How childhood trauma can lead to adult loneliness
Signs of adult relational trauma and loneliness may include: Difficulty being alone: the constant need for stimulation or something to distract themselves Difficulty understanding themselves or their emotional needs Deep feelings of emptiness that may show up as...
Global Family Day: What is It?
Celebrated every year on January 1, Global Family Day starts the new year with a positive message of unity to the world. Yes, believe it or not, we are all one! Cultures and religions across the world may be different but, the truth is, all of mankind is a large...
Global Family Day:
Indeed, “the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Aware.”Last month, the world witnessed the remarkable saga of the FIFA World Cup. Within a span of a few weeks, historic alterations have been made in the...
MANF, Pre-Matric Decisions Shockers
When the ruling dispensation has always claimed that Muslims, by nature, due to orthodoxy or just plain distractedness (a penchant for terror, love jihad, religious conversion…you pick), are uninterested in education, it sure is ironic that scholarships and...
Nusrat Noor, JPSC Topper, 2022-23
1) First of all, tell us a little bit about your background and your academic journey to this point. A.I was born and brought up in Jamshedpur and completed my schooling from there only. Did my 10th from J H Tarapore School and my 12th from Sacred Heart Convent...
Science Fiction: Isaac Asimov
Fiction by definition is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or imaginary places, or in ways that are imaginary, it is what we call “a made-up” thing. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or...
Science Fiction Day
Science Fiction Day is marked on the 2nd of January which happens to be the birthdate of celebrated sci-fi author Issac Asimov best known for the Foundation series. Recently, there has been a resurging interest in science fiction in popular culture (commonly referred...
Prophet Muhammad(SAW) in the eyes of Vivekanada & Sister Nivedita
During a speech in America (3 April 1900) he said about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), “Our gaze falls on the great man (Muhammad) who has brought the message of equality to the world”.Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) throughout his life taught the nation to look at other...
Louis Braille – The Man who Invented Braille Script
As Jin Fiebig quotes, “ There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. ”As Jin Fiebig quotes, “There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them...
Madeenah: The City of the Prophet
Hot weather, the sun shining, flocks of pigeons flying in pleasure as I walk among them, the clear blue sky raised high without any pillars, hearts racing as those minarets come into my vision, then, finally! At the sight of the green dome of Masjid an Nabawi, my eyes...
The Plea of an NRI
A peep into the thoughts of any residing Indian on their non-residing Indian members is sure to be fancy and glittering to some extent. Undoubtedly, such perceptions were prominent more in the folks of earlier generations but even today a major sector of society...
Enlightened by the Quran
Open the book and talk toAllahIt’s a book of miracles fromAllahEmbrace Islam and worshipthe LordAllah, the only one adored.It came in Ramadhan,Increased our zeal.Its words are so powerful,Which brings a smile on myface.So powerful, so meaningfulGuides you between...
Women’s Rights in Different Cultures
Islam has granted women the right to equality in humanity, after they were persecuted and despised in the days of ignorance, and they viewed her as a body without honoured feelings or dignity, as the Almighty said in his noble verses: (O people, fear your Lord who...
A Child
There was a child who wanted to be a star,A star, he used to admire every night from afarHe always wondered - how does it feel to shine?He thought, “One day the sky will be mine.”He used to tell everyone about his dream,But his friends always made fun of himOne day he...
Learning to Accept Failure
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, it is the fact of something not working. In simpler terms, failure is the opposite of success.What is a failure, and what does it mean to fail at something? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, it is the fact of something not...
Role of Our Surroundings on Our Mindset
What can we do then? Have you ever thrown a nail in the water? What happened? It sank. What if that nail is hammered on a piece of wood? And that piece of wood is thrown into the water? The wooden piece will float and bring the nail to the shore. The company of wood...
World War Orphan Day
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund estimates that approximately 150 million children worldwide are orphans, and many of them are so due to deaths caused by war. From a very young age, these kids undergo physical and psychological trauma. At the...
Musings of a A Jamia Mom
Marking three years of the anti-CAA-NRC movement, the musings of a concerned mother. ‘For Each Age, Is A Dream That Is Dying And One That Is Coming To Birth.’The daughter, who left home in pursuit of a law degree, but who along with her peers, has ended up as a pariah...
Flash Fiction – January 2023
Children’s Corner
Some Random Acts of Kindness
The Lone Fighter
Behind her pale face & serene expression,lies an untold story of severe depression;no one had foreseen this catastrophe,they were unaware of her mental atrophy.Her soul must be lurking somewhere nearby, deciphering what these people’s presence implies;I who knew...
Media Roundup
In March, the Taliban had already restricted girls from returning to secondary schools citing reformation in its curriculum. It’s now imperative that the international community at large and the Muslim World, in particular, should intervene and rescue Afghan women...
Editorial
The world will witness the end of yet another calendar year. It's the time to look back and reflect upon the past year, relish the accomplishments, learn from the mistakes and set novel goals to move forward. Here is another issue of Aura with an array of engrossing...
Is the Minority Even Human?
The Holy Qur’an encapsulates, however, the inalienable humanity that cannot be denied to anyone, no matter how vulnerable or marginalized: “Indeed, We honoured the progeny of Adam, and bore them across land and sea and provided them with good things for their...
Aura Readers’ Club – Gujarat
Aura Readers’ Club Gujarat organized a Review by Experts of Aura’s November 2022 issue. The speakers included Advocate Patricia Gonsalves, Dr Swaleha Sindhi (Faculty and Academic Advisor), Dr Tejal Bhatt (Pathologist and MBBS), Rizwana Baldiwala (Senior Teacher),...
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh Bloomsbury; 2022
A searing novel located in the midst of the Syrian Revolution, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is Canadian-Syrian Zoulfah Katouh’s debut work. It is an extraordinary, poetic work tracing loss, grief, and the idea of one’s home as it is being robbed in front of one’s...
Face to Face with Nasreen Saiad
Nasreen Saiad is former President, Sisters’ Wing of UKIM and is currently a member of its Central Shura. UK Islamic Mission (UKIM) is a registered charity organization formed in 1962 to “cater for the needs of a new growing Muslim community” in the UK. It works in...
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