My name is Romina. I am the youngest of 8 children in an Afghan "pathan" family that lived in southern Africa and came to the UK when I was just under two years old. We didn't have lots of spare money growing up- we never ate out and often went to ...
The Muslimah I Am Today: Finding Meaning and Being Meaningful By Zaynab Dawood Nervous anxiety, shy excitement and a feeling of being overwhelmed are some common sensations a person may feel when they leave their old life behind and embark on a new ...
By Romina Afghan Something was wrong. Badly wrong. I knew it, felt it, but couldn't bring myself to speak it and give it a life beyond my mind where I had hastily stashed it behind a layer of normality. I didn't feel like myself. I felt l...
By Fatima-Minna For me, the first year or so of being Muslim was kind of a lonely time. I lost a couple of close friends when I became Muslim, and there were many other friends I no longer saw because of the changes I made to my social life. Altho...
Allaah Is The Best Of Planners Every now and then, just like every other human being on this planet earth, I think, I plan, I weave dreams, I day dream- in short I have an epiphany that I have my life all planned and sorted. But.. Allah is t...
By Sheena Hussain Being an avid traveller, I honestly had no idea what to expect when I embarked on my first ever journey to the Holy Land, more accurately described as Al-Quddus, the beautiful and glorified plains of Palestine. The excitement...
By Aliya Vaughan It was the summer of 2005 and the birth of my fourth child was imminent. I had it all worked out. I opted for a home birth as my second child was born at home and I had enjoyed the experience. Unfortunately, things did not quite g...
By Meru Hussain I have regularly heard and read reminders about dua: the importance of it, the best time to supplicate, that it can be made anytime. Until recently, I wasn’t convinced that I could ask for anything. Of course, I would make dua ...