Education

  • Mothers On Lockdown

    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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  • My Travelogue

    M Rehman, Cheam Part I ‘Have they not travelled in the land, so that they may have hearts wherewith to understand, or ears wherewith to hear?…’ (Holy Qur’an 22:47) Allah the Almighty in the Holy Qur’an encourages all Muslims to travel and observe the world around them. And by His grace, I was given the

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  • Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool   In chapter 20, verse 115 of the Holy Qur’an is a simple prayer: “… O my Lord, increase me in knowledge.” The Arabic is but three words: rabbi zidni ilma. It’s probably the first prayer I ever learnt, the prayer I always recite before an exam (and the prayer I repeat,

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  • Yusra Dahri, London Recently in the news, Amanda Spielman, Ofsted chief inspector, has progressed with her previous comments about the hijab. It’s true that there is no necessity in primary school for a Muslim girl to wear the hijab. I didn’t wear a headscarf in primary school, but I don’t see the harm in wearing

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  •                                                   M Rehman, London As Muslims we believe and try to practice in our daily lives what the Holy Qur’an teaches in chapter 2, verse 12: ‘Create not disorder on the

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