Breathe In, Breathe Out, Carry On
It was a blustery February morning, and just a few days before my 40th birthday, when my cell…
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A Dialogue of Flowers
The wind gently touched my soft petals. They slightly swayed back and forth to the beat of the…
Questioning Techniques and Wait Time
Socrates is the first known philosopher to have used questioning in a systematic way with an ethical purpose…
Ability or Disability: An Unforgettable Experience at a Specialist School
Every human is precious with a special quality, and there are quite many of them at specialist schools.…
Remembering the Super Victim: A Letter from a Villain’s Mom to a Superhero
My husband had never been a family man; he was always focused and devoted to his work. For…
Beauty in the Sky
It was a shiny, blue sky when I heard the sound that cut through my head, and nailed…
The Anchoring Effect How Our Prior Knowledge Affects Our Perception
Evaluations and decisions play an important role in our social life. As we want our evaluations to be…
Creation of the Zygote (Nutfah)
As all the living beings, human being is also created from a male and a female. Gametes (germ…
Prophets as Teachers
Prophets are the spiritual teachers of humanity. As the people selected by God to deliver His message to…
Backbiting is unforgivable
Islam strictly forbids spying into people’s sins and secrets and backbiting. It also forbids talking ill of people…
The Merchant and The Parrot
A well-to-do merchant planned a long business trip to India. He was a good man and looked after…
Al-Andalus: The Lost Civilization
How many people now know who Ibn Hazm, Al-Mu’tamid, Ibn Tufayl, Abu Ishaq al-Butruji were, or even where…
Bishr b. Harith
All human beings are fallible, liable to err and to sin. This is true of even the most…
Profound compassion
To consider the good, the welfare and happiness of others and to prefer them above one’s own, to…