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
Another beautiful blog about OCD. May they help those with OCD, their families and friends and those for whom finding meaning is a struggle. “Hoover”. When my sister hoovers her home, she just “hoovers”. However, when I hoover my own home, I am thinking about the areas of my home that I need to clean, the direction in which I want to start hoovering, and whether I will hoover in...Read More
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 prayer, especially those who have OCD. When I stand up in prayer, I am met...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 strong in its teachings about social justice and even if we cant achieve it in...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 on The authentic voice as an act of resistance in Islamic Counselling training and Abdullah...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 going across the seas to fulfil a noble and perilous task, commissioned by the greatest...Read More
