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Arfa Yassir, Swindon We are going through an extraordinary, unprecedented global crisis; it is the entire world vs COVID-19. These are exceptionally stressful times and without any social activity the situation seems to increase in severity. Adults and children are finding it difficult to go against their nature and disconnect with the outside world. While…
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool “What is happening is much worse than you thought it was. You’ll realise that even just being able to breathe air in your own house… it’s something you should already be grateful for.” These words – a quote from a YouTube video titled ‘Quarantined Italians record messages for themself from 10 days…
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Sameen Rashid, London Trusts, pension funds, savings accounts, property, even gold…just some of the ways that people have come up with to invest and secure their future. Financial freedom when you are no longer able to work is a blessing indeed, maintaining your independence and your dignity. It is something that many of us aspire…
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Sarah Ward, London What makes a mother? Mothers are celebrated and respected across the globe and yet they come in many different styles. Every mother is unique and interacts with her child in her own way so what are the defining elements which link all of these diverse women together? Love? Every mother loves their…
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park, London Shakespeare’s Henry V famously proclaims: ‘But we in it shall be rememberèd— We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,’[1] The need for unity in a time of crisis has never…
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Sameen Rashid, London UK has now followed many other countries in closures of public spaces including schools for the foreseeable future, as the world tries to grapple with COVID-19, or Coronavirus. For some mothers this comes as a relief; now at least their children can be kept safe at home out of harms way. But…
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Fateha Khawaja, Islamabad, Tilford My parents always like to tell my brothers and I how much easier our grandmothers had it when it came to parent their children. My dad was one of seven siblings who grew up the majority of their childhood in Germany and according to him, my grandmother never had to reprimand…
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool The author Debra Ginsberg said of motherhood that, “The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that – a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”[1] To me, this is certainly true. When I spent a portion of my childhood unwell,…
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Yusra Dahri, Tilford “Paradise lies under the feet of mothers.” When I first learned this Hadith I jokingly picked up my mother’s foot and pretended to look for something under it. There was no malice in this action though, and soon enough I grasped its message. Soon after, I learnt more Ahadith but the Arabic…
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park “He it is Who sends down water for you from the clouds; out of it you have your drink, and there grow from it trees on which you pasture your cattle.” (Holy Qur’an chapter 16, verse 11) If anyone knows anything about me, it is that I love flowers. They give…
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