H A L I M A H

Nobody do maintenance reach UBA.

He doesn’t even try and I’m already laughing😭

Dear Parents, Let me share a secret with you. I pray it benefits you. After my post on the anatomical psychology of a child yesterday, I received some questions about how to help children who struggle to focus on their studies and what parents can do to help them. If your child or your children is struggling academically, or lose focus easily, then this post is for you. What you are likely seeing is a child who starts a task but wanders off. You might see them staring at a book for an hour without remembering a single line. It is easy to think they are being lazy, but what you ought to see is a mind where the internal powers are not connected. The Almighty God in the Quran mentions the Nasiyah in Surah Al-Alaq (96:15) as the place of decision and control. Science has shown this to be the prefrontal cortex, the part behind the forehead. In Kitab al-Shifa, Ibn Sina identified a power box called Al-Quwwah al-Mutakhayyilah (the Composative Imagination). This power is the pilot of the brain. Its job is to take information and turn it into focused thought. When focus is gone, the bridge is broken. To help them overcome this problem, you can use a mental drill called Reverse Narrating (RN). Reverse Narrating is a modern concept, but, it has root in our religion too. The principle behind RN is deeply anchored in the works of Abu Zayd al-Balkhi. He is considered the father of Islamic psychology. In his book Masalih al-Abdan wa al-Anfus (Sustenance of the Soul), he talked about Riyadat al-Nafs (disciplining the mind). He taught that the mind needs specific "mental rehearsals" to regain control over wandering thoughts. This mental rehearsals through reverse narrating is what you should adopt going forward because it forces the brain to reorganize information in a way that is not natural. Here is how you can do it: 1.Ask your child what they are doing right this moment (when you call them). 2.Ask them what they did ten minutes before that. 3.Keep asking what happened before each step, moving backward through the day. 4.Continue until they reach the moment they woke up in the morning. Do you know what you have done? You have just forced the Mutakhayyilah of your child to work in overdrive to pull data from the memory and flip it. What this does is that It strengthens the pilot seat in their forehead. If you do this for a few minutes every evening, you would be building the mental glue your child needs to stay on a task. This is how struggling children improve their mental power and succeed in their studies. GIVE IT A TRY. Allah knows best.

I just want to travel the world 🥹

I genuinely feel like we are not meant to consume this much information about everythinggg so rapidly daily and it’s messing with people’s moods, personalities, health & general way of life.

Do istighfar! Please do istighfar!

Once you clock 25 you’ll realize how much of a conscious effort you have to make to keep your spark! Life can be such a drag!

Allah swt 😭🥹

Allahumma inni as-aluka high income, low stress, and a stable economy

Allahumma inni a'udhu bika min al faqri, wal qillati ,wal dhillati, wa a'udhu bika an azlima aw uzlama. O Allah, I seek Your protection from poverty, scarcity, humiliation; and I seek Your protection from oppressing or being oppressed.

At the end of the day, you will realise that incorporating Islamic ethics into your life is the only way to achieve peace, success, and tranquillity.

This April, I must get a job!

1. La hawla wala quwwata illa billah. 2. Hasbunallahu wa ni'mal waqeel. Both reminders and ad'iyah (duas || prayers). You'd be shocked at their efficacy as you chant them for every time the feeling overwhelms you.

Make lots of dua and have good expectations of Allah, He is as you think of Him.

It feels like we’re all fighting for our lives right now.

Nieces and nephews really add a different type of happiness to life.

My Lord has always been kind to me.

I genuinely enjoy being friends with my friends.

Susan has been battling with this for the past 20 years. Soliciting for financial help for her 30m naira surgery. Her account details below; Susan Chizhim 6328101813 Fidelity Kindly RT this, the least you can do to support and help 🙏🏻

Whoever truly loves you will make it very easy for you to love and be with them. If you need to do too much to be loved, maybe you shouldn't be doing anything at all.