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 Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) said: “You will be treated the way you treat others.”
The following was an intersting study made on just the headress.
http://www.mediacurves.com/Culture/J6652/ReportJ6652.pdf

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Heartfelt

 
Giving thanks, expressing appreciation and to render one’s thanks to someone who has shown favor is a very important concept day in and day out. However, through experiences I have found that giving thanks to Allah should be done in the good and the bad times. I once had a friend make this statement and [...]

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Degree of love and respect for others

 
The following are sayings that I came across which are so close and dear to how the Prophet (PBUH) when dealing with each other: 
 The Prophet (SAW) said, “The first person to offer salam receives ten virtues, whereas the person responding gets only one.” We should try not to hurt anyone’s feelings and to be very [...]

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Whole Fruits vs. Juice boxes

Even though the weather has not changed yet, a glass of “fruit juice” is something I can not avoid drinking. However, I have recently started to pay more attention to the idea of what I am assuming that I am pouring into this glass is it healthy. I must admit that I can overindulge in [...]

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Relating Life

 The Four Wives
Author Unknown
Once upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had 4 wives. He loved the 4th wife the most and adorned her with rich robes and treated her to delicacies. He took great care of her and gave her nothing but the best. He also loved the 3rd wife very much. [...]

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Gift of Words

 
Drop A Pebble in the Water
Author Unknown
Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash, and it is gone; But there’s a half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on, Spreading, spreading from the center, flowing on out to the sea. And there is no way of telling where the end is going to be.
Drop [...]

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Year-Round Deed

 
 Planting plants and trees in appropriate places is an act of great merit. Anas has quoted the following Prophetic saying: -
“A man plants a tree or sows a field and a man or bird eats from it, the tree or field becomes a source of sadaqah for him.” (Bukhari and Muslim)
 Wow, when I first read [...]

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Guiding by sacrifice

 
  Love of the Sahaba(RA): Abu Bakr & Ali(RA)
 The noble Sahaba ra of Rasool Allah proved their love by sacrificing their own selves, their lives and their properties for him. They loved him more than their own selves, their parents and their family. The Seerah is filled with display of this utmost love. Some incidents are [...]

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Not so difficult

Calories Burned In Prayer
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM

Last week at the sports medicine conference, I talked to a researcher from Kuwait University. Dr. Jasem Ramadan presented a lovely little study called Bioenergetics of Islamic Prayers, measuring the amount of oxygen and calories the physical movements of the prayers burned.Five standard prayers (Salat) are mandatory every [...]

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Is Life Fair?

 
  Humour and Our Prophet (Peace and Blessing Be Upon Him) 
Islam is a complete way of life and a complete life is made up of sorrow and happiness, test and result, good and bad and both aspects of life with all its dimensions. Life cannot be one sided. There cannot be happiness only, nor can [...]

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