November 2025
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Iffat Mirza Rashid, Alton The word ‘friend’ comes from the Old English frēond, meaning ‘loving one’, ‘friend’ or ‘relative’. This word ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root prī-y-H (‘to love, to like’), which is also the root of the word ‘free’. Therefore, it can be said that the core meaning of ‘friend’ has always not only been tied to the concept of love and affection, but also has relations to the idea of ‘freedom’. The concept
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Fatiha Nadeem and Tooba Khokhar ask how one can maintain one’s spiritual connection amidst the distractions and demands of modern life and discuss how Islam has a set of daily practices and observances that help us not only form a connection with God but that are designed to help us develop our character and faith.
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Yusra Dahri, Tilford لَا تُدۡرِکُہُ الۡاَبۡصَارُ ۫ وَہُوَ یُدۡرِکُ الۡاَبۡصَارَ ۚ وَہُوَ اللَّطِیۡفُ الۡخَبِیۡرُ ‘Eyes cannot reach Him but He reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware.’ The Holy Qur’an, 6:104 We are in the maze of idols,Desperate to find the Centre.These hedges of tamarisk are so thickThat we cannot break them.And
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Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. i Childhood is an age of wonder, a time when our eyes have not grown used to the sights of this
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Danila Jonnud, Hampshire While scrolling online the other day, I saw a post listing certain crimes which made the news in Britain, captioned “I’m tired of being tolerant”. The account was an ordinary person’s, with only a handful of views, and yet for some reason it stayed with me. Tolerance can be a lot of
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From the outside looking in, it may seem that faith is something static, something that has been chosen and then adhered to seamlessly and effortlessly. Iffat Mirza Rashid and Khaula Safeer discuss the difficulties that can arise when it comes to maintaining firm faith and indeed the very relationship believers have with the idea of
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Unaizah Ahmad, Chester In our world mired in conflict, dissension, and division, truth-telling and justice have taken the worst hit. When truth is attacked from all fronts, those who strive to uphold it become the prime targets. According to UNESCO1, between 2006 and 2025, over 1,800 journalists have been killed around the world. And as per a recent report2, at
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