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My husband passed away when our daughter was 9 months old. Many people, in their attempts to comfort me said, it’s a good thing you only have one...

Business people often say: “work smart, not hard.” In other words, instead of spending every waking moment working on something, make strategic m...

A friend of mine recently told me she was diagnosed with a condition that causes infertility. She’s newly married and in her twenties. While I kn...

Most of us in the Western world live compartmentalized lives. We eat, sleep and live between four walls. We are transported from place to place i...

Prophet Zakariyyah (as) was old in age and his wife was barren, and yet he still yearned for the blessing of a child. He would go to where Marya...

When we perform the pilgrimage to Makkah and circle around the ka’bah seven times, we are affirming that Allah is the centre of our existence. We...

A letter to my daughter: Out of all the other people in the world, Allah (swt) chose Prophet Musa (as) to experience a unique journey that had m...

Most Egyptian men, at some point or another, have to serve in the Egyptian army. Usually when they’re done with their education, they are called ...

For both cultural and financial reasons (as well as other reasons), many family units with children live in the same homes as their extended fami...

A letter to my daughter: I used to hate the oft-quoted “think globally, act locally” slogan. To me it was just an excuse for people to not dream...

Even for the most disciplined among us, being in a continuous state of gratitude to God is a difficult endeavor. But it is something that we cons...

In the first nine months of my daughter’s life, she was a very needy baby. I hardly had any sleep and her constant fussing drove me up the wall. ...