The Mind Builders

by AbdulWahab Mubaraq 'And hold fast, all of you together to the rope of Allah, and do not separate' (3:103) In life, everyone needs somebody he will always associate with, share his or her problems with and find solution to. A friend is an individual who knows you well and you know well. He/she is a person you have regard for with affection and trust. Friends are individuals who you surround yourself with, stick and stand by you in both hard and good times. They largely determine your progress and success wherever you are both spiritually and ethically. To succeed in whatever you are doing, you must choose a friend whose goals and ambition is similar and coincides with yours.   There is an old proverb that says “show me your friend and I will tell you who you are.” This therefore shows that when one is choosing a friend, one has to be very careful and cautious because if one has bad friends then one will be surely be judged as a bad person irrespective of his or her

by Hikmah Odewale If human opinion is of first importance in every of your attempt, I doubt if you would ever make a progress. Have it in mind that people will always have their views from different angles irrespective of what you do. They will always have a say, come what may, you can never please everyone. More reason I would like to advise you not to live your life to please people, if you want to live a positive and successful life, most a time people will take you for granted, making several attempts to manipulate and plan your life for you. In the end, they sympathize with you due to the result of their efforts or worse still leave you to your fate and yet take the blame on you. You ever heard of self-slavery? This is exactly what happens when all your efforts are always seated on people's interests, you end up hurting yourself and worst of all go against Allah's will at some instances. Often times, we forget that what we need is different from what we want,