When your newsfeed and inbox first started to fill up with notifications about preparing for Ramadan, you had realised that, yes, it’s been a year. A year since you last pushed yourself to your limits: low on food, low on sleep, high on Qur’an, high on salah, high on iman. Now, with a few days
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Invest in Your Spiritual Productivity During Non-Praying Days
Ramadan is a time of spiritual retreat – we are able to invest in the extra good deeds and gain more reward than at any time of the year. It is meant to be the most productive time of the year for us on a spiritual, social and physical level but this isn’t always the
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Jewels For Engaging Your Children This Ramadan
Alhamdulilah Ramadan is well under way! After the first 10 days, it is beneficial to renew your intentions so you don’t experience the mid-Ramadan slump. Ramadan is a month of forgiveness, mercy and generosity where each individual focuses on two aspects: ibadah (worship) and ‘iadah (attributes of one’s character). It is common among many Muslims,
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TEDx Youth: Get Your SPARK
Earlier in April this year, I was honoured to be invited as a speaker at an independent TEDx* Youth event held at Effat University. I had promised to share the video recording of the talk when it was published. Alhamdulillah, it is now ready for you to watch here: Spark, Construct & Inspire In this
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Balancing Business Activities and Worship During Ramadan
Ramadan is a period of abundant blessings from Allah . As we strive to get the maximum share of those blessings, do we realize we need to make it easy for others to gain their share as well? A large number of our brethren are engaged in direct customer-interaction jobs such as counter sales, support
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The Healing Power of Prayer
In times of hardship, pain and loss, many of us attempt to find solutions in the very dunya that caused that calamity to befall us in the first place. We search for temporary comforts in people and worldly objects, all of which have the potential to break us again. Some of us find relief in
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