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  • Beyond the Surface 

    Beyond the Surface 

    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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  • How To Pay Attention

    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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  • How to Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’

    Iffat Mirza Rashid, Alton A hard pill to swallow is that, at the end of the day, we really don’t know others as well as we might like to think we do; even those that we love dearly, we may have grown up with them as best friends or as siblings, even under one roof.…

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  • Podcast 29: Misinformation

    Unfortunately, we see large-scale misinformation everywhere. Unaizah Ahmad and Madiha Cheema discuss how just as there are responsibilities that lie on us as an audience to discern information that we hear, we also have responsibilities when disseminating information as narrators. They look for guidance in principles that Islam teaches us about spreading rumours, gossiping and…

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