ATTACK: “Kill Them Where You Find Them”
“I don’t get this weird video game! I mean is it really necessary to shoot the zombies? That’s not very nice, you know!”
“Mom! If you don’t shoot them, they’ll eat your brains out!”
Let Go
Just TWO WORDS, but their IMPACT on life will tear you apart from the inside-out. And I just learned this the hard way i.e. by losing some of my beloved friends. I know you’re probably thinking ‘friends’ can “come & go”.
Pick on Someone Your Own Size!
Much has been said about Ahmed Mohamed. Oh, I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of him by now. You know, the skinny yet dangerous Muslim teenager who was arrested in front of his peers while wearing a NASA t-shirt for building and bringing a homemade clock to school to impress his teacher.
5 Ways to Achieve Peace of Mind
“All that we are is the result of all that we have thought. The Mind is everything. What you think is what you become.” ~ Gautam Buddha
One of the things that have gone viral in our society nowadays is that people in every category of life lack happiness. We see students that consider their education a burden, keeping relationships a burden, jobs a burden and so on. We have also seen that with the passage of time, our knowledge and understanding of the world has increased greatly. On the contrary, our lives have become much more complicated and unhappier than ever before. So clearly increasing our knowledge of the world will not benefit us in this regard. Happiness and sufferings are therefore two different states of minds and hence to understand that we need to understand our mind. What is growth? It is when you become mature. When do you become mature? It is when we understand what life is.
Parenting through the Eyes of a Woman
If you follow Brothers Nader and Raz on their YouTube accounts, you’ll know they both recently uploaded 2 raw, real and truthful videos about what it’s like to have kids. While I laughed and nodded my head in agreement to almost everything they had to say, I couldn’t help but think a woman’s perspective was needed in this ongoing series of “the realties of having children”. I’m not quite that ambitious to put myself out there on YouTube, so I figured a blog post would suffice instead. This is what I feel about having kids:
10 Beautiful Aspects of a Muslimah
1. Her Obedience to the Creator: A practising Muslim man loves to have a practising Muslim wife; who knows that the life of this world is nothing but a test from her Lord; giving her an opportunity to come closer and closer to Allāh (ﷻ) doing more and more good deeds to please Him, restricting herself from the desires of her inner self that go against the will of her Creator.
Seeing the Light Part 2
I recently thought to myself, I am no longer in “survival mode”, I have finally entered “revival mode”.
My Nafs Is a Spoiled Toddler
I took my nephew to the shops with me today and he stood at the toys aisle asking me for everything he wanted. He asked for a cricket bat, but it looked damaged and I couldn’t find another one. Then he asked for a goal post, which he already has at home. His next request were the toy guns, which he has had plenty of, and has broken plenty, too.
14 Short Tips for the Last 10 Nights of Ramadan
1. Do not let your ‘performance’ until now affect your last 10 days. The moment of forgiveness could be today or anytime in the coming days! It is not all lost! If you sincerely wish it could have been better – Chin up and get ready to make it your best yet! Start with a positive, sincere intention!
Am I Supposed to Keep Everything to Myself Now?!
I’ve been on a Twitter break these last few days and the urge to use it hasn’t been because I want to read what others are talking about, but because I have no outlet for my own random thoughts. Is that sad? Vain? I don’t know. But it’s just like, “Am I supposed to keep everything to myself now?!”, even though that’s what normal people do. It is strange that sometimes I feel the need to share certain thoughts in some form, yet I don’t think it necessary to just say out loud. I mean what’s the point of putting them “out there” at all?
