“This is exactly why so many Muslim countries are lagging behind, woefully inept. It isn’t the most qualified that get the positions, it is your family or those who can bribe you. This is how you get people who do not even have university educations running technology programs, health departments, engineering projects. It is no […]
We wanted to take the kids out for a day during the autumn half term holidays. One of the problems we are starting to face, is finding somewhere new that everyone can agree on. The kids want theme parks, or at the very least “no more castles and old houses”, I hate theme parks and […]
“This is exactly why so many Muslim countries are lagging behind, woefully inept. It isn’t the most qualified that get the positions, it is your family or those who can bribe you. This is how you get people who do not even have university educations running technology programs, health departments, engineering projects. It is no […]
Alhamdulillah, we are blessed to have seen the days of hajj again, these special days of which it is said that: By the dawn; By the ten nights, And by the even and the odd. And by the night when it departs. – Al Quran 89:1-4 Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) reported […]
I got a phone call from my middle child’s school this week asking me to come in. I asked what it was about and they said not to worry. For a brief moment I did entertain delusions about being called in for a good reason, such as he being recognised as some kind of child […]
I have posted this before, but the last sermon of our beloved Prophet (Sallahu Alaihi Wassalam), delivered on the 9th day of Hajj at the plain of Arafat, never fails to move me to tears. Every time I read it, I find something new in it and every time I read it, I marvel at the […]
As a child I grew up with the stories of my mother from her village in the Punjab, some terrible, some hilarious, all a window onto another life and world. One of the stories that stood out was about the time her village found itself in circumstances so difficult that people would dig up anthills […]
I really enjoy the annual practice of picking a Word for the Year and thinking about how I can use the word as a starting point to improve my life and the way I do things or to bring focus to something that matters to me at that time. (image courtesy of Harlequin Sister’s creative photography […]
One issue close to my heart is the way we treat our old people. I mean as young people, as an Ummah, as Brits. More and more we are hearing our elderly complaining about not being able to afford to live, of being ignored or treated as fools and of being written-off, of being alone […]
One issue close to my heart is the way we treat our old people. I mean as young people, as an Ummah, as Brits. More and more we are hearing our elderly complaining about not being able to afford to live, of being ignored or treated as fools and of being written-off, of being alone […]
One issue close to my heart is the way we treat our old people. I mean as young people, as an Ummah, as Brits. More and more we are hearing our elderly complaining about not being able to afford to live, of being ignored or treated as fools and of being written-off, of being alone […]
One issue close to my heart is the way we treat our old people. I mean as young people, as an Ummah, as Brits. More and more we are hearing our elderly complaining about not being able to afford to live, of being ignored or treated as fools and of being written-off, of being alone […]
One issue close to my heart is the way we treat our old people. I mean as young people, as an Ummah, as Brits. More and more we are hearing our elderly complaining about not being able to afford to live, of being ignored or treated as fools and of being written-off, of being alone […]
One issue close to my heart is the way we treat our old people. I mean as young people, as an Ummah, as Brits. More and more we are hearing our elderly complaining about not being able to afford to live, of being ignored or treated as fools and of being written-off, of being alone […]
