Shaykh Hasan Ali – The 6 Lives of the Soul (Video)

Shaykh Hasan Ali delivers a talk on the topic ‘The 6 Lives of the Soul’ at the ‘The Journey of the Soul’ Conference held at The Waterlily, Mile End.

KRSOne – The Power Of Future – All Seven Lessons

“There are actually people that don’t want human beings to think”

Tips for a Healthy Winter

Source: onislam.net

By: Anisa Abeytia

Winter is upon us and it is officially flu season. So, how do you plan to stay healthy this winter?  Most of us do not think about flues and colds until we already have one. Thinking about your strategy now will help you and your family stay well all winter.  So how are you going to start and what are you going to do?

Arrogance: a spiritual poison

Source: muslimvillage.com

By: Maryam Hedayat

“I am proud of my achievement”, “I feel proud being myself”, “Proud to be a father”,” and so on…we usually hear people expressing their accomplishments with pride.

Being proud or feeling of pride has become so common that it is no more seen as immodest and improper.

Pride or (takabbur) in Arabic is, in fact, a negative feeling. Pride, arrogance, egotism, self-importance are among the most malicious inner diseases of the heart and mind.

Disney is evil (Video)

How to Sit with Painful Emotions

Source: psychcentral.com

By: Margarita Tartakovsky

Feeling painful emotions, not surprisingly, can be painful. This is why so many of us don’t do it. Instead, we ignore our emotions, or dismiss them. We try to numb the pain with a glass of wine or three. We isolate ourselves. We cut or burn ourselves, or engage in other kinds of self-harm.

Basically, we turn to anything that’ll help us get rid of our feelings.“As humans, we do everything we can do to reduce our suffering and to avoid pain — emotional or physical. So it is difficult to accept the pain [of our emotions] and not try to do anything to fight it,” said Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, a psychotherapist in Sharon, Ontario, Canada.

Extremism: Isn’t It Everybody’s Dilemma?

Source: onislam.net

By: Rasha Mohammad

Extremism — what a shackling word we are used to hearing over and over these days!

Mass clashes, assassinations, protests, and violent attacks are manifestations of an extremist way of thinking or believing.

To many, extremism is linked to religion. To be religious often labels a person as an extremist — or, as average people call it, a “terrorist.”

Is the Human body perfectly designed? Why am I ugly?

By: Oyon Ajmain

How many times when we go swimming whilst we’re trying to get into the water we stop ourselves because it’s too cold, then think to ourselves, “I wish I could turn my nervous sensors off just so I can get into the water”. How many times do we get cut, then treat the wound and think to ourselves, “I treated the wound, why am I still feeling the pain? Surely our body should know that the wounds been treated and stop the pain?”