Just curious - how many muslims are on mumsnet?

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Hello/Salaam,

I know mumsnet has a wide and diverse population and I tend to recognise some MN usernames as regulars. Just intrigued to know how big/small a community it may be.

Of course, I respect that there may be those who do not wish to even identify themselves for various reasons - which is fine too.

I am not asking for 'religiousness' levels or any vital stats! Nor is this a muslim-only thread or an 'no non-muslims' thread.
If you really wish to tell me that you are not a muslim, that is fine too :)

:)

I understand how you feel sis. In my blog post I wrote about that. I hardly ask for things, and making dua for something is not an easy decision for me. But if there is nothing but khayr in it, it works.

And the rest of you, when crescent said that I was busy, what she meant is that my non Muslim dad died in the early hours of mon morning.

I am confused. I have made a thread in bereavement.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/bereavement/a1693899-Am-I-In-denial-My-Dads-died

So sorry to hear about your dad dear Nailak, may Allah ease your pain. I felt very confused when my gran died. In the end I just consoled myself that Allah is just and that's all I needed to know.

As for making dua, I've been led to believe that Allah WANTS us to ask Him for things, very every little thing that we want and need, to ask Him. It highlights our dependance on Him. Even if we feel we are not worthy to ask (and who is?) and we know He has given so much already.

Just read your bereavement post Naila, sorry last post based on how I felt when my gran died!
I would just go with what you feel. There isn't a right or wrong way to feel. My mum was surprised and how OK she felt when my gran died, she was waiting for it to 'hit' her, it never really did. I think that because she'd been ill for many years, my mum had already done her grieving along the way.

From Allah we came to him is oru return.

I am so sorry for your loss sis. May allah grant you sabrun jameel.

Regarding duas, I was once with a group of friends and we were disucssing duas and what we ask of Allah, we were all saying small things, till one friend suddenly said, I don't get this, I ask Allah for EVERYTHING, it's Allah there are no bounds on Him.

It struck me so deeply that since then I have been asking for everything, both large and small.

It is Ibadah to be comepltely reliant on only Allah.

Nailak, so sorry to hear about your loss. Not very good with advising on this one as i have always felt a range of confusing emotions upon a bereavement. There was some good advice on your thread though.

Agree with fuzzy and hardly about making dua for absolutely everything no matter how miniscule. It is sometimes easy to feel 'greedy' because we feel we always have something that we want from Allah. But Allah swt wants us to be 'greedy' in this sense. He wants us to ask, because we are acknowledging He is the only one who can give. We are acknowledging that we are dependant upon him solely for even the mallest of things. We should also ask of big things because we are acknowledging that only Allah has the power to give us these huge things that we ask of and for Allah these things are not difficult at all. Allah just says 'Be' and it happens.

Allah swt says that the smallest favour he does for us is that we take the next breath! Dont know the source of that statement though but the statement in itself shows the favours Allah does for us which we do not think to ask of!

It reminds me of surah rahman, the verse that continues throughout the surah which translates loosely to mean: then which of your Lord's blessings will you deny. If we spent our every moment saying thankyou to Allah, we would not have thanked him for each of his blessings.

I guess we can just keep asking of Allah and keep thanking Allah for bestowing His blessings on us

May Allah grant your desire to perform Umrah, I'm hopig to go next year too inshallah.

I last went 15 years ago!

From what I gather it gets more expensive during the last ten days, I'd aim for the beginning of Ramadan if budgeting, it also gets more crowded at the end almost like during hajj.

If Allah wills it will be made easy on us inshallah.

Intend to go inshallah & start putting money aside for it now inshallah.

Yesterday I went to listen to Abu Bakr Shatri at Selwyn road masjid.

Standing in sallah with him reciting made me feel like I was almost in Mecca, and I have made intention to do umrah, inshallah next year when my committee money comes.

Also my ten year old niece pledged to raise £100 for the charity that was fundraising at the event, it is www.ewada.org.uk she pledged for the water borehole inshallah with the Abu Bakr shatri tour they are trying to raise at least £80 000 which is cost of one borehole.

Her mum is very worried how she is going to do this!

Assalamaualaikum Naila,

Set up a just giving page with her and put it on your fb then ask for people to share it inshalla hshe'll make the moeny her intentions are wonderful mashallah.

My friends went too I missed it as I had madness yesterday friend has said one of her bucket list has been ticked off.

aww i would have liked to have met u!

EWADA doesnt seem to be linked to just giving, so i sent an email reccomeding that they do link up!

sweriously it was amazing i was in tears

bucket list is a list of things to do before you die. lol

we would have to start another one! i am enjoying this! alhamdulillah

Definitely in favour of a new thread! I'd miss one. Although I wonder if people may miss out on joining in because we now talk about most topics in here, rather than starting seperate ones on the religion thread?

Feels safe here!

Yes, that's why I like it too.