August 2026

  • Podcast 43 – Generosity

    The world today can be quite self-seeking at times and centred on amassing wealth. In podcast 43, Fatiha Nadeem and Zona Tahir discuss generosity, something given great importance in Islam. Acts of kindness and giving are not only monetary and the podcast suggests small ways we can practice generosity every day.

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  • The Importance of Hospitality

    Maria Sadaf, Islamabad To me hospitality has never just been about the food on the table. It’s about the warmth in the room. It’s the feeling a guest carries home with them – of having been truly welcomed. In Islam, hospitality is far more than good manners; it’s an act of worship, a means of…

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  • On a Summer of Heatwaves 

    Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge  And Allah it is Who sends the winds which raise the clouds; then do We drive them to a lifeless tract of land, and quicken thereby the earth after its death. Likewise shall the Resurrection be. (The Holy Qur’an 35:10)  The highest temperature I have ever experienced is 50 degrees Celsius, and…

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  • International Youth Day: To infinity and beyond!

    Hala Hadi, Deer Park ‘Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.’ — sometime between 43 BC and 1908 It seems that since the dawn of civilization, mankind has been united by one enduring conviction: that the the youth of the day are not up to par. Today,…

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  • The Age of Aisha (ra) | a poem

    Let’s play a game. How old am I?

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