This is the part of a five parts novel Part 1: The Broken Bench Twelve-year-old Rabbi Rahman was the fastest runner in his school. He could scale the jungle gym in record time, beat everyone in dodgeball, and race his bicycle through the narrow lanes of his village like the...
Shahed Rahman pressed his gloved hand against the glass dome of the observation deck aboard the ‘Mawaddah’, the first deep-space Islamic research ship ever built. Saturn loomed in the blackness—its golden rings glowing with quiet magnificence. But it wasn’t Saturn that captivated him. It was what lay beneath one of...
Sweet dreams form a shade, O’er my lovely infants head. Sweet dreams of pleasant streams, By happy silent moony beams Sweet sleep with soft down. Weave thy brows an infant crown. Sweet sleep Angel mild, Hover o’er my happy child. Sweet smiles in the night, Hover over my delight. Sweet...
Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence: This place made from our love for that emptiness! Yet somehow comes emptiness, this existence goes. Praise to that happening, over and over! For years I pulled my own existence out of emptiness. Then one swoop, one swing of the arm,...
Dear Friends, Assalamu Alaikum. Hope you are well in a turbulent world dogged by the illegal Israeli-U.S. blitzkriegs on Iran, Israeli aggression in Gaza, the West Bank, and Syria along with Lebanon, the Indian attack on Pakistan, and the Russian assault on Ukraine. When the issue reaches you, it will...
Welcome to our exciting new quiz challenge! Email us your answers to [email protected] , and you could see your name in print in the September’25 issue, alongside the correct answers and our heartfelt congratulations. Happy quizzing! 1. Which part of Mughal Empire was lost during the reign of Jahangir? a)...
“The Roar of Rockets, the Silence of Love” It all began not with the smell of grilled meat or the sparkle of new clothes, but with a silence. Not the silence of peace — but the kind of silence that wraps around your heart like a cold wind, making it...
Mesopotamia, 1916 – The Ottoman Empire The sun beat down on the brown, dusty village of Kut al-Amara, where the Tigris River curled through the land like a silver serpent. Far away from the roar of London and the grandeur of Istanbul, a quiet war was turning into a battle...
A long time ago, before smartphones, computers, or even electricity, a boy was born in the deserts of Central Asia who would change the world forever. His name was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, and without him, there would be no calculators, coding, or even the math homework you sometimes groan...
Eid al-Adha is one of the biggest celebrations of the Muslim Ummah. According to the lunar calendar, we celebrate this festive day on the 10th of Dhul Hijjah. It’s also called the ‘Festival of Sacrifice,’ and this tradition comes down to us from the Prophet Ibrahim (AS). The celebration of...
Shipon’s Robot Phenomena Episode Two: (After Episode One) The manta-shaped drone-ship hovered like a predator above the junkyard, its red scanning beams sweeping through the stormy night. Rain poured in sheets, sizzling against metal, soaking Shipon’s shirt, but he didn’t care. Robo Bhai stood tall despite the gash in his...
The date was May 2, 2023. Coincidentally, it was also my birthday. Our Eid reunion program took place on this day. We arranged a boat trip to make the program more delightful. I was overjoyed to have such a special event on my birthday. Moreover, our chief guest was Ariful...
Mars Station Delta-9. Fourteen-year-old Rafi Khan, a young science prodigy from the Lunar Academy, was selected for a junior expedition to Delta-9, along with other gifted teens. Their goal: to study strange underground patterns beneath the Martian surface detected by seismic scans. But no one expected what they’d find buried...
No one believed him. Not his neighbors. Not the people at the masjid. Not even his own son. But Mihir did. “Dadu is going to the moon!” Mihir announced proudly to his classmates, his grin stretching from ear to ear. They laughed. “Your grandfather? The old man who walks with...
Everyone in the quiet village of Qamarabad believed that the sky told stories—silent, radiant tales written in stars, clouds, and wind. The villagers, especially the children, would lie on rooftops after Maghrib prayer, trying to read those celestial whispers. But one night, the sky told a story none of them...
The first time I got lucky, I found a missing diamond ring inside a vending machine. The second time, I avoided getting hit by a runaway horse cart in the old part of town. The third time, I was accused of theft—and that was the luckiest of all. But I’ll...
The waves crashed like slow drums beating in the distance. A boy opened his eyes to the golden glare of the sun and the cry of seagulls overhead. Sand stuck to his cheeks. His name was Rayyan, and he had no idea where he was. Just hours ago, he’d been...
Zayan Khan was not like most fourteen-year-olds in Class IX. While other kids played football after school or scrolled endlessly through their phones, Zayan preferred sitting in his garage-turned-lab, surrounded by beeping circuits, old computer parts, and a strange notebook titled “Experiments with the Unknown.” His classmates called him “The...
It was almost midnight when Tanim heard the noise—a soft creak, like someone opening a rusty door. He sat up in bed, his heart thudding. His room was dark, lit only by the pale moonlight spilling through the window. For a second, everything was silent again. Then he heard it....
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