Oops
As regards the Yahoo group I don't think I made it clear enough. I am very dizzy so will try to re-type the introduction at some point if/when I get my brain back.
The idea is that we get as many sisters as possible on and for those with no internet access we act as their proxy. Whenever somebody needs something a little red flag can go up, so to speak and we have a way of letting each other know that there is someone who needs help and we make it our business to make sure they get it. A bit like when one of us has sprogged - those who needed it got the cooking/whatever. Except this would work throughout the year at all times for all sisters for whatever reason. It is a network of as many sisters as we can get. I have other ideas to link into this but it would need a network of sisters anyway, so I will try to work on that.
Regarding setting an Islamic HE group up - I don't know if that will ever happen. I'm in too much pain to organise anything myself. If I thought it was a go-er I would try . *shrugs* I need something for my kids.
posted by Unknown @ 1:18 pm
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Diary
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Forgive me if I've offended you Hannah. I obviously have said something terribly wrong. No I don't mix. I don't get out all that much. I used to but things have been difficult lately.
Forget it. I'll delete the group and keep my mouth shut from now on.
Masalama
What's negative? Trying to start a network of sisters up? I don't understand your problem with it. Yes, I see the sisters around here - that's not the issue. I have *friends* and that's one thing, but I was more interested in setting things up for people who have little or no access to anything. Since being ill I have realised the importance of an ummah who will take time out to be a practical help. All I was saying is that I want to do something more proactive in that regards. I want pitch in and really string something together. Not because I am moaning or depressed or fed up - but because I really feel others needs acutely now. I want to help and be of practical assistance!! I don't need anything. That wasn't what the rant was about. The rant was about how I haven't contributed towards the ummah and how ashamed I am about it. I am really ashamed about it. I have been insular and content with insularity. Alhamdulillah it has been knocked out of me. If it was just friends I was after then I wouldn't be saying anything since I do have really great Muslim sisters as neighbours and even if I don't see you lot who live in the posh houses (:P) all that often I still consider you to be really great sisters. In that regards I am truly spoiled and I am glad Allah landed me in Peterborough because you are a nice bunch. And I'm not just saying that I genuinely mean it.
But how ironic that no one wants to be around depressed people - what about the people in our ummah who are clincally depressed - we just tell them to get their act together and leave them to it til they do? It's those very people that a network could really help. I don't know all the sisters in Peterborough and there is no way I can access how to help the people who I could possibly have a positive influence on. I would love to be able to be real practical help - to drop in and lend a hand - but there are a lot of sisters who are unknown to me; some who themselves just don't get out or who are isolated. How can I meet them until I know they are there??
I am not moaning, I am simply waking up out of my selfishness. I am simply talking out loud as to how I can really help the ummah rather than just the people I know (who I would help anyway i.a.).
The idea of a group for Muslim kids I know won't work but I would like to try to start something anyway. I feel our kids miss out on that, I really do. It would be nice to see the little uns make dua together. Boss just wants to run in manic circles anyway; I can't quite explain what I mean when I say I want an Islamic group because I am NOT saying the other groups aren't good enough. They are really well run and the kids are gorgeous. I am not saying that I hate the idea of "mixing with a diverse world" that's just silly - it's just that I would like to see my kids feeling like part of an ummah. Friends they have, it's something else they miss out on... I can't think of the words. Too fuzzy right now.
Anyway, how did the asthma clinic go?
Salam
That is a really good post. I may need to talk to you more in private about that ;-) I need to re-read that again. I love Ghazali. Allah grant him jannah. Amin. Chemical imbalances are there and to say we have no knowledge of it in the deen is simply not true.
Regarding the ummah - yes I do get into a lot of trouble when I voice my opinions but that is because I never seem to articulate myself very well.
The basis of ummah is friendship - if that was all this were about then I would have no need to complain. I have good friends masha'allah. And I don't want to change Peterborough overnight. I know the baby sets are what is needed, which is what the idea of the group was.
I have literally had sisters I hardly know (like met once but can't remember where), I don't even know their name but they seem to know mine, stop me in the street and tell me ALL their problems - really open their hearts out - desperate to meet other sisters not really knowing how or where or knowing anything of what was going on in P'b. Talking to these sisters it transpires they have a large family - lots of brothers and close sisters yet they are still lonely, still need help and advice and still need to know the basics of Islam (fervently asking me if how they make wudu is OK - it wasn't and they are too embarrassed to ask anyone else), they still need outside assurance. These are people I have bumped into - what about the ones I just don't meet? What about the ones who don't speak English? What about the ones who can't leave their house/are hospitalised/are slowly dying. What about them? It really hurts me to think how self-centred I have been - "i'm alright Jack", or console myself with glib assurances that people "will be OK and that 'someone' will help". Talk about passing the responsibility onto others. What happens if they are NOT Ok? What happens if they are suffering and could use some help?
I just feel it accutely now. The times I feel quite low are the times I feel quite useless and frustrated at not being able to help people.
Having the group was just meant to be a foundation - a meeting place even if we have no real meeting place. Even if not all the sisters in P'b are on the group if enough are and can speak for those they know then perhaps when there is someone in trouble things can be done consistently and by everybody.
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