I pray I get a really good job soon🥹 So I can actually spoil my mum.

As usual, I believe some people have cleaned their camera lenses, eagerly waiting to capture images of the moon tonight and perhaps begin their usual remarks about this moon not being a first crescent. Unfortunately, I have bad news: the crescent will still not be visible to the

O Allah, allow us to witness many more Ramadans in our lives.

Eid Mubarak to the hospitalized, the unjustly imprisoned, the displaced, the refugees, the homeless, the grieving, the workers who had to spend it away from their families, and anyone who woke up to no one wishing them a blessed Eid. May Allah lift all of your burdens.

listening to the Qur'an frequently makes memorization easy.

Please study the Qur'ān. I beg you, don't just listen to the sweet voices or just read in Arabic. Study it in your preferred language and make sure to think over it. Muslims are thinkers. Muslims are ponderers. Muslims are readers. Pleased read. Read Islamic contents. Read

Dear Zuha, I know you are inquisitive about how our religious days fit into the modern world. It is a brilliant question. I will be breaking this down for you so you can clearly see that Islam is not a copycat. It is a complete system with its own deep, independent roots.

Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه said: “I am not worried about whether my dua will be responded to, but rather I am worried about whether I will be able to make dua or not. So if I have been guided to make dua, then I know that the response will come with it.” (Al-Awayishah p. 117)

Sleeping with Quranic recitation playing has become part of me. I just want the Quran to be the last thing my ears hear every single day. Anyone??

Sam Altman is “unconstrained by truth,” an OpenAI board member told @ronanfarrow.bsky.social and Andrew Marantz. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/DrbIzE

A Turkish proverb says, “If a father bathes his children, both will laugh, and if a son bathes his father, both will cry.” Such is the painful beauty of life, where love comes full circle with time.

The New Yorker article about Sam Altman has SO many insane anecdotes. Take this one: "As the technology became increasingly powerful, we learned, about a dozen of OpenAI’s top engineers held a series of secret meetings to discuss whether OpenAI’s founders, including Brockman and

The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Not anymore. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. nytimes.com/2026/04/08/bus…

“Nigerian film journalism has always had women at its centre. Before there was a name for it, they were doing it; establishing that Nollywood deserved serious attention…” Joseph Jonathan lists 15 Women Who Have Shaped Nigerian Film Journalism⬇️ afrocritik.com/15-women-who-h…

🌍 The LéO Africa Institute & Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS Uganda & S.Sudan) are pleased to announce that applications for the Griots Fellowship 2026 are now open. In West African tradition, the Griot is the keeper of memory, the voice of community, and the shaper of collective identity.

Did this shii last week. Called my dad to check on him. He was telling me the situation of things on a particular matter and it required money to solve. it was urgent and he wasn’t telling me to intervene but I knew it was bothering him. I had like about the same exact amount in

The beautiful paradox of growing up. You work so hard to become an adult just to realize the child was the destination all along.

I learnt something profound in my last romantic relationship a while ago. This has helped me a lot. Then, when my girl came to me complaining about a situation, my immediate approach was to proffer logical and practical solutions to the problem. And to me, it was the best thing