Education
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Maaham Ahmad, South Wimbledon The pursuit of education is a human right that is crucial to the future advancement of our society. While many of us may take our easy access to education for granted, there are millions of children in our world fighting for their right to simply attend school and acquire the knowledge
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Jaziba Ahmed, Earlsfield 2020 was a most significant and life-changing year for all of us. A year where life took a sudden turn as the outbreak of the coronavirus dominated all over the world and forced us into lockdown here in the UK. From the closure of schools, universities and work to not being able
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Maaham Ahmad, South Wimbledon Many people may be surprised to learn that when Islam was in its early stages, and the Arab world was being pulled out of its medieval ways, it was a woman who was acting in part as a scholar and leader in this primarily patriarchal society. As one of the wives
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Saleha Bakhtiar, London Scrolling through alislam.org, the structure of the website reminded me of my very first (Power Point) presentation on God. In Year five we were given access to the internet to make a project on something we felt passionate about. So, there I sat in front of a computer, struggling to copy
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Wajeeha Rana, Slough The year 2020 has been an eventful one, and the effects of the pandemic have been felt at all levels of society. This was one experience that the most privileged found no money could buy them a way out of. We may have found that our health and that of our loved
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Fateha Khawaja, Tilford I remember the countdown to the last New Year. It was the first in my new house and I was excited about offering Tahajjud, pre-dawn Prayers – voluntary Prayers that Muslims particularly try and offer when welcoming the New Year, to set a precedent of being much more mindful of their Prayers.
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Arooba Hameed, Newcastle As an immunology student, I remember the first time I studied viruses – gosh! I thought, a creation of Allah Almighty, resembling something out of a horror story; something like a villain hypnotizing every human on the planet. One such tiny virus has brought the world down for the past many months
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Kholood Tahir, Morden In the past few months, we have lived through unprecedented times which will indeed make it to the history books . Covid-19 has rattled the world in such a way that people from all walks of life – the elderly, the young, the rich, the poor – are left fearing for their
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Sarah Ward, London Despite being born decades after, the iconic sounds of the sixties were the memorable backdrop to my childhood. On long car journeys, the only acceptable music came from my father’s cassettes containing the hit parade from his own adolescence. Today, many lyrics are still imprinted on my memory. And at this turbulent
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