Nevermind if you failed to succeed. Just don’t fail to try. Nevermind if you failed to study.. Just don’t fail to learn.
Continue reading...My Biggest Lesson of 2017
We plan so much for success. But we don’t usually plan for failures. Planning for failures means to avoid it. Or to minimise the impact of it. Insurance doesn’t just come from financial planners. They...
Continue reading...Rope
The problem with our community is that there are far too many judgement based on too much assumptions. “Hold fast to the rope of Allah,” as the tradition goes. But we are debating over how...
Continue reading...Power = Wealth = Energy
Power, wealth and energy. What do they have in common? They cannot be destroyed. Only transferred and changed.
Continue reading...AR RAHEEM (The All-Merciful): A Woman’s Worth
قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالى: أَنَا الرَّحْمنُ خَلَقْتُ الرَّحِمَ وَشَقَقْتُ لَهَا اسْمًا مِنِ اسْمِي، فَمَنْ وَصَلَهَا وَصَلْتُهُ وَمَنْ قَطَعَها قَطَعْتُهُ“ Allah the Exalted said, ‘I Am Ar-Rahman. I created the Raham (womb, i.e. family relations) and derived...
Continue reading...AR RAHMAN (The All-Compassionate): About My Father
My late father’s name was Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah. It means “Servant of The All Compassionate, son of a servant of God.” Perhaps there’s a slight variation to the Romanised spelling but the translation in...
Continue reading...Different Paths, Same Destination
Today I learned that sometimes there is more to people than meets the eye and that it takes only a few minutes of effort to understand them for you to see the true value of...
Continue reading...Breath of Dragon
I soughtFor a furnaceTo forge truth. What I gotIs the breathOf a dragon.
Continue reading...Worst of the Worst of Tyrants
If the atrocity of a tyrant does not die with him, there’s nothing to be joyful about his death. And remember, worse leaders are among us, and the worst are the ones that we ourselves...
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