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To Beard or Not To Beard? A Grammatically (And Socially) Incorrect Topic We Know

**This is a guest post. The writer is an engineer from NUST, a wanabee student of knowledge, an occasional blogger, a photography and digital arts enthusiast, a self proclaimed philosopher and a sports and adventure fanatic. A true jack of all, master of none :p.**(The writer`s own words and not the editor being judgmental, ya all:P) […]

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Debunking Music Myths Part II: A Personal Journey

This is a guest post. The Writer wishes to remain anonymous. I can`t say anymore. Read on I’m not deaf.  Neither are you!  I’ve got two ears.  So have you!  Alhamdolillah.  What a great, amazing blessing of Allah it is!  Let’s imagine for a moment that we were deaf.  Think: What would we miss out […]

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MAKKAH-THE BELOVED LAND

**Guest Post By Ayesha Zaka, an MPhil student ( Biochemistry/Molecular Biology) at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.** These are a few pages from my diary. I wrote them six years back-when I was 17. I penned them down only so that I could preserve priceless memories. Even today, reading them gives mea n Eman rush- therefore, I consider these among […]

Once Upon a Time…

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmalonama.com%2Fonce-upon-a-time%2F&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=recommend&colorscheme=light&locale=en_US Once upon a time in a land far far away, in times much much better than these, a man was walking down the street, whence he came upon some children immersed in play. He was Omar Bin Khattab (May Allah be pleased with him). The children scattered nilly willy when they sighted him, save […]

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The Great Divide

**Guest Post by Nauman Abbas, a Network Engineer based in the U.K. The writer blogs at Living Like A Traveller** It hasn’t been much time I was just one of the typical teenagers of the society. And like any other human being all of us intrinsically want attention and appreciation. So did I. Every human needs […]

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To Love…

When you come to Allah,come with an empty mind, a clean slate, because when people bring their pre-conceived notions to the Deen,they start looking for escape routes and hence end up going fatwa shopping, eventually defeating the whole purpose. For to love, is to love unconditionally, and to love unconditionally is to surrender. And when […]

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A Perfect Marriage

**Guest Post by Ayaz Rajput, a Telecom Engineer from Islamabad who free lances as a writer** Sakeena has already knit seventeen dresses for her marriage; the one she is knitting now would be her eighteenth.  She knows how important it is for a girl to look special in the first few months of her marriage. […]

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The Hot New Mehram in Her Life…

**Dedicated to my awesome new family (masha`Allah). May Allah protect you all, give you everything you want in this world and the next<3 ** I have been married a month now alhumdolillah and of course I now consider myself an expert on the subject, believing from the bottom of my heart that the world can now […]

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If You`re Happy and You Know It…Praise the Lord!

*Dedicated to Amma Wadi and my Dad**Special Thanks to Fatima Altaf for pushing me to blog and Noor Saeed for proof-reading* The other day I received my registration from PEC (meaning I can now go around saying “hi i`m engineer malo, whats your name?” :-p) and well saying I was super-excited would be the understatement of the […]