By Aya Zaki Munaajah - It's this open magical door where you feel all the layers peeling off of your heart and you stand there, conversing with your Lord; where all faces and all things disappear, and it's just you and Him having the deepest conve...
By Meru Hussain Secrets. Not everyone can keep them, some feel like they will burst if they don't share them with someone, whilst others can take them to the grave. Sins are like secrets, secrets between you and your Lord- at least, thos...
By Calisha Bennett “O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life. And know that Allah intervenes between a man and his heart and that to Him you will be gathered.” (Quran Al-An...
By Fatima-Minna My 8 year old came to me last night, upset because he had broken his archer's bow. When I asked how it broke, he explained he had been using it as a hockey stick. Something I find myself repeating often to my children is that if y...
By Aliya Vaughan Allah is Al-Wahab, the Giving, Al-Kareem, the Most Generous. When we know this and mentally internalise this fact, it should encourage us to reach out and be more charitable to other people, regardless of who they are or how gr...
By Romina Afghan One of the things I have realised as I get older is that we all have blind spots - Those parts of ourselves that are hidden from view, from our own consciousness, until Allaah chooses to bless us with the right situation to bring...
By Abby Galazkowska Loneliness, along with depression and anxiety, is one of the most common psychological problems today. Teresa of Calcutta once said, "The greatest disease in the West today is not tuberculosis or leprosy; it is being unwanted,...
By Crystal Daulton Purification of the Heart: "As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and cleaner" -Rumi Indeed the heart is the reflection of oneself; a place where imaan can illuminate, or disease can ravish. How can one...
By Zaynab Dawood For years I had a detached understanding of the analogies set before us in our religious heritage, of the stories of the anbiyaa ( prophets), those in the Quran and even those from the Seerah. It was only when I pushed myse...