You hear a close friend of yours backbiting about you to other friends. He does not know that you can hear. You know this same friend is always nice to …
Arabic Education for our Children
More and more Muslim parents in the west are now voicing their desire to give their kids a quality Arabic education, something they themselves didn’t have. I am one such …
The Comfort Zone and the Courage Zone
Putting your first things first takes courage and will often cause you to stretch outside of your comfort zone. Your comfort zone represents things that you are familiar with, places …
Spotlight: Imam Al-Qurtabi
Imam Al-Qurtub? [died 671H/1272CE]: Ab? ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ab?bakr al-AnS?r? al-Khazraj? al-Qurtub?, also known as “the Shaykh of the Qur’anic commentators,” was a prolific scholar born and raised …
How Do You Achieve Synergy?
There are five steps that you need to follow to achieve this: · Define the problem or opportunity · Their way (seek first to understand the ideas of others) · …
Living Within Our Means
We live in an age of extremism. No, not just violent manifestations of extremism that the media tends to focus on almost exclusively. Extremism of every kind: from the way …
What is Your Response?
“Not equal is the good response and the bad response. You shall resort to the nicest possible response…” (Al-Quran, 41:34) If someone does bad to you, be patient If someone …
Activism for Change
As we know, the Glorious Quran contains many stories related to the Messengers that were sent by Allah (SWT). These stories about the great men are not bedtime stories, nor …
Building a Successful Personality
Everyone’s personality is unique. In fact, personality is the sum total of all of the behavioral and mental characteristics by which an individual is recognized as being unique. Decisions define …
Interfaith Action on Hunger: A Shared Obligation
With more than 1 billion undernourished people – many of them children – across the globe, hunger is a problem that affects all religions and nationalities. The roots of hunger …