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How to help your kids out after school
School is stressful for kids. It’s like having a 9-5 job at 11 years old! It’s no easy task going to school and giving it your all. Kids balance working, studying, friendships, and socializing all day long. Once they get...
6 Ways To Achieve Work-Life Balance
Because we live in a 9-5 culture that encourages long days of hard work, and sometimes even over-work, it can be hard to strike a healthy balance between your life and your job. Remember: you aren’t your job. You’re an...
Back to school: 5 practical lunch box ideas
School lunches feel like a hassle, but they don’t have to be! The key to a great lunchbox for your kid is to take simple, quality staples and give them a fun twist. It’s important to get balance right, too....
Breast Cancer is NO Joke
It’s October-breast cancer awareness month. As a women-led, women-focused company, we want to do our part to add to the fountain of education, awareness, and outreach surrounding breast cancer. In this piece, we are going to explore the seriousness of...
30 lessons from the prophet's actions
1. Humble beginnings Did you know that the Prophet (PBUH) started out as a shepherd? Eventually, he worked hard and became a successful merchant. 2. Trustworthiness One of the Prophet’s first titles was “Al-Ameen,” the trustworthy. He was known for...
Follow these tips for glowing skin after 30
As a Hijabi woman, your face is your focal point, so it’s even more important to take extra good care of your skin. Everyone wants that glowing, radiant, smooth skin. When you’re young, it doesn’t take much effort to achieve...
5 Yearly Medical Checkups for Women
As a woman, wife, mother, daughter, and sister, there are people counting on you. You want to live a long, healthy, happy life, and make the most of what Allah has given you. For that reason, it’s important to protect...
10 Important Back-to-School Lessons to teach your kids
For Moms, sending your kids off to school isn’t easy. Moms worry about kids while they’re away, and after spending so much time with them over the Summer, its hard to let them go all day, each day. Likewise, it’s...
The 10 biggest fashion trends for Fall 2022
With the Summer season coming to an end, it’s time to look at how you can style yourself for Fall. Over the Summer, lots of interesting looks hit the runways. From robes, to bomber jackets, to horse-racing gear. This fall...
7 Must Have Hijab Colors For Your Wardrobe
There are near limitless hijab options when you consider different styles, materials, colour, patterns, and ties. Every hijabi woman knows the struggle of picking the right colored hijab to match the day’s outfit. We’re going to go over some basic,...
5 tips for cultivating self-discipline
Cultivating self-discipline is an extremely important quality of a successful person, but doing so isn’t easy. As humans, we naturally want to take the path of least resistance–we want to do that is easy, which makes doing the hard thing...
5 Steps You Can Take to Protect Your Mental Health
As a modern woman, you have a lot to keep track of. Maybe you are maintaining and running a home, taking care of the kids, or working a busy job day-to-day. Maybe it's all three. Life comes at you fast,...
5 Major Misconceptions About Hijabi Women
Hijabi women are one of the most misunderstood groups. People on the outside of Muslim culture often don’t understand the nature of veiling, veiling requirements, and the intricacies of Muslim culture and women’s place in it. It’s easy for outsiders...
Here’s How To Find Your Colour Season
When you’re putting together outfits, there is a fashion philosophy that says to dress according to your season. But what is a season? How do you know what your season is? And how do you dress according to it? Keep...
A (Brief) History of the Nakba
Today, around 6.5 million Palestinians cling to the hope of returning to their homeland. These millions are dispersed around the world, unable to return to their homes. Some thousands of miles away in another country, with others perhaps only a...
5 Salad Dressings to Level Up Your Salads
If you don’t like salads, perhaps you aren’t dressing them right. Salads are a fun, diverse, mix-and match method to a healthy meal. If your salads are lacking, try incorporating some delicious and unique dressings. These can really take a...
4 Hobbies to Train Your Brain
The brain is just like any other muscle: use it or lose it. We don’t often think about brain health and upkeep, but maybe ought to. How do we use our brain most of the day? Perhaps we spend most...
Ancient Beauty Secrets That Will Never Go Out of Style
If you’ve been looking for beauty tips and remedies, perhaps you’ve been looking for the latest and greatest chemical mixtures made up by scientists in labs, tested to perfection, and mass produced for store shelves. There’s no denying that some...
Earning and Increasing Wealth as a Muslim
As Muslims, we have a special and specific relationship with wealth. Money is a blessing–a gift that we earn, that is given to us by Allah. Wealth can also be a curse–so many lose their souls to greed and lose...
These Sultanas Advanced Ottoman Art and Architecture
To celebrate the release of our Ottoman Collection, we want to celebrate a lesser-known facet of the Ottoman Empire-“The Sultanate of Women,” an era of the empire that ushered in new power and influence for ruling women, who played an...
Developing a Summer Routine For Your Kids
While your kids are out of school all Summer, keeping their day structured can be a challenge. They’ve got all the time in the world on their hands, and you’re busy taking care of work, the home, and them! Keeping...