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Cortisol is a steroid hormone that your adrenal glands, the endocrine glands on top of your kidneys, produce and release. Cortisol affects several aspects of your body and mainly helps regulate your body’s response to stress. What is cortisol? Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone that your adrenal glands produce and …

There are 7 etiquette of Hajj: 1. Seek a pious companion as well as pure, wholesome and halal wealth for the journey. Halal provisions will create nur (effulgence) in the heart, and a pious companion will encourage you to perform righteous actions and prevent you from evil. 2. Rove any …

1. Clean Out the Ashes An important step to knowing how to work a fireplace is to make sure all ashes are cleaned out of the firebox before you start stacking wood for that first fireplace fire. Simply sweep or vacuum the cold ashes and dispose of them outside. But you may want to …

When Hadhrat Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi Rahmatullah Alayh was an Ustaadh in Kaanpur, he once invited Hadhrat Sheikhul-Hind Rahmatullah Alayh for the Jalsah of the Madrasah. In Kaanpur, there were some Bid’ati Ulama who were masters in the fields of logic. On the other hand, since the focus of the …

Lessons For Kids Imam Abu Dawood Rahimahullah and some people were once on board a ship. Another ship then passed by them. A man on the other ship sneezed and said Alhamdulillah. Imam Abu Dawood Rahimahullah could not manage to reply to his sneeze. So, he hired another small boat …

There are a few differences with regards to the postures adopted by men and women when offering salaat. They are as follows: 1. If a man is covered with a sheet or shawl, then at the time of saying takbeer e-tahreemah he has to take out his hands from under …

Before embarking on anything one should scrutinize the means. If the means is permissible then the objective will be considered. If the objective is haraam then the whole exercise will be haraam. And if the means is haraam then this will preclude the attainment of the objective. The haraam means …

The greatest of the four imaams of fiqh is Imaam Abu Hanifah. He was born in 80 A.H. Imaam Maalik, is second in rank and he was born in 95 A.H. The third in rank is Imaam Shaafi’ee, and he was born during the second century in 150 A.H. Imaam …

Fulfill all the actions of salah, whether they are Sunnah or mustahab, or whether they are tasbihat or dhikr, as they ought to be performed. Remember that just as the outward cleanliness of the body had caused an effect on internal purity, similarly, in fact, to a greater extent, the …

Hadhratjee (Moulana Maseehullah) Rahmatullahi alaihi expresses in a gathering: These are the rights that the creation enjoys, which are rights demanded by Allah Ta’álá. By observing the rights of the creation, one is in fact observing the rights of Allah Ta’álá.Take this illustration: A person does not hurl abuse at …