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Fateha Khawaja, Tilford The Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be on him), the Messenger of Islam and the Seal of all the Prophets stated in his last sermon over 1400 years ago: ‘ Neither an Arab has superiority over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab over an Arab. A white person is not superior to a…
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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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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool For some people, a natural response to the harrowing 9 minute video depicting the murder of Black American George Floyd by white police officers was the question, ‘how could this have happened?’ I worry that we in Britain, rather than looking at our country’s own relationship with race, may choose a more…
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Tooba Ali “Allah” means “God”, “Haq” means “Truth”—these two words most often used to speak of the Divine in Islam encapsulate the very heart of this faith. That God is all that is true, the centre and orb of the universe. The Holy Qur’an enumerates many of the Divine Attributes, the “Asmaa al Husna” (lit.…
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Nadia Nauman, Bolton In today’s world, when life is full of all sorts of distractions, the struggles of an Ahmadi Muslim woman are challenging. These struggles are the battles fought on a daily basis. Not the battles on the ground. Rather, the battles with one’s own self. Today is the time for jihad (striving) against…
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Amtul Kafi Yadullah Bhunnoo, London Due to COVID-19, the global economy has plummeted far worse than it did in the Great Depression [1]. However, this pandemic has only brought out the false pillars of the economy that it was standing on. Why have banks lowered the interest rate to nearly 0% in order to help…
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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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Nooresahar Ahmad, Hartlepool Due to the economic impact of COVID-19, it is estimated 1.6 billion people are in “immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed”. In contrast, the number of billionaires in the world has reached 2095- none of whom, I would assume, will feel any impact on their economic livelihoods. Previous to the pandemic,…
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Dur-e-Shewar Anwar, Manchester On January 30th 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of Covid-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern and life as we knew it began to change. The effects of this pandemic have been globally overwhelming with rolling lockdowns across the world, economic collapse in some of the…
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