10 products Indians are happily paying 3-5x more for than they did 5 years ago. Each one tells you something about where consumer India is heading.
1/ Coffee. From a ₹10 Nescafé sachet to a ₹400 Blue Tokai bag or a ₹700 Davidoff.
India didn’t become a coffee market; it became a routine market. Once something enters your morning ritual, price becomes irrelevant.
2/ Bread. From ₹30 white bread to ₹100-150 protein bread and sourdough. The health factory, Theobroma, Ether, and Subko are selling out daily.
Bread is the easiest way to feel “healthy” without changing anything else, so people will overpay for it guilt-free.
3/ Supplements. From ₹300 multivitamins at Revital to ₹1,500–₹3,000 protein powders and gummies from Wellbeing Nutrition, OZiva.
Supplements work because they promise outcomes without behaviour change; a pill is easier to buy than discipline.
Dear Zuha,
I know you are inquisitive about how our religious days fit into the modern world. It is a brilliant question. I will be breaking this down for you so you can clearly see that Islam is not a copycat. It is a complete system with its own deep, independent roots.
Firstly, you asked: if the Gregorian calendar is not real, why do Muslims pray on Friday, and is there a different Friday in the Islamic calendar?
To help you and others understand, we have to go back to history.
Pope Gregory was the one who introduced the Gregorian calendar, and he introduced it in 1582. However, when you look at Islamic history, you will see that Muslims had been observing Jumu'ah for nearly a thousand years before that Pope was even born. If you open classical books of Islamic history such as the Seerah of Ibn Hisham or The Sealed Nectar, the physical proof is right there.
These books documented the very first Jumu'ah prayer held by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in 622 CE. It took place in the valley of Ranuna during his migration from Mecca to Medina. In that same era, Allah revealed an entire chapter in the Quran called Surah Al-Jumu'ah, where He commanded the believers to leave their worldly trades and gather. This proves Yawm al-Jumu'ah was a lived reality in the 7th century, over 900 years before the Gregorian calendar existed in Rome.
Now, you might wonder how this connects to the Friday we know today. Frankly, the seven day weekly loop is an entirely different system from how we count solar or lunar months. It is an ancient, unbroken mathematical cycle. You do not even have to take my word for it. Non Muslim historians and sociologists agree on this.
For instance, Eviatar Zerubavel in his book The Seven Day Circle confirmed that this weekly cycle has remained completely unbroken for thousands of years across different empires. The day the Western world decided to call Friday aligns seamlessly with the sixth day of that ancient cycle.
In Arabic, the days are just numbered. Sunday is Day One. Monday is Day Two. The sixth day is Yawm al-Jumu'ah, the Day of Gathering. This means we do not pray on this day to honor a Roman calendar. That is, it was just a coincidental relationship. We pray on it because Allah established it on a divine timeline.
Secondly, you asked: why is Friday night considered so blessed, and what are you missing here?
To understand this, we have to look at the foundations of human existence. Friday goes more than just the end of the work week. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) taught us that Friday is the day Prophet Adam (peace be upon him) was created, the day he entered Paradise, the day he was sent to earth, and the day the world will end.
This is why the Prophet had a very profound routine. Every Friday during the early morning Fajr prayer, he would recite Surah As-Sajdah and Surah Al-Insan. He did this deliberately. These two chapters detail the creation of the universe, the biological creation of man, and the intense realities of the Day of Judgment. Praying these chapters every Friday morning is a divine reset. It reminds you of your origin and your final destination, both of which are tied to this specific day.
Because Friday carries the heavy weight of the end of times, reciting Surah Al-Kahf is your spiritual shield. The Surah contains stories about the ultimate trials of wealth, power, and faith. Reading it provides a divine light that protects your heart from the materialistic noise of the world and the deception of the Dajjal until the next Jumu'ah.
So by this fact, you are not missing anything. You just need to see that we are not following a Gregorian Friday. We are following a divine timeline. Don’t fret.
Allah knows best.
Roohafza never claimed
-it will cure cancer
- It will cure Covid
- It will cure Hypertension
- never sold Piss
- Never failed a food safety test
- Never got slammed by SC for misleading ads.
Only Patanjali has that Badge of Fraud.
Choose wisely.
Modi during Eid :
> Saugaat-e-Modi
Modi during Ram Navami :
> LPG cylinder price hike by Rs 50
> Petrol price hike by Rs 2
> Diesel price hike by Rs 2
Hindu khatre mai hai, in Maulana Modi rule 🙌
Can we have a next/new Prime Minister who when India is threatened by tariff wars, climate change etc can come forward & speak to us and the world explaining its impact and outlining corrective measures.
No boring scripted teleprompters. No Hindu-Muslim rhetoric. Enough.
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57 Islamic countries, over 1.8 billion Muslims, Approx 6 million Muslim armies, around 8-9 thousand fighter jets, nuclear power, thousands of high per sonic missiles , mountains of gold , oil wealth .
Despite all this, we have not been able to be the effective voice of the oppressed people of #Gaza against the #Zionist_terrorists_of_IDF..
Even the burning bodies of Palestinians , their genocide and the piles of rubble of their homes, hunger, poverty, and helplessness could not shake us from our place. We remained victims of our own interests so that the world's unchallenged superpowers would not be angry with us. #Muslim_rulers did not come together in the United Nations , Security Council to raise an effective voice on the issue of worst Palestinian genocide in the history of mankind .
The rulers of Islamic countries could not even hold an #Islamic_summit over the worst genocide in human history in Gaza.
The #ruling_classes_of Ummah , the powerful people, remember that they all have to answer for this cowardice apathy and indifference in the court of Allah, and this reckoning is not a distant matter.
Muslims have been fooled before, and they’re being fooled again. These are the MPs/JPC members who shed crocodile tears in Parliament— and mocked the #WaqfBill behind closed doors laughing with BJP leaders over jalebis. Choose your leaders wisely!
Salutations to parliament whose members sat till 3 am to debate the Wakf bill with the quality of debate in Rajya Sabha truly top class . But it begs the question: if parliament can debate the Wakf bill for so many hours, why no discussions allowed on many other key issues: from education policy to electoral rolls to China policy to Manipur (debated only for an hour at 2 am). Parliament must restore its primacy as a forum for debate and not become a notice board for only what the govt wants to discuss. Chairs in particular must be firmly neutral and not bat for one side. Agree?
Did you know that the 1.12 acre land on which Ambani’s Antilia is built was a Wakf property (ex-orphanage) that was sold for a pittance? Huge controversy!
Does this explain why BJP is keen to get control many lakh crore ₹ worth Wakf lands of Muslim bodies.
Rackets everywhere
A speech for the ages by @ShayarImran in the Rajya Sabha. Agree/disagree with his party/politics but for sheer oratory and skilful presentation, a cut above. Brought back memories of the great parliamentary speakers of another era. Good to see parliament still has space for high quality speeches🙏👍
Of all the Speakers who have spoken against #WaqfBillAmendment , with no disrespect to anyone, @asadowaisi made sure he was prepared! Not just emotional talk but pure facts! Truly a commendable job, although the bill is passed, hats off to all the MPs who dared to go against 💪🏻