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A list of daily measurable goals:

Drink water as soon an you wake up.

Sleep at the same time everyday.

Wash and cleanse your face morning and night.

Read ten pages of a book a day.

Eat slowly and chew thoroughly your food.

Choose empathy towards yourself.

Slow down, be present and spend time with family and friends.

Keep holding on to your dreams even if no one supports you. remember your life, your choices!

45 minutes social media a day.

Remember to breathe when things don’t go the way you want them to.

Brush your teeth at least twice a day, especially after eating something sweet.

Listen to one podcast a day.

Watch Ted talks on YouTube and take notes of the most important ideas you perceived.

Turn off your devices at least one hour before sleeping.

Write Tomorrow’s to do list every night before sleeping.

Practice your passion 30 minutes a day.

Drink five cups of water a day.

Brush your hair in the morning and before going to sleep.

Make sure every important tasks are done in the morning.

Try to stretch for 15 minutes or go for a 30 minutes walk à day.

Learn one new word a day.

Wake up at 6 am everyday of the week.

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My favorite forms of affection:

Holding hands.

Resting their heads over my shoulder.

Lying on their lap or chest.

Kisses on the forehead.

Playing with my hair.

When they give me that look of admiration.

Them making me laugh.

Giving compliments.

Putting their arms around me.

Making me feel heard and seen without even trying.

Random hugs when words aren't needed.

When they remember the things I am passionate about.

Buying me food.

Them checking on me constantly.

When they respect my boundaries.

When they talk to me about things that reminds them of me.

When they speak their truth.

When they say they love me.

When they lift me up, support me and make me feel valuable and capable when I least believe in it.

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"Remembrance of Allah is a cure."

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When you trust Allah and move forward, he will open a more beautiful door for you. You will walk through it and perhaps you will even praise him for having closed the past door you loved so much. He is Al-Fattah, the Opener. May the doors He opens for us always lead us back to him.”

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Knowing exactly what you want in life comes with a price, and you need to be ready for its consequences. You have to be ready to be told you’re stubborn or selfish. You have to be ready to be told you’re wrong. You have to be ready to travel alone. You have to be ready to be deeply misunderstood. But you also have to be ready to remind yourself all these things are ok. You do not have to accept what you get, when it’s not good enough. Because you know what you really want, and it’s none of the above.

— Mobeen Hakeem

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Should have changed. Could have changed. Didn’t change. These are the thoughts that will haunt you in your last few moments of life.

— Mobeen Hakeem

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When you think about a negative experience from your past, you resurrect the emotional responses to that experience and feel the pain all over again. Since your body does not know the difference between an event occurring right now in real-time, and an event occurring in your thoughts as a memory, both instances are perceived and felt in a similar way. The emotional responses exist and therefore the event exists, whether or not it is in the here and now, or through recalled memory. In essence, you can actually make your whole body live through the pain from one event, over and over again. Don’t force yourself to experience the same pain hundreds of times. Be careful what you think about.

— Mobeen Hakeem

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Is it possible to find someone who has the same wavelength as you, someone who seeks Allah just like you. Someone who can understand you without judging you is it real or is it just a fantasy?

If it’s Allah’s will, then yes. If it’s not, maybe it’s part of your test.

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We were never supposed to choose between our hearts and our minds. They were supposed to learn each other’s languages so that they could guide each other.

— Mobeen Hakeem

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I am so ready to teach my future children about the things they don’t teach you in school. Mastering the mind. Listening to the heart. Understanding the soul. Emotional intelligence. Financial intelligence. Mental stability. Positive energy & vibes. How to be a good person in a dark world. How to have dreams and passions, and chase them with everything you got. How to never be a slave to the system. So many other things. A lot of things I learnt the hard way. I just can’t help but wonder if these things can only be learnt the hard way though. We will see iA

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When you think about a negative experience from your past, you resurrect the emotional responses to that experience and feel the pain all over again. Since your body does not know the difference between an event occurring right now in real-time, and an event occurring in your thoughts as a memory, both instances are perceived and felt in a similar way. The emotional responses exist and therefore the event exists, whether or not it is in the here and now, or through recalled memory. In essence, you can actually make your whole body live through the pain from one event, over and over again. Don’t force yourself to experience the same pain hundreds of times. Be careful what you think about.

— Mobeen Hakeem

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“Isn’t it beautiful how Surat an-Noor (the Light) is the chapter that encourages lowering the gaze, getting married, wearing hijab, respecting privacy, avoiding lewd gossip, and fleeing from fornication? By that, Allah reminds us that when you allow yourself to get immersed in immorality, such a heart is no longer eligible to carry the light of Allah. You lost your humanity, and Allah chose that humans - not animals - be privileged to carry His light of guidance within them.”

-Shaykh Mohammad Elshinawy (حفظه الله)

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Fixing your Deen isn’t only just praying regularly and reading the Quran more frequently.

It’s also fixing your character, the way you behave when you interact with people, the vocabulary you use, the people you surround yourself with. It’s about correcting your akhlaq.

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I am so ready to teach my future children about the things they don’t teach you in school. Mastering the mind. Listening to the heart. Understanding the soul. Emotional intelligence. Financial intelligence. Mental stability. Positive energy & vibes. How to be a good person in a dark world. How to have dreams and passions, and chase them with everything you got. How to never be a slave to the system. So many other things. A lot of things I learnt the hard way. I just can’t help but wonder if these things can only be learnt the hard way though. We will see iA

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“we lay in the dark, breathing together, the deepest intimacy.”

— Louise Glück, excerpt of Faithful and Virtuous Night (via moaka)

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Do you have any Arabic resources for beginners?

Textbooks & PDFs:

Al-Kitaab 3rd Edition

Arabic Grammar in Context

Arabic Grammar Tables

Arabic Plural System

Build Your Arabic Vocabulary

Easy Arabic Grammar

Easy Arabic Reader

Ultimate Arabic Beginner-Intermediate (what I use)

Websites:

Huruf extension to make font bigger [Chrome] [Firefox]

ACON Verb Conjugator

Al Jazeera Learn Arabic

Arabic Without Walls

Gateways to Arabic Videos

Glossika (use the free trial)

Khallina

Language Transfer Course

Learn Arabic with Maha Videos

Madinah Arabic

Talk in Arabic

UT Austin Listening Materials

Dictionaries:

Almaany

Forvo

Hans Wehr

Lughatuna

Other:

Apps

Alphabet Resources

Podcasts

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100 reasons to learn a foreign language

1) To travel

2) To communicate with people from other countries

3) To make friends from other countries

4) To study abroad

5) To find a job or an internship abroad

6) To read books in their original language

7) To watch movies and TV shows with the original voices

8) To understand music in other languages

9) To discover and understand new cultures

10) To understand new words and idioms, which means that you will have new ways of expressing yourself

11) To discover new foods and recipes from all over the world

12) To have more job opportunities

13) To get a better job, with more possibilities

14) To understand the world a bit better

15) To watch the news or read newspapers in another language, so that you can gain other information and see the world from another point of view

16) To learn traditions and customs from other countries

17) To be more open-minded

18) To train your brain

19) To have a new challenge

20) To avoid illnesses such as Alzheimer or dementia

21) To brag to your friends and family about being bilingual

22) To meet your soulmate from another country

23) To have more youtube content to watch

24) To make your parents / family proud

25) To learn the language of your ancestors

26) To learn the native language of your partner

27) To learn the native language of your best friend

28) To give yourself a reason to watch cartoons

29) To be able to watch Disney movies in different languages

30) To learn more about history, geography and geopolitics 

31) To be able to sing in more than one language

32) To raise bilingual children

33) To be able to help lost tourists in your city

34) To be able to ask for help when you’re lost in a foreign city

35) To not have regrets later

36) To be able to read more resources when you’re researching for an essay

37) To become a more interesting person

38) To have something to do in your free time

39) To meet more interesting people

40) To see your culture from another perspective

41) To be a traveler, not a tourist

42) To be able to bargain the prices when you’re traveling

43) To escape from tourist traps

44) To share amazing experiences with the locals  

45) To become more creative

46) To read memes from different countries

47) To become a citizen of the world

48) To laugh at how crazy your native language and your native culture is

49) To laugh at how hard your target language is

50) To understand jokes in another language

51) To participate more efficiently and responsively in a multi-cultural world

52) To teach your native language abroad

53) To learn to respect everyone and human nature

54) To appreciate cultural diversity

55) To help immigrants who arrive in your country and don’t speak the language yet

56) To watch sports competitions in another language

57) To understand all the Eurovision’s song

58) To be proud of yourself when you master a new aspect of your target language

59) To appreciate the variations of dialects of a foreign language

60) To get a tattoo in a foreign language

61) To volunteer abroad

62) To watch Netflix TV shows from other countries

63) To go from hearing random songs to hearing a language you understand

64) To learn how to make new sounds

65) To improve your CV

66) To say a secret out loud to a friend and have no one else understand you

67) To understand people speaking a foreign language on the bus

68) To be more open and tolerant

69) To always have something new to share

70) To become a better version of yourself

71) To say yes to more adventures

72) To learn how to greet people in tons of different ways

73) To talk to your pets in another language

74) To feel like you’re traveling in time

75) To make foreigners feel welcome in your country

76) To learn how to read and write in a foreign alphabet

77) To read street signs in other countries

78) To learn how to swear in another language

79) To help deaf people fit in society it you’re learning a sign language

80) To learn while you’re young

81) To learn while you have time

82) To read poems in their original language

83) To have people tell you that you have a cute accent

84) To become an inspiration for other language learners

85) To speak more languages than your friends and family

86) To stand out from the crowd

87) To help save an endangered language

88) To learn more about linguistics

89) To grow as a person

90) To help people who are struggling with your native language or target languages

91) To translate crazy phrases on Duolingo

92) To talk with kids who don’t speak your native language

93) Because learning languages is an epic adventure

94) Because so many languages will sound good to your ears

95) Because it’s fun

96) Because it’s rewarding

97) Because the language learning community is amazing

98) Because there’s no reason not to learn languages

99) Because you won’t regret it

100) Because you don’t actually need a reason

Hope you guys like it and agree with it :) Add more reasons if you want!