Voice of British Muslim Women

Official Blog of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association UK

  • Have We Forgotten How to Forgive?

    Yusra Dahri, Tilford. I don’t think I know how to forgive. I used to be proud of my inability to hold a grudge. But then I realised I had nothing to be proud of. I wasn’t forgiving my grudges, not really. I just wouldn’t think about them. I would forget, not forgive. It might seem…

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  • Forgiveness – an instrument of progress and peace

    Nadia Ghauri, Oxford As human beings, it is in our nature to make mistakes. Forgiving them, by contrast, can be anything but easy. It is no wonder, then, that the poet Alexander Pope was to claim, ‘To err is human; to forgive, divine’1. The highest form of forgiveness, as Pope alludes, is exemplified by Allah…

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  • Consumerism: Our Well-being and Mental Health

    Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn   The announcement of the latest iPhone arriving in market undeniably attracts attention from people across the world. Some rush to stores to buy them in person and some pre-order them to have them delivered as soon as they are released. To think of it, we do not need a new phone…

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  • Leaving Lockdown

    Sarah Ward, London Control.  That elusive, enigmatic feeling which helps us to feel secure and confident in the world we build around us.  Many people spend a large amount of time, money and energy searching for the feeling of control. You can see this human trait even from a child’s earliest experiences when they exercise…

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  • Humanity’s Suicide

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  • Racial Justice in Islam

    Zujaja Khan, London In 1964, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, went to Saudi Arabia to undertake Hajj. When he arrived, his passport was confiscated and he had to wait for his authenticity as a Muslim to be confirmed. As he sat in a room waiting to be seen by officials, he was…

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  • Co-Existence in Al-Andalus

    Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park It’s very easy to turn our heads to some Islamic nations today and gasp in horror at the lack of tolerance amongst different religions, ethnicities, and cultures. The relentless persecution of Christians or the Yazidi, for example, in the Middle East, is most heart-breaking and worrisome. Anyone who was familiar with…

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  • Syedna Bilal: The First Muezzin in Islam

    Sitwat Mirza, London Hazrat Bilal ibn Rabah (may Allah be pleased with him) was an Abyssinian who was born in slavery.  He was exploited at the hands of cruel Makkans, yet Hazrat Bilal is renowned as an incredibly important black figure in Islamic history. Not only did he become one of the first nine blessed…

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  • Muhammadﷺ: The Champion of Social Justice

    Dur-e-Shewar Anwar,  Manchester  The brutal murder of George Floyd in USA earlier this year sparked a surge in support for the Black Lives Matter movement and the public spotlight was focused once more on to the social injustices occurring across the globe; particularly those suffered as a result of the failure of political leaders and…

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  • History of tolerance in Muslim Societies

    Fateha Khawaja, Tilford The Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be on him), the Messenger of Islam and the Seal of all the Prophets stated in his last sermon over 1400 years ago: ‘ Neither an Arab has superiority over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab over an Arab. A white person is not superior to a…

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