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UPDATE: REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. Info A workshop aims to equip you with the tools to improve your English speaking. Date: 18 October 2014 (Saturday) Time: 8:00AM - 5:00PM Venue: Auditorium, Second Floor, Perlis Public Library, 01000 Kangar, Perlis ( http://www.perlislib.gov.my/ ) 1. Fee per person is RM50 (includes lunch and snacks). Must pay before or by 17 October 2014 in order to confirm seat. 2. Only 30 spots are available (Update 13/10/2014: 20 extra spots added!) 3. Open to all 16 to 24-year-olds. 4. Must have basic mastery of spoken English (not totally zero English). 5. To register, please click here. 6. Registration closes 16 October 2014 . Registration on the day of the workshop won't be accepted, unless you don't mind having no lunch provided for you. Video Poster

Assalamu alaikom, Considering I've just began my letter with "Assalamu alaikom", thus I hope , by Allah's mercy, that peace prevails over all the negative emotions I may hold in my heart that should not be there. Without further ado, I am really desperate for an advice to this familial issue, one which I couldn't approach anyone else to avoid problems/backbite/gossip and the spread of negativity. So, I'd really appreciate your help. My mother is a good woman but she is very negative. She sometimes insults me when I try to advice her about her negativity. I would usually excuse her, since she has a lot to carry on her shoulders. I can only imagine the burden she is carrying as a mother. One incident crushed my heart. One day, she asked me to behave in a certain way for a special occasion so that I don't shame her in front of her friends. When I refused to do so, once we got back home, she screamed at me together with one of my siblings. That par...

Assalamualaikum Aiman. I broke up with my first love after a year. After that, I never had a boyfriend. Sometimes I ask myself, "Am I too ugly to have a boyfriend?" Almost all of my friends have boyfriends and when we go out, they always tell me about their boyfriends. I feel jealous. Why does Allah do this to me? ---------- Waalaikumussalam. Thank you for your honest question. The desire to love and to be loved is natural. I have it, you have it, and others have it too. However, in Islam, we are taught how to love and to be loved in a way that God intends it. In Islam, we are also taught that we all have the power to make our own choices. Hence, in this case, we can choose whether to love and to be loved the way God intends it or not. In the end, we will all live and die with the consequences of our choices, for better or for worse. I can imagine that you are feeling unappreciated knowing that you are boyfriend-less while most of your friends are with boyfrie...

"Sharing is caring." The first time I heard that line, I thought it was catchy and meaningful. There is truth in that statement. Indeed, we share many things because we care. We share about our thoughts, feelings, and concerns with others because we care. We care about ourselves, we care about them, and we care about us. However, after some time, I started to raise an eyebrow whenever I read or hear that statement being voiced. After considering the contexts in which this statement is commonly used, specifically on the internet, I think we have to add a few clauses to the act of sharing in order to qualify it as being an act of caring. Sharing is something we do so easily these days (especially with the convenience of the "Share" button), sometimes it is hard to make sure that we do it because we care, or because of something else. If we indeed care, then before we share we should seriously consider at least these 3 things: 1. What is the intention behind ...

Assalammu'alaikum brother Aiman. First of, thank you for reading my email. I hope you can have this question of mine to be discussed thoroughly, or you can just give your own opinion on it. I know someone with depression and she has been ridiculed for it. One person said, that the girl has lack of faith and not strong enough. The person kept on saying that lack of faith in God is the cause for her depression. So the person said that her depression must have come from within herself.  So here are my questions: Are we even allowed by the Islamic law to have depression? Or any mental illnesses for that matter? Should we blame the patient for not having faith in God, just because the patient said she want to kill herself? Giving in to haters is one thing, but do we even have the right to judge or ridicule those who did, and ended up being diagnosed as depressed? The user said depression relates with religion. You lack faith, you might get depressed. What's your opinio...

There are skills you just don’t learn from textbooks. In fact, you can’t. When learned and possibly mastered, these skills can distinguish one from the crowd and in this day and age where the crowd is much bigger than before, being different from the crowd might be what one needs. Most of what makes a skill is not theory, hence you can’t learn it in a class or two. Theory can only take you so far. A skill is honed beyond the four walls of a classroom, through real life experiences. In other words, you have to get out there and try it. Learning through experience requires one to be brave enough to make mistakes (not deliberately, of course). Making mistakes is not something that you want to put in your CV under the “educational background” section. However, making mistakes is by far one of the best ways to learn and to improve yourself. Even if you are not willing to share your mistakes with others, you should at least be willing to try your best, while knowing that mistakes can...

Assalamualaikum brother Aiman. I hope you can spend a lil bit of your time to read this. I don't know where and who I want to express this. Well this is about my family. I'm not from a religious background. Two years ago Allah chose me to enter a university with a good environment. I can feel a lot of changes in myself. I started to complete my Solah and so on. I can see things which is wrong and which is good. But the problem is, I don't have enough courage to do Ibadah when I'm at home. My father doesn't perform Solah and so do some of my siblings. I feel so depressed and I don't know how to deal with this. I read about Islam and mostly asked me to do good to parents but I don't know, dude. Sometimes I wonder why Allah put me in this situation. I'm so jealous to see my friends' family mostly came from religious background. Their parents gave them knowledge about Islam and advice them in many ways. Their parents are so close with them. But m...