Funny how sometimes pages and pages full of words and sentences fail to impart even a single message while sometimes a few beautifully strategically placed words can change the entire essence of a person. I have always been a big fan of learning the golden words whenever and wherever I could. It has been a beautiful journey and as I rewind my life, I can always see myself in search of this treasure consciously and unconsciously.

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Oh did you just see Tania? What was she wearing today? So Out of fashion, like Oh my God! I would never even wear it while sleeping! oh that french braid doesn't suit her at all. Looks like she is having a bad hair day..

Welcome, my friends, to your own sweet world.

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Everyone of us has different version of what the definition of entertainment is. Some of us would want to play video games, some of us would want to watch a movie, some of us would want to read a good book and well the list goes on. However, a lot of stuff that we do in the name of entertainment comes under the category of haraam, for example listening to songs or watching movies that are inappropriate for watching with family etc.

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"Real" is such a subjective word. What is real to you may not be real to me and vice versa. In my own life, I have been taught different meanings of what "real" is.

When I was in Lyceum, my accounts teacher in my A1, before revising on the concepts of double entry told us in a jovial manner " back in the 90's, coke was considered to be the real thing"
Just so that you know, you can view it here

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On a tree, far far away in a forest was a nightingale. Lonely and upset, it looked hither and thither as darkness started encompassing the earth with the setting of the sun.

What made it upset, one may ask. was it the loneliness or was it the darkness? Nay, it was the longing to reach home. And the diminishing light was making the task impossible.

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 Imagine a world of darkness. A world where there are no greens or blues or yellows but only black. Darkest of the darkest black. Where there is no sunshine after rain and no morning after night. This is not any unrealistic world. But a world which can be visited anytime by just closing our eyes…



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God has made us one of His best creations. If we look around us, there are so many beautiful wonderful things created by God, but truly, we have been blessed by being made the best.
If we look at the human body, it is one of the most complicated systems. when I was in primary school, each student had to go to assembly and say an astonishing fact. When I had my turn, my teacher asked me to tell everyone that, Laid end to end, the blood vessels in an average human body can stretch 2 times around the earth.

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Mirrors are truly fascinating. They give us an exact replica of not only ourselves but also each and everything in our surroundings. We trust the replica in the mirror so much that even though we have never seen our own faces in reality, yet we always believe the image as our own, whenever we stand opposite to it. But the funny part is that we never fail to believe that any of the things in the mirror are real. We never believe we can get of any of the objects that the mirror show. Because we know that it is nothing more than an illusion. We know that there is nothing beyond the empty images. For, once the mirror is broken, all lies will shatter



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 I was reading Suarah Baqarah today. Came across verse 74 which really made me wonder how beautifully Allah  describes ideas.

"Thenceforth were your hearts hardened: They became like a rock and even worse in hardness. For among rocks there are some from which rivers gush forth; others there are which when split asunder send forth water; and others which sink for fear of God. And God is not unmindful of what ye do" (verse 74, Surah Baqarah)