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there are discussions that need to happen within the muslim community about toxic relationships (aka marrying out of pressure and not out love), double standards with daughters (aka families literally shunning girls for choosing to do things outside of what is considered the cultural norm), substance abuse (this exists and is a problem), mental health and negative stigmas surrounding it, sexual abuse/harassment within religious spaces (aka girls in mosques being objectified), proper way to give advice without harming the other individual…yeah but yall wanna sit and discuss if ya food got gelatin in it instead 

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For 21 years, I have been researching from the Qur’an and consulting religious leaders whether female circumcision is mentioned in the Qur’an but I did not find it there.

Gambia’s President Bans Female Genital Mutilation, but There’s Still Much Work to Be Done

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Health is a crown that the healthy wear, but only the sick can see it

Imam Syafi'i (via bokumonogatari)

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This is my favourite video on the internet.  Brother Hamza discusses how amazing muslims are in health. He discusses how we have so many answers to so a number of things, but no one discusses it, no one voices what we know. Islam and health come hand in hand if only we take notice of it.

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Chinese doctors bowing down to a 11 year old boy diagnosed with brain cancer who managed to save several lives by donating his organs to the hospital he was being treated in shortly before his death.

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A little about me

I’m a second year public health student, living in Melbourne, Australia.  Being raised in a western country, we’re surrounded by so many amazing opportunities. So many opportunities to learn and to grow.  Daily I think about everything I want to do to help people in any way or form. Whether it be raising money to help with cancer research, reduce the mental health stigma or even humanitarian aid. However, no matter how far I go in thinking about my dreams, it comes to back to my muslim brothers and sisters. There’s not enough of us in this field who are prepared to make large changes. Our Ummah needs help, our ummah needs more people, more physicians, more healthcare professionals that will 1. walk the walk, not only talk the talk. 2. understand that prayer and dua is amazing but sometimes we need medical and psychosocial treatment. and 3. Just learn to deal with situations by implementing a modern, islamic and health based approach. If you guys have any ideas, you could send me a message or even add me on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/mariiameliias.aboueiid  Ask me anything, I’ll answer anything and honestly so prepared to make big changes.  

#publichealth #student #muslim #muslimstudent #interventions #improvements #islam #muslimapproach #muslimhealth #islamichealth #healthbyislam #brothersandsisters #mentalhealthmuslims #healthinislam 

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We all could suffer from mental health - and no it’s not because “I’m not religious enough.”

I really want to design a campaign directly aimed at muslim brothers and sisters regarding mental health. Reminding them that they have support, that we’re all here to help and no I’m not going to judge you on your faith, claim that you’re possessed or you’re not praying enough.  Let’s get togehter? 

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For Young Muslims

I want you all to know it’s okay to be sad and it’s okay to feel depressed and that doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. I know some assholes will tell you it’s because you don’t pray enough (or even if you pray that you aren’t praying with the right amount of sincerity) and it’s because you’re not close enough to God that you are this way but God creates us with emotions. God created us to feel things and that’s okay. Never feel ashamed to seek professional help and you are beautiful and wonderful and God loves you irregardless.

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How do we improve our relationship with food? Be mindful of what we eat, how much we eat, when we eat, and our thoughts about eating. Method to Break the Greed of the Stomach. In Imam Al-Ghazali’s Breaking the Two Desires book 23 he explains the following four duties as a method of discipline. I have added a few helpful tips for additional benefit and guidance. 1. Eat what is lawful (halal) and pure (tayyib). - Make intentions for the sake of Allah - Eat organic when possible - Eat what is seasonal - Support local farmers - Research origin of food - Avoid chemicals/processed foods 2. Limit the quantity we eat - Discipline gradually - Eat when truly hungry - Reduce intake gradually - Let food digest before eating again - Be consistent have balance - Stop eating before you are full 3. Delay when we eat - Continual fasting for self-discipline (3 days or more) - Feel hunger (without hurting health) - Determine what is the least you can eat safely 4. Which varieties of food we eat - Incorporate Prophetic foods (refer to previous posts) - Introduce better food choices - Eat nutrient dense foods (vitamins and minerals) - Limit meat consumption - We are individual (it must be convenient, accessible, and available) - What works for each person if different (we are individual) - Avoid diet fads, gimmicks, and quick fixes It’s not just about health and better nutrition we want to be like the Prophet ﷺ and follow His traditions. Many Muslims have forgotten these traditions and simply overindulge. Imam Al-Ghazali leaves us with this; Abu-Sulayman al-Darani said, “To renounce one desire is more profitable to the heart than to fast and pray for a whole year.” #revival #PropheticNutrition

Zainab Ismail (via afrohijab)

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When someone has cancer or diabetes, we don’t say to them, “Just trust Allah”. So why do we say that to those with mental illnesses? Trusting Allah and having faith in His plans is imperative to the life of all Muslims - sick or not. However, Allah ﷻ specifically told us to trust Him and ‘tie your camel’. With mental illnesses, this means treatment is important.

Those with mental illnesses do not need to 'just trust Allah’, they need treatment. Let’s, as the Muslim community, make that more accessible.

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A FEW years back, an acerbic friend of mine who was a recent transplant to Los Angeles told me that she itched to write a satirical novel with the following narrative: A group of wealthy, educated people in Santa Monica who deliberately didn’t vaccinate their children subsequently take them on a “poor-ism” trip to a developing country. The goal is to make them wiser and more sensitive to suffering in the world. While being sensitized, the kids catch diseases that they could have been inoculated against. Some of them die. As a plot, it lacks subtlety (and compassion). But as a parable, it’s crystal-clear. You can be so privileged that you’re underprivileged, so blessed with choices that you choose to be a fool, so “informed” that you’re misinformed. Which brings us to Disneyland, measles and the astonishing fact that a scourge once essentially eliminated in this country is back. You’ve probably heard or read about the recent outbreak traced to the theme park. But there’s a chance that you’re unaware, because it hasn’t received nearly the coverage that, say, Ebola did, even though some of the dynamics at work here are scarier. It started in mid-December and is now believed to be responsible for more than 70 cases in seven states and Mexico; 58 of those are in California, which of course is where the park is — in Orange County, to be more specific. As it happens, there are affluent pockets of that county where the fraction of schoolchildren whose parents have cited a “personal belief” to exempt them from vaccinations is higher than the statewide average of 2.5 percent. That’s also true of some affluent pockets of the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas. It used to be that unvaccinated children in America were clustered in impoverished neighborhoods; now they’re often clustered among sophisticates in gilded ZIP codes where a certain strain of health faddishness reigns. According to a story in The Hollywood Reporter last year, the parents of 57 percent of the children at a Beverly Hills preschool and of 68 percent at one in Santa Monica had filed personal-belief exemptions from having their kids vaccinated. Why? Many of them buy into a discredited theory that there’s a link between the MMR (mumps-measles-rubella) vaccine and autism. They’re encouraged by a cadre of brash alarmists who have gained attention by pushing that thinking. Anti-vaccine panic was the path that the actress Jenny McCarthy traveled to innumerable appearances on prominent news and talk shows; she later demonstrated her singular version of concern for good health by working as a pitchwoman for e-cigarettes. Other parents have separate or additional worries about vaccines, which can indeed have side effects. But they’re weighing that downside against what they deem to be a virtually nonexistent risk of exposure to the diseases in question. And that degree of risk depends entirely on a vast majority of children getting vaccines. If too many forgo them, we surrender what’s known as “herd immunity,” and the risk rises. That’s precisely what health officials see happening now.

FRANK BRUNI, writing in the New York Times, “The Vaccine Lunacy.”

Another reason to hate the rich.

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“Part of the trouble with public health is, if it works well it’s invisible…Nobody notices that we don’t have a TB epidemic so it becomes easy to think it is not important.

Raisa Debbar, The Globe and Mail, 2003 (via well-intentionedharm)

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Food is medicine! #nutrition #healthcare #healthyeating #fightdisease #foodismedicine #antivirus #antibacterial #coldandflu #coldandfluseason #allnatural #homeopathic #healthyself #immunesystem #immunesupport