Caring
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Ayesha Naseem Mirza, Walsall How an act of kindness can change a life All my life, I have seen that whenever my parents are met with a situation in which they have to choose between their own comfort or the comfort and ease of someone else, they have always chosen the other person. They have
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hampshire ‘There was a time,’ wrote Wordsworth (1) of early childhood, ‘when meadow, grove, and stream, / To me did seem / Apparelled in celestial light, / The glory and the freshness of a dream.’ Now that the poem’s narrator is an adult, the phase of childlike wonder and delight is gone forever:
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Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn *Huzoor is the term Ahmadi Muslims use to refer to His Holiness, the fifth Caliph/Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Some days ago, when I wrote a blog about the experience of witnessing fear turning into security and peace because of Khilafat [Caliphate], I did not know that the following Friday, Huzoor,
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Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn In the pre-Islamic society, women lived in atrocious conditions. It was the advent of Islam, the Holy Qur’an, and the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him) that ensured the fundamental rights of women and provided them with the honour and respect that they deserved in society. However, as
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With Allah’s grace, as we complete 100 years of our wonderful Ahmadi Muslim women’s auxiliary organistaion, Bareera Ghaffar and Matina Hakim reflect over what Lajna Ima’illah means to them, how it has shaped their lives and how they feel blessed to be a part of it.
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park Generally, I try to be quite an optimistic person. I’m not necessarily the kind of person to blindly insist the glass is half-full but I will certainly search for justifications to make the case. But I have to admit, lately it’s been a little harder to be optimistic. News headlines of
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Bareera Ghaffar, Birmingham As it celebrates its 100 years, I reflect on how Lajna Ima’illah, the women’s auxiliary organisation of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community enables and encourages not only me, but many women around the globe to serve Islam Ahmadiyyat. It is like being swathed by the true and pure sense of sisterhood, like cold
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Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn Often in life, you want to turn to someone for guidance, for advice, or simply to be heard and to be understood. After our parents, the people we often look towards are our siblings or our closest friends. They say family is your safe haven, it is your comfort place, and the
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In the month Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee, we present the second blog in our series on the various hierarchical jewels associated with Jubilees and their symbolic meaning in relation to the invaluable principles given in the Holy Qur’an. Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn With the widespread national celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee of Her
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