Perceptions

Salaam Ya Muharram – the ‘Sacred’ Month

By Aisha Loya & Sumera Akif | October 30, 2014 The Islamic month of Muharram is a very blessed and important one. Muharram literally means ‘sacred’.  It symbolizes the first month of the lunar, Hijri calendar. The Hijri calendar denotes the years from the time of the Prophet’s migration with his companions from…

Feminism and Islam

By Minha Khan & Manizhe Iqbal | April 24, 2015 Feminism. The word itself is received with sighs and the rolling of eyes. Now you’re either in the group of people who thinks that feminists are a group of crazy females demanding dominance over the other sex, or you have…

True Love or Not

By Manizhe Iqbal | April 13, 2015 Love is one of the most ambiguous and powerful forces on the planet. Almost like a superpower, it resonates strongly with some whilst mere timbers glow in others. Some hearts are altogether black holes with no light. How do we come about this love?…

To Love…

By Admin | April 13, 2012 When you come to Allah, come with an empty mind, a clean slate, because when people bring their pre-conceived notions to the Deen, they start looking for escape routes and hence end up going fatwa shopping, eventually defeating the whole purpose. To love is…