Jan 4th '21
Get Ready…
By Romina Afghan Did we think we were different? Did we think we were better than the people of the past? Did we think that the Quran didn’t apply to us? أَحَسِبَ ٱلنَّاسُ أَن يُتْرَكُوٓا۟ أَن يَقُولُوٓ...
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Oct 26th '20
Letters To My Younger Self : From an “Old” Muslim To a “New” Muslim
By Fatima-Minna There’s a young women in a little terraced house in a UK city. She has just said goodbye to her Muslim friends, who came over to witness her Shahada. The sun shone into the tiny front room as she said the words that would change he...
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Oct 3rd '20
Three Lessons To Survive A Social Fitnah
By Asma Nemati When we talk about lessons learned from anything in life, each one of us brings a unique perspective. Allah Most High has created us in our own special ways. No two souls are alike. No two opinions are the same. They might have ...
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Jul 30th '20
ARAFAH IS FOR YOU!
By Romina Afghan and Maryam Akram The Day of Arafah is here! The best day of the entire year - alhamdulillaah we have been given life and the blessing to be able to see this day when so many others have passed, and when so many others are heedless o...
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Jul 9th '20
3 Lessons I Learnt From Wearing The Hijab
By Aliya Vaughan I used to think hijab oppressed Muslim women to benefit men, only to discover it was in fact, a fallacy that is used specifically to undermine Muslim women and discredit Islam. I later learned hijab is not a form of female subordina...
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Jun 20th '20
Corona: There Is No Such Thing As Loss….
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...
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Jun 4th '20
Quarantine and The Value of Time.
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 ...
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May 4th '20
Protecting My Heart
By Hanaa’ Ibtes Have you ever felt detached from love and connection? Have you ever been told that you’re too hard to love? Have you ever worked your utmost best not to give your heart away? Growing up I remember saying to myself,...
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May 2nd '20
Solitude – The Silver Lining of Corona
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 lef...
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Apr 22nd '20
Protecting My Well-being
By Calisha Bennett يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ ۖ لَا يَضُرُّكُم مَّن ضَلَّ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ ۚ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَر...