Holy Quran
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Fateha Khawaja, Tilford. A month of fasting sounds daunting when looked at from a distance. A month of depriving yourself from some of the most necessary means of human survival from sunrise to sunset. A month of exercising your patience to immeasurable lengths. A month of bettering yourself and feeling empathy with those who are…
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Navida Sayed, London All I could see was doctors and nurses in blue or green gowns, gloves, masks, eye protection and aprons, I hadn’t seen this in any of my previous hospital admissions. As I lay almost paralysed unable to move my body I gasped for air. I opened my eyes, my heart was racing…
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park Seeing images of empty supermarket shelves up and down the country a few weeks ago immediately highlighted the individualistic view of some members of our society which, I must admit, was saddening. It certainly made me doubt how well as a society we would face the impending storm that was the…
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Aroosa Akram, Slough In Islam the Oneness of God is fundamental and Muslims believe that God created the universe. The cosmological arguments support this claim because a cosmological argument argues that there must be a God to explain the existence of the universe. To fully understand the cosmological arguments one has to look at the…
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Aroosa Akram, Slough It is common knowledge that atheism is disbelief in God, however atheism in its general and basic form is the lack of belief in all deities. This is of course the opposite of theism in which all classical theistic religions like Islam, Christianity and Judaism and Hinduism believe that there is a…
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Nadia Ghauri, Oxford The divine concept of God has long perplexed mankind. Yet through the Holy Qur’an and His Messengers, Allah the Exalted has provided us with a wealth of material that aids our understanding of His supreme and unmatched qualities. Rabb is the second most prevalent term for God in the Qur’an after the…
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park One word that a book-lover stumbles upon in life often is ‘timeless’. We often talk about certain books having a persisting influence over the centuries. Reading, for me, has never just been a hobby. For hours upon hours I would devour books. It ultimately culminated in my opting to do a…
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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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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park It’s strange to think that a headline itself can make headlines. On 22nd March 2019 the New Zealand newspaper The Press published the paper with a blank front page, with only the Arabic word Salaam written on it, accompanied with a translation in English: Peace. This was in response to the…
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