When I was young, elementary/middle school age, I was very good at handling stress. But somewhere along the way, I lost track of how I did. Whenever people argued, or degraded others, or verbally abused anyone, I just watch it, and not say anything. I forgot that how I managed this, was by writing it down; I chose not to talk it out, because that didn’t help. But none of these situations had really anything to do with me, but the people around me, my family. So what I had to do one day was sit and think about what I used to do to keep stress-free. Then I realized that writing it down had helped me. Writing it down in a place where I knew no one would read it, or even see it had helped. (And I also read somewhere that if you write down the things that are bothering you, like before a test or something, you’d get a better score on your test.)
I find that a lot of things that I did when I was young were very important to my life as it is now, I’d always had the perfect advice for everything.
This may be something that will help you deal with your stress, or it won’t but either way it is my advice to anyone who reads this. 
How Writing Helped Me
Why I Decided To Blog
The reasons why I decided to blog were because I wanted something that was all my own, to tell people what I want to say. There are a few topics which bother me very much, and I was encouraged to blog about them. The stories I’ll post will have been from my experience, but of course I’ll keep the names anonymous. This is one of the reasons I decided to blog. To discuss the topics that some people may feel are ‘too political’ and therefore, should be avoided, but the kind of person I am, the more you say it shouldn’t be done, the more I want to do it. So here I am, speaking my mind. I’m not going to look at these subjects and be unbiased, I know I can’t because it affects me emotionally. If any of what I have to say offends you in any way, please feel free to state your opinions in the comments. Thank you.
Girl Power
We’re smart, we’re cool
We’re hot, we’re cold and when it comes to parties we’re out of control.
We can sing, dance, rap, write, we’re pish and posh but sometimes we fight
But when we do it’s for our rights, cuz we’re what the world needs
If we were gone the world would plead,
For us to come back, we probably wouldn’t go in a snap cuz we’re better than that, we know right from wrong cuz inside we’re strong
We were put on this world for a reason, because it is where we belong!
We’re here to make a difference and we’re gonna do it with confidence
And with no help from Nikki or Rihanna cuz they’re not the proper inspiration for the next generation.
We need to think fast and act quick with no hesitation. We must take matters into our own hands and start making out a plan, because we are girls and someday, somehow we’re going to make a serious change in the world.
Written by Sabira Rahman
Always Be Thankful
One of the most important things in life is being grateful. Sometimes, when people are blessed with wealth, they may think it’s from them, their efforts. But in reality, it’s Allah. Allah has given it to you and He can take at away just as quick.
In the story of one of the Prophets, a very poor man went to him and complained that he’s so poor and he only has a piece of cloth to cover him and asked for advice. And just the opposite, a rich man was wondering why he was so blessed with his wealth and everything. The Prophet told the poor man to be grateful for what he had and the poor man said but he has nothing. So then Allah made the wind blow and it blew his cover away. The Prophet told the rich man the reason he gets everything is because he is humble and always thanks Allah. The rich man asked how can he stop getting things and the Prophet told him to stop thanking Allah. The rich man said how could he stop praying to Allah, so Allah continued to give him more.
Another Hadith I like that is about gratitude, how a person can chase after everything in this world yet they can only receive what their name is on, but for the person that just waits the world is brought to their feet. We should try to be the latter person.
So this is just a reminder for us to be thankful for what we have, even if it is a grain of rice. Allah gave it to us, and it doesn’t take much to say a simple than you to Him.
Santa’s Season
During this time of the year, many people get into the “holiday spirit”. To them, this means Christmas and presents and families coming together, which is good, and that may very well be the best thing about this season, that people get to see all of their family together. But then parents make their children believe in this huge lie: Santa Claus, and how he watches children to see how they’ve been behaving, and give them presents accordingly. Then, a few years later the children realize there is no Santa and their parents have been lying to them for the past several years. And from the beginning, parents are basing a relationship on lies. But Santa is actually used for commercialism, which also supports the parents who lied to their children about there being a such thing as a Santa. Portrayed as a huge, jolly old man, this getup actually frightens some kids.
This is just the idea of Santa I’m talking about. Not to mention how this huge guy is supposed to fit down your chimney. Or how he is supposed to fly all over the world to deliver presents to all the kids in the world in one night. It’s all just illogical. Adding the time it takes to place all the presents under EVERY tree of EVERY house in EVERY part of the world is impossible to be done.
So parents, please stop lying big time to your children and just tell them that this time is family time. But don’t add the lie about Santa.
Thanks for reading!
Origin of Some Popular Nursery Rhymes (Preview)
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
I have done research on the origin of some popular nursery rhymes. Nursey rhymes are harmless, right? But more likely than not, the actual stories behind them are shockingly morbid and not really something you’d expect to be a rhyme for kids. And a lot of nursery rhymes came from historical events or situations. Some of the most popular ones came from British politics and were invented as a way of spreading gossip about royalty. The aforementioned nursery rhyme up
there sounds like it’s about a fat guy sitting on a wall, right? But actually it was a cannon, commonly called Humpty Dumpty, used during the English Civil War. It was strategically placed on a wall of St.Mary’s Church in Kolchester in east England by the Cavaliers, the knights of Charles the first of England. Kolchester was laid to siege by the Parliament. A shot from a Parliamentary cannon succeeded in destroying the wall beneath Humpty Dumpty and caused it to tumble to the ground. The Cavaliers or ‘All the king’s men’ attempted to raise Humpty to another wall but it was so heavy that ‘All the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again’ and the town of Kolchester fell to the Parliament after an 11 week siege. Another version of this rhyme is:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Threescore men and threescore more,
Couldn’t put Humpty as he was before.
Here’s another:
Mary, Mary quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.
‘Mary’ is referring to Mary the first, daughter of Henry the Eighth (VIII). The Catholic Queen received quite a bad reputation during her short reign for executing Protestant loyalists. The garden in the rhyme is referring to the growth or a graveyard. Silver bells and cockle shells are believed to be euphemisms for instruments of torture. The ‘maids’ are slang for a beheading instrument called ‘The Maiden’ that came into common use before the guillotine.
Here’s another interesting one:
Ring around the rosies
A pocketful of posies
Ashes, ashes
We all fall down.
Ring around a rosy is said to refer to the Great Plague of 1665. The plague caused a high fever and a rash in the form of a ring, hence the name. Putting herbs in the pockets of an ailing person in attempt to freshen up the stale air was a common practice, thus the ‘pocketful of posies’. ‘Ashes, ashes’ is an American variation of the English version which is ‘Atishoo, atishoo’ or someone sneezing. Another version says it comes from the mass cremations that were done due to the amount of bodies. Plague sufferers had a sneezing fit before they passed away, when ‘we all fall down’.
An innocent one is:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.
Up got Jack and home did trot, as fast as he could caper
He went to bed and bound his head
With vinegar and brown paper.
Jackals Jill, skipping up a hill, what could be more harmless than that? You’d never guess what this rhyme is really about. This nursery rhyme was started in France. Jack and Jill are said to be King Louis the 16th and Queen Marie Antoinette, a couple beheaded during the Reign of Terror in 1793.
This rhyme is surprisingly innocent:
Rock a bye baby on the treetop,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock.
When the branch breaks, the cradle will fall and down will come baby, cradle and all.
The correct name for this is actually Hush-a-bye baby. It comes from a Pilgrim boy in America witnessing Native American mothers suspending birch bark cradles from a tree thus allowing the wind to rock the baby to sleep.
(Honestly I thought this rhyme had some malicious intent but I guess not.)
Doing this research was so interesting but there are so many nursery rhymes! But my main point is, we should be very careful of what we say and sing to our children because we never know what hidden meanings of these century-old nursery rhymes could be.
Thanks for Reading!!!
All in one second, the life you had is gone.
Tears will not bring the person you loved back.
You must learn to let go.
Don’t hold on to the sadness.
How can you remember the person if you’re always sad when you think about them?
But don’t ignore it.
Hold on to the memories and special moments you shared with that person.
It’s what will last the longest.
–Halimah
The Creation
Have you ever just sat and watched a bee as it flies from flower to flower? It’s so amazing how it collects all the pollen from each flower and takes it back to the hive to have it made into honey. If you sit and watch the creation of Allah before your eyes, all you can day is ‘Subhanallah’. It is really amazing.
The creation of Allah is so amazing. The trees grow and produce flowers, nuts, or fruits; then shed its leaves, becoming bare, and then restarting the process again and again as the seasons change. The plants start from small seeds and grow huge. And similarly, people, how we start out so small and end up so big.
The sun, Allah placed here for our benefit, gives off energy to make everything able to grow and survive. The moon, which helps us tell the day from the nights. The rain, which Allah sends to bring life to the dry earth, also helps everything grow.
Our brains, Allah made us able to think, to ponder over His creation of the heavens and the earth; to remember Him, to learn about Him. He made our brains able to absorb knowledge, to learn languages, and we can’t thank Him enough for making us so perfect.
Allah (SWT) is always showing the signs of His Greatness, yet some people refuse to believe. Some people even pray to the sun and trees and animals, bow to them and think they are sacred. We are blessed to be Muslims today and not in a religion where the people worship four-armed gods and goddesses. It is now our job to help spread the Deen throughout the world. May Allah guide these people to Islam and make it easy for us to spread this beautiful religion.
My next post
My next post will be on the origin of some popular nursery rhymes. I will post after exams, though, iA.
