You, as an involved parent, encourage your children to fast during the blessed month of Ramadan every year. But there is another exceptional month of the year in which the first 10 days are more blessed than any of the days of Ramadan – the first 10 days of Dhul-Hijjah! The Prophet said: “There are
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Tips for Controlling Your Tongue and Your Temper
We are often put in situations that test our patience, leading to anger and irritability, which makes resort to bad language, complaint, lying, or backbiting. Sometimes even a pleasant situation with friends can open the door to gossip and, eventually, slander. Here are some tips on how we can control our tongues and increase in
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[Ramadan Series] Creating a Habit of Fasting After Ramadan
The blessed month of Ramadan gives us tremendous opportunities to seek forgiveness and ask for Allah’s mercy. Special prayers and excess charity become a norm in many households. However, once Ramadan comes to an end, some people go back to their old ways of skipping a few prayers, or delaying them and committing sins without
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[Ramadan Series] 5 Ways to Give ‘Physical’ Sadaqah
The verb ‘give’ doesn’t necessarily denote voluntary charity as having to give away money, yet most of us absolve our obligation for charity by spending lots of money during Ramadan to various causes. Though these are all noble acts – what about other lasting charity acts that we can do physically? The Prophet said: “Every
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[Ramadan Series] Overcome Fatigue and Be Productive
In the unrelenting world of the 21st century, where break in work is equal to a comparative regression in achievement, an echoing complaint from the hearts of the Muslim ummah is that of constant fatigue. My first instinct in writing this article was that it would be easy; after all the Prophet would spend nights
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[Ramadan Series] I’tikaaf: A Spiritual Retreat
It is that time of the year again, when we find ourselves wondering what this spiritual retreat called i’tikaaf is. Here are the answers to some of the rumours you hear! What is i’tikaaf? It is devoting oneself in a mosque for a specific period of time for prayers, supplication, reading Qur’an and invocations, and
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