How to Clean Your Heart and Arrogance

1) Remember Allah(swt)

• Don’t do thoughtless Dhikr, contemplate, don’t just say without thinking. For example say Alhamdullilah, Mashahlah and ShukarAlhamdulilah during your day when it has meaning and basis that you can appreciate.

How To Refrain from Backbiting

Discussing a third, absent person negatively with others is a common habit among all and sundry, but more so among women. Women are emotional by nature, so when someone wrongs them or treats them unfairly, they easily become hurt and angry. Being naturally expressive and talkative, they can usually not restrain themselves from venting their frustrations to people close to them. This gives rise to the vicious and destructive habit of backbiting, one that ruins social relationships and makes a person more enemies than friends.

How To Rise Above Violence and Civil War in a Muslim Country

Bombing, bullets, killing. Strife and unrest prevail. Lives are in danger if people venture out of their homes. Civic life has come to a standstill; people are stuck at home. The news is the focus of attention, speech and energies. Security is scant. Food, water, basic amenities and petrol are dwindling in supply. The future (even the coming week) is uncertain. Worry, stress and despondency are on the rise, as are anger and resentment as we see our normal lives spiral out of our control.

How To Guard Your Husband's Honor as a Muslim Wife

Traditionally, occupations such as cooking, sewing, fashion designing and interior decorating were considered the exclusive terrain of women. Today, however, they have all witnessed incursions by men, to some extent. One domain, though, still remains predominantly women’s-only, and that is home-making. This is because it is woman’s innate nature to be the master of her home. As manager, guard and coordinator, she happily does the household chores and caters to her family’s needs, while the husband, more often than not the chief breadwinner, remains absent throughout the day at work.

How To Be a Good Muslim Husband

At a time when divorces are on the rise and more marriages are on the rocks than those that are not, happy Muslim couples too, are hard to come by. More and more Muslim youngsters find themselves severely afflicted by the fitnah of it being easier to commit zina (adultery) than to get married. Also, once married, they face the fitnah of the ease of falling into, and enjoying, casual flings over the cell-phone or Internet, instead of being able to sustain an invincible marital bond over time.

How To Accept the Concept of the Hoors of Paradise as a Muslim Woman

1. The meaning of "Hoor Al-`Een" as mentioned in the Qur'an:
   First of all, what are Hoor Al-`Een?
   The word "Hoor" means "A person having eyes characterized by hauar -- the intense whiteness of the white part of the eye". "Al-`Een" means large, wide eyes. Hoors are a special creation of Allah, one that He will create only for the inmates of Paradise. Hoor's are women who are described as having large eyes, with black irises contrasted against the intensely white part of the eye, luminous white skin,
   

How To Perform Wudu (Ablution)

Wudu is the Islamic process of cleansing specific parts of the body for religious rituals. It is a form of ablution, sometimes translated into English as 'partial ablution' (Ghusl, the Islamic way of bathing, is translated as 'full' or 'complete ablution'). It is necessary to perform Wudu before: