Category: My Books

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Insights: How this Reluctant Solopreneur Managed to Escape the “Bucket of Crabs”

﷽ Languages and colloquialisms evolve with time. There are phrases and words from my childhood that are absolutely alien to most young people today. And then there are the new phrases that are added to a language every few years, becoming part of everyday conversations. Nowadays, you might have come across the use of the … Continue reading Insights: How this Reluctant Solopreneur Managed to Escape the “Bucket of Crabs”

Current Affairs, Health and wellness, Home and Family, homeschooling, Inspiration, My Books, Parenting, Pleasing Allah, Reflections and Reminders, Social Psychology

Staying at Home: This is “Our” Time

If a person, of any age, showed immunity to the prevalent rat-race culture fueled by this oversharing of information with others i.e. they refused to get sucked in by the trend of being obsessed with who just did or acquired what, and vice versa, they were considered weird or outcast.

Children, Computers and Internet, Current Affairs, Hadith, Home and Family, Inspiration, My Books, Pleasing Allah, Professional Work, Reflections and Reminders, Retrospection, self publishing, Social Psychology, Writing

The Case for the Organic “Influencer”

بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيم It amazes me nowadays just how great a change in global ethos and cultures the past decade or so has brought about. Those who live in their own little bubbles, however, might not have much of a clue of what I am talking about. It is possible that all such people … Continue reading The Case for the Organic “Influencer”

Books, Islamic Knowledge, My Books, Professional Work, Reflections and Reminders, Retrospection, self publishing, Writing

The Price of Success

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ I awaken gradually, the metallic leg of the steel bench next to my head feeling cold against it. I spot sneaker-clad feet go by. The airport terminal seems to finally be very quiet. I blink several times as sleep leaves my eyes. I sit up. The tablets seem to have worked. … Continue reading The Price of Success

My Books, Pleasing Allah, Quran, Writing

Into the Qur’an: Let it Enrich Your Soul and Your Life

‎بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـانِ الرَّحِيمِ ‎السَّلآمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ الله وبَرَكآتُه to all my blog readers and subscribers. Hope you are all doing well. I am sorry that I have been unable to update this blog as often as I would like (monthly). However, the blogging hiatus has not been because of some writer's blogger's block or … Continue reading Into the Qur’an: Let it Enrich Your Soul and Your Life

Home and Family, Home Education, homeschooling, Inspiration, Islamic Knowledge, Marriage, Motherhood, Muslim Women, My Books, Parenting, Pleasing Allah, Professional Work, Quran, Reflections and Reminders, Retrospection, self publishing, Social Psychology, Writing

Standing on a Bridge, Aspiring to New Vistas

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ Perhaps you have been wondering where/how I am? And, maybe why/to where I seem to have disappeared? Why you are seeing less of me? Yes, I will admit, things in my life are different now. However, this change did not happen overnight. Life has a way of throwing surprises at you. … Continue reading Standing on a Bridge, Aspiring to New Vistas

Islamic Knowledge, Marriage, Muslim Women, My Books, Pleasing Allah, Professional Work, self publishing, Writing

Announcing My Eleventh Book, “Making it Work”

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ Earlier this month, by the grace of Allah, I self-published my fourth book on Muslim marriage, and it is called, Making it Work. After my first book, Traversing the Highs & Lows of Muslim Marriage, which was published by IIPH, I self-published The Single Muslim, and The Muslim Newlywed myself, on Createspace. … Continue reading Announcing My Eleventh Book, “Making it Work”

Inspiration, Muslim Women, My Books, Professional Work, self publishing, Writing

4 Cafés That Boosted My Writing

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ It has long been observed in history, and also practically proved true through recent studies, that tea-houses and cafés helped nurture and polish the writing of many a writer and poet in the history of mankind. In the modern-day, coffee houses definitely help telecommuters and freelancers boost their creativity. One of … Continue reading 4 Cafés That Boosted My Writing

Education, Inspiration, Islamic Knowledge, My Books, Pleasing Allah, Professional Work, Quran, Reflections and Reminders, self publishing, Social Psychology

My Latest Book, “True Heroes: The Prophetic Guide to Leadership”

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـانِ الرَّحِيمِ So, yeah, here I am. Finally. 😇 You must have noticed that I have been a little missing-in-action on this blog, since many months. Except for the "totally-frustrated-and-fed-up-with-society-as- a-misunderstood-unschooling-mother" rant that was my last post. *Chuckle*. Anyhow, I was actually working hard on my next book project, among other ongoing things, … Continue reading My Latest Book, “True Heroes: The Prophetic Guide to Leadership”