For Those Who Have Lost Loved Ones: Riding the waves of grief
Feeling endless heartbreak after loss is natural, normal and not in opposition to eeman. When it comes to grief, the triggers are everywhere, from a joke…
Intimacy in marriage: 9 things we can learn from the Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh)
I’ve never thought of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as a lover. A lover of God, yes. But as a lover, lover? …
A Bread Recipe For Real Life that actually worked for me!
Can we take a moment to talk about baking bread at home? The ultimate in homemade comfort, nothing will make you seem more like…
9 truths to tell my daughter about her period and body
Women are often inadequately taught about their bodies, and the older I get the more frustrating I find this problem. The piecemeal education we receive from…
Quick looks: The wooden mosque of Kruszyniany, Poland
The diversity of Islam can be seen in our beautiful architecture and places of worship around the world; this week we are looking at…
9 Mood boosting tips that work for me, from de-cluttering to getting creative!
(Please note these are not substitutes for those of us who may need professional support and diagnosis for mental health illnesses. These are tips on…
Parenting in a Pandemic: Heartfelt advice from one mother to other Muslim parents
We all remember where we were, not so much when we first heard about it – another respiratory virus occurring on the fringes of our…
The Accordion Book: on Dala’il al-Khayrat, Spiritual Muscles, and the Muslim Cosmos
Feature Image: Christies.com Bless the Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of Mercy and the leader of the Ummah. Bless our father Adam and our mother…
6 Evidence Based Study Hacks That will help you study
Studying and learning is hard and can be tedious. I get it. I’ve been there- with countless days of having little to no motivation to…
11 Self-Care tips and habits for PMS symptoms
Watch our short video on Ashiya’s article here: View this post on Instagram PMS IS NOT A LIE 📣 – Here are 6 of 11…
The Skin Series: Living with Acne
As part of a new series, we are inviting budding photographers and seasoned professionals alike to submit a photo series to feature on Amaliah. This…
The Grand Trunk Project – British South-Asians Celebrating faith diversity after the 1947 partition
The Grand Trunk Project is a UK-wide project, funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government, that was launched in 2017 to bring British…
Spirituality & Social Media: 6 points to consider on being ‘famous’ and Muslim
This article was originally published on Al Madina Institute, with the contributors permission we have published it on Amaliah In our day and age it…
What hobbies are trending this year?
One thing we love about the Amaliah community is that we are all creative in some way in terms of crafts and getting our hands…
Light, Shadows & Salah: Come to Prayer Come to Success
I am easily distracted. This trait was a hindrance throughout school and my degree, but no doubt the area that this is most detrimental to,…
Muslim Mental health: The services and organisations you can contact
With mental health and illness awareness on the rise knowing where to turn to can be tricky. There are a range of services available that…
‘Tis the season to hibernate and withdraw….? A look into managing SAD this Winter
As the clocks go back where I live and the nights grow longer with every passing day, it is the time of year many of…
The Moon, Money and Motherhood: Conversations with a New Wave of Muslim Leaders
What do sighting the moon, purifying your wealth and the postpartum rest period have in common? A strange question, I know, but they are each…
50 books: What’s on bookshelves and library borrow lists in the Amaliah community?
We asked the Amaliah community what their recommended reads for the year ahead were. We’ve seen some favs, some new recommendations and many have been…
Does reflecting on the beauty of the dunya bring you closer or nearer to Allah?
As a child, one of the most amazing things I discovered about myself was my deep love for beauty. I never for one moment failed…
Remembering our Loved Ones: 3 Duas You Can Make For The Deceased
2020 has been a difficult year for a lot of us who have experienced the loss of a loved one. So we’ve put together a…
Book Review: A Virtue of Disobedience by Asim Qureshi
The increasingly polarised political climate in which we live is a source of constant anxiety for many of us. Muslims find themselves surrounded by a…
Mindful eating begins before we sit at the dinner table
Mindful eating is nothing new, but in reality, it is so difficult to practice, especially at iftar time during Ramadan, as Ramadan approaches it’s important…
Grieving in the Prophet’s Mosque
I have something to say. I think that’s fairly obvious, considering that I’ve taken pen to paper, fingers to keyboard. I backspace fifty times, the…
Table for One: In Praise of Solitude
“By no means all people who live their lives in the absence of company are lonely, while it is possible to experience acute loneliness while…
The Source of all being: the search for reality…the search for God
Bismillah – In the Name of God. I present this here as a letter of sorts, written to the ones who are in search of…
For the Immune system: How to make bone broth and what’s the hype about?
With the popularity of the Palaeolithic diet which purports the diet of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, bone broth has made a great comeback, strutting its incredible…
The Forgotten Art of Reading: An English Teachers Guide
During the excavation of a sanctuary in ancient Pyrgi, Italy during 1964, three gold plates that date back to 500 BC were found. Although two…
What C.S. Lewis taught me about spirituality and struggle
We all have them. Days and nights, perhaps weeks and months even, during which we feel disillusioned, dejected, numb. When that flame of spirituality and…
Book review: Agenda to change our condition
‘Agenda to change our condition’ is written by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir. It acts as a physical item of the “Zaytuna approach”…
Letters to Your Younger Self: Your Religion Is Not Your Conflict
Dear younger self, I know you often look in the mirror and wonder who you are. I know you spend countless hours online, searching for…
Letters to your Younger Self: Trust in God’s Blueprint
Dear Younger self, This is not a story of the past. It is a story of your future, although I’ll try not to include…
On losing a dear friend suddenly…reflections on loss and life
The way life can change instantly is hard to comprehend sometimes. We tend to go through the motions of everyday life and within a split…
Letters to Your Younger Self: Don’t Aspire to Meet the Aspirations of Others
Dear Younger Self, You are enough. You’re seventeen and about to start university. Despite achieving what you have, you remain resentful of yourself. You’re in…
Letters to my Daughter
“you see your face. you see a flaw. how. if you are the only one who has this face.” Nayyirah Waheed ‘Beautiful’ is a word…
Beekeeping: Understanding the God given role of being a guardian of the earth
Early this year I decided to say yes to more things, so when my friend told me there was a weekend beekeeping course happening near…
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