Alsalamu Alaykom! Peace be upon you!
My Muslimah name is Salmah UmmZainab.
Alhamdulillah~All thanks is due Allah~I am an Scots-Irish-Anglo-American convert to Islam as of the Summer of 2006. My thanks also to my first online chat-friend, Brother Hamza, who introduced me to Islam and asked me to read the Qur'an...and asked...and asked...and didn't stop asking until I finally had read it!
I am a single mother, caring for my daughter full time and homeschooling her. I am also a new author of children's Islamic books, which I initially wrote solely for my daughter on folded in half, stapled together peices of paper.
The Akhirah site is the product of my desire to share the blessings and beauties of Islam with others. I am trying to design it to be as useful as possible, with a little bit of everything I have found most essential on my own path of discovery and learning. I have received so much help online, I wanted to gather some of that together and make it easily accessible to others.
May Allah (swt) bless all our efforts~yours, mine and ours~in Islam! Everything good here is from Allah (swt) and any mistakes are my own and I pray I will be forgiven and corrected.
I would like to close this page with a Du'aa dear Sister Rehana sent to me, hand painted on wood, after she helped me take my Shahadah over the phone:
Our Lord,
by Your knowledge of the Unseen,
and by Your power over Your creation,
grant me life so long as You know life to hold good for me,
and grant me death when You know death to hold good for me!
Our Lord,
I ask you for the fear of You in public and in private,
and I ask You for (the ability to speak) the word of truth
in tranquility and in anger,
and I ask You for caution in wealth and in poverty,
and I ask You for happiness which is never exhausted,
and I ask You for pleasure which is never ending,
and I ask You for contentment with Your decisions,
and I ask You for the finer life after death,
and I ask You for the pleasure of looking upon Your face,
and meeting You without ever having undergone great suffering,
and without ever having been subjected to misleading temptation.
Our Lord,
adorn us with the adornment of faith,
and
make of us guides who are rightly guided.
Ameen.