May 2026
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This year Eid al Adha uniquely falls on the same day as Khilafat Day, commemorated every year by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. For Ahmadi Muslims, the connection of this Eid with the institution of Khilafat and the lessons of sacrifice and dedication we glean from the two, cannot be overstated. Ayesha Naseem and Rabah Nasir…
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Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge All language is translation. We translate our thoughts into words, just as we interpret the expressions of others. In a sense, no two individuals truly speak the ‘same’ language. In Persian, the term hamzabān refers to a person who speaks the same language as you. However, it carries a deeper meaning too.…
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Rameen Masood, Leicester Some time ago, I saw a patient staring silently at an MRI scan of his brain. The consultant pointed carefully at the pale contours on the screen, explaining where the stroke had occurred and what deficits it might leave behind. Yet what struck me most was not the scan itself, but the…
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Maria Sadaf, Islamabad I used to be able to read for hours. I mean genuinely absorbed – the kind of reading where you look up and the afternoon has gone. These days I find myself re-reading the same paragraph three times, my hand drifting toward my phone between sentences, my mind already somewhere else before…
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Iffat Mirza Rashid, Alton I once had a friend whose research looked at the different personalities we embody in different languages. At the time, being monolingual herself (we were both learning Spanish together), she was curious about what it was like for me growing up speaking Urdu and English, and it was the first time…
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