S Suliman Squinching, teeging and smizing are all arts to selfie posing. If you don’t know what a selfie is, I’d implore you to remain ignorant but this article might *cough* enlighten *choke* you. If you have never heard the word selfie, teeg or smize before, it means you are …
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What does Islam say about Music and Singing?
In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful, The worst-case scenario in the event of being inflicted with a disease is when the one involved refuses to believe that he has been inflicted with that disease. The way this phenomenon is accepted and recognised in diseases and illnesses …
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Question: My question is that should we believe in horoscopes and signs, because sometimes I read things about my sign and the prediction that is written for my sign upsets me, if it is something scary. I want to know whether this information is true or useless. Please clarify this. …
Read More »Productive Life Coaching : Social Media Addiction
PRODUCTIVE LIFE COACHING: SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION Nowadays, if you’re not on social media, you feel like you’re not truly living in the 21st century. In everything from businesses to personal and professional relationships, social media has a strong presence and, with that, a luring temptation to spend even more time …
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Question RESPONSE TO ‘SEXUAL DIVERSITY IN ISLAM’ Answer In the Name of Allah, Most-Beneficient, Most Merciful As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh. Introduction: The purpose of the following research paper is to understand the Quranic narrative of the story of Lut (alayhis salam) in its proper context and to present authentic …
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By Syed Iqbal Zaheer http://www.youngmuslimdigest.com/ The social sites that nets billions of youth, are dominated by free-thinkers, atheist and the gay. These sites help the youth cut off their elders from themselves. A sea divides father and son, mother and daughter. They are liberated from such ties by the Satanic …
Read More »True Stories Proving The Evil Consequences of Free-Mixing
What follows are some of the results of a study on mixing undertaken by some Muslim social science researchers. When we put the following question: ‘What is the Islamic ruling on mixing as far as you know?’ The results were as follows: 76% of respondents said “It is not permitted.” …
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She tucks her two beautiful children into bed. She looks at their innocent little faces as she kisses them good night with a soft dua to Allah to always protect them and keep them happy. She had a long day of chores and cooking as well as taking care of …
Read More »It’s ‘digital heroin’: How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies
By Dr. Nicholas Kardaras Susan* bought her 6-year-old son John an iPad when he was in first grade. “I thought, ‘Why not let him get a jump on things?’ ” she told me during a therapy session. John’s school had begun using the devices with younger and younger grades — …
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