The Reason for All these Revolutions

Everyday, we now wake up and witness revolutions taking place all over the world. The obvious reason for all of these revolutions is that people want freedom - they want respect and they want to be treated with dignity. Ultimately though, deep inside, they want what we all want. We want to be successful. We want to be happy. We want to live a fulfilling life. And I believe that time has come.

Just as the time has come for many around the world to stand for their freedom, the time has come to revive our relationships in sha Allah. The time has come to turn our lives around and have a truly satisfying and fulfilling relationship with our loved ones.

Seeing how our relationships are so important to our happiness and success, and knowing that we didn’t have ‘relationship skills class’ like math and English when we were in school, I strongly believe in the need for personal development and continuous education in important relationship success principles such as effective communication, conflict resolution, and emotional intelligence.

Many of us may not realize how important these skills are until we start to have problems in our relationships. And at that point, sometimes it’s difficult to pull ourselves away from the situation to acquire an understanding of the important relationship skills that will allow us to resolve the situation. Consequently, the situation may become worse and reach a point where it becomes increasingly difficult to find a resolution. This in turn can affect our health, our productivity, and even our faith, God forbid.

We may have all heard the saying: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. And I am a strong believer in that – we can not only be more prepared to deal with any difficult situations by equipping ourselves with important relationship success principles, but we can indeed have more fulfilling and satisfying relationships with those who matter most to us.

After all, we all know of people who have acquired wealth, fame, status, power but forgot to invest in that which matters most – their relationships. And the result is, they are alone, and deep inside, they are unhappy.

Once again, in hopes of achieving the vision of building a stronger ummah and a better world, one happy couple and family (potential or current) at a time, I am launching a new program called Reviving Relationships that will insha Allah place on you on the path to happiness and fulfillment in your future or current marriage. This exciting program will include:

· A monthly online session with your sister Raghad Ebied and other relationship success experts providing you with important relationship success principles
· Study guide materials to help you retain and apply what you learn
· An online forum that provides you with a supportive network and an opportunity to share comments, questions, and experiences.

Alhamdullilah, we're very excited to be kicking off this program with our first online session on June 21st with our special Guest Speaker, Dr. Munir El-Kassem on "The 15 Rules of Good Communication: Part I".

To learn more about this exciting program and to reserve your spot for our upcoming session on June 21st, please register here.

Let us remember that when we die, those who will remember us fondly and make duaa for us will likely be those whom we had the most positive relationships with – those whose lives we made better, touched, or changed through simple, yet profound actions that were based on relationship success principles.