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Effective Strategies for Coping with a Mentally Ill Parent
Dealing with mental illness in a loved one generally requires a lot of patience, understanding, and empathy. When that mentally ill person in your life is a parent, it can lead to a mess of emotions. As a child, you may be too young to understand why your mom or dad is behaving differently from […]
7 Ways to Build Resilience & Overcome Challenges in Life
What is resilience? Resilience is the ability to handle life challenges with strength and grace so you don’t lose yourself in the aftermath of grief and tragedy. It’s the way you adjust your mindset and thought patterns to not just survive, but thrive, during rough times. Resilience means to keep going and to keep pushing […]
The Lullaby I Sing to My Daughter
In the very first days after becoming a mom, I was trying to get my baby to sleep when I suddenly remembered an old Nasheed I used to love as a child. As the near-forgotten words came to memory, I realized what a beautiful and perfect lullaby it was to lull my daughter to sleep. […]
Tips to Beautify Your Real Home – Your Mind
If you think about it, where do you live 24/7? It’s not the places you frequent, like your workplace, cafe, or the gym. It’s not even your apartment, condo, or house. No, beyond that, the home you live in 24/7 is your mind. And while we make such an effort to keep our living space […]
Amazing Dua for Ease in Childbirth & Labor
Sayyiduna Abdullah Ibn Abbas (ra) is reported to have mentioned that the following Dua should be written and placed close to the woman who is experiencing hard labor at the time of giving birth. بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ لَا اِلٰہَ اِلَّا اللّٰہُ ٱلْعَلِيُّ ٱلْعَظِيمُلَا اِلٰہَ اِلَّا اللّٰہُ الْحَلِیْمُ الْکَرِیْمُسُبْحَانَ اللّٰہِ وَتَعَالَىٰ رَبِّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِیْمِوَالْحَمْدُ لِلّٰہِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِیْنَكَأَنَّهُمْ […]
The Sunnah Method for Making the Right Decision
If you think about it, our lives revolve around decision-making. We start to make decisions the moment we get up from bed in the morning to when we set the alarm at night for the next day. We make most routine decisions without giving much conscious thought to them. But there are some important life […]
