Love/Romance

Love/Romance

Love and hurt go hand in hand but that should not stop us loving. Two ways to approach love

You can’t love without getting hurt! There is no doubt that when a relationship comes to an end, the one who did not want the relationship to end will feel hurt. Even during a relationship when we experience disappointment we may also feel hurt. At these times we should think how we can be more trusting, caring, loving and forgiving. Here are two examples of love and how to approach love.  Khadijah, the first wife of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Twice widowed, she had given up the idea of marrying again. However, she got to know Prophet Muhammad (before he was …Read more

Love Story – Experience of love
Blessings Today

Love Story – Experience of love

MARVELOUS MYSTERY OF LOVE  For a long time I have been dwelled in understanding this mystery. FAHM O SHAOOR Really love is beyond all the so-called fahm o shaoor. Fahm o shaoor means the realizing of wiseness in Urdu. It means the realization of wiseness or in this case a greater realization about love. Fahm o Shaoor means the way of …Read more

100 QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED
Love/Romance

100 QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED

100 QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU GET MARRIED These 100 questions are from the website http://www.haqislam.org/pre-marital-questions/. Here are my answers. Before you get married do yourself a favor and work through these questions and offer them to your intended. If they are not prepared to do it then that is a red flag as to the level of their co-operation and …Read more

100 Questions to ask yourself if you are a Muslim contemplating marriage or a non-Muslim thinking of marrying a Muslim
Love/Romance

100 Questions to ask yourself if you are a Muslim contemplating marriage or a non-Muslim thinking of marrying a Muslim

Today I answered these 100 questions. I think it is important to answer these questions if you are thinking of marrying, or remarrying. I have shared these answers to encourage you to spend some time writing your own answers. http://abetoday.com/2012/04/07/100-questions-you-should-ask-yourself-before-you-get-married/ I think everyone should ask 100 questions and when I find 1,000 questions I would ask them of myself and others. There is …Read more

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

Goodness versus evil. When Goodness comes back to you
Love/Romance

Goodness versus evil. When Goodness comes back to you

A TALE OF GOOD ACTIONS VERSUS EVIL (Main Characters) 1. A housewife who loves to make chapati 2. A poor man – a hunchback – a man with a grotesque bump on his back. A man who can’t stand up straight and looks all hunched over. Not a pleasant sight. 3. A son who was no longer around. SETTING A …Read more

Out of the fire and into the frying pan. 5 points to think about before you marry and divorce
Love/Romance

Out of the fire and into the frying pan. 5 points to think about before you marry and divorce

SET FORMULA FOR A SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE  I don’t have a guaranteed formula for a successful marriage but I do have some ideas on how to make a successful life which includes being reasonably happily married.  These are principles and ideas taught to me by my mother who has never divorced. She has been married twice. Her first husband passed away …Read more

Is there a workable recipe for matchmaking? 4 tips on Marriage and Love the Bill Cosby way
Love/Romance

Is there a workable recipe for matchmaking? 4 tips on Marriage and Love the Bill Cosby way

ARRANGED LOVE  When we talk about marriage Western style – it is about two people getting together, usually feeling and saying they are in love and wanting to make it permanent. In the East, where some form of arranged marriage is organized – love is said to develop after marriage. ARRANGED MARRIAGE Here the parents and relatives have assessessed whether …Read more

Go for Gold: 5 ways to avoid the divorce courts and head towards 50 golden years
Love/Romance

Go for Gold: 5 ways to avoid the divorce courts and head towards 50 golden years

What are you headed towards? The divorce courts or your golden wedding anniversary?  BLESSED MARRIAGE BLESSING B: Bonds of love need to be reinforced to keep the bonds strong, stronger and the strongest. L: Loving, long marriages are revered by society when we celebrate silver, golden and diamond wedding anniversaries. Loving, long marriages are the best love stories. E: Exemplary …Read more

Beautiful love: 10 blessings of love, beauty and journeys
Advanced Blessings

Beautiful love: 10 blessings of love, beauty and journeys

BEACONS OF BEAUTY BLESSING  B:  Beautiful life, beautiful love – we can express it all. L:  Lap up the beauty and love all around and say thanks and give thanks for all you see, feel and what touches you. E:  Exceptional beauty abounds – etch the bounty of beauty upon your mind and soul and let it stain you with …Read more

Daughter-in-law and mother-in-law woes or wonders. Rehana Matri points the ways to blessings
Love/Romance

Daughter-in-law and mother-in-law woes or wonders. Rehana Matri points the ways to blessings

TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT We use black and white to highlight the great opposites. When it comes to love and hate the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is highlighted. If not love and hate then difficult at times, especially when in Asia the daughter-in-law comes to live in her mother-in-law’s home. For some that is too close for comfort. GENERATION …Read more

No one loses anyone because no one owns anyone. Do you really believe that?
Love/Romance

No one loses anyone because no one owns anyone. Do you really believe that?

YOU CAN’T OWN ANYONE Paulo Coelho in Eleven Minutes wrote: “No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.” QUESTIONS After reading such a quote the following questions come to mind: Do we really never own anyone? Can we really embrace such …Read more

Easy marriage! In Islam it can be easy
Love/Romance

Easy marriage! In Islam it can be easy

HIGH DIVORCE RATE In some countries the divorce rate has gone beyond the 50 per cent mark. What has happened? What should have been living happily ever after has turned into a complete disaster. RUNNING SCARED Droves of people are now too scared to marry and adultery and fornication have become widespread and socially normal. THAT COMPLICATED? THAT DIFFICULT? Is …Read more

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