Reading time: Minutes All of us have experienced letting emotions take us over for exampleanger, fear etc. resulting in negative consequences.Understanding the nature of emotions and paying attention when they arise can helpimmensely. Anger If you had to describe Anger and pick from the following opposites, which ones would you pick?Hot/Cold, Fast/Slow, Up/Down, Hard/Soft, In/OutMost […]
Reading time: Minutes Imposter Syndrome is something that is always in the back of my mind when recommending to people how to do something; speaking about a topic but feeling unqualified to do so. Like, “who is he to tell me how it should be done?” But I was asked to write this article so […]
Our Vision: Muslim youth who are strong, united and active contributors in society. Let’s Make This Happen! Salam Alaykum wr wb. Peace be upon you, Inshallah this message finds you and your families well and safe. On behalf of the Islamic Unity Society (IUS), we would like to extend our condolences on the occasion of […]
Salam Alaykum wr wb بِسمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ارْجِعِي إِلَى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَرْضِيَّةً فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي [To the righteous it will be said], “O reassured soul, Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him], And enter among My [righteous] servants And enter My Paradise.” (89:27-30) On behalf […]
GOV.UK, NHS, MCB As you are likely aware, COVID-19 is a new illness that can affect your lungs and airways. It’s caused by a virus called coronavirus. The World Health Organization has now declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. This has had a significant effect across the world and impacts mosques, madrasas and Islamic centres due […]
The word Ziyarah (زيارة) originates from the Arabic زور literally translating as “to visit, or to meet” referring to the pilgrimage undertaken by Muslims to places associated with the Holy Prophet Mohammed (saw), his family, and other venerated figures within Islam. Interestingly, a closely associated Arabic term زيار rather aptly takes the meaning of ‘aid or […]
According to 2015 Government statistics, 3,569 people slept rough on any one night across England – this is over double the number counted in 2010. In London, there is more than 7,500 homeless people – a number that has almost doubled in the past 5 years.[1] Moreover, homeless people are the most vulnerable and socially […]
I wake up in a society that shuns me, it shuns my religion and distorts my place within it until everyone is lead to believe that my religion actually oppresses me. A sad reality. My religion has been established to give my kind liberty and lift us from the soil society buried us in. My […]
I recently returned home after having been away for ten days. The taxi from the airport hastily brought me home. I walked up the driveway dragging my dusty suitcase and rang the doorbell nervously. He came running to the door at the sound. I realised then that I had missed the patter of his small […]
I smiled as I searched down the alphabetically-ordered index of my newly acquired English-Arabic Quran. Instead of a series of verse references next to the word I was searching for, I found: “This word occurs more than 200 times in the Noble Quran. Mentioning every place will make the index very big”. That word was […]
