Nature

  • The High Point of the Year?

    Sarah Ward In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. These words echo in my memory. Words from my childhood and days of singing in the school choir. In amongst the

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  • Bees: an Extraordinary Sign

    Nooresahar Ahmad, Hampshire In Valencia, eastern Spain, the Araña caves contain two examples of prehistoric rock art, composed by hands that perished thousands of years ago. In one, a goat is hunted with a bow and arrow. The other depicts a scene of a woman atop a ladder which rests on a cliff face, her

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  • Spring: A Lesson in Divine Mercy

    Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge “Look, therefore, at the marks of Allah’s mercy: how He quickens the earth after its death.”—The Holy Qur’an, chapter 30, verse 51 Spring has once more come to fill with beauty and freshness the landscape of the British isles. The “darling buds of May” bloom as they do every turning of the

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  • Arfa Yassir, Swindon Trees are such a beautiful, significant, and irreplaceable creation of God Almighty. This is the very reason the Holy Quran in various places gives examples of a tree in different contexts. For example: “Dost thou not see how Allah sets forth the similitude of a good word? It is like a good

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  • Nooresahar Ahmad, Bordon To celebrate our 100-year anniversary, Lajna Ima’illah has pledged to plant 100,000 trees across the UK. This goal is indicative of the emphasis on sustainability which has always been important to Lajna Ima’illah; when it was established in 1922, a message of sustainability was at the heart of the aims and objectives

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