Sometimes we find people working for this worldly life and pretend to have forgotten that one day they will die and be brought to account… Then there are others who do great deeds with the Hereafter in mind, but completely neglect their financial and familial responsibilities. So, how can reconcile between dunya and akhirah, between
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Productivity Goldmine: Beginning with Bismillah
For those of you looking to reach the ultimate peak in your personal and professional lives, try beginning each act, deed, or intention with the basmalah and see the immediate difference it brings. Beginning your action by invoking the name of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala is a blessing that has been bestowed upon our ummah
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How to Stop yourself from Tab-Hopping
You know the drill: Open your e-mail, click on a couple of links, your browser pops up with some interesting articles, you read them, find and click on more links on the side bar, jump to Facebook to let your friends know about this awesome article you came across, jump to twitter to do the
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Six Secrets to Saying "No"
It’s a simple known fact that if we are overwhelmed with too many commitments we will never be productive. Life management will be very poor, spreading you in too many directions. The dunya will begin to control us and we will lose track of our time, value and space. When we were young, one of the first
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Living the Advice of Surat Al-Asr – Part 2
[Continued from Part 1] Based on a lecture by Sheikh Muhammad al Shareef By now, I hope you have realized the importance of time and have started applying the steps that were mentioned earlier. This article will continue from the point that we had last stopped at. “By time, indeed, mankind is in loss, except
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How To Extract Precious Gems From What We Read
We read all the self-improvement books, articles, blogs, listen to lectures, attend seminars, but sometimes we don’t see the results that were promised! In a quest for reading “X” amount of books, all too often our goal becomes to finish one book so we can move on to the next. Knowing what to do is not
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