About Liamanah

Salam Alaykum, Sis. I'm Zuliat.

Working mum of two · Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator

I'm the mother behind Mommy's Dua Book and the Calm & Cooperation Scripts, and I'm still learning every day alongside you. Here's how a drive to work in 2019 turned into Liamanah.

Zuliat Lawal smiling with her arms folded

Where it started

It started on a drive to work

One morning in 2019 I was driving to work tired, overwhelmed and on the brink of tears. My daughter was one. Every time I left her with the nanny or dropped her at daycare, the mum guilt had me in a chokehold. I loved her deeply, and I felt torn between the mother I wanted to be and the responsibilities I had.

Looking back now, I recognise I was experiencing symptoms of postpartum depression. I didn't have the words for it then. I only knew I desperately needed something to hold on to.

That morning, more than anything, I wanted to reconnect with my Creator. I searched YouTube for the 99 Names of Allah and landed on a spoken-word piece by Boona Mohammed. I cried through the entire drive. By the time I pulled into the office car park, I felt lighter.

That morning an idea came to me: I wanted to make dua for my daughter using the 99 Names of Allah. I searched everywhere for a book that could help me do it, and couldn't find one. So I wrote it myself.

That was how Mommy's Dua Book came to be, in May 2019, during Ramadan. It spread from mother to mother through WhatsApp and Facebook groups, to Singapore, Canada, India, Malaysia and far beyond. And something happened that still humbles me: mothers who'd received it for free came back to pay for it, because making dua for their children from a copy they hadn't paid for didn't sit right with them.

Zuliat Lawal leaning on a white block

Then came the yelling

Knowing better wasn't enough

That same year I started learning Positive Discipline and Islamic parenting, and in 2020 I became a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator. Between 2019 and 2023, over 200 mothers learned these methods through Liamanah's courses.

But I'll be honest with you, Sis. I remember sitting on my prayer mat after Isha, running through my day, and getting to the part where I'd screamed at my children to go to bed. My throat went tight. I had promised myself I wouldn't yell anymore.

Even with all my training, the right words can fly straight out of my head in the heat of the moment. So I stopped relying on finding more patience in the moment, and started having my words ready before it arrived. I wrote them down for myself first, tested them on my own two, and they became The Jannah Moms Calm & Cooperation Scripts.

Why now

Why I paused, and why I'm back

In 2023 I paused Liamanah. I had two children under five, and they needed my complete focus.

In the past three years I've lost two close friends. It was a reminder that tomorrow isn't promised, and that the knowledge I've been given is meant to be shared while I still can, as part of striving for Jannah. I'd been making dua about coming back for a long time. In 2026, I decided to stop holding back.

So here I am: a working mum of two, still learning, still testing, and building practical tools for a problem I live with myself.

How I teach

The Liamanah way

Islamic Values shape the parenting philosophy itself. They're not an ayah pasted on top of Western ideas.

01

Raise with Rahmah

Connection over reactive discipline, so your child listens because they trust you.

02

Guide with Tarbiyah

Character over compliance. We're raising the adult, not just managing today's behaviour.

03

Anchor in Allah

Islam as the foundation, never the add-on, and never used as a threat.

04

Tarbiyah for Real Life

Tools that fit a working mother's actual schedule, ready in seconds on your phone.

05

You Don't Have to Choose

Be ambitious and deeply present. Be gentle and firm. Your dreams matter too.

What I am, and what I'm not

Honest, always

  • I am a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator (since 2020) and a working Muslim mum who has been learning and practising Positive Discipline and Islamic parenting since 2019.

  • I am careful with sources. Qur'an and hadith references in my guides are cited, and duas are written with care.

  • I'm not a scholar, so I don't give fiqh rulings. For those, please ask a qualified scholar you trust.

  • I'm not a doctor or therapist. My guides are educational and spiritual, and never a substitute for professional help.

  • I'm not the perfect Muslim mother. I'm learning alongside you, and I repair when I get it wrong, just like the scripts teach.

The free 10 Duas for Your Child guide on a phone

Free for Jannah Moms

Start with 10 duas for your child, free

The first ten pages of the new Mommy's Dua Book: a heartfelt dua for your child for each of the first ten Beautiful Names of Allah, from Allah to Al-Jabbar, with a space for your child's name in every one.

  • Reflect on His Name, so your dua begins with praise, the way the etiquette of dua teaches us.

  • A ready-to-say dua for your child, with a blank for their name, so you never sit on the mat wondering what to ask for.

  • A closing line for each Name, perfect for a quick dua on the school run.

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From Liamanah mothers

What mothers told me

More patient, and her children bring her their questions now

“Before I joined the course, I use to think my children like stressing me. But now, my relationship with them has improved, Alhamdullilah: They ask more questions now because they know I will listen and answer them. I have learnt a lot about their behaviours and various emotions and I'm more patient with them now.”

Olaitan Azeezat, Parenting for Jannah Academy member

Email from Olaitan Azeezat

Her daily dua is now part of the school run

“I have been starting to say a longer du`a and the children are repeating after me while we are driving to school. The children are loving it.”

Umm Aasiyah, Liamanah course member

Message from Umm Aasiyah about dua on the school run

A 10 out of 10

“It's a 10 for me. Something I will even recommend to people yet to have kids in order to prepare them ahead”

Nusaybah, Jannah Moms Discipline Toolbox Course member

Email reply from Nusaybah rating the course 10