The race for good deeds starts with huge momentum at the beginning of Ramadan, but somewhere down the race some of us slow down. With only few days left till end of Ramadan, we need to make that one last sprint in order to finish strong and be among the winners! Nothing is more disappointing [...]

The latest issue of the 'Message Magazine' is here again!   What do you get when the month of Ramadan and the Olympic Games coincide?   ‘The Hunger Games’   The new issue will explore a range of topics on this noble month that will keep all sporting enthusiasts quite satisfied.   Some of the [...]

  Prophet Muhammad (s), said:   ‘The deeds are considered by their intentions, and a person will get the reward according to his intentions.’ (Al-Bukhari)   We usually make an intention before we perform good deeds such as fasting or giving sadaqa (charity). However, we often tend to forget to make an intention for the [...]

Talking to your child about it all will help you see how he or she feels and will give the child a chance to make decisions. Involving children in deciding whether to fast or not helps give them a lot of pride in their action when they fast, as well as a lot of stamina [...]

In the first 50 years or so of my life I had been married, divorced, remarried, had 5 children, 4 grandchildren and lived under some poor and some rich conditions. I had been able to visit almost every state in the United States and visited 16 other countries around the world, including:   Monaco, the [...]

Planning without implementation is useless.   In some countries, there is no defined concept of long-term planning and solutions to immediate problems.   Others, who do so, are normally faced with the problem of “analysis-paralysis”, spending too much time on fine tuning solutions which lack basic resolutions. The result is simple; there appears to be [...]