Excellent video on how to manage time. I urge every Muslim to watch and implement these strategies. Here is some useful supplementary material:

Powerpoint presentation used for the talk: “Time Management” presentation

An outline of the talk: “Time Management” Outline

I suggest watching the video while following along with the powerpoint presentation and using the outline as a later reference.

The Question:

My husband works for a company in London. Recently he asked his boss if he would excuse him on Fridays to observe the Friday Prayer. His boss refused and my husband is unable to observe it. What is the ruling on one in this situation? Is there any action that can be done to make up for missing this prayer?

The Answer:

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In Part one I explained how chronic pain is a test from Allah (swt), and how I managed, by His grace, to recover from months of pain and disability.

http://www.suhaibwebb.com/blog /?p=263

In part two I provided a list of conditions caused by repressed anger, anxiety, and frustrations and later offer you more insight. The conditions listed here can be eliminated or alleviated using the Nine-Step Rapid Recovery Plan.

http://www.suhaibwebb.com/blog/?p=304

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As with reference to a higher purpose to our creation, tests and evils of the ages….

We have been appreciated in history as ‘beings’ of mass achievement and reform throughout the years and most victory relates to greed via wars and differences in opinions. To be fair a big number of achievements are improvements on quality of life in the west, better provisions of aid in the rest of the world, increase in unity of civilistaion and better sharing of knowledge and freedom.

Today we face different wars and battles for different kinds of achievements that some may consider route causes of evil, in terms of new ‘ways of thinking’, new acceptances associated with new perspectives and opinions that one may consider again ‘normal’ but in actual fact Haram, unjust or somewhat immoral.

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The Question:

A woman has been married for five years and has a problem conceiving. The physicians advised her to try in vitro fertilization. Is this lawful or unlawful?

The Answer:

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Asalamu alaykum,

Six trained muftis on the phone, four downstairs taking real questions all done in four different languages [Arabic,English, French, and Danish]. It can only be described as the Egyptian House of Fatwa (Dar al-Ifta).

Dear Sirs,

I request clarification of the legal status of family life insurance. I do not have a steady job and I am not insured through the government or elsewhere. I have heard that a government agency provides family life insurance, where one pays 100 EGP monthly for the duration of ten years. After this they return 20,000 EGP. In the event of death, the survivors are given the amount of all payments made up to the date of death in addition to profits accumulated to that date. Is there anything dubious about this? I hope to leave my children in a state of well being, not one of poverty.

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Building Men

“The brothers are intimidated by you,” she told me. SubhanAllah. This is not the first time I’ve heard that. “Why?” I inquired. She explained, “He [the unnamed, anonymous brother-commentator] said that brothers are intimidated by sisters in leadership positions.”

This is the second year I am the president of our campus Muslim Student Association. Why am I the president? And why for two years in a row?

Let’s check off the reasons:

- My great love of fame [auothobillah]: not quite.

- My passionate desire to lead: guess again.

- No brothers to step up to the plate: you got it!

Brothers are intimidated by me because I am in a position where no brothers would step up to take on?

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Sheikh al-Azhar Mahmoud Shaltout [May Allah have mercy upon him] wrote:

“If you ponder deeply over the questions of the faithful, found in the Qur’an, you will notice the trademark of the believer is that he [strictly] inquires about what is beneficial to him in his worship, daily life and his faith. He does not ask about the souls departure after death, how one is punished in the grave, the size of Paradise, its width and its height, or similar questions which busy the people and bring no benefit to them in this life and the Hereafter.”

Translated from Contemporary Religious Rulings that Address the Problems of the Muslims pg. 11

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