Islam
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Nooresahar Ahmad, Bordon Consider, if you have them, your childhood memories of Jalsa Salana. In one specific memory from when I was about ten years old, I had been wandering around the Jalsa Gah (taking a break from my hard work doing water duty) and came across an AIMS ID face down on the floor.…
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park It is far too easy to be caught up in what we consider to be our conquests, victories, and achievements. In doing so it can be quite tempting to only see ourselves as part of an external world and forget about the world internal to us. Consequently, we forget our true…
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Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn A significant part of my childhood was spent in Pakistan, and it was during those years that the national and regional events of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the country were restricted due to the increased persecution and safety concerns. So, witnessing the International Annual Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in…
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Sarah Ward, London As Maya Angelou famously said “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ”1 As I grow older, I am beginning to realise how very true this wisdom is. Memory, as we travel through life and time, begins…
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In the month Muslims all over the world celebrated Eid ul Adha, also known as Eid of sacrifice, we present the third in our series of blogs on sacrifice and what it really means to followers of the Islamic faith. Sameen Rashid Chaudhary, Surbiton ‘Our Lord, I have settled some of my children in an…
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In a month Muslims all over the world celebrated Eid ul Adha, also known as Eid of sacrifice, we present our second in a series of blogs on sacrifice and what it really means to followers of the Islamic faith. Dr. Mishal Jaleel Akbar Khan, London Why is it that when we use or…
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As this month Muslims all over the world will celebrate Eid ul Adha, also known as Eid of sacrifice, we present a series of blogs on sacrifice and what it really means to followers of the Islamic faith. Tahira Chaudhry, London We make sacrifices daily as we balance our options and decide what we want.…
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In the month Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee, we present the last blog in our series on the various hierarchical jewels associated with Jubilees and their symbolic meaning in relation to the invaluable principles of Islam. Nooresahar Ahmad, Oxford In the middle of the 14th century, the Arab Muslim Prince of Granada, Abu…
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Ayesha Naseem, Blackburn ‘I also don’t think that enough is done to integrate and educate… immigrants, they need to integrate, as we have a different culture to others which we need to maintain.’[1] After reading this quotation during a history lecture recently, several thoughts crossed my mind. This quote was originally taken from a study…
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Siaraa Syed, Hounslow Six simple words; yet, they carry so much weight, magnitude and relevance, especially in modern society. “An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab; a White has no superiority over a Black, nor does a Black have any superiority over a White,…
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