By Aya Zaki In that school’s small prayer room, a little girl sat not realizing she was having an encounter with God. It was a day where the teacher had decided they would all go and pray together as a class. It was a dim room, but the light and...
By Calisha Bennet Very rarely have I ever met someone who said that their journey towards learning, memorising or understanding the Quran was a super easy one. The common experience is that it is an ongoing and uphill journey for most. It’s expr...
By Fatima-Minna When I was a child one of my favourite authors was Enid Blyton. My 8 year old is currently exploring many of my favourite old books, and I am getting the opportunity to see her stories from an adults view point. A common thread thr...
By Romina Afghan Something was wrong. Badly wrong. I knew it, felt it, but couldn't bring myself to speak it and give it a life beyond my mind where I had hastily stashed it behind a layer of normality. I didn't feel like myself. I felt l...
By Hadil Arman “I do not want to wake up one day and regret marrying the person next to me.” How hard it is to swallow a few words uttered to you when you know that is not what you deserve. When you know your relationship with your Lord. When yo...
By Fatima-Minna For me, the first year or so of being Muslim was kind of a lonely time. I lost a couple of close friends when I became Muslim, and there were many other friends I no longer saw because of the changes I made to my social life. Altho...
Allaah Is The Best Of Planners Every now and then, just like every other human being on this planet earth, I think, I plan, I weave dreams, I day dream- in short I have an epiphany that I have my life all planned and sorted. But.. Allah is t...
By Sheena Hussain Being an avid traveller, I honestly had no idea what to expect when I embarked on my first ever journey to the Holy Land, more accurately described as Al-Quddus, the beautiful and glorified plains of Palestine. The excitement...
By Aliya Vaughan It was the summer of 2005 and the birth of my fourth child was imminent. I had it all worked out. I opted for a home birth as my second child was born at home and I had enjoyed the experience. Unfortunately, things did not quite g...
By Mallikah b.Murray Whenever people ask me how I became Muslim, sometimes it's so hard for me to answer. It feels like I'm put on the spot of something so deeply personal to me. I often liken my journey to Islam to falling in love. So, when peopl...