Zaynab Hamdi

I remember ever since I was a child, whenever I’d go to the supermarket with my mother, I’d always ask her to let me buy a magazine. I would always pick the most pink, girliest magazine that included a little hair clip in it or a little lip gloss – because that was what was

When people say you shouldn’t be attached to dunya, what does that make you think of? Money, fashion, property? Normally something tangible, something materialistic; but how often do you think of people? Do you ever stop to think that maybe you’re attached to this dunya because of the way you’re attached to people? Now this time, think about

Allah says: “Indeed, good deeds do away with misdeeds.” [Qur’an: Chapter 11, Verse 114] Isn’t that amazing? Not only do you get rewarded for any good action that you do, but your bad deeds decrease. Imagine if that was the rule in exams: for every correct answer you got, one mistake would be erased. We would