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With Ramadan now fast approaching, you may start hearing ulama and others highlighting the importance of preparing early. If you’ve been with this series, though, you’re way ahead. In part 1, we covered ways to start improving your salaah. Part 2 then focused on those time-zapping bad habits, such as Facebook and Twitter addictions (among others). Now, in part 3,
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It’s so true we’re all trying get somewhere every single day of our lives. Some of us are clearly focused, driven by goals and ambitions. On the contrary some of us struggle to get anywhere because we are clouded by the stress and strains of life and have no idea where to start. Trying to
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Read articleThe Different Masks of Laziness (Part 2)
How to Cure Laziness In the first part of this series, we learnt about the definition of laziness and the different faces of laziness in our lives. Today, we’ll attempt to list a prescriptive cure to laziness that would help us attack this diease once and for all. 1. Turning to Allah (swt) often and
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