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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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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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Noor-Ul-Hudah Khan, Ash In a world where prices have skyrocketed; and inflation and unemployment are at an all-time high, is financial sacrifice even possible? Nearly every other day we hear the term ‘cost of living crisis’ and it seems to be that in most households there’s a struggle to ensure outgoing expenditures are lower than the incoming amount. Ahmadi Muslims have the opportunity to make regular financial contributions
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Maria Sadaf, Islamabad Poverty is often thought as the absence of income. But existentially it is much deeper: the deprivation of opportunities, of voice, of access to basic services, of the chance to live with dignity and hope. It is about a mother skipping meals so her children can eat, or a family choosing between medicine and rent. These are not
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Rabah Nasir, Worcester Park The word “girl” carries centuries of history. In Middle English, “girle” referred simply to a young person, yet over time it has come to signify a female child: the bearer of dreams, potential, and a promise of the future. The Holy Qur’an reminds us: “O ye people! fear your Lord, Who created you from
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*Huzoor is the term Ahmadi Muslims use to refer to His Holiness, the fifth Caliph/Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community* Presentation for Lajna UK Ijtema 2025 by Yusra Dahri. Audio is available above and transcript is available below: Bismillah hiramaniraheem. Respected Sadr Sahiba and my dear sisters, Assalamoalaikum. When I was approached to give a

