The Private Self(ie)

Source: time.com

By: Wendy Shalit

The pressure on girls today to take sexy selfies comes out of a culture that routinely equates modesty with shame, instead of recognizing it for what it really is: an impulse that protects what is precious and intimate. Teenage girls need to know that when boys ask them for naked pictures, they can—and should—say no. It’s not merely because those pictures can find their way onto social media. (Even without the aid of hackers, such photos seem to have a way of slipping their iPhone collars and circulating with astonishing ease). A better reason to say no is that, having set a higher standard, maybe someone will write a love poem for them instead.

The Islamic standard of excellence in work and life

Source: http://seekersguidance.org/

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani shares seven principles for making our work an act of worship. These are seven principles understood clearly from the Qur’an and Prophetic Sunna:

Gaza and Syria, why the double standard

HOW BIG CAN A DROP OF WATER BE?

 

We know the saying “Oh, it’s just a drop of water in the ocean.” There is no standard size for a raindrop, but the size tends to be quite small throughout the world except in one place. In Marshall Islands, a country in the Pacific ocean, raindrops can reach half an inch in diameter!