Indeed a beautiful dream.

Also, stay tuned every Wednesday for tafseer Juz ‘Amma classes after Maghrib salah (Eastern Standard Time).

The classes will resume next week. Also, inshaAllah withing the next week or two all the past tafseer lessons (audio) will be available for download via www.bayyinah.com/dream. We ask that if you spread them around to please refer everyone back to the site inshaAllah.

Bayyinah Drawstring Bag?

What do you think? Keep your class material/water bottle in…

Oprah is generally looked upon in American society as a great empowered but honest woman. She definitely has great interviewing skills. However, if you’ve always been an Oprah fan, this post may change your whole perception of her and her show.

I have a little bit more time on my hands now that I have spring break, and so I decided to turn on the TV to America’s favorite day-time talk show host, Oprah Winfrey. Unaware of the subject matter of today’s show I watched as she brought on a guest who was publicly taking the innocence of little children right before our eyes.

The guest was Laura Berman, an author who decided to talk today about how to speak to your kids about sex.

A concerned mother of a 10-year-old came on the show seeking advice on what to do. Her daughter for the past eight months has been asking her mom what “sex” was. The mother kept telling her child she would “tell her later.” The child knew it was something possibly embarrassing and refrained from asking her father, but still had no idea what it was and wanted answers from her mother.

“Doctor” Berman gave the mother advice. She told her to talk to the girl and tell her sex was just the ways babies are made. “That’s not too bad,” I thought to myself — after all I there was nothing explicit about that answer; but the doctor went on.

She decided to show the girl diagrams of human anatomy, both boys’ and girls’. She also told the mother to tell the child about “pleasure.” And forgive me for getting explicit, but the 10 minutes I watched of this show SHOCKED me. She decided to talk to the child about what I’ve seen IslamQA.com call “the secret habit” and tell her that it’s perfectly normal and OK to do so!

AHH! WHAT! Did I just hear that right? Oprah, have you gone mad inviting someone like that on your show!? A 10-year-old girl who had a simple question because she heard this word used around her school, and this is what they teach them in return?

Wallahi I was so disgusted. But it didn’t stop there! Berman proceeded to recommend getting their daughters toys (of the bad kind!) to “explore.”

I didn’t watch anymore. That served me right for even trying to watch anything. Wallahi I feel like it corrupted even me and I’m not a 10-year-old girl! It was so embarrassing I couldn’t watch another minute of it.

Lesson of the day – get your children out of public school and into Islamic school. Don’t let non-Muslims teach your kids! Islamic schools are not sheltered, I understand that, but at least there is a sense of disgust and reprimand that children learn when it comes to Zina. Instead of feeling it’s perfectly normal to do, at least the students KNOW it’s wrong!

Wallahu alem.

Sorry for the explicit nature of this post, but seriously be aware of all this garbage.