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Salaam everyone and Ramadan Mubarak,

I’m joining an Eid gift exchange and I’d LOVE it if you all would join! Eidgiftswap.com is the first U.S.-wide Eid gift exchange. Everyone who joins is matched with a swap-mate- from there, gifters are encouraged to shop and create a thoughtful gift. The goal is to connect Muslims aged 17 and older across the U.S. in the spirit of Eid. And who doesn’t love getting gifts? Join here: eidgiftswap.com Follow @eidgiftswap on insta here:Instagram.com/eidgiftswap. They post fun ideas for thoughtful gift giving! Please share with your friends, family, and anyone else who might want to join! The more people who join, the more fun it will be for everyone, insha’Allah!

Form closes on June 18 at 11pm

Ponce City Market with the fam. Pretty cool place! (at Ponce City Market)

You give and you receive. I promise. On Friday, a guy at the Masjid gave me a flyer with a bank account number to donate to. I know myself. I know that even if I make the intention to donate, the moment I leave the masjid the flyer will end up folded in my car where I'll find it the next time I clean out the car. I didn't have cash- I rarely do. Instead, I left my brother at the masjid (so that I would have to come back) and went to the bank (literally walking distance). This was Friday afternoon. On Saturday afternoon one of my visiting aunts gave me shopping money. On Saturday night I found random money inside a dusty trophy in my room. On Sunday evening my aunt insisted on paying me for some scarves I wanted to gift her. On Monday the chillest grandmother in the world gave me money (thanks Dadi). On Tuesday morning I found money on my shelf. On Tuesday night I got paid for babysitting. It's Wednesday morning. I have almost three times the amount of money I donated sitting in my wallet. It's not always obvious when you receive because it's definitely not always monetary. TL;DR Allah will never decrease you in your wealth through charity.

Only one of these is at home 😂 #2015bestnine

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It's Monday. We spend our Sundays dreading Mondays and our Mondays powered by coffee and wearing the comfiest clothing we own because dear god it's a Monday and I can't be bothered with it. We spend Monday thinking about all the fun we had over the weekend and looking forward to next Friday that we forget to think about how grateful we should be for Monday. Because we're alive. We have a job/home/school/roof over our heads and dinner on the table alhamdulillah. But we're here. Let's enjoy a little pick me up of an extra shot of coffee on the Monday visit to Starbucks and remember to be thankful that Monday's exist for you. It wasn't a Monday the day I rear ended someone's car, nor was it a Monday that I remembered my overdue library books. It wasn't a Monday that I spilled oatmeal on my clothes though it certainly could have been. I vote we take back the Mondays because then we can spend less time on Sunday dreading Mondays and less time on Monday morning, still in bed under warm covers dreading the fact that we go back to our daily grind. I'm not saying that I've never had a case of the Mondays but I'd like to think that all Mondays don't have to be awful and they certainly don't have to ruin my Sunday even though I have to get back on schedule. Side note: The point of the picture? My mom sits there to do work, or read Quran and starts super early in the morning, including Mondays. It can be pretty inspiring.