A Seerah Weekend

Last weekend was the first weekend of Seerah. On Friday, we headed to Kottman Hall around 6:45 pm. H had expressed interest in taking the class, but we didn't enroll him. I urged him to come in during Free Friday.

Throughout the weekend though, I urged him to sit outside and listen in and come in and sit by me to listen. He managed to, and so did the girls, at some point. The rest of the time, they were playing outside in the hallway and in the garden.

The class mashaallah was amazing. I'm so glad I decided to take it in the end. It provided an eman boost and a LOT to reflect on. It's Seerah, but Sheikh Abdulbary connected it to our current life here in the West and related it to our situations. That makes it full of gems to take home, alhamdulillah.

As is usual after any AlMaghrib classes I take, the kids clamor and ask me,

"Tell us stories!"

I was exhausted but I managed to tell them some, but I also urged them to sit in and listen when they can muster enough stillness so as not to distract the rest of the class.

I aksed H last night,

"Do you still wanna go to Saudi when you're bigger, to learn Islam?"

He nodded and said,

"But cellphones are not allowed."

I burst out laughing. He had told me before, when I was bustling in the kitchen,

"In Saudi Arabia, cellphones are not allowed."

"Where'd you hear that?"

"Khalid Yassin said it in the talk."

He had attended the talk by Khalid Yassin at the masjid with hubby.

When he responded like that last night, I asked him, chuckling,

"Why are you so hung up on cellphones anyway? We don't even have any."

Later on I told hubby and he said,

"Cellphones are not allowed during weddings."

Being a child, I guess H misunderstood it and generalized it to cellphones not being allowed in Saudi Arabia period.

I had a good laugh out of it though.

It has been a while since we dragged the kids along to AlMaghrib classes. When hubby and I were involved directly with the qabeelah, we attended the meetings, hubby manned the registration tables, and so the kids were better able to experience being involved in a dawah project. Now, hubby and I have kind of tapered off in terms of being involved directly in Columbus dawah projects, well, except that hubby is still highly involved in masjid dawah projects. Seats of Scholars is lying dormant for now, so I haven't been doing anything much. In a way I miss it, because when we were involved in dawah projects, the kids are also inadvertently involved, or at least they see us being busy with the dawah projects. I even induce them to help out with tasks they could manage, age-wise, like making flyers, and helping out in general (usually to call brothers for sisters or passing messages).

Since Seats of Scholars have also been lying dormant for a while, S is not doing her email reminders much, and H is not updating the website much. We need to pick that up again real soon inshaallah.

Being in the AlMaghrib atmosphere last weekend was a boost to me spiritually alhamdulillah and brings back nice memories of bringing back Hayl to Columbus, working with Hayl as a family (literally), and I realized that it's quite simple to train our children to make dawah, if we also do them, by involving ourselves in dawah projects that can take many forms. And I feel so grateful to Allah for having been given the opportunities to take part in many dawah projects run by many different organizations here in the United States, and for having been able to also do them as a family. Walhamdulillah.