What happens when your parents compliment you out of the blue? Apart from pretending to faint and pinching yourself to add to the drama, you do a repetitive self analysis of the act that earned you this honour. But… What…
The Price of Oppression Allah can humiliate a nation when its people have become stingy and stop caring for the poor and the needy, and neglect both their adherence to the message and responsibility to spread it. The story of…
It was a very normal day at the office. Patients coming and going at a steady pace, staff sticking their head in the door to say a quick hello and the telephone singing it’s same urgent song. It was September…
Read Part I It is simply an act of submission to God; a recognition and declaration that there is One God, Supreme and Unique. My study took on a new relevance. My hunger grew. I learned that the things I thought I…
Getting here was not easy, staying sane here is a challenge. Here, is this moment, this moment when I have achieved my goal of marriage. Here, is this country I so proudly called home in the past, Malaysia. Before I…
March 27th, 2014: We prayed over my dear mother today and buried her. Tonight will be the first night in her grave. Subhan’Allah, I always wondered about this day, which will come for us all. My sister and I were…