Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance: An Interview with Asma
Author : By Aura Staff
The following interview was conducted with a mother of one who offered her insights and experiences of pregnancy loss and how to overcome such grief. The month of October is observed as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Month in some parts of the world to...
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Author : Esteemed Readers
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Editorial
Author : Editor's Desk
The nation was rocked by the brutal assault and murder of Sabiya, a Civil Defence Worker in the month of September. But as always, it appears that the brief outrage was merely that - and nothing more. In the past few years, many women’s rights groups, movements and...
The Girl Child in India
Author : Sameena Afshan
Women are an integral part of our society. Throughout history, the active role of women in society has guaranteed the progress, stability and overall development of nations around the world. Their substantial contributions are undoubtedly indispensable for the...
Face to Face with Dr Zaki Kirmani
Author : Aura Staff
Ph.D. Chemistry, IIT, Delhi Honorary Secretary, erstwhile The Muslim Association for the Advancement of Science 1) What were the social, political and economic conditions of women in pre-Islamic Arabia, and how did it change after the revelation of the Qu’ran? It...
Book Review: A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza
Author : Ayesha Syed
Review by : Ayesha SyedPublished in 2018, A Place for Us is the debut novel of Fatima Farheen Mirza. Spanning over 398 pages, the story is about an immigrant Indian Muslim family and the struggles of their lives.It is a detailed account of first-generation immigrants,...
Violence, Forms and Manifestations
Author : Arshad Shaikh
The dominant theme in media and films is violence. There is not a day when we do not hear, read or watch some kind of violence. All of us have also encountered violence in our personal lives or had the occasion to be at the scene of a violent crime. It could have been...
‘Jihad’ in Different Religions
Author : Ayesha Sultana
Extremists! Fundamentalists! Terrorists! Do these words ring a bell? Yes, these are descriptions of Muslims coined by the “liberal”, “progressive” media, especially the Western press, over the centuries. The term ‘Islamophobia’ is a more recent one, the use and misuse...
NCRB 2020: Some Reflections
Author : Aura Staff
NCRB 2020 Data: Some Reflections The NCRB (National Crimes Record Bureau) Crime In India data for the year 2020 has revealed some not-so-surprising but still, as always, alarming data: Communal riots marked an increase of 96% in 2020, compared to 2019, while… Fake...
Why I Love the Seerah of Rasoolullahﷺ
Author : Sana Fatima
Author : Sania Mariam
How could such a perfect man exist? This can be understood by studying the Best Human at the best of times (generation of the Companions) in the best of places (Makkah and Madinah). The sheer zeal of this mission can be understood from this statement of the Prophet ﷺ...
Sacrifice
Author : Mumtaz Nazir
Sacrifice your son was the order in the dream,Flinched not nor faltered, the Surrenderer Supreme. Sacrifice was not desired, but a test for Ibraheem,Triumphed he and his obedient son Ismaeel. Deed so great, never witnessed by any nation,Glorify them did He - The...
A Woman’s Place
Author : Mafazah Sharafuddin
I When the rage comes to roost in my heart, It comes bearing memories. You are twelve years old and you keep your eyes on the ground the sun has set and no one is around and you are afraid. II You are fifteen and you watch the news with eyes peeled. You recite rules...
Educators for All Time: Jotiba, Savitri and Fatima
Author : Snehashish Das
Artwork by PK Naik In 1850, Jotiba and Savitri opened up 2 educational trusts named Native Female School, Pune and The Society for Promoting Educations of Mahars and Mangs. By 1851, Phule had established 3 schools at Pune having around 150 girl students. In...
Women Entrepreneurs
Author : Tasneem Ataullah
MISS NATURA is an organic skin and hair care brand with customers all over India. Instagram : /miss.naturaFacebook : /missnatura.in/Website : www.missnatura.inHere is what these#SisterPreneurs – Zeenath and Salma have to share on their successful business story – ‘We...
Metamorphosing Your Dreams
Author : Iman Shakeel
Go to the kitchen of life, take those dreams of yours, put in some amount of hard work, add a pinch of inspiration, mix them all in the right proportion and voila! You have prepared for yourself the perfect life on your plate! Your dreams and how much you are willing...
Children’s Corner
Author : Sufiya Tazeen
Freedom to One, Servitude to Another
Author : Anzala Shehnaz
FREEDOM. Noun: “The Power or Right to Act, Speak, or Think as One Wants, Or the State Of Not Being Imprisoned or Enslaved.” 75 years have passed since India reclaimed this word in practice after years of bloodshed and emotional agony. However, is this claim an...
Islam, Muslims and the Environment : An Everlasting Bond
Author : Mahfuza Tarannum
Allah filled the earth with natural resources before He sent man into the world. He created nature from four basic elements - fire, water, air, and earth. He has balanced the world with the mountains and the sea, the plants and the fruits, the animals, birds, and...
Khushoo: The Essence of Prayer
Author : Sumaiya Siddiqui
Salah (prayer) is one of the best ways to achieve Allah’s ultimate guidance and mercy. While all Muslims are generally aware that salah is obligatory five times a day, many of us do not submit this divine duty with the required pace of fidelity to Allah. “And seek...
Women’s Reservation Bill
Author : Javed Gaihlot
In July 2019, DMK MP Kanimozhi had raised the issue of Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha. Two years later, on July 28, 2021, Kanimozhi raised the same issue – in the same Lok Sabha. The question and the questioner were the same, so was the answer. In fact, the...
The Dangers of Saffronising History
Author : Aamir Choudhry
In 2016, RSS ideologue Dinanath Batra sent a document to the National Council for Educational Research and Training, demanding removal of a few Urdu words and a couplet by the poet Mirza Ghalib from school textbooks. Similarly, such discussions and demands have...
Judicial Rhetoric and Silence on Muslim Women’s Claims
Author : Adv. Fasila AK
Those who are furious about the law of divorce in Islam state two grounds against it. Firstly, Muslim men’s unilateral right to divorce in which the woman does not have any say and secondly, absence of an equal form of divorce for Muslim women. This is not the first...
