On Aasiya Hassan’s Murder by Naazish YarKhan

When I was deciding on a husband, one of my criteria was that my spouse be the kind of guy who’d never hit me. A calm temperament was absolutely essential. My husband claims I had low standards. “Wouldn’t you expect personal safety in any marriage?” He teased. Growing up in... 
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The Human in us all

Some time ago I was reading a blog post where someone was talking about being tired of Gandhi being put on a pedestal, that he was actually racist and nationalistic. Now I’m not going to pretend to know enough about Ghandi’s motives or beliefs to say what I think of that but someone commented... 
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You Are How You Eat

I grew up in a household where dinner time was and remains to be an integral part of family life. As a young child and through my teenage years all the members of the family would sit down together to eat dinner in the evening after work and school. At weekends, if we were all in, we all ate together... 
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I Have Reason to Believe…

“That’s what I said,” she said. “No, you said, B, like boot. Notice what I am saying: P, pa, park. “Ba-rk,” she replied a little defensively. “No, no, no, no. Look at me. Park…” They call it blind perception . A seemingly oxymoronish name, the term refers to the strange, almost “blind”... 
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Woman with Epilepsy Declines Cure

Ibn ‘Abbas once said to me (’Ata bin Abi Rabah), “Shall I show you a woman of the people of Paradise?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “This black lady came to the Prophet (peace be upon him) and said, ‘I get attacks of epilepsy and my body becomes uncovered; please invoke Allah for me.’ The... 
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Keys to Happiness

Awareness, Communication, Acceptance, Contentment. These 4 basic concepts cover so many aspects of a healthy attitude, healthy mind and understanding of what it is to be truly ‘Happy’. Happiness itself has become more of a concept than a feeling. It’s sort of like love, there are so... 
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A Gnostic Inquiry of Apocryphal Magnitude

“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.” Shana Alexander Not long ago I was browsing through the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Middle East and came across an interesting work of art from the book “Anatomy of the Human Body”... 
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You’re a Natural Beauty!

We all are! Embrace it. For clarity sake, i should say that i’ve never been the kind of woman who worries about her looks, i’m a ‘wash my face with water (sometimes soap) and throw my hair in a ponytail (usually brushed)’ kind of woman. However i’ve wanted to focus more... 
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Green Tea Health Benefits

My Migraine Saga I’ve been having daily migraines for 2 years now, they started off less frequent and less severe and got to the point of being daily, i switched to Decaf (coffee) and it helped for a while. Then one day, i started getting them daily again. I’ve had an MRI, nothing sinister... 
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BBC Cancer Guide

One in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer during our life. Some cancer, such as breast, are becoming more common, while new cases of lung cancer fall away due to the drop in the number of smokers. However, while the overall number of new cancers is not falling, the good news is that successful... 
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