap on your profile pic

STEP 2: tap on the 3 lines, you’ll see on the top right screen if you’re using your mobile phone

STEP 3: go to ‘settings’, the first thing you should see is ‘account settings’, your name will appear, tap on it

STEP 4: scroll down to ‘SAFETY’, under that heading you’ll see ‘chat permissions’

STEP 5: you’ll now see ‘Allow chat request from’, tap on the ‘>’, from the options given you choose ‘nobody’

You’re all set then 💕.

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 24 days ago
▲ 7 r/UKJobs

I feel like this is a red flag for a company. Would you agree, if not, can you explain why?

Found a job that says they can’t facilitate any notice period.

That seems unfair as I’m sure they’d also want their employees to give them decent notice period.

I wouldn’t do that to my current employer anyways because I’ve there for a very LONG time. It doesn’t matter how bad it is the moment, I would at least wanna give my long term employer a month notice.

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 29 days ago

I’m sick and tired of (a couple of) my siblings [VENT]

I’m clearing my debt so I can start saving and move out because I’ve had enough.

I just need plenty of duas, don’t need advice.

Let me get this out of the way and say I love my family, there’s no parents it’s just my siblings and I.

Expect 1 sibling the rest of us work, I’m the only one working part time.

I’m so sick and tired of hearing my elder siblings tell me things I’ve left in the sink or haven’t done around the house. I understand and appreciate they cook for us but I don’t ask them to move odd them like my cooking even though I try to improve.

They keep tracking what I DON’T DO around the house but won’t acknowledge what I DO around the house. Besides the eldest two, I clean and tidy my stuff and sometimes forget I’ve stuff elsewhere but it gets done but recently the other half of my siblings do not take initiative in maintaining the damn house!

IT’S THEIR DAMN HOUSE BUT THEY TREAT IT LIKE A HOTEL!!!

These siblings have to be spoon fed what needs doing around the house, you know recently I told a younger one hoover the whole house and if he wants to share the hoovering then tell the other one to help them. What happens, they say it’s not bad enough for the top floor to be hoovered.

OH MY GOD!!!! This is the sibling that said they don’t wanna visit our cousins house because they don’t clean our maintain it (very true btw).

Anyways, I’m so angry because lately I’ve been told to clean some mess I never made. So I’m supposed to clean other people’s mess because the eldest doesn’t know who made it but all my errors are tracked. WTAF! This really upsets me because I try to maintain peace and home by just doing it but no one will ever reciprocate the efforts I make.

I’m always reminded of my wrongdoings but never the efforts of doing what they ask of me.

I’m supposed to compromise but yet I’m the B and a troublemaker when I stand up for myself!

God forbid I tell the other siblings to step up and use their brain and create a schedule only to have the third eldest tell me ‘how about you look at what you don’t do when I tell you’. Like OMFDZ are you kidding me?!?!

Today I forgot to tell the eldest about this cus I was trying to keep a cool head.

Second eldest HAD THE AUDACITY to ask me to do something the eldest sibling told them to do. I said ‘no, you’ve been told to do it so you do it’. The reason I said this is because second eldest is unemployed and absolutely does F all, he’s fast but doesn’t wanna walk. He visits the job centre on a weekly basis but doesn’t do anything to improve their chances employment.

I’m paying off as much of my debt as possible leaving myself money for basics and some fun money, all my bills go out the same day I’m paid. In between I keep a track of how much I’ve spent/remaining and put extra towards my debt so it’s cleared off quicker.

I daydream the moment I find a place and accept it but I’m not going to lie, I worry about the eldest because they sacrificed their youth by keeping my siblings alive and safe. I willingly do things for them without being asked so I can make life easy for them, ease their burden and worries as it’s the least that I can do.

I know siblings argue but I hate it and really hurts when EVERYONE points out my mistakes and my faults, things I don’t do but this isn’t the case for the younger siblings that are in their mature age. Second eldest does have some learning disability but they’re not immobile, they’ve just been spoilt and they’re lazy!

Please pray for me.

I don’t wanna get married for MANY MANY reasons, one of them is is that, I’ve raised my siblings part time, it’s been one chaos after another, I just wanna live alone and only think about surviving each day instead of looking and thinking about my husband.

If you’ve made it this far, Jazak Allah Khair for reading, please keep me in your duas.

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 1 month ago

How do you fit belongings in a studio apartment?

I’m looking to move out but the 2 problems I mainly come across are:

  1. I have a lot of things

  2. Storage/wardrobe is small

So to the girls that moved into a studio apartment, how did you fit your belongings, what compromises did you make? Have you left things in the garage of your parents or friends?

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 1 month ago

Bollywood movies edition

Apologies if I chose the wrong flair.

If anyone wants to try something different with horror, here’s my list.

The background sound to some of these send chills down my spine 😭.

Some movies include music 😄.

100 Days

Bhoot (2003)

Kaun?

Raaz (2001)

Ragini MMS

Vaastu Shastra

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 1 month ago

I say I don’t want marriage but I keep seeing “happy couples” and makes me think I’m missing out on maybe something great

I fomo on some social stuff and don’t want this sane feeling to applied to marriage.

Marriage is a beautiful bond between two people, however for me, my life has been such that I just wanna put my head down and get on with life

I have friends and family, social life and work and it was my choice not to get married and still is. I don’t know if I’m being given signs to reconsider my decision to never get married.

Problem is I have massive trust issues and don’t know how to let my guard down. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a happy human being and I love and trust Allah (swt).

Don’t know if my mind is playing tricks on me.

I don’t know if I want marriage or just the idea of it. It would be nice to have a loving partner to experience life with. It also scares the bejeezus out of me to commit.

Has anyone similar to me experienced this??

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 2 months ago

My first time I forgot to clean under my boobs 💀

Never have I ever forgot to scrub under my boobs, I’m a plus size girl and the weather has gotten warmer. I’m aware I take longer showers when I don’t mean to so I take my phone to use as a clock, when I get distracted I remember to look at the time of my phone to show how long I’ve been doing one step.

I haven’t done much in the last few days so I thought I was alright. As much as I love to keep myself clean, it can be exhausting because of how long I take.

My goodness this post is unnecessarily getting long, what I’m trying to say is, I realised for first time how smelly the under boobs can be. I thought belly button smells funny but it’s actually under boobs as well.

This evening I took a shower and made sure I thoroughly cleaned them boob area first.

Don’t ever skip boobie cleaning.

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 2 months ago

Can you please wait several hours before posting any reviews.

I know you guys are excited to share your experience and new theories but those of us in different countries and continents can’t get the same access.

We can avoid coming here, and I can select ‘show less of this’, it wouldn’t entirely get rid of any posts altogether FROM this page.

Just a little consideration is what me and some others ask for.

Thank you.

EDIT: Just please use ‘spoiler’ tag if anything, it’s there for a reason 🤦🏽‍♀️.

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u/Narrow_Guava_6239 — 2 months ago