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For Islam Awareness Week a post featuring the perspective of a mother Sibgha Salim, Raynes Park Each year as Mother’s day approaches, shops begin selling cards, flowers, chocolates and a huge variety of presents. Prices are hiked and businesses make money as usual, ‘Do all these things make a Mum happy?’ I began to wonder.
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For Islam Awareness Week a post featuring the perspective of a young person Aalia Qureshi, London For many of us, being assertive, confident and easy-going comes naturally, almost like an instinct. But today, I am writing for those of us who feel we do not have a voice. Those of us who have to put
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Sarah Waseem, London Yesterday, 26th March, I participated in a very unusual event. Along with about ten other ladies from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community we joined a larger group of women drawn from various walks of life to stand for five minutes on Westminster Bridge to remember those who died on 22nd March. The event organised
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Sarah Ward Khan, London Sometimes words are not enough. In life, times often come where we communicate through the raw emotions we feel because language cannot adequately express our feelings: the birth of a child, the death of a loved one and other such seminal moments. Yesterday, 22 March 2017, was sadly another such
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Sarah Waseem, London By now most people know, The European Court of Justice has ruled that companies can now stipulate that employees may not wear the Islamic headscarf, but only as part of prohibitions including other religious and political symbols. They argue that “an internal rule of an undertaking which prohibits the visible wearing of any
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Sameea Jonnud, Aldershot, UK What is happening to the world these days? Terror attacks murdered people all through Ramadhan and in the last few days there has been so much going on that there is no time to digest things. The political turmoil in Britain would be enough on its own but the change of
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Sameea Jonnud, Aldershot, UK As the seismic shock of the vote to leave the European Union settles, a picture of uncertainty has emerged as to what our next steps will be. How soon Article 50 will be triggered, how long negotiations with the EU will take and what the position of Britain will be is
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Dr Munazzah Chou, Hitchin, UK Ramadan is a time I look forward to; a time of heightened collective and personal spiritual endeavour. Other more worldly or mundane commitments fade into the background and spiritual activity is brought into focus. More time for Quranic recitation is carved out, more time is spent in superogatory prayers and
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Sameea Jonnud, Aldershot, UK As Ramadhan progresses those fasting will have got into a routine to pass the day from before dawn to night. Proper nutrition is essential to ensure there are no negative effects brought on by fasting, especially in these long days with eighteen hour fasts. The fast is opened at sunset and
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Riyya Ahmad, age 12, Aldershot, UK It’s finally here, the month of fasting for Muslims worldwide. Ramadan is the month where we remember the people who are less fortunate than us. Most of all it’s the time to remember Allah. As a young Muslim school girl I do not have to keep a full fast.
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