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WHEN AN ENTIRE FAITH IS JUDGED BY THE ACTIONS OF FEW: THE DANGER OF ONE-SIDED NARRATIVES

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One of the greatest injustices in our world today is not just discrimination itself, but the way discrimination is sometimes disguised as common sense, public opinion or media narratives. For many Muslims around the world, there is a growing feeling that they are often required to carry the burden of proving their innocence for crimes they never committed. When a Muslim commits a crime, the spotlight frequently shifts beyond the individual and onto the religion itself. Suddenly, millions of Muslims are expected to explain, condemn and distance themselves from the actions of a single person. Yet when similar crimes are committed by people from other religious, ethnic or social backgrounds, the discussion often remains focused on the individual rather than the faith they belong to. This double standard is one of the reasons many Muslims feel misunderstood. Islam is a faith practiced by more than a billion people across different cultures, languages and nations. It teaches justice, mercy,...
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THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD THAT NEVER SEEMS SATISFIED

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The Human mind is the most important thing and it can become one of the loudest places in your life when the voice in it never feels satisfied. No matter what you do or what you achieve, it tells you it's not enough. No matter how hard you try, it keeps reminding you of that thing you haven't done. Even in moments you are to feel proud of yourself, that voice quietly whispers to you that you're behind, you could have done better with this or it tells you that you're not where you are yet.  There are lots of people out there who silently carry this kind of pressure in them. We all constantly smile on the outside while we keep fighting a tough battle on the inside. We wake up everyday trying to be better, wanting to do more, achieve more success, fix more and somehow, our minds still refuses to understand the little progress we're making. And with that, we begin to criticize ourselves.  Sometimes, those whispers comes from comparison. We look at people around us and w...
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REMINDER BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

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“ I had the chance to get up while most people don’t.” That statement alone carries a weight many hearts are not prepared for. Imagine laying inside a grave while still breathing… Hearing silence around you, feeling the tightness, the loneliness, the reality of what every soul must eventually face. For many people, death is only something they mention when others die. But very few truly pause to imagine themselves inside that final home down in the earth. There is this video of a brother who acted dead and was placed in a grave for a funeral workshop thing. That brother experienced something most people will never experience until it is too late, a reminder. A reminder that this world is temporary. A reminder that titles, money, beauty, pride, followers, arguments, and worldly distractions will one day lose their meaning. A reminder that every soul will eventually return to Allah alone. No friends. No family. No social status. No applause. Just you, your deeds and your Lord. Sometimes,...
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UNCHECKED ENTITLEMENT: ITS DANGER AND WHY WE MUST PROTECT OUR ENERGY

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There is this thing that many of us do not attach so much importance to but deep down, it is a painful reality many of us have experienced and yet, we rarely talk about it openly.  Many of us have lived through times when we felt like a little support from someone closer to us was all we needed, and we would have done better, but that never happened. We had to sail through almost everything all by ourselves.  There are times when all we needed were just words of encouragement, someone to tell you that you've done well but no one was really there to see what we needed and the words never came, if not being replaced by harsh words.  It is not something to deny, but a lot of people would agree that the people who have done us the least of favors, contributed little to none in our lives, never helped through our journey in life are the ones who most times feel the most entitled to our time, our energy, our focus and participation and even our successes in their own lives. It'...
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OUTGROWING FRIENDSHIP YOU THOUGHT WOULD LAST FOREVER

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Remember the quote? "Twenty friends cannot play for twenty years"  There is this kind of pain and betrayal that doesn't come from our enemies but from people we once called our own. We look at someone we once called "our personal person", the "we live and die together" people in our lives or "the brother or sister from another mother" and somehow, now they all  seem like strangers to us and the energy feels off.  The people you laughed with, the ones who knew how you started out in your life, the people you thought would be there no matter what and yet, something changed. The inside joke no longer land the same, the conversation feels forced and you sometimes catch them pretending to be happy about those things that no longer move you. And deep down, you start to hear a voice in your head saying "I thought we would be friends forever"  Outgrowing a friendship can be one of the most painful, confusing and lonely experiences and It...
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CONSISTENCY OVER DISTRACTION: THE DISCIPLINE OF MASTERY

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 In the name of the Almighty whose guidance is nothing but the only true light and by His guidance, He has brought so many of us closer or close to what we've chosen to do.  Growing up in a country like ours and the kind of environment that was created around many of us, the obsession to do many things is not something new and it's making a lot of us becoming very excellent at practically nothing.  How many times have you personally changed from this to that? How many times have we changed course in our business just because we noticed a friend flourish at a particular one and then we all decided to venture into the same thing, without considering the pros and cons?  Many of us today, we admire people who can almost do everything and we celebrate them so much, but when it comes to the real impact, influence and value, we come to understand that it's how deep they've gone that makes them a winner, not the variety. It's not how much you've done something but how w...
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COMFORT OVER DISCIPLINE; THE SILENT CRISIS OF OUR TIME

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The world we live in today is changing at a very fast pace. "What is" changes so much to "What was" in a very short period. And in all of those changes, "What is trending" rules everything.  How many times have we seen one viral song or dance, a 15-30 seconds challenge, one online influencer's routine or style... And suddenly, millions of people are doing the same thing. But talk about Discipline? Our day to day hustles and hurdles? The efforts we're putting in to stay on the right course? All of these are nowhere to be found on the trending page. And because many of us enjoy the irrelevant aspects of life, we're drowning in problems, that actually were not supposed to exist.  Let's think about some things together. Today, the level of health crisis that we suffer, from obesity, diabetes, anxiety, depression to heart diseases, kidney failure, liver problems and cancer, might not be as high as it is. They are rampant in our society today not...
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