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Allah Wants Us To Win

May 29, 2019

Note: Guess who's baaack! I know what you're thinking. I've had this ridiculously huge gap between updates. I know I've been MIA but life has kind of gotten in the way of regularly posting. Don't expect this to be a normal thing for now, but I really wanted to just come back because I had such a great thought that came to mind during this blessed month of Ramadan that I wanted to share it in blog form. While up at night during one of the last 10 nights of Ramadan, I was thinking very deeply about Allah's generosity. Like, man, oh, man, it's crazy how much we can underestimate that Allah is Ar-Rahman (The Most Compassionate) and Ar-Raheem (The Most Merciful). Let me elaborate. Good Deeds vs. Bad Deeds So one night before bed I was talking to my little 5-year-old son about Allah and how generous he is. I had already been telling him in bits and pieces about good deeds and bad deeds and how there's an angel on each of our shoulders: one that

Back with a Bang (And a Book)

December 15, 2016

Holy criggity crap. Boy, has a lot happened since I last posted here. I took my quarterly laziness hiatus from blogging and when I returned, Donald Trump became president, Dave Chappelle came back to television and Glenn got his head bashed in on The Walking Dead. I'm glad I'm taking a seat. Things are getting crazy and rather than be in on the action and share my thoughts and opinions and rants like everyone else has been doing, I've been laying low and just focusing on getting accustomed to my new work schedule. However just because PhilAsify hasn't been churning out fresh content doesn't mean I haven't been writing. In fact, soon after the election I went into hyperdrive mode to finish publishing my very timely and relevant first book, Vicegerents: The Divine Responsibility, The Importance of Muslim Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility . It's available right now on Amazon so please feel free to check it out (It's only 99 cents). It's a smoo

How Things Can Turn Around On A Dime

October 24, 2016

So here marks another one of my unexplained hiatuses from blogging. What a big surprise. While I tried to hold myself to writing weekly through thick and thin, I just couldn't write until now because I was in the middle of a transitional period. I was hired for a job! Alhamdulilah (All praise goes to God). More than one actually so, of course I was really busy. I wanted to check back in to give you that update and tell you all that things can turn around on a dime, bad times don't last. There I was struggling for months unemployed, just barely making it and the future was totally uncertain. I didn't know whether I'd have enough to pay the rent at the end of the month, I didn't know when things would get better. But that just reminds me that it's not my job to know the future. I'm just a player in this script of life and I can't turn the page until I get to the bottom, when everything on the current page has played out. That's on Allah's ti

Overcoming Negative Inner Voices and Realizing Your Potential

September 10, 2016

For some reason this title can't help but make me be reminded of Randy Orton's entrance theme: But I digress. This is not really the video I wanted to share with you, the video below is. I came across this video on YouTube a couple of months ago titled "Overcoming Negative Inner Voices" and boy was it tremendous and really made me ponder life and just how your mind is the biggest thing holding you back from achieving the life you want to live and do the things in life you want to do to be fulfilled. Here I will post the video and then come back with my thoughts after the jump.

A Sprained Knee With a Side of Bruised Ego, Please!

August 31, 2016

So I didn't get to write an entry last week. Big surprise huh? Aside from being consistently inconsistent, your trusty old PhilAsifer is also consistently getting hurt. This time it wasn't a phantom injury from coach potatoing it up, however. I decided to dust off my sneakers and played an impromptu game of pick-up basketball. Here's some news for you: I Injured myself, AGAIN. I injured myself because I'm out of shape. Meaning I'm overweight at the moment. Meaning I'm too overweight to be playing basketball. Hey But Wait a minute, Asif, look at this! Maaaaan. Number 1) That guy is about 6'10. I'm 5'6 on a good day. Number 2) He's DEAD! (RIP Escalade) He died from heart disease which I'm positive had to do with his unhealthy weight. and Number 3) Thanks a lot for making me feel like a schlub when even immobile obese heavyweights can ball better than me. Back to the subject at hand. What I mean by being too overweight to pl

It's Hard Out Here for a Pim-- Err...Freelance Writer

August 17, 2016

Hey gang. A little bit late on my goal for a weekly post, that's because I'm still trying to figure out a way to make a decent living as a freelance writer. As I expected, it's no walk in the park starting out. Before I even lost my job , I was looking into freelance writing as a possible next career option because my job hunting had fallen into that terrible catch 22 conundrum. All the writing based media jobs I wanted were looking for someone with 2 to 5 years experience and there I was wasting my life away shuffling papers at a tax firm NOT GETTING EXPERIENCE. Freelancing looked to be the best option to 1) write , 2) build a solid body of work with a portfolio and 3) eventually get noticed by those same media based jobs that were denying me because of my lack of experience. Getting into the freelance writing game, I faced pretty much the same trouble because I needed to show experience as well and show that I've written and had things published in various are

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