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MARRIED HEAVEN FOR MUSLIMS. 10 secrets to ensure a lifetime of blissful companionship

1. SHARED DESTINY: Each becomes the other’s lifetime companion. Now their destiny is as one. All events are now to be tackled together as a team with mutual affection and respect. 2. CONTENTMENT AND ACCEPTANCE: While the wife should accept her husband, his home and income as her lot, and always feel that her husband is her true beloved, best friend and well-wisher, the husband should accept his wife as his partner for life and not cast a glance towards another. 3. RIGHTS: Both should concentrate on being aware of each other’s rights and strive to fulfil them. This is the prescription for …Read more

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What do your friends say about you and do you care? 10 Benefits of friendship

OUR WORLD ARE OUR FRIENDS BLESSING B: Bedrocks of our life are the close relationships we have with friends and family. L: Love and respect are usually features of family ties, while love or strong like, respect and compatibility are usually the reasons why friendships continue. E: Effort is key in maintaining close family ties and friendships. S: Support is what …Read more

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Let us donate good wishes every second. Let us friend up friendship

GOOD WISHES What If we become great donors and generous hearted, and donated good wishes every second in every thought. What difference will it make? Mirza Ibraheem: What an investment to make in other people’s lives, for our better future. Mehwish Abdul Sattar: It will change the entire world. Taufiq Usman: It will make all the difference.Laraib Mushtaq: It will …Read more

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Valentine’s Day raises strong emotions and that is not always love. Tariq Saeed, Susan McKenzie and others weigh in on the debate

FACT AND FICTION The feast of St Valentine was first established in 496 by Pope Gelasius I. In pre-Christian Roman history, February 14 was a festival of spiritual love involving a fertility ritual. When the Romans embraced Christianity, they continued to celebrate this day but it became a feast of lovers, and Saint Valentine was and is considered to be …Read more

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Have you been bullied? Are there any solutions?

ARE THERE ANY SOLUTIONS FOR BULLYING? When www.goodnewpress.net wanted to examine the issue of BULLYing a whole gamut of emotions overtook me and I wanted us to look at solutions, if possible. But before we can look at solutions we have to understand what bullying is,what causes it and what we can do to reduce bullying. WHAT IS BULLYING? Bullying …Read more

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Friends and friendship are the greatest blessings. Friend up with these blessings

BLESSING FOR MORE FRIENDS B: Bless up and bless your world including your friends. Build friendships by being a friend. Be a friend and you will have a friend and friends. L: Look at all the things that impact upon your life positively. Look at your friends and make sure you are the best friend to your friends. E: Experiences …Read more

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Time has stood still in some countries where widows and their children live in dire poverty. www.goodnewpress.net offers free publicity to charities in your country. Details here:

LIFE IN PAKISTAN IN 2011 Imagine the UK or the USA 100 years ago when women were dependent on men and if the breadwinner died, it was a disaster for the widow and her brood. Things may have changed somewhat in the West, but not so in countries such as Pakistan where widows have no or limited career options and …Read more

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Hotbed of love or bloody battleground?

Bed of Roses or Bed of Thorns? All over the world, people yearn to get married or have the equivalent of marriage. Often, for many people, relationships do not run smoothly and we find a very different experience from the one we expected. LOVE MARRIAGES OR ARRANGED MARRIAGES? Do you think love should be the only reason to marry? For …Read more

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DREAMS MATTER: Does your family have a dream? Mine does, says Susan McKenzie

ROLLERCOASTER RIDE Life is like a game of Snakes (Chutes) and Ladders, with its ups and downs. I have always thought that dreams, visions and decisions can provide some form of anchor or direction to our lives, and keep us sailing along despite the ups and downs. But could the dream of someone from an earlier generation have an impact …Read more

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SCHEHERAZADE SUCCESS

THE GREATEST LOVE/HATE STORY The most wonderful love story is the story of Scheherazade. The king had been betrayed by his first wife and he proceeded to take his anger out on a new bride who after the first night would always be beheaded. Some 1,000 women suffered the same fate until a feisty young lady came along, despite protests …Read more