Comments on: Living Love: A Tribute to Muhammad and Fareedah Siddeeq http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/ A dialogue on Islamic leadership, accountability and justice Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ronny http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Ronny Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:14:30 +0000 http://www.siddeeq.com/?p=5#comment-13 Living Love is walking across the neighborhood on a blistering Thanksgiving or Christmas Day to Nana and Grandpa's house. Being completely happy and oblivious to the weather because you know that a huge, (I was a child then), 16 passenger van would be shortly pulling up with my Uncle Siddeeq and a WHOLE BUNCH of my cousins. Being more than ecstatic to help Lug they're luggage up over four flights of steps from the street to the third floor where they would set up shop for the duration of their stay. My Grandad will have arrived the night before. Uncle Jimmy is due in a little later. (In time for dinner of course. HARDEE HAR HAR!!!!) My Uncle and Aunts from here will have come with all of my younger first cousins. Even if only to stop by for a couple of minutes to say hello and give their love to the ELDERS of our family while en-route to a celebration being given by another branch of the family. Living Love is the year that I finally got to sit in the Dining Room with the Men, (Children sat in the kitchen and the women were either in the living room or scattered throughout the house making sure that everyone else was comfortable), while trying to comprehend exactly what they were talking about.......World events???....What's that gotta do with me?....Christianity's demonization of the Islamic faith???.... Why? Aren't we all praying to the same GOD?, (That's What my Mom told me, and we're not of the Muslim Faith). The President's policies???...Who knows.... But I'm sitting in the DINING ROOM with My Father, My Grandpa, My Grandad, My Uncle Jimmy and My Uncle Siddeeq!! I am sitting with the smartest and most powerful Men on the planet. When I ask questions about the issues that are being discussed? I GET??... Not Just Answers!!... Not with these men of various opinions, faith and beliefs... NO!!! What ensues is Healthy Debate!! The type of which I see from talking heads and World Leaders on C.N.N. and Meet The Press today on the picture box!! ( I heard Nana call the T.V. that once.) Living Love is having a Question and getting an answer. Living Love is having a Question, with a presumption, and being told an answer that you don't want to hear.... Not to prove you wrong. But to Guide you in the right direction. Living Love is holding the mantle while it's hot... Knowing well that your hands Will burn. Yet holding on with full, uncompromising faith and fortitude because HIS WILL shall Always Prevail Living Love-- is FAMILY. Family-- is LIVING LOVE. And That..... That Is Beautiful. Living Love is walking across the neighborhood on a blistering Thanksgiving or Christmas Day to Nana and Grandpa’s house. Being completely happy and oblivious to the weather because you know that a huge, (I was a child then), 16 passenger van would be shortly pulling up with my Uncle Siddeeq and a WHOLE BUNCH of my cousins.
Being more than ecstatic to help Lug they’re luggage up over four flights of steps from the street to the third floor where they would set up shop for the duration of their stay.
My Grandad will have arrived the night before.
Uncle Jimmy is due in a little later. (In time for dinner of course. HARDEE HAR HAR!!!!)
My Uncle and Aunts from here will have come with all of my younger first cousins. Even if only to stop by for a couple of minutes to say hello and give their love to the ELDERS of our family while en-route to a celebration being given by another branch of the family.
Living Love is the year that I finally got to sit in the Dining Room with the Men, (Children sat in the kitchen and the women were either in the living room or scattered throughout the house making sure that everyone else was comfortable), while trying to comprehend exactly what they were talking about…….World events???….What’s that gotta do with me?….Christianity’s demonization of the Islamic faith???…. Why? Aren’t we all praying to the same GOD?, (That’s What my Mom told me, and we’re not of the Muslim Faith). The President’s policies???…Who knows…. But I’m sitting in the DINING ROOM with My Father, My Grandpa, My Grandad, My Uncle Jimmy and My Uncle Siddeeq!! I am sitting with the smartest and most powerful Men on the planet.
When I ask questions about the issues that are being discussed?
I GET??…
Not Just Answers!!…
Not with these men of various opinions, faith and beliefs…
NO!!!
What ensues is Healthy Debate!! The type of which I see from talking heads and World Leaders on C.N.N. and Meet The Press today on the picture box!! ( I heard Nana call the T.V. that once.)
Living Love is having a Question and getting an answer.
Living Love is having a Question, with a presumption, and being told an answer that you don’t want to hear…. Not to prove you wrong. But to Guide you in the right direction.
Living Love is holding the mantle while it’s hot… Knowing well that your hands Will burn. Yet holding on with full, uncompromising faith and fortitude because HIS WILL shall Always Prevail
Living Love– is FAMILY.
Family– is LIVING LOVE.
And That….. That Is Beautiful.

]]> By: azzam basiim muhammad http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/comment-page-1/#comment-12 azzam basiim muhammad Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:48:34 +0000 http://www.siddeeq.com/?p=5#comment-12 may allah bless the siddeeq family and the mohammed family insha allah. may allah bless the siddeeq family and the mohammed family insha allah.

]]> By: wali holmes muhammad and son mikail holmes muhammad http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/comment-page-1/#comment-11 wali holmes muhammad and son mikail holmes muhammad Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:46:42 +0000 http://www.siddeeq.com/?p=5#comment-11 may allah bless the siddeeq family and the mohammed family insha allah. may allah bless the siddeeq family and the mohammed family insha allah.

]]> By: Gena http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Gena Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:39:43 +0000 http://www.siddeeq.com/?p=5#comment-10 Assalamu alaikum... It has also been my privilege to know Baiyinah, and these words have profoundly touched me. My husband said, "Print it out! Let's use it as a reference, make sure we do these things!" Living love has no boundaries, does not discriminate, and has the ability to change the world one person at a time. Jazakum ALLAHu khairan, Br. Muhammad and Sr. Fareeda, for allowing your "Living Love" to jump start the "Living Love" journeys of so many people (and to you, Baiyinah for breathing life into it with your beautiful prose). May ALLAH continue to sustain you with faith, patience, fortitude, knowledge, and peace, and may HE (SWT)shower you all with His mercy and forgiveness, reuniting you all in the highest gardens of Jannah. Ameen. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this inspiration... Assalamu alaikum…
It has also been my privilege to know Baiyinah, and these words have profoundly touched me. My husband said, “Print it out! Let’s use it as a reference, make sure we do these things!”
Living love has no boundaries, does not discriminate, and has the ability to change the world one person at a time.
Jazakum ALLAHu khairan, Br. Muhammad and Sr. Fareeda, for allowing your “Living Love” to jump start the “Living Love” journeys of so many people (and to you, Baiyinah for breathing life into it with your beautiful prose). May ALLAH continue to sustain you with faith, patience, fortitude, knowledge, and peace, and may HE (SWT)shower you all with His mercy and forgiveness, reuniting you all in the highest gardens of Jannah. Ameen.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this inspiration…

]]> By: Saba-Na'imah http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Saba-Na'imah Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:33:35 +0000 http://www.siddeeq.com/?p=5#comment-9 Living Love is having Grandparents that after reaching infinity, always seem to have one more. One more bed, one more plate, one more meatball in the chili, one more seat at the table or in the car, one more song that somehow has been personalized just for you, one more tailor-made graduation dress, one more hug, one more ride to school on a cold day, one more piece of advice, and on what would seem the hardest day of their life, one more smile. Saba-Na'imah Living Love is having Grandparents that after reaching infinity, always seem to have one more. One more bed, one more plate, one more meatball in the chili, one more seat at the table or in the car, one more song that somehow has been personalized just for you, one more tailor-made graduation dress, one more hug, one more ride to school on a cold day, one more piece of advice, and on what would seem the hardest day of their life, one more smile.
Saba-Na’imah

]]> By: hina http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/comment-page-1/#comment-8 hina Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:21:03 +0000 http://www.siddeeq.com/?p=5#comment-8 I pray my husband and I can be the types of parents the Siddeeqs obviously were and are. They are an inspiration to us all; the ummah needs more people like them. Wassalaam, Hina I pray my husband and I can be the types of parents the Siddeeqs obviously were and are. They are an inspiration to us all; the ummah needs more people like them.
Wassalaam,
Hina

]]> By: The Nasser Family(K.S.A) http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/comment-page-1/#comment-7 The Nasser Family(K.S.A) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:36:00 +0000 http://www.siddeeq.com/?p=5#comment-7 Living Love is having the Sideeq family, here in Saudi Arabia spend such precious heartwarming hours in our home. And my family trying to find ways to keep them longer whenever it was their time to leave. One of us would run to the kitchen to whip up a meal and say they have to stay till it's done. One of us would pull out homework that needed Baiyinah's revision. One of us would hide an abaya or a shoe..... the Sideeq family has been an inspiration to our own family. may Allah swt perserve you in the best of faith, keep you all steadfast on this deen, and give jannah al firdous to the brothers who have departed from us. Living Love is having the Sideeq family, here in Saudi Arabia spend such precious heartwarming hours in our home. And my family trying to find ways to keep them longer whenever it was their time to leave. One of us would run to the kitchen to whip up a meal and say they have to stay till it’s done. One of us would pull out homework that needed Baiyinah’s revision. One of us would hide an abaya or a shoe….. the Sideeq family has been an inspiration to our own family. may Allah swt perserve you in the best of faith, keep you all steadfast on this deen, and give jannah al firdous to the brothers who have departed from us.

]]> By: Abdul Shaheed http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Abdul Shaheed Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:38:31 +0000 http://www.siddeeq.com/?p=5#comment-6 Living love was Brother Siddeeq and Sister Fareedah letting me and my brothers sleep on the living room floor of their home. Living love was their letting me and my brothers get more pizza, even though the Siddeeqs had to make our "more" pizza from scratch. Living love was cooking a big breakfast with Br. Siddeeq for his mother at his childhood home in Pittsburgh...which was the best breakfast I ever had! Thank you Brother Siddeeq and Sister Fareedah...because I'm Living Love right now in seeing your daughter raise our daughter in the way you raised her. With the deepest gratitude, your son "in-law" Abdul-Hakim Living love was Brother Siddeeq and Sister Fareedah letting me and my brothers sleep on the living room floor of their home.
Living love was their letting me and my brothers get more pizza, even though the Siddeeqs had to make our “more” pizza from scratch.
Living love was cooking a big breakfast with Br. Siddeeq for his mother at his childhood home in Pittsburgh…which was the best breakfast I ever had!
Thank you Brother Siddeeq and Sister Fareedah…because I’m Living Love right now in seeing your daughter raise our daughter in the way you raised her.
With the deepest gratitude,
your son “in-law”
Abdul-Hakim

]]> By: Mansoor Siddeeq http://siddeeq.com/2008/09/23/living-love-a-tribute-to-muhammad-and-fareedah-siddeeq/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Mansoor Siddeeq Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:15:21 +0000 http://www.siddeeq.com/?p=5#comment-5 <em><b>With the name of Allah, the Merciful Benefactor, the Merciful Redeemer</b></em> <p> Living Love was when we would do wrong in public, Dad would insist on correcting us there... <br /> Living Love is being taught to remember Allah (SWT) at all times and begin every sheet of paper for school with the words "Bismillahir-Rahman-nir-Raheem!"... <br /> Living Love is to ALWAYS, when replying to Mom and Dad, say "Yes maam/No maam" or "Yes sir/No sir"... <br /> Living Love is demanding we make our own birthday cards, anniversary cards, Eid cards, mothers day cards, fathers day cards, etc. rather than purchasing generic Hallmark cards... <br /> Living Love is always allowing the younger sibling to choose which half of the PB & J sandwich they want after you cut it... <br /> Living Love is to always give the younger siblings a chance to play with the older siblings... <br /> Living Love is when we get in an argument, we must sit on the stairs until WE work it out... </p> <br /> <p> All Praises due to ALLAH!! there is tremendous wisdom in each act of Living Love and I can only pray that I am blessed with a fraction of that wisdom to impart on my offspring, Insha Allah!! </p> <br /> <p> I LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF MY SIBLINGS AND I APPRECIATE THE IMPACT ALL OF YOU HAVE HAD ON MAKING ME WHO I AM!!! </p> <br /> <p> And to my Father, Muhammad Siddeeq, and my mother, Fareedah Siddeeq, the love I have in my heart is overwhelming and I thank you with the utmost sincerity for guiding me, and nurturing me, and lifting me up, and equipping me with the life lessons and self-respect/self-confidence to now lead a family of my own, and Allah as my witness, I will do the very best I can to protect, nurture, serve and teach my family everything I got from the both of you!!! </p> <br /> <b>Al-Humdulillah!!!</b> With the utmost love and sincerity, Mansoor Abdul-Mateen Siddeeq (Siddeeq number 14!!!) With the name of Allah, the Merciful Benefactor, the Merciful Redeemer

Living Love was when we would do wrong in public, Dad would insist on correcting us there…

Living Love is being taught to remember Allah (SWT) at all times and begin every sheet of paper for school with the words “Bismillahir-Rahman-nir-Raheem!”…

Living Love is to ALWAYS, when replying to Mom and Dad, say “Yes maam/No maam” or “Yes sir/No sir”…

Living Love is demanding we make our own birthday cards, anniversary cards, Eid cards, mothers day cards, fathers day cards, etc. rather than purchasing generic Hallmark cards…

Living Love is always allowing the younger sibling to choose which half of the PB & J sandwich they want after you cut it…

Living Love is to always give the younger siblings a chance to play with the older siblings…

Living Love is when we get in an argument, we must sit on the stairs until WE work it out…

All Praises due to ALLAH!! there is tremendous wisdom in each act of Living Love and I can only pray that I am blessed with a fraction of that wisdom to impart on my offspring, Insha Allah!!

I LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF MY SIBLINGS AND I APPRECIATE THE IMPACT ALL OF YOU HAVE HAD ON MAKING ME WHO I AM!!!

And to my Father, Muhammad Siddeeq, and my mother, Fareedah Siddeeq, the love I have in my heart is overwhelming and I thank you with the utmost sincerity for guiding me, and nurturing me, and lifting me up, and equipping me with the life lessons and self-respect/self-confidence to now lead a family of my own, and Allah as my witness, I will do the very best I can to protect, nurture, serve and teach my family everything I got from the both of you!!!

Al-Humdulillah!!!
With the utmost love and sincerity,
Mansoor Abdul-Mateen Siddeeq (Siddeeq number 14!!!)

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