Hope will guide through darkness, but despair will only lengthen the journey. Those who lose all hope in life sometimes resort to taking their own life. That should not happen at all. The Qur’an teaches us that the result of hope is always excellent Allah has given you free choice, so it is you who […]

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At 23, Julius Caesar was a junior politician on the way up. But he had an advantage: confidence and brains. Sailing across the Aegean Sea, he was captured by Sicilian pirates. They demanded a ransom: 20 talents of silver. (That’s about 620kg, worth about $600,000.) Caesar told them they were being ridiculous. He couldn’t possibly […]

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