Dear Reader Asslamo alykum, We’re preparing lots of new material for Ramadan including a new ProductiveRamadan.com website and an all-new ProductiveRamadan online course to help you fight your productivity challenges during Ramadan! InshaAllah we’ll be releasing the new course in June 2012. Please take a moment to fill this brief survey to let us know
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Maximise Your Productivity With Critical Thinking
Are you ever tempted to take what you read or see for granted, without really taking a closer look? If so, you may be skipping out on important insights. Read on for tips on how to develop your critical thinking skills. ”Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to
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Productivity Tips for Every Aspiring Entrepreneur
Are you an entrepreneur wondering how to make your business work? Whether you’re just starting out, or maybe need some timely reminders on how to keep your business growing, these tips can help. Entrepreneurship is all about speed. The faster you work, the sooner you fail. The sooner you fail, the quicker you learn. The
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How to Gain Tranquility in Prayer (Part 4)
Read Part 1, Part 2 and 3 here! Practical Steps to Gain Khushoo A Practical Guide to Gaining Khushoo Within Salah Repeat the words of the Adhan This is a subtle method to signal to your body and mind to draw away from any worldly affair you were engaged in. It’s an invitation to stop feeding your thoughts on
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How to Gain Tranquility in Prayer (Part 3)
Read Part 1, Part 2 and 4 here! Practical Steps to Gain Khushoo Khushoo is a means and a consequence. Khushoo is a consequence of true faith and yaqeen (certainity) upon the words of Allah [SWT] and on the accountability of our actions. It is a means to gain tranquility in this racing, tempting world
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How to Gain Tranquility in Prayer (Part 2)
Read Part 1, Part 3 and 4 here! Obstacles to Attaining the State of Khushoo Before suggesting ways to acquire khushoo we should ask ourselves why we haven’t achieved it yet or why we lost it. Hence let’s examine the factors that hinder us from experiencing khushoo. External These are the outward elements that capture our attention whilst we
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