Author: Yawar Baig

  • And proclaim the Grace of your Rabb

    وَأَمَّا بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ فَحَدِّثْ Duha: 93: 11. And proclaim the Grace of your Rabb Yesterday we (in Hyderabad, India) had a massive storm with a 100 mph gale and heavy rain. 67 electric transformers burst all over the city. Trees were uprooted and fell across streets, blocking them and causing massive traffic jams. A huge unipole crashed…

  • Marrying for josh, not hosh

    Question: I want to get married to this man in my university who says that the best thing for him is to get married to get out of the temptations that surround him. He is still a student on scholarship and has no income or career. What is your advice? Answer: جزاك اللهُ خيراً  for…

  • In search of peace – Really??

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ca/cb/67/cacb6796d4ddabb912c0198b3fcf0b55.jpg What is required for peace to prevail? Anything done with a clear intention and according to a system gives value added results. Take the case of calisthenics – weight lifting – to build strength. And compare it to the most common cause of a strained back and lower back injury – weight lifting. How…

  • Cuthbert Suares Jr. whose memory is alive

    Cuthbert Suares Jr. whose memory is alive

    Friendship is a strange thing. It is an investment where the pain of parting is directly proportional to the investment. The better and closer the relationship, the more painful the parting. And parting is inevitable. There is no escaping that reality. Our choice is between superficial relationships that have no meaning while they exist and…

  • Entreprenuership is not about business

    In the world of entrepreneurship and startups, which I inhabit and have some claim to, we say that you can’t succeed in your startup until you make a significant personal commitment. Most successful entrepreneurs deliberately had no Plan B (second option if the first didn’t work) because of two core beliefs: Their unshakable belief that…

  • Advice to those about to commit matrimony

    Do you want to remain happily married? Then don’t do 3 things and do 3 things: DON’T: COLLECT GARBAGE: Have a selective memory. Remember only good and forget all bad. Garbage always stinks and only you will smell it. TRY TO MOULD, CHANGE OR SCULPT: If you didn’t like what you saw, why did you…