If you’re not protecting your mental health right now, you’re either struggling or a superhero. Even before the coronavirus pandemic threw a wrench in things, there was plenty to stress about. Concerns about everything from dirty dishes to climate change can affect your mental health. Just remember: You control your mental...
If someone asks you, “What is your identity?” how would you answer this question? Would you state your name (I am Ibrahim), or job title (I am a doctor), or nationality (I am Palestinian), or ethnicity (I am an Arab), or lineage (I am the son of the great so...
Spices – it is India’s proudest heritage, and the history of Indian spices is almost as old as the history of spices itself. The business and activity of Indian spices can be traced back to the ancient and medieval ages where spices played a significant role in bolstering the Indian...
As you know, youthfulness is a great power that is full of vigor and activity. If we do not use it in a constructive way, it will explode to destroy what others have constructed of advantageous establishments. Most of us live idly and sleep more than required. We go out...
“O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another…” (Quran 49:13) Originally from Algeria, I studied in very different cities including New York City (USA), Quebec City (Canada) and Osaka (Japan). Due to...
People, whose native language is something other than English, might face certain barriers while carrying a label of an international student in the USA. One such barrier can be Cultural Shock. Prior knowledge about these barriers combined with adequate preparation, aid international students and others, adapt in a better way,...
Peace be upon all of you. While I have sat to write this article, Central Asia is suffering from a huge rate of obesity and overweight (almost 49.25% in the adults). This obesity comes along with many different comorbidities like diabetes mellitus, hypertension, arthritis, menstrual problems, increased chance of cancer...
Did the coronavirus make you reconsider learning how to boost immune system function and your overall health? I bet the answer is yes. Unlike never before, the topics of hygiene, immune function, and natural health remedies are amongst the biggest questions inside people’s heads, and for good reason. Avoiding catching...
Education. Learning. Access to information. These are some of the fundamental elements that can no longer be looked upon as insignificant in the twenty-first century. With the aid of modern technology and discoveries, education and learning have reached new heights. The age-old concept of sitting in a class with a...
In his comprehensive advice to Ibn ‘Abbaas, may Allah be pleased with him, and all Muslims after him, the Prophet (PBUH) said: “Know Allah in prosperity, and He will know you in adversity.” [This addition was authentically attributed to the Prophet (PBUH) cited by At-Tirmithi and others, and a number of scholars classified it as...
When the U.S. White House coronavirus task force announced that social distancing needed to continue through April, it cited a stark death toll: As many as 240,000 Americans could die from COVID-19 even with efforts to mitigate its spread. As horrific as those numbers are, it could be a lot...
In a matter of months, the world has been transformed. Thousands of people have already died, and hundreds of thousands more have fallen ill, from a coronavirus that was previously unknown before appearing in the city of Wuhan in December 2019. For millions of others who have not caught the...
Ramadan is one of the most important times in a Muslim’s life that comes once in every year. It is a chance for a believing Muslim to replenish his or her soul by practicing the norms of Islam more repetitively, more accurately, and more sacredly. In that holy month all...
Allah has blessed us with a religion that is complete and perfect for all times and places. Allah tells us in the Qur’an: “This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as your religion” We also have in the Prophet (sall Allahu aalayhi wa sallam), the best of...
Freedom! freedom! freedom! Man wants to be free from all chains. He thinks that freedom is his right though naturally he is not free from chains. In addition, chain is everywhere. He just doesn’t think about it. When a newborn baby comes to this world, he is free from all...
Youth is the prime age in the life of a person. It is a time when health, vitality, spirit and passion all are at their optimal and a person feels he or she can do everything and whatever they undertake in life they could achieve it. This adrenaline flow and...
Women have been in leadership for many years. Since the beginning of civilization, women leadership has played a vital role in shaping society at large. Among many such women of substance, one of the mentionable personalities is Bilqis (R.A.), the queen of Saba (Sheba) in the 6th centuary B.C. Saba...
Back in childhood, I’d want to do everything, save writing. If anyone told me to write, I could even turn the world upside down to run away from that apparently horrifying task. If my teacher gave me a pencil, I’d rather chew on it instead of writing with it. I...
A total of 1.5 billion Muslims reside in the world in almost 56 countries. The Quran is recited and followed widely in the world. Being a common human being every one of us may be got the questions deep inside our brains and in our hearts that, Why were we...
Do you always dream of the years ahead when you will hit your first million, memorise the Qur’an, or break some world record? Or perhaps you jump, to a few months ahead – getting published, married or launching an online business. Whatever your big dream is, you know what I’m...
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