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Buried Treasure
Ask our children:
1. Is it better to be lazy or helpful?
2. What should we do when our parents call for us?
3. Is our playing more important, or listening to our parents more important?
4. When our parents give us some work to do, should we do it immediately, or try to make up excuses?
Now tell them the story:
There was a farmer by the name of Qaasim. He owned a very big …
Coffee Cake
Cake
Ingredients:
125g butter
¾ cup brown sugar
3 tsp Frisco coffee
1 Tbsp hot water
¼ cup custard powder
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup milk
1 cup flour
Method:
Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat. Mix coffee and water together. Add custard powder and coffee mixture. Add sifted flour and baking powder alternately with milk.
Pour …
First Impressions…
Sayyiduna ‘Abdullah bin Mas‘ood (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) once mentioned the following, describing his first encounter with Muslims and his first impression of Islam:
“I came to Makkah Mukarramah, accompanying my uncles, with the intention of purchasing some commodities. Since we also required some ‘itr (perfume), we were directed to the uncle of Nabi (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam), Sayyiduna ‘Abbaas (radhiyallahu ‘anhu).
While seated with Sayyiduna ‘Abbaas (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) at the well of Zamzam, a man suddenly entered the Haram …
