Peace
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Iffat Mirza, Cambridge Have you ever seen a young child trip and perhaps graze their knee? Perhaps they burst into tears and perhaps you told them to ‘be brave’. Perhaps that was enough for them to dry their eyes and go back to their games. It is deeply saddening to think – is this what…
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Iffat Mirza, Cambridge If you’re like me, you’ve probably also been glued to a screen the last two weeks. Simultaneously wishing you could simply turn off your screen and hoping the violence, injustices, and horrors would stop, but also knowing that living in the safety of a London suburb, the least I can do is…
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Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils… I still remember encountering this poem for the first time, as many of us will have done, in an age its poet deems “apparelled in…
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Zujaja Khan, London As Britain and the Commonwealth mark 100 years since the end of the First World War this month, we take time to reflect on the sacrifices made, and the mistakes that led our countries down a deadly path a century ago. But despite our yearly contemplation and promises not to forget, we…
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Maha Khan, London With the world becoming devastatingly divided and fuelled by xenophobia, one becomes fearful of raising a family in such environments and wishes to instil peace in the world, little by little. We wonder how and where to begin, searching for answers as to why the world is this way. Like many things…
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park Inner peace is not a destination. It is not as if we can find it one day and remain in the its bliss forevermore. No – reality likes to throw curveballs at us and keep us on our toes. It is important that we view inner peace as a state of…
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M Rehman, Cheam At times world peace feels like a distant dream, a fantasy, a vision that seems to fade away as days go by. It is like a dream that humanity desires but is getting increasingly harder to attain. More and more conflicts and disputes arise and less and less of them are being…
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Basira Ajmal, Bournemouth It is of course always with feelings of deep sadness that one writes about the Holocaust— a catastrophe in which millions of people, especially Jews were mass murdered remorselessly by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. A genocide to exterminate Jews, an atrocious horror. While we honour the victims of the Holocaust…
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Mishal Aziz, Raynes Park, London Today, 16th November, marks International Tolerance Day. Tolerance means the ability to endure subjection to something without a negative reaction. In today’s world where communities are so diverse and multi-cultural, we need tolerance more than ever in order to maintain peace in society. Many non-Muslims object that the Holy Prophet…
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Iffat Mirza, Raynes Park, London In the modern world, the word Islam unfortunately, and most wrongly, carries the connotation of intolerance and violence. The truth could not be further from this unjust and ill-informed accusation. The word Islam is quite literally the Arabic word for peace and also for submission. From just this it is…
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