Ramadan With Zasha: Day 11

Have you ever made a heartfelt dua? Sometimes we make dua as a form of lip service. For the sake of it. It happens. However, there are times when we have felt desperate for the help and aid of Allah that we have cried out to Him. According to a hadith of the story of […]

The Power of putting things on Paper

I believe there is always power in pen and paper. Placing your learning on paper has a higher learning retention rate. This has been backed by a recent study conducted by the University of Tokyo on Science Daily. A survey conducted among university students and recent graduates has indicated that writing on actual paper can […]

Ramadan With Zasha: Day 8

There is a lot of buzz on the law of attraction and manifesting. I do firmly believe in the power of good thoughts as such thoughts attract good things in life when you hold firm faith in it. However, does this belief have space in Islam? This was on my mind, until I remembered the […]

Ramadan With Zasha: Day 7

You are in a season of life where things may get challenging.For instance, when we were younger we had school, exams and university assignments to balance, later the challenges changed with marriage, babies, sicknesses, death of loved ones, work pressure, covid-19, Easter attacks, travelling, so on and so forth. Every single year the challenges may […]

Ramadan With Zasha: Day 5

Most individuals face the dilemma of being authentic in a world where loose morals and lewd actions are celebrated. There will be many situations in life where the world may entice or even try forcing you into acting or behaving in a certain way that might be very different to your own values and upbringing. […]

Ramadan With Zasha: Day 3

Emotional burnout, anxiety and depression are absolutely common. Take what is happening around us and the chances of being affected may triple. I’m a person who advocates mental health and I’m against the stigma created around it.Having said that, I wish to bring forth how beautifully Islam has created the concept of mental health around it without […]

Ramadan With Zasha: Day 2

Sometimes everything looks so rosy on the outside. You see social media posts, jolly and happy people. In reality, most people are struggling to make it through the day. There is no perfection in life. There will be struggles, there is loss, there is hurt. In the meantime, there will be happiness, there will be […]

Ramadan With Zasha: Day 1

What you focus on grows!I have heard this statement for many years in different places and repeated in various platforms. I didn’t know how to do this back then. As humans, we are automatically conditioned towards focusing or stressing on what is not going right in our life. We exert all our energy into doing […]

Your Reminder to Keep Growing

Your Reminder to Keep Growing********************************** The brain consists of both a logical side and a creative side. As a writer in business, keeping both sides strong remains essential to produce quality pieces of content. As a child, I was never great in art and it remained something that I was constantly reminded of from others. […]