Almighty Allah has bestowed upon married women the gift of pregnancy and nurturing a child within us to increase the Ummah. I would like to start off by congratulating all mums to be and wish you all a happy and blessed pregnancy! So here it is: the second instalment to the pregnancy diaries that will take
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[Book Review] What Language Do You Speak?
Whether it be business or marriage, the key to any relationship is communication, by mostly using language. Are languages made up of only words? Apart from speaking our native tongues, we speak an emotional love language as well. Emotional love languages are the “ways that people speak and understand emotional love” as defined by Gary Chapman in his book The Five
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[Productive Thinking Series – Part 8] Strategies for Amazing Self-Esteem
This is the last in a series of eight articles on Productive Thinking. The series aims to address the challenges that Muslims face on many levels when it comes to productivity — namely the mental, the emotional and the physical. It aims to tackle thinking and mindset on the mental level, negative emotions like anxiety, stress,
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[Interview] Secrets of a Productive Muslimah: Na’ima B. Robert
At ProductiveMuslimah, we believe the ultimate secret to a successful Muslimah is that she strives with sincere intentions and uses all the resources around her to achieve the highest stations in Paradise. We are always looking for the ‘secrets to productivity’ and wanted to explore how some of the Muslim women today manage time effectively
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[Better Habit-Making – Part 2] A Scientific Perspective
In Part 1 of this series, I explained how in the Islamic worldview the success of forming a new habit depends on the state of the heart. By keeping the heart clean from vices and full of remembrance of Allah , it is in man’s nature to change his actions for the better. In this part, I
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[Reader Discussion] What are Your Favourite E-Mail Hacks?
Alhamdulillah, we’ve been sharing many tips and resources on how you can work better and be a truly productive Muslim. Now it’s your turn to help our readers! Every month, we will host a Productive Muslim’s reader discussion thread where you can share and learn from each other tips that help you become more productive.
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