Article: After washing your feet with soap and water, think about squirting antibacterial hand sanitizer on your feet. This might help keep bacteria from growing on your feet. Epsom salt may help neutralize odor and helps fight bacteria. Dissolve 1/2 cup of Epsom salt into 8 cups of warm water. Soak your feet for 30 minutes daily. Don't rinse the salt from your feet afterwards, just dry your feet thoroughly. This works well if you do it before bed and don't put socks on afterwards. Vinegar is an acid that creates an environment where bacteria cannot live. Mix 1/2 cup of white or apple cider vinegar with 6 cups of hot water. Soak your feet for 10-15 minutes. Wash your feet with soap and rinse well afterwards to remove the vinegar smell. If vinegar is left on your skin, it could cause a chemical burn. Many people swear by the folk remedy of soaking your feet in black tea to remove foot odor. The tannic acid in tea is believed to deter bacteria by creating an unfriendly environment. Steep 5 black tea bags in boiling water. When the tea has steeped, mix with 4 cups of cool to warm water - you want to make sure not to burn your feet. Soak your feet for 20 minutes daily. An alternative is to use green tea, which is also thought to destroy the bacteria. Cut a lime in half and rub each half over your feet before bed. Rinse off the lime juice to prevent skin irritation. Let it dry completely. The acid in the lime may prevent bacteria from growing. However, limes are not guaranteed to reduce foot odor. You can also use a lemon instead of a lime. You might consider mixing the lemon or lime with baking soda and soaking your feet instead. Both limes and lemons can cause skin irritation. If your skin is sensitive, you may want to try applying diluted lime or lemon water to your feet instead of the juice. Mix 1 teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide with 1 cup of water. Place the mixture on a washcloth and wipe it over your feet. This may help eliminate some of the bacteria.
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Squirt hand sanitizer on your feet after washing. Soak your feet in Epsom salt. Wash your feet with vinegar. Mix up a black tea bath. Rub your feet with a lime. Try hydrogen peroxide.
Article: You're not going to have much luck memorizing passages if you're sitting in a loud, busy environment. Find a room in your home or mosque where you'll be free from distractions. Avoid rooms with TV or computer screens, and leave your phone in a different room after turning the sound off. If you work on memorizing for less than 20 minutes, you're probably not going to remember the passage later on. If you memorize for more than 30 minutes, you can lose track of all the information20 minutes is the perfect length for a memorization session. You can easily memorize a single ayah in one 20-minute session. Practice a new ayah every day to build up to a full surah. If you live with others, consider enlisting a friend or family member to memorize passages with you. This way the two of you can keep each other accountable when you're starting out. Select a surah that you identify with and feel a strong emotional connection to. There is nothing wrong with memorizing a single ayah because you love the meaning of the passage. Standard Muslim practice requires knowledge of an entire surah though, so you probably want to learn the whole thing. If you're planning on memorizing an entire surah, start with the ayah at the very beginning of the chapter that you plan on memorizing. You should start memorizing surah Al-Fatihah since every muslim must know this in order to pray their salat. Before you start trying to memorize the ayah, read through it carefully in a language you understand to ensure that you understand the meaning of the passage. This will have the added benefit of helping you memorize the surah since you'll be able to rely on the sequence of the passages as opposed to simply memorizing the sounds. Even if it weren't helping you memorize, you should know the meaning of the words that you're memorizing. The entire point is to help you preserve and understand the word of Allah(SWT). You can't do that if you don't know what the words mean! Ayahs are always memorized in the classical Arabic that they were originally written in. This means that you'll need to obtain a recording of the Qur'an if you aren't a natural Arabic speaker. Find an audio recording online or purchase an audio companion to help you with the pronunciation. The online version of the Qur'an at https://www.quranwow.com allows you to listen to the ayahs while reading a translated version. This can be an incredible aid during the memorization process. There are plenty of YouTube tutorials that can walk you through the pronunciation techniques. The proper recitation techniques and sounds are called tajweed. Once you have a copy of the Qur'an, a quiet place to work, and an audio guide, start by reading the ayah out loud. Read the individual passage out loud in its entirety. Avoid splitting a single ayah into parts. When citing or reciting it, other Muslims will expect you to know the entire ayah as opposed to part of it. Focus on the meaning of the words instead of the sounds alone to make memorizing easier. It's much easier to remember a story than a pattern of noises. Most ayahs are pretty short and are divided in a way that makes memorization easy. Say a single ayah at least 5 or 6 times while reading it on the page. Then, lower your book or look away from your computer and try to say it out loud from memory. If you get stuck, refer to your Qur'an or audio recording. Depending on how good you are at memorizing, this could take you anywhere from 2 to 30 minutes. Once you think you memorize the ayah, revise from the beginning of the surah up to the ayah after your recent ayah without the Qur'an to make sure you might not forget it. Say the ayah out loud one more time. Then, immediately play a recording of the ayah with the proper tajweed. Check your recitation against the audio guide to ensure that your pronunciation, cadence, and tempo are correct. If it is, you can move on to another passage. Keep practicing if you need a little more work. Repeat an ayah regularly to make sure that you don't forget it. Don't worry if you don't master it on the first attempt. The Arabic pronunciations can be pretty difficult if you grew up speaking a different language.
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Find a quiet place that's free from distractions for a 20-minute session. Select an ayah at the start of a surah you like. Consider the meaning of an ayah by reading it carefully. Obtain a copy of the ayah's pronunciation if you don't speak Arabic. Recite the entire passage out loud to get a sense for the rhythm. Repeat the ayah over and over again until you internalize it. Check your work against the audio recording to ensure you've got it down.