Maximising the Hemline
Way before it reappeared on the fashion runways, the maxi skirt has long been a staple in the modest muslimah’s wardrobe. It’s length and silhouette makes it perfect for both hijabis and non-hijabis who want to feel girly and sophisticated. The maxi skirt is a strong trend for 2011, so it’s a good time to […]
What To Do When You Lose Your Phone
The most common disease in the new generation is losing things, especially their electronic gadgets, like mobile phones, and the expensive mobile handsets are really painful to lose, not to mention the contact information, photographs, music collection and a whole host of other data that you lose with it. Your phone number is unreachable when […]
The YouTwitFace* Elections
Much ado has been made about this year’s “watershed” election that seemed, overnight, to have vanquished the average Singaporean’s reputation for political apathy and saw an unprecedented six opposition candidates winning Parliamentary seats. Three things made this election vastly different from its predecessors: the relaxed rules on political campaigning via the Internet, the nature of […]
Purifying your wealth
As much as the obligations in Islam invite each Muslim towards prosperity, they are equally contributive to the society. Islam does not entail a person to think about one’s self only but the whole society is taken under consideration. From relatives to neighbours to the poor and needy, the way of life portrayed by Islam […]
Brideorexia
When people talk about empowering women, the image that pops into my head is not that of a skinny, toothpick of a woman – trying miserably to relieve her body of whatever fat it has in order to look “perfect” and make it to the list of the “hottest women.” What comes to my mind, […]
Bringing Sunnah Back [Video]
Blessings of the Black Seed 2
If the Prophet SAW has explicitly mentioned the usage of black seed as a cure for everything, we should not really question its usage and affectivity. As I mentioned in my previous article that not many Ahadith and Quranic verses are there to know its exact usage but research by Muslim scholars and scientists has […]
God is in the details
The great advantage of living in a multicultural country is that people get to know each other’s religion and culture. It happens that some people even visit you to announce the “Good News” and try to convert you. You do not have to fear if your faith is strong. I always welcome them, Christians, Jehovah’s […]
Chronic ‘Faster’
Besides the obligatory fasting in the month of Ramadan, Prophet Muhammad SAW used to fast on other special days throughout the year. Muslims try to follow our Prophet’s sunnah by observing the fast on those special days, which have huge rewards and benefits in this life and the hereafter. Following are the days on which […]
Appreciating Allah through the lens
Every now and then I find myself playing the role of an insignificant paraphernalia in the gears of this worldly machine. Striving, studying, working, I often find myself drifting away from my Creator in the sea of fortune and career; it is times like these when I like to shut off the distractions of this […]
Standing Tall in Flats
They’re pretty, comfortable and you can stand the whole train ride from Pasir Ris to Joo Koon in them. Some of us practically live in them! Fashionistas may turn their noses up at flats, looking down at them while standing artificially tall in their platformed heels. “It just doesn’t give you height,” They grouse. “Heels […]
Alienware: A Laptop that Costs More than A Motorcycle
From abacus to the palmtop, the computers have always given us much more than we asked for, be it communication or office presentation or entertainment, a computer has got all in store for you. Meet Dell Alienware, the Rolls Royce of laptop computers, the king of the ring, a state-of-the-art machine that is worth every […]
Happiness, Materialism and Suicide
Right from time immemorial, happiness is one concept that has baffled and tantalized us as humans. Now, in the 21st century, with all the sophisticated and advanced technology that we have, happiness eludes a majority of the world’s population. Billions of people are not only miserable with their lives, millions are taking the bizarre but […]
Choosing Home over Office
In today’s world when people go bonkers over women empowerment aka (for most of the people out there) giving women the RIGHT to be educated, work and what not – it is almost unacceptable for someone to NOT WANT to study/work. Take my example, for starters: ever since I left university at the brink of […]
Muslim Reform Movements in India
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]ndia is home to 161 million Muslims which is the 3rd largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia & Pakistan. Yet the plight of majority of India’s Muslims is no better than the Muslims of the third world countries. Most of them are drowned in abject poverty, illiteracy & complete lack of basic human […]
