Saufiyah Ali
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Every morning:
- Phone off.
- Wudhu.
- Fajr prayer.
- Qur'ān.
- Morning adhkār.
- A glass of water & raw honey.
- Intentional gratitude.
- 99 minutes of focused work.
This is everything you need to change your life.
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How I structure my routine around the 5 daily prayers:
FAJR فجر
- gratitude
- qur'ān
- focused work
- breakfast
DHUHR ظهر
- workout
- nap
- lunch
'Asr عصر
- creative work
- meetings
- self-education
Maghrib مغرب
- dhikr
- dinner
- family time
'Isha عشاء
- journal
- du'ās
-
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The "million $" barakah morning routine:
• Tahajjud - 5am
• Fajr - 5:30am
• Qur'ān - 6am
• Morning protection du'ās - 6:30am
• Get sun - 6:45am
• Shower - 6:50am
• Facial exercise - 7am
• Gratitude - 7:10am
• Breakfast - 7:20am
• Focused work - 7:35am
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You don't need to:
• Disappear for 6 months
• Delete all social media
• Avoid gatherings
• Stop hobbies
You just need to:
• Create a routine around salāh
• Focus on your ākhirah
• Eat halāl & exercise
• Wake up for Fajr
It's not easy, but it's rewarding.
Be the 1%
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Islāmic classes — "too expensive"
Latest iPhone — "i deserve this"
Healthy halāl food — "too expensive"
Non-zabīhah fast food — "convenient"
Hajj & 'Umrah — "luxury expense"
Designer bags & clothes — "i'm staying trendy"
30 min of qur'ān recitation — "too busy"
30 min of
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Your future in 10 years depends on:
• The qur'ān you read today
• The food you choose today
• The salāh you perform today
• The routines you make today
• The accounts you follow today
• The way you handle problems today
• The people you surround yourself with today
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10 things I'm grateful for:
Alhamdulillāh for my hair.
Alhamdulillāh for my feet.
Alhamdulillāh for my skin.
Alhamdulillāh for my ears.
Alhamdulillāh for my eyes.
Alhamdulillāh for my brain.
Alhamdulillāh for my teeth.
Alhamdulillāh for my heart.
Alhamdulillāh for my blood.
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Why are Muslims more depressed and anxious than ever?
By design:
- no qur'ān
- no prayers
- more music
- fake personas
- no life purpose
- processed food
- delayed marriages
- 8 hours in a cubicle
- lost traditional roles
- less righteous friends
- success measured in $
- weak
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My August daily non-negotiables:
• Dhikr walk
• 5 daily salāh
• Home workout
• 120g halāl protein
• 8 hrs biphasic sleep
• 90 min personal brand work
• Memorize 1-3 pages of Qur'ān
What are yours?
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If I could go back and give advice to my 18-year-old self, I'd say:
1. Learn Arabic
2. Don't listen to music
3. Memorize more Qur'ān
4. Seek knowledge from scholars
5. Pray 5x a day and make lots of du'ā
6. Get rid of friends who pull you away from religion
These 6 things
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The cure for boredom is to create.
Start a blog.
Build a brand.
Develop apps.
Shape your body.
Expand your mind.
Grow your connections.
You're not going to know how and that's exactly the point.
Do, learn, repeat.
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Remove these things from your life:
- Gossip
- Idle talk
- Tabarruj
- Tight clothes
- Drugs & alcohol
- People-pleasing
- Non-zabīhah food
- Harām relationships
- Wasting time on social media
You add blessings by subtracting the harmful.
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5 things you'll never regret doing:
· Learn Arabic
· Pray 5 times a day
· Memorize the Qur'ān
· Follow the Prophet's ﷺ eating & sleeping habits
· Dress in true Islāmic modestly (not Western modesty)
You'll never regret making deen a priority.
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You want to win in this life and the next?
Prepare for what that looks like:
- long nights in prayer
- early mornings with Fajr
- give in secret
- face judgement for holding on to qur'ān & sunnah
- say "no" to free-mixing gatherings
- go against your nafs
- sacrifice time for
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To algorithm—bring the Muslims who vibe with:
🕋 islāmic life design
☕️ qahwah
🎧 self-improvement
🍵 intentional mornings
🧳 travel
🔬 quantum physics
📷 aesthetics
💸 halāl business
📖 qur'ān
🧠 neuroscience
🕊️ holistic medicine
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Self-improvement is basically perfecting your islām:
Meditate → Dhikr.
Set goals → Intentions.
Wake early → Post-Fajr.
Learn → Seek knowledge.
Routine → 5 daily prayers.
Gratitude → Be thankful [14:7].
Eat healthy → Prophetic foods.
Work out → Body is an amānah.
Nature
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The most interesting Muslims are a walking paradox.
Ascetic millionaires.
Spiritual athletes.
Modest creators.
Life is richer when you break free from the paradigm society tries to trap you in and live by your principles.
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Long morning routines are a scam
You don't need:
• Journaling
• 30 min meditation
• 1 hr workout sessions
What you need:
• Stay up after Fajr
• Recite qur'ān
• Start your day with barakah
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What I thought would bring me contentment:
- 500K followers
- Quitting my 9-5
- Traveling the world
- Aesthetic place to live
What actually brings me contentment:
- Good health
- Living to please Allāh
- Making my mom & dad smile
- Unprocessed & wholesome foods
- Keeping my
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95% of a sustainable islāmic business is a healthy founder:
• Stay active
• Take breaks
• Pray on time
• Eat zabīhah halāl
• Salawāt & istighfār
• Spend time in nature
• Do recreational activities
• Renew your intentions daily
Your greatest asset is your spiritual and
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Do dhikr - not meditate
Set intentions - not goals
Pray Fajr - not wake up early
Eat prophetic - not eat healthy
Thank Allāh - not the Universe
Treat body as an amānah - not workout
Contemplate creation - not enjoy nature
Schedule around 5 prayers - not a routine
You're here for
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The apex lifestyle:
- earn halāl income and give % to charity
- live to please Allāh in all you do
- qur'ān is your best friend
- eat unprocessed food
- strong family ties
- dhikr walks
- 5 prayers
- gratitude
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Study the Qur'ān.
Study the ahādith.
Study the principles of Tawhīd.
Study the lives of the Sahābah.
Study the life of the Prophet ﷺ.
Study the names and attributes of Allāh.
You will become powerful.
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No job is worth compromising your:
• Īmān
• Health
• Time with family
Your work is 100% replaceable in a job.
Your time is 100% irreplaceable in life.
Stop working on weekends.
Stop missing salāh for deadlines.
Stop replacing Qur'ān with late-night emails.
Don't let a
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Islāmic habits > everything
• Dhikr
• Miswāk
• Istighfār
• Read qur'ān
• Biphasic sleep
• Stay up after Fajr
• Eat in moderation
• Maintain family ties
• Fast the sunnah days
• 5 daily prayers + tahajjud
• Morning & evening adhkār
What am I missing?
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If you want to increase your productivity: increase your worship.
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Muslimah law of aesthetics
#2
Eat healthy & nourish your body. Choose zabīhah halāl meat. 80% of being fit is eating right. If you eat good, you'll look good & feel good.
- Eat more protein
- Drink a lot of water
- Cut out processed foods
- Eat fruits and vegetables daily
- Use
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Creating content is servitude (not a hustle).
It's a way to spread good (not to go viral).
Do it to please Allāh (not to please people).
Make content to benefit others & yourself & seek Allāh's reward.
That's what matters.
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We live in a binary world.
Every action has an opposite.
Every decision has a consequence.
Every creation has a pair:
• Heaven & Hell
• Angels & devils
• Male & female
• Light & dark
• Water & fire
• Life & death
• Truth & falsehood
• Good & evil
The only constant
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The best doctors in the world are:
• Dhikr
• Sleep
• Qur'ān
• Walking
• Sunlight
• Self-control
• Unprocessed food
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Hard pill to swallow:
Most of your limitations are self made. If you truly rely on Allāh, there's always a way — your nafs just won't let you see it.
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Don't be frugal when investing in yourself.
Spend your money on:
• travel to see Allāh's creation
• modest thobes & abayas
• seeking knowledge
• Hajj or 'Umrah
• islāmic books
• self-care
• charity
• health
Mind, body, soul — invest in them all. You will thank yourself
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How I changed my life in 6 steps:
Step 1 - Pray 5x a day
Step 2 - Work out everyday
Step 3 - Start memorizing Qur'ān
Step 4 - Start an Islāmic business
Step 5 - Quit my harām 9-5 hedgefund job
Step 6 - Found my purpose in serving Allāh
Do everything for the sake of Allāh and
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True wealth is found in God-consciousness, contentment, and islāmic asceticism.
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Your competition isn't other people.
It's your self-doubt.
It's your fear of failure.
It's your lack of discipline.
Compete against that.
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Your brain is a supercomputer.
Update its software:
- Qur'ān
- Experience
- Prophetic habits
Protect its battery:
- Dhikr
- 5 daily prayers
- Biphasic sleep
Clean its hard drive:
- Journal
- Istighfār
- Contemplation in nature
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If you woke up today having:
- Someone that cares for you.
- Intentions and purpose.
- Halāl food on the table.
- Roof over your head.
- A space for prayer.
- Fast internet.
- Good health.
- Clean water.
Alhamdulillāh your life's blessed.
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Muslimah law of aesthetics
#1
Beautify yourself at home. Don't dress up & wear heavy makeup in public where non-mahram men can observe you. Dress well at home and in women-only gatherings to keep that temptation away.
Even if you're alone:
- Take care of your appearance
-
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10 things killing your imān:
- Gossip
- Overeating
- Harām food
- Not making du'ā
- Skipping prayers
- Listening to music
- Not reading qur'ān
- Watching soft p*rn
- Talking with the opposite gender
- Spending time with bad influences
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Become the best version of yourself:
1. Dhikr & du'ā
2. Qur'ān & sunnah
3. 5-10k steps a day
4. Sleep right after 'Isha
5. Pray fardh + sunnah + tahajjud
6. Fast white moon days (13/14/15)
7. Eat with 1/3 food, 1/3 water, 1/3 air
This is your path to excellence.
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Most of your problems can be avoided by:
• Praying 5x
• Reading Qur'ān
• Eating halāl food
• Taking a dhikr walk
• Having righteous friends
• Learning about your religion
• Marrying a God-conscious spouse
• Giving % of monthly salary to charity
• Practicing zuhd
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Muslim women who cover like the wives of the Prophet ﷺ are top-tier demure.
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Hiring a cleaner once a week for your house is worth your mental focus & peace.
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The biggest scam:
17 years in school.
4 years in college.
43 years in a job.
"Retire" & wait for the angel of death.
Wake up. It's not too late to rewrite your path.
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Can we talk about how strange it is to be a Muslim who practices what's in the Qur'ān & sunnah, and then be looked at weirdly by other Muslims for actually practicing what's in the Qur'ān & sunnah?
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Optimize Your Day:
Morning
- Fajr prayer.
- Deep focus.
- Clear mind.
Afternoon
- Seek knowledge.
- Learn new skills.
- Grow intellectually.
Night
- Relax and unwind.
- Reflect on the day.
- Prepare for tomorrow.
Balance leads to barakah.
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Life is short.
Start the halāl business.
Move to a muslim country.
Memorize the qur'ān.
Do the things you think you can't.
You're not too late. Allāh's timing is perfect. Trust the process.
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"I don’t have time for prayer or qur'ān"
How can you not have time for the One who created time?
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Beat procrastination.
The 2-minute rule works wonders:
• If it takes less than 2 minutes, do it immediately
• Breakdown tasks into 2-minute steps
• Use the momentum to tackle larger projects
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Not praying and committing sins is 100x harder than praying 5 times a day and doing good deeds.
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10 underrated blessings in life
- Family time
- Nature walks
- Du'ās for protection
- Nourishing halāl food
- Slow mornings with Fajr
- Recite and listen to qur'ān
- Talk about Allāh with loved ones
- Earn money in a way pleasing to Allāh
- Watch sunset & reflect on Allāh's
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A Muslim isn't just a Muslim.
They're also:
• A person who works to control their nafs
• A person who prays 5 times a day
• An observer of Allāh's creation
• A follower of the sunnah
• A seeker of knowledge
• A reader of the qur'ān
A Muslim lives these values to
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Got barakah?
Prayer.
Earning halal.
Avoiding sins.
Reading qur'ān.
Eating together.
Good intentions.
Waking up early.
Gratitude to Allāh.
Upholding ties of kinship.
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Make that du'ā.
Get up and pray.
Calm your heart with dhikr.
Start that islāmic business.
Go on nature walks and contemplate.
Fix your diet and eat zabīhah halāl.
Do it already for the sake of Allāh.
You're missing out on blessings.
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“Why didn’t I sleep well today?”
“Why wasn’t I productive today?”
“Why don’t I have enough money?”
It’s because you don’t have barakah in your time, money, or sleep.
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Your body is fed by proteins, carbs, and fat.
Your soul is fed by dhikr, sleep, and gratitude.
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7 uncomfortable truths about life:
1. Justice will be inescapable on the Day of Judgment & no one can hide.
2. You will stand alone before Allāh with no excuses.
3. This dunyā will always disappoint you.
4. The time you waste is gone forever.
5. Life is a test & not all will
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The most productive people have barakah in their:
1. Time
2. Money
3. Sleep
Here's how you can increase these blessings ↓
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Self-improvement is basically perfecting your Islam:
Meditate → Dhikr.
Set goals → Intentions.
Wake early → Post-Fajr.
Learn → Seek knowledge.
Routine → 5 daily prayers.
Gratitude → Be thankful [14:7].
Eat healthy → Prophetic foods.
Work out → Body is an amanah.
Nature
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Islāmic businesses using music or exposing the 'awrah of women to promote their products and services are wild.
Where's the barakah in that?
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High-value Muslim blueprint:
1. Pray 5x.
2. Stay clean.
3. Don't speak lies.
4. Show good akhlāq.
5. Work out every day.
6. Dress modestly and neatly.
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It’s been 3 months since I left my $135k/year job.
What's happened so far?
- I actually enjoy waking up at 5am.
- I made half my yearly salary in 30 days.
- I realized all limitations are mind games.
- I found more remembrance of Allah brings more blessings.
Alhamdulillāh.
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Sometimes I forget how rich I am.
- I have a clean space to make wudhu & pray.
- I have hot & cold water at the turn of a tap.
- I can buy halāl food from any store.
- I have a kitchen to cook in.
- I have a bed to sleep in.
Sometimes I forget how blessed I am by Allāh.
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if you want to increase your productivity:
increase your worship.
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The world is setting up for the arrival of Dajjal (anti-Christ) and 'Isa (Jesus may peace be upon him)
They aim to normalize it through TV shows and movies so it seems normal when it happens.
Think AI.
Think Messiah.
Think Black Mirror.
Stay aware. Protect yourself. Read
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The only 3 things you need to make money:
prayer + qahwah + laptop
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When people say "it doesn’t feel like Eid"
Reflect.
Eid isn't new clothes.
It's growing obedience.
Eid isn't endless food.
It's forgiveness of sins.
True celebration is in submission and forgiveness.
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Top spiritual exercises:
- Writing intentions (sharpens your focus)
- Giving charity (cleanses your wealth)
- Contemplating (increases your faith)
- Reading qur'ān (feeds your soul)
- Sleeping (restores your energy)
- Praying (connects you to Allāh)
- Fasting (builds
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Reset your spiritual compass.
To purify the Nafs (the self):
1) Practice daily gratitude.
2) Filter your inputs (what you watch, read, hear).
3) Seek solitude.
4) Avoid gossip and negativity.
5) Engage in constant remembrance of the divine.
6) Limit indulgence in excess.
7)
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Islāmic dopamine hits
• Du'ā
• Dhikr
• Salah
• Tahajjud
• Giving charity
• Reciting qur'ān
• Seeking knowledge
• Saying alhamdulillāh
• Contemplating in nature
• Breaking your fast at iftār
• Eating a halāl nutritious meal
• Quality time with spouse & family
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Saufiyah's Law of Gratitude:
Gratitude (G) = Blessings (B)
Ingratitude (IG) = 1/B
Gratitude is directly proportional to the increase in blessings.
Ingratitude inversely decreases blessings.
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The paradox of islāmic wealth:
The more money you make, the more you thank Him. The more you thank Him, the more your blessings increase.
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Eid Mubarak.
• Don't abandon du'a.
• Don't abandon dhikr.
• Don't abandon your soul.
• Don't abandon the masjid.
• Don't abandon the qur'ān.
• Don't abandon your spouse.
• Don't abandon your parents.
• Don't abandon your children.
• Don't abandon your community.
•
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Rethink your time.
Time's ticking, and it's gold. Start seeing your hours as your most precious capital.
2 hours of binging shows = zero return on investment
2 hours of learning a skill = huge return on investment
Most people think they only need money to invest.
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Your heart is a city.
There are 7 roads that lead to it:
1. Your feet
2. Your ears
3. Your eyes
4. Your hands
5. Your mouth
6. Your genitals
7. Your stomach
Guard all seven.
Corrupt one path, corrupt the heart.
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If you can't unfollow someone for your spouse it's time to question your loyalty and social media addiction.
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"Did you hear about —"
No.
The Prophet ﷺ said: Part of the perfection of one's Islam is his leaving that which does not concern him. (Tirmidhi)
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It's time to stop making excuses.
You are the only reason why you're not where you wanna be.
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The Morning Momentum.
You know the feeling you get when you have a flight or an exciting event that day, and you jump right out of bed?
That's how every morning should feel like.
Make your mornings something to look forward to, not something you want to skip by staying up late
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Imagine if we reached for the Qur'an instead of our phones when seeking an escape from boredom…
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Fasting teaches you control.
Not just from food but over your desires.
Master fasting.
Master yourself.
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