The sun had just begun to rise when Miftah stepped out of his small home with a quiet purpose in his heart. The street was still half asleep. Shops were closed and the air carried a calm silence. In his hand he held a small bag filled with bread and...
I have always been fascinated by light. The soft glow that does not demand attention yet changes everything it touches. I am talking about fireflies and zooplankton. One dances in the evening air. The other rises silently through the ocean at night. Both live by light. Both depend on darkness....
I was just a broiler chicken during my school life. Home to school, and school to home. As simple as that. I wanted no trouble. I liked silence. I liked to think alone. Fast forward. The first day I went to admit myself into college, my father stood beside me....
I’ll start with a personal experience today. As a child, I’d often hear one question: “You’re Falguni, so which religion do you follow exactly?” With a smile, I’d reply: “I have a Kazi in front of my name, so what does that make me?” Even as an adult, I often...
Education according to bookish definition means, “The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.” However, in practical terms, education has a vast meaning. Education helps a person shape his or her life from early childhood to till his or her last days. There are...
Life is a journey. Numerous times Allah, the Almighty, has referred to life as a temporary journey on this earth, meaning to return to Him after a certain span of worldly life. “Then did you think that We created you in vain and that to Us you would not be...
“You have none apart from Allah, as a protector and helper.” [Al-Qur’an; 2:107] Would it not be great if we had a life without worry, without pain, without anything but happiness and bliss, where all our wishes and requests shall be fulfilled? Well, that is what waits for the blessed...
This is not about me. It’s about a girl who lives in Gaza. Her name is Alaa Mahmoud. I met her online one year ago. From the moment I met her I heard many stories from her. What I heard from her was the tale of true legends. She told me about...
I find the long hours of fasting really hard. I know I am not supposed to say that, but the truth is before every Ramadan, all I think about are the long days ahead. I am absolutely terrified. Then it arrives…Bam! It hits me, and the strange thing is…I survive...
When 14-year-old Sudanese American Muslim Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, he thought he was going to impress his engineering teacher. Another teacher heard the device and reported it to the police. Yet, the school was not evacuated, as is standard procedure in...
Maimuna Musarrat Few years ago, I was talking to a sister who had just recently arrived from abroad. She had a lot of amazing stories to tell, but what surprised me most was when she said she was missing Bangladesh so much that she even downloaded and watched Bangladeshi TV...
Ibn Gias The face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium. ‘The face that launched a thousand ships’ is a figure of speech that stands for Helen of Troy. Helen was so beautiful that Greek men went to Troy and fought the Trojan War to...
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