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No. I Won’t Blow You Up.

“No. I won’t blow you up,” is a response I had to give more times than I care to admit. I spent my high school years in a small southern town with small southern town values, some good and some not so good. Many people were super nice, some super racist (which is probably the…

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Poem: Thinking…

There’s a bustling silence roaring through my ears The sound of quiet intoxicates my mind The serenity of silence speaks and I am thinking These rumbling thoughts send contemplation screaming through my mind I am up A pensive roaring drumming through my mind A beating brain of blood flow There’s a bustling silence roaring through my ears…

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7 Ways to Conquer Negative Thoughts

We’ve all been there. Those moments, days, weeks or even months when your brain reminds you of how flawed you are as a human being.  As soon as you deal with one mistake another creeps up and the little voice inside your head inserts doubt and fear into every thought, every action. Negative thinking seeps…

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Poem: Love

I’ve imagined a land where Love can breathe, so inhale me these lovely dreams. Painted into reality, images only Love can see. I love Love for Love’s sake. I love Love for Allah’s sake. I love on maximum Pour wholeheartedly into whatever my Lord degrees to be I am the lover of Love It is…

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5 Tips to Avoid Overeating During Ramadan

In this beautiful month of Ramadan in which the Qur’an was revealed to our beloved Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), we fast. Yes, we fast from food and drink but also from worldly desires, indecent behavior (such as wasting food and eating excessively), bad language etc. It is a month in which we increase our good deeds,…

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Short Story: The Light of the Moon

Moon was born on Earth in the age of darkness, six trillion years after her brother, Sun. Sun, born during the age of light, was blaringly domineering. He convinced himself he was greater than his illumination-challenged sister. When Moon was very small, Sun told her that she was made from the darkness around them and…

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The Climb

When we look back at how we got the calluses on our hands and the sores on our feet, we’ll remember the mountains we climbed and how we conquered defeat. We were tired and damn near dying but we were strong and alive. It’s the hardest thing we ever had to do — Living. Falling….