Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Rahim This beautiful blog is written by an anonymous beautiful soul whom I encouraged to share – I knew that what she shared would be so helpful to many of you. May Allah make this a sadaqa ijariya for her, and help all of those who struggle to find peace in...Read More
All peoples who need help deserve our support. This was the key message from the talks we gave at a recent fundraiser, as well as sharing how important it is for counsellors and psychotherapists to understand that the idea of neutrality is very often simply duplicating euro-centric ideas and values without question. Islam is so...Read More
Nice to be published in the BPS Psychology Review – our articles came from talks that we gave which was looking at different concepts of well being across cultures. We spoke to Islamic concepts, but our emphasis was, as the titles indicate “How How do Muslims survive and thrive within secular and prejudicial spaces?Sabnum focused...Read More
This is a beautiful reading by my dear friend Yaquta Morton, from Fawzia Al Rawi’s book. It is healing in its content and delivery. https://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=3206 Yaquta-Morton-Reading-from-Fawzias-Divine-names-2021-08-11-at-20.15.10-4Download You can see the book this is taken from here: http://www.fawzia-al-rawi.com/en/publications/Read More
Context: End of Year One of the Diploma in Islamic Counselling. My illustration of the group and the journey The ship full of strangers, looking to one another with fear and apprehension, at the same time hope of filling the voids and connection. The need of all the differences to fit together like a convoy...Read More
It’s a long time since I’ve written any poetry…but I recently just did. It reminded me how healing and powerful it can be – a different way of expressing something, a different ‘vehicle’ that somehow suited what I wanted to say. Sheepishly sharing. Is it ok to say? Is it ok to say? Should I...Read More
I’m looking forward to this workshop next week – after an uplifting experience giving a talk at The School of Oriental and African Studies last week with great questions, this even will have a different flavour I think. It’s being hosted by the Imamia Medics UK Chapter, asp part of an all day conference “The Iceberg of...Read More
This excellent resource received great reviews in the academic press and includes a chapter by us on Islamic Counselling. I’m posting the table of contents below. Table of Contents Part I: Muslim Beliefs within a Counseling Framework. Haque, Kamil, Islam, Muslims, and Mental Health. Utz, Conceptualizations of Mental Health, Illness, and Healing. Ali, Aboul-Fotouh, Traditional Mental Health Coping...Read More
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