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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Do you ever make du'a, then pause because you don't know how to put what you're feeling into words?Do you ever feel distant from Allah, even though you still long for closeness?Do you ever whisper a question to the heavens and wait. quietly. for an answer? There are moments when the heart speaks to Allah without formality, without rehearsed words, and without certainty-only with need. Conversations with Allah: The Al-Sami is a deeply reflective spiritual companion for anyone who has ever turned inward and reached upward at the same time. This book offers 365 intimate, soul-centered conversations, one for each day of the year. Every entry follows a gentle and powerful structure: A heartfelt question from a believerA compassionate response inspired by Qur'anic wisdom and Islamic spiritualityA short self-reflection prompt to help you turn inward and engage Allah in your own wordsWritten in a warm, accessible voice, this is not a book of sermons or rigid instruction. It is a daily spiritual dialogue, designed to be read slowly, quietly, and personally. You may begin on any day, read in sequence, or return to specific entries during moments of struggle, gratitude, doubt, or longing. Across twelve thematic months, the journey moves through awakening the heart, inner struggle, patience, forgiveness, love, worship, resilience, purpose, and closeness to Allah. Each page reassures the reader of a simple truth: Allah hears. Allah knows. Allah is near. The responses are not presented as revelation, but as spiritually grounded reflections shaped by the Qur'an and Prophetic teachings written to sound intimate, comforting, and real. This makes the book ideal for readers seeking connection rather than commentary. Why this daily format works (a note from research)Modern psychology has repeatedly found that structured reflection, especially practices that center gratitude, meaning, and calm attention is associated with improved well-being and reduced symptoms of anxiety and depression. (This book's daily reflection prompts are designed to support that same kind of steady inner grounding-while keeping the focus rooted in faith.) Before you begin. and what you may notice over time Before: your du'a feels scattered, your heart feels heavy, you overthink what Allah thinks of you, and you don't know where to start. After (with consistent reading): your inner world becomes quieter, your words become simpler, your questions become more honest, and your relationship with Allah feels more present not because life becomes perfect, but because you return to Him more easily. Inside you'll discover: A daily way to speak to Allah with sincerity, even when you feel unsure, tired, or emotionally overwhelmed.Language that helps you move from "I don't know what to say" to a clear, personal du'a-one day at a time.Twelve monthly themes that guide your heart through patience, forgiveness, worship, resilience, purpose, and closeness to Allah.Reflection prompts that help you recognize patterns like guilt, fear, numbness, and doubt-and gently redirect them toward tawakkul, hope, and steadiness.A quiet practice you can use before Fajr, before sleep, or in the moments when life feels heavy-so faith becomes something you return to, not something you only think about.And much, much more. This is not a replacement for the Qur'an or prayer. It is a companion for the heart-a reminder that Allah listens to every whisper, every doubt, and every unspoken prayer. A year from now, you may find that the questions have softened, the heart has steadied, and the re Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condición: New. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: CJB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 282 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1256. . 2007. Paperback. . . . .

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Some forces don't announce themselves. They just slowly become the way you see.You built the career. You hit the milestones. From the outside, it looks like everything is working. And yet somewhere beneath the surface, a quieter question keeps surfacing: is this it Fourteen centuries ago, in a lamplit room in the desert city of Kufa, a young merchant asked that same question. He had visited the homes of the wealthy, sat in the courts of the powerful, met scholars whose learning filled rooms, and left each encounter with the same unsettling feeling: these people had everything, and almost none of them seemed at peace.The answer he received that night named five forces, wealth, power, knowledge, praise, and youth, that share a hidden quality. Each is genuinely good. Each is worth having. And each, left unexamined, can quietly reshape how you see the world until the life you are chasing stops being a life you would actually choose.The 5 Intoxicants brings that ancient conversation into the present. Weaving together Islamic philosophy, Stoic wisdom, and contemporary psychology, it offers a clear-eyed look at the forces that distort human judgment, and a practical path back to a life lived on purpose.In this book, you will discover: - Why achieving your goals so often produces emptiness instead of satisfaction, and what that emptiness is actually telling you- How wealth, power, and praise quietly merge with your sense of who you are, until losing them feels like losing yourself- The difference between knowledge and wisdom, and why expertise can become a cage- What the world's wisdom traditions, from Ali ibn Abi Talib to Marcus Aurelius to Seneca, understood about meaning that modern culture has forgotten- Five practices for staying clear in a world engineered to keep you distractedThis is not a book that asks you to abandon ambition, reject success, or retreat from the world. It asks something harder and more valuable: that you see clearly what is shaping your choices, and why, before another decade slips past in pursuit of a destination that keeps receding.Written with the honesty of someone who has lived through every chapter he describes, The 5 Intoxicants is for anyone who has ever reached the thing they worked years for and felt the strange quiet that followed.Stop gathering the tools. Start doing the work they were meant for.The lamp in Kufa went out fourteen centuries ago. The work it began is still waiting.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Policy says hold it thirty days. He holds it ninety. Nobody has ever asked him why.For thirty-one years, Moss Iqbal has kept what other people left behind at Chicago Union Station. A wedding ring in a potato chip bag. A child's inhaler. Four skeins of yarn for a baby who hadn't been born yet. Every object is logged in a hardbound ledger, held long past the point where anyone should reasonably keep it, on the chance that somebody comes back.Because that is what Moss believes, and he has built a life on it: things wait. A thing put down is not a thing lost.Then one August they send him an apprentice. Marisol is nineteen, she is from Little Village, and she does not want to be there. Inside a month she is better at the job than he is. Inside six she has asked him the one question he has spent twenty-eight years not answering.Because under his desk is a duffel bag that has been there since 1998. It has never been in the logbook. His daughter left it there the day she walked out of his life, and he has never once opened it.Now the railroad is closing the office. Everything on the shelves has to go somewhere. And a man who has spent three decades keeping other people's things safe has eight weeks to find out whether he was guarding them, or hiding behind them.A novel about the things we can't keep and can't put down, told across one final year in a basement room where the lost things wait: a ring that was never his to return, a letter written and never sent, a phone that rings at the same time every evening, and a man who comes every Thursday and never claims a thing.For readers of A Man Called Ove, The Midnight Library, and The Keeper of Lost Things: a quiet, funny, devastating story about a father, a daughter, and a room where nothing is gone.…

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Paperback. Condición: New. Let's Study Urdu! is a comprehensive introduction to the Urdu language that draws on a range of real-life contexts, popular film songs, and prized works of Urdu literature. A variety of effective aural, oral, and written drills will help students master the language while keeping them entertained. Let's Study Urdu! provides students of diverse backgrounds, including heritage speakers, the opportunity to enhance their competency over basic grammatical structures so that they can comfortably use the language in Urdu-speaking milieus from South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Do you ever make du'a, then pause because you don't know how to put what you're feeling into words?Do you ever feel distant from Allah, even though you still long for closeness?Do you ever whisper a question to the heavens and wait. quietly. for an answer? There are moments when the heart speaks to Allah without formality, without rehearsed words, and without certainty-only with need. Conversations with Allah: The Al-Sami is a deeply reflective spiritual companion for anyone who has ever turned inward and reached upward at the same time. This book offers 365 intimate, soul-centered conversations, one for each day of the year. Every entry follows a gentle and powerful structure: A heartfelt question from a believerA compassionate response inspired by Qur'anic wisdom and Islamic spiritualityA short self-reflection prompt to help you turn inward and engage Allah in your own wordsWritten in a warm, accessible voice, this is not a book of sermons or rigid instruction. It is a daily spiritual dialogue, designed to be read slowly, quietly, and personally. You may begin on any day, read in sequence, or return to specific entries during moments of struggle, gratitude, doubt, or longing. Across twelve thematic months, the journey moves through awakening the heart, inner struggle, patience, forgiveness, love, worship, resilience, purpose, and closeness to Allah. Each page reassures the reader of a simple truth: Allah hears. Allah knows. Allah is near. The responses are not presented as revelation, but as spiritually grounded reflections shaped by the Qur'an and Prophetic teachings written to sound intimate, comforting, and real. This makes the book ideal for readers seeking connection rather than commentary. Why this daily format works (a note from research)Modern psychology has repeatedly found that structured reflection, especially practices that center gratitude, meaning, and calm attention is associated with improved well-being and reduced symptoms of anxiety and depression. (This book's daily reflection prompts are designed to support that same kind of steady inner grounding-while keeping the focus rooted in faith.) Before you begin. and what you may notice over time Before: your du'a feels scattered, your heart feels heavy, you overthink what Allah thinks of you, and you don't know where to start. After (with consistent reading): your inner world becomes quieter, your words become simpler, your questions become more honest, and your relationship with Allah feels more present not because life becomes perfect, but because you return to Him more easily. Inside you'll discover: A daily way to speak to Allah with sincerity, even when you feel unsure, tired, or emotionally overwhelmed.Language that helps you move from "I don't know what to say" to a clear, personal du'a-one day at a time.Twelve monthly themes that guide your heart through patience, forgiveness, worship, resilience, purpose, and closeness to Allah.Reflection prompts that help you recognize patterns like guilt, fear, numbness, and doubt-and gently redirect them toward tawakkul, hope, and steadiness.A quiet practice you can use before Fajr, before sleep, or in the moments when life feels heavy-so faith becomes something you return to, not something you only think about.And much, much more. This is not a replacement for the Qur'an or prayer. It is a companion for the heart-a reminder that Allah listens to every whisper, every doubt, and every unspoken prayer. A year from now, you may find that the questions have softened, the heart has steadie Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Condición: New. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: CJB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 282 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1256. . 2007. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Some forces don't announce themselves. They just slowly become the way you see.You built the career. You hit the milestones. From the outside, it looks like everything is working. And yet somewhere beneath the surface, a quieter question keeps surfacing: is this it?Fourteen centuries ago, in a lamplit room in the desert city of Kufa, a young merchant asked that same question. He had visited the homes of the wealthy, sat in the courts of the powerful, met scholars whose learning filled rooms, and left each encounter with the same unsettling feeling: these people had everything, and almost none of them seemed at peace.The answer he received that night named five forces, wealth, power, knowledge, praise, and youth, that share a hidden quality. Each is genuinely good. Each is worth having. And each, left unexamined, can quietly reshape how you see the world until the life you are chasing stops being a life you would actually choose.The 5 Intoxicants brings that ancient conversation into the present. Weaving together Islamic philosophy, Stoic wisdom, and contemporary psychology, it offers a clear-eyed look at the forces that distort human judgment, and a practical path back to a life lived on purpose.In this book, you will discover: Why achieving your goals so often produces emptiness instead of satisfaction, and what that emptiness is actually telling youHow wealth, power, and praise quietly merge with your sense of who you are, until losing them feels like losing yourselfThe difference between knowledge and wisdom, and why expertise can become a cageWhat the world's wisdom traditions, from Ali ibn Abi Talib to Marcus Aurelius to Seneca, understood about meaning that modern culture has forgottenFive practices for staying clear in a world engineered to keep you distractedThis is not a book that asks you to abandon ambition, reject success, or retreat from the world. It asks something harder and more valuable: that you see clearly what is shaping your choices, and why, before another decade slips past in pursuit of a destination that keeps receding.Written with the honesty of someone who has lived through every chapter he describes, The 5 Intoxicants is for anyone who has ever reached the thing they worked years for and felt the strange quiet that followed.Stop gathering the tools. Start doing the work they were meant for.The lamp in Kufa went out fourteen centuries ago. The work it began is still waiting. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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