J. Maryam Mathieu

I just need to get over my irritation with people's bad manners and bad character so that the imperfections of my sister-wives don't drive me crazy, inshaAllah. May Allah make me among the patient, forgiving, and compassionate, amin Ya Rabb

I love my husband, but I love God more. This life is short, and I trust my husband to give me my rights as a woman and as his wife, so why be selfish when so many women are suffering so deeply?

I know the yearning of loneliness, the fear and difficulty, of practicing Islam as a single woman, and I can imagine the struggle of parenting alone... Is there a greater gift I can give someone than the peace, happiness, and security of family?

I don't want to co-parent, I want to team-parent, inshaAllah #polygamy The more I love my husband, the more I'll want to share him with women who are yearning for comfort, companionship, and safety to practice love of the Beloved

The only thing standing between us and Reality, between us and the Beloved, between us and God, is our egos.

Where does the inspiration come from for popular culture today? Sex, drugs, violence, apocalypse, war, contempt & sarcasm, being "cool" (cold-hearted)... What are we feeding our hearts? What are we drinking into our souls?

7 Years ago I was deep in this aliens vs. gods confusion and then I looked at a snowflake, at how each snowflake is perfect and each one is completely unique, and the awe broke my flimsy ideology like a hand sweeps away a spiderweb

Dreamt last night that I was explaining Islam to a naturalist/cosmologist atheist and I said, how can you look at the perfection of even a simple leaf and not be in total awe at the beauty and majesty of what created it? And then, don't you want to KNOW that Creator? I do.

Hamza Yusuf has the BEST lectures (on Youtube) if you want to know how to be happy in marriage (tip: it starts with who you are and what you're looking for BEFORE you get married)

Every word, every action, every step, everything inside our hearts that we gather and allow to grow, even every reason we say or do anything we do, determines our Destiny... these are the seeds of our Garden or the fuel for our Fire

Umrah is a good time to ask for miracles. Every time is a good time to ask for miracles, but the times our hearts are the most open are the only times we will accept them.

I'll also be visiting Muhammad, Mary, Joseph, Abraham, Jesus, and Moses while I'm there, iA, and pI can give any of them your greetings, inshaAllah.

Umrah is a great time to pray for people, because there is so much blessing in it. Anyone want any prayers while I'm there?

InshaAllah

I'm thinking about trying to start a business/es and make enough money to pay them off in 5-6 years. I'll be praying about that during Umrah.

I mean, if anyone wanted to help me pay my student loans, my PayPal is [email protected]. Just throwing that out there in case of a miracle.

Always in my prayers

Amin Ya Rabb

I'm going for Umrah this week, inshaAllah, and I'll pray that anyone looking for love and lifelong companionship finds the person of their dreams who will walk with them through everything as their comfort and support, friend, lover, and muse, all the way to the Highest Paradise