She opens her wardrobe. Two dozen dresses of red, yellow, orange, pink and you-name-it colours are hanging in there. After a cursory glance, she bangs the door shut. “Mom, I have nothing to wear for the party. I’ve been begging you to take me shopping since ages. You never listen to me. What do I
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5 Stress Busters to Enhance Your Productivity
In this deadline-demanding, rat race society, it seems like we’re pushed to run and run everyday beyond our capacity. Suddenly, one day passes like an hour, and an hour seems like a passing mosquito. But now, instead of making stress a scary green monster that’s ready to eat you alive, we’re going to find out
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Keeping Productive in the Last Age
Arghhh!!! Save yourself, the end of the world is nigh – the apocalypse is here, doomsday is approaching, HEEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPP!!! Okay, well, that’s certainly ONE approach to tackling the concept of Islamic eschatology and the End Times, which the Prophet spoke so regularly about. Perhaps not the most productive, however! In sha Allah this article will
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App Review: Lift Me Up
Sometimes, even when we’ve got our goals listed down and we seem pretty sure of what needs to be done next, there may be some pauses greeting us along the way. Maybe we haven’t felt better since catching that flu bug two weeks ago. Maybe we came back home to find it being broken into.
Read articleAyah # 15 – Productive Breaks You Never Thought About!
15 AYAAT. 15 PRODUCTIVITY POINTERS. “And [they are] those who, when they spend, do so not excessively or sparingly but are ever, between that, [justly] moderate” [25:67]. You look at your desk. Papers piling up. Emails unread. Still so much work to do. The room full of toys. Dishes on the worktop, dinner still needs
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Productive Professions – Interview with a Journalist
Welcome to the Productive Professions interview with Sister Tasnim Nazeer. Throughout the Productive Professions series we hope to inspire our readers to pursue professions that are beneficial to the Ummah, and to cultivate skills that are useful in society. Enjoy! Sr. Tasnim is a freelance journalist/reporter for BMG’s Global Islamic Finance Magazine. She has written for
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