By Aliya Vaughan Many of us have been struggling with loneliness during the Coronavirus lockdown. Trying to reach out to other sisters across social media and Zoom has become increasingly problematic. Even sisters with established friendship networks are finding it...
By Asmaa Umm Mikaal In the name of Allah, Most merciful, Most compassionate “Indeed, man was created anxious, When evil touches him, (he is) impatient And, when good touches him, (he) witholds it; Except those who observe the prayer” Quran 70:19-22 Isn’t it amazing...
By Romina Afghan We are living through a unique moment in history. A moment where the things we had taken for granted suddenly seem fragile and the regular routines of normality have become a distant dream of the past; where we mourn the loss of all that normality and...
By Zaynab Dawood Quarantine as a word has never been in my dictionary. I never used it or thought about it. But, like most people on the planet, it is all I think about now. The reason for this is simply because I have the time to think about it, to ponder over it...
By Fatima-Minna Solitude and I go back a long way. When I was 3 my parents moved to a lonely house in the countryside surrounded by woodland. It was an idyllic background to my childhood, with hills, trees, rivers and flowers on my doorstep, but left me very much in...
By Aliya Vaughn “And in Allah do believers put their trust.” Surah Al-Imran 3:160 The first time the words ‘trust in God’ resonated in my heart was many years ago when I was a student. I had an extraordinary experience when my house mate dragged me, reluctantly, to...
By Calisha Bennett يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ ۖ لَا يَضُرُّكُم مَّن ضَلَّ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ ۚ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُون “O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for]...
By Sadeemka It was just days after Boris Johnson’s decision that we in the UK would not close schools or isolate ourselves due to the spread of coronavirus. I sat at home scrolling through social media and could not believe the panic I was witnessing not just in...