Prayer
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Saira Iffat Bhatti, Slough If you could hear every silent prayer at Jalsa Salana, what would it sound like? Perhaps, it would be a mother quietly praying for her child’s health. Somewhere nearby, a student is asking Allah to Guide their future. Another attendee is grieving the loss of a loved one, asking for the…
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Bareera Ghaffar, Nottingham Nobody sees the inner mechanisms of our minds, only the action. Thus, no one has a full picture of why we do what we do and the motivations behind them – apart from Allah the Almighty. Intention (Niyyah) is a fascinating thing to decipher and Islam places great precedence on this fact;…
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Maria Sadaf, Islamabad I used to be able to read for hours. I mean genuinely absorbed – the kind of reading where you look up and the afternoon has gone. These days I find myself re-reading the same paragraph three times, my hand drifting toward my phone between sentences, my mind already somewhere else before…
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Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge “Remember Me, I will remember you…” [2:153] Remembrance means to recollect, bring to mind, and reminisce over a thing. So how does one “remember” the Lord of all Creation? In the Holy Qur’an, Prophet Abraham (on whom be peace) poses to God a deeply profound question: “And remember when Abraham said, ‘My…
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Bareera Ghaffar, Nottingham It is stated in the Holy Qur’an: “ ‘…My Lord, enable me to be grateful for Your favour which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do such good works as would please You, and admit me, by Your mercy, among Your righteous servants.” (27:20) At times, the…
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Bareera Ghaffar, Nottingham Islam is a holistic religion. Each part of man’s journey is outlined and road mapped through the Holy Qur’an which relates the lives of the Prophets of God (peace be on them). At the centre of it, is man’s yearning for God and the peace that is felt within. This need for…
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Ayesha Naseem Mirza, Walsall There was a time not very long ago when watching the news disturbed me a lot; the lack of peace in the world and the rife unrest and raging wars scared me so much that they impacted my mood and thinking. I would feel down because I would fear for where…
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Yusra Dahri, Tilford لَا تُدۡرِکُہُ الۡاَبۡصَارُ ۫ وَہُوَ یُدۡرِکُ الۡاَبۡصَارَ ۚ وَہُوَ اللَّطِیۡفُ الۡخَبِیۡرُ ‘Eyes cannot reach Him but He reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware.’ The Holy Qur’an, 6:104 We are in the maze of idols,Desperate to find the Centre.These hedges of tamarisk are so thickThat we cannot break them.And…
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