The Stronger Momin
This section of the blog will have 2 sub-categories.
The Mental Strength: will be written by our Psychologists.
The Physical Strength: will be written by our Nutritional Experts.
The blog will be good for teens, twenties, and adults all together.
So, welcome to become a more stronger and resilient Momin which will lead to a stronger Ummah, in sha ALLAH.
Raising Our EQ: Last Part: Achievable Targets
We are concluding our series on emotional intelligence with a note that defines the targets. These four targets are the essence that we look forward to.
These are the 4Ts of EQ: Taqwa, Tashakkur, Tazkiyah, Tawakkul.
Aiming for these targets and practising the exercises to improve emotional intelligence are not once-and-forever achievements, but rather a daily routine that we may need to do frequently throughout our day.
Self-Awareness & Raising Our EQ: 4th Part: “It's All About Reaction”
Practising to react naturally well is not an easy task. It takes sincere and consistent efforts. Since it carries huge importance, I would say it is worth every bit of effort.
A natural positive reaction comes from a happy and healthy soul. Such souls are with clean and sound hearts. This is the type of heart that the Quran says “Qalbi Saleem” قَلْبِ سَلِيم
Those hearts that have a sound connection of trust with ALLAH can only find happiness and peace in this world in the true sense. Due to this unshakable relationship with ALLAH, they can go along with even difficult people and moments comparatively easily and keep on going with their hearts unchanged during these hardships.
Self-Awareness Part ‘3’ - It’s Good to Ask “Myself”
In this series on Self-Awareness, we covered the way to talk to myself and now finally we will discuss what and why to ask myself, specific questions.
This is an interesting journey of knowing the self. It has steps that are easy to understand and take some time to practice but the benefit is much bigger than the efforts involved.
Kintsugi - The Golden Repair
Kintsugi is the ancient Japanese way of repairing broken ceramics with a glue of gold. The golden color beautifies the visual of break and repair.
Honestly honoring our personality breaks is an essential art everyone should learn for a better life. Honoring it by the courage to own it. It doesn't mean to openly show it off in public but to own it inside ourselves.
Forgiving is an essential step in healing. ALLAH commands us to let go without even pointing it out with grace, overlook it, turn the page, and not ever repeat it (to taunt about it), and to forgive for whatever great mistake happened. As our Loving Rab hides and erases our sins and continues to be kind to us even at the worst of our repeated sins.
Self Awareness Part ‘2’ Being Kind to Myself
Part 2 in the series gives a brief but enough insight into the “Self Kindness” concept and explains the two elements related to it. The first brick of kindness is the respect and the second is the realization of my importance.
It is very important to know why I am important and how much is the limitation to self-importance.
Self-compassion and consistency in polite conversation with myself are important steps toward a more compassionate and kinder personality for me and others in the future.
Known yet Neglected - Vitamin ‘D’
Vitamin D has many essential functions in our bodies. This is not limited to bone health but is almost related to every bodily function.
Diets rich in vitamin D should be part of daily meals. Unfortunately, not many diets rich in this vitamin are part of our daily foods, and many of us don’t expose ourselves to enough sunlight to activate it to the beneficial form needed by the human body.
So, what solution points to focus we will discuss in sha ALLAH.
Self Awareness Part ‘1’ (Raising our EQ Series)
A new series within the psychology part of “The Stronger Momin” is starting which is called “ Raising Our EQ series”.
This is about becoming a better person by bringing improvement in our emotional intelligence and the first thing to know is “Me” and “myself”.
Self-awareness is gaining awareness about myself. Let’s begin this amazing journey of meeting with myself with ﷽
Cold and Flu Diet
As we reach the corner of the year, it's time to say goodbye to our cotton clothes, cold juices and iced lattes, as we pull out our body warmers, heaters and make grocery list to prepare some steamy comfort foods.
No matter where we live, winters are often accompanied by allergies, cold, cough and flu. Apart from pulling out our coats and mufflers from the closet to keep ourselves warm, we can make some dietary changes as well to boost our immunity and give our body some Tender Loving Care during the colder months to come.
Training Our Own Reactions
The best gift we get for our lifetime is our training for which we always remain thankful to our parents whatever good habits they made in our initial training period, bless us for long time.
ALLAH as our loving Rab gives us best guidance in Quran to train ourselves to be better humans and better momin. Not only this but He sent a perfect human example to us as our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ who was best in his morals and day to day behaviours.
Self training and improving ourselves over time by our own learning efforts is something ALLAH loves us to do, specially when we do it only for ALLAH. Let’s help ourselves and others to be good Muslim to rise and shine as a moderate and balanced Ummah.
Dates - The Overlooked Fruit
Dates are very popular among Muslim households during Ramadan. We all love to break our fasts with dates as a Sunnah of our beloved prophet Mohammedﷺ. Our fatoor table is always graced with a bowl of this delicious and nutritionally packed “superfood” throughout the month.
To Value the Cognitive Diversity
A tale of love of 2 different types of sisters. One who want to have ideal sibling and other who is doing sincere efforts to make her sibling near to the own way best. Story of two contrast thoughts with learning from the Quran, about respecting the difference of thought process which we call Cognitive Diversity. Beautifully written by our dear Dr.Rabecca Abdus Salam.
( Psychology section - The Stronger Momin )
The Casual, Non perfect Food Plate
Nutrition is a long time friend of human hearts. How our forefathers started to eat, cook and gradually developed their taste bud adapted to variety of foods is interesting to know. Having said that, it is good to notice that the changes in taste buds are always possible as needed.
Talking the nutrition basics we talk alot about the food plate and show the colourful pictures to teach our people. But in practical life our plates are away from these, unfortunately most are monochrome (single color)
So what is a daily, casual food plate? Let’s have a look.
The Group confidence Dynamics
The first blog under this section is a heartful writing of Dr. Prof. Rabecca Abdus Salam. Believing with the idea of “A confident unit/ group/team of muslims will create a confident Muslim Society and ultimately and confident Muslim Ummah”
We have to work hard on our confidence at all levels, so that the good characters in us will be highlighted and enhance. Let’s start with whatever group we belong to family, workplace team or friends, promise today for building a better confidence in our circle.