As UK removes all Covid related restriction, 16 year old Danila shares her personal experience of catching Covid 19 and urges everyone to get vaccination, and to still stay careful.
This Friday, I attended my local mosque for Friday prayers after 67 weeks. I distinctly remember the last time I picked my kids up after their Sunday class on a cold March afternoon. Little did I know that I wont be coming back anytime soon.
The European Union is going down a dangerous path of infringing on the rights of these individuals, to practise their religion. It also means this narrows the number of people who would be available to work.
Nadia Saba Qazi (Oct 30, 1984 - June 17, 2021) was a loving daughter, sister, friend, aunt, teacher, educator, bridge builder, community leader, fierce feminist, humble humanitarian and a well rounded human being. Our hearts are aching at her untimely death and we miss her dearly.
In Canada, Madiha, a Pakistani Muslim environmental engineer, along with her family had her life cut short. A white supremacist attacked and killed her and her family with his truck. On June 12, they were laid to rest in London, Ontario. In Pakistan, a large mob opposed the burial of an Ahmadi Muslim grandma in her ancestral village. As a Pakistani, Ahmadi Muslim, immigrant to north America, both of these incidents painfully hit home.
For a Muslim, a mosque is the principal place to worship, but unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures and God does not only live inside a mosque. He is all around us. We adapted the way we prayed according to the situation throughout the pandemic, and this kept us close to God in the same way as going to a mosque would have done, and will do, once the situation is safe enough to fully open mosques again.
May this pandemic be a wake up call for us to take care of our parents, especially mothers. They deserve much more than a single Mothers Day celebration. Let's give them the pleasure of being close to us, even if it is a meaningful FaceTime call. Let's listen to the tales of their childhood and youth without being annoyed. Lets make each day of the year, Mothers day, for heaven is under their feet.
On Thursday September 24th, 2020, at the age of twenty-one, I had my first major face-to-face encounter with sectarian intolerance. By September 27th, I had filed a police report against the man who had intimidated me.
During the month of Ramadan we are encouraged to keep a self check of our behavior, and make improvements. We also serve humanity more. Some of these improvements we make privately to gain nearness to our Creator. In this respect, a bit of privacy goes a long way to increase our self respect and ego-less reflection. After all, if you can't be real to yourself how can you be truly honest on social media?
Ramadan is here and soon we'll be counting down days for Eid. While major brands make big bucks at this time of the year, small businesses end up feeling empty handed. Leading small businesses ourselves, we understand the struggle. We at Equal Entrance are happy to introduce you to these newly launched small-business owners and hope you give them a look!
Fazeela talks about how the one year of Covid-19 has highlighted some hidden aspects of human nature that would not have been known to us other wise. It was certainly a year of greed and sacrifice, extra care and carelessness, frustration over being unproductive and recognizing the need for routine, being lonely and the reliance on community despite being socially distant.
As UK removes all Covid related restriction, 16 year old Danila shares her personal experience of catching Covid 19 and urges everyone to get vaccination, and to still stay careful.
This Friday, I attended my local mosque for Friday prayers after 67 weeks. I distinctly remember the last time I picked my kids up after their Sunday class on a cold March afternoon. Little did I know that I wont be coming back anytime soon.
The European Union is going down a dangerous path of infringing on the rights of these individuals, to practise their religion. It also means this narrows the number of people who would be available to work.
Nadia Saba Qazi (Oct 30, 1984 - June 17, 2021) was a loving daughter, sister, friend, aunt, teacher, educator, bridge builder, community leader, fierce feminist, humble humanitarian and a well rounded human being. Our hearts are aching at her untimely death and we miss her dearly.
In Canada, Madiha, a Pakistani Muslim environmental engineer, along with her family had her life cut short. A white supremacist attacked and killed her and her family with his truck. On June 12, they were laid to rest in London, Ontario. In Pakistan, a large mob opposed the burial of an Ahmadi Muslim grandma in her ancestral village. As a Pakistani, Ahmadi Muslim, immigrant to north America, both of these incidents painfully hit home.
For a Muslim, a mosque is the principal place to worship, but unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures and God does not only live inside a mosque. He is all around us. We adapted the way we prayed according to the situation throughout the pandemic, and this kept us close to God in the same way as going to a mosque would have done, and will do, once the situation is safe enough to fully open mosques again.
May this pandemic be a wake up call for us to take care of our parents, especially mothers. They deserve much more than a single Mothers Day celebration. Let's give them the pleasure of being close to us, even if it is a meaningful FaceTime call. Let's listen to the tales of their childhood and youth without being annoyed. Lets make each day of the year, Mothers day, for heaven is under their feet.
On Thursday September 24th, 2020, at the age of twenty-one, I had my first major face-to-face encounter with sectarian intolerance. By September 27th, I had filed a police report against the man who had intimidated me.
During the month of Ramadan we are encouraged to keep a self check of our behavior, and make improvements. We also serve humanity more. Some of these improvements we make privately to gain nearness to our Creator. In this respect, a bit of privacy goes a long way to increase our self respect and ego-less reflection. After all, if you can't be real to yourself how can you be truly honest on social media?
Ramadan is here and soon we'll be counting down days for Eid. While major brands make big bucks at this time of the year, small businesses end up feeling empty handed. Leading small businesses ourselves, we understand the struggle. We at Equal Entrance are happy to introduce you to these newly launched small-business owners and hope you give them a look!
Fazeela talks about how the one year of Covid-19 has highlighted some hidden aspects of human nature that would not have been known to us other wise. It was certainly a year of greed and sacrifice, extra care and carelessness, frustration over being unproductive and recognizing the need for routine, being lonely and the reliance on community despite being socially distant.
A personal narrative of a Hijab wearing mom who accompanied her child to a school trip, something French parliament voted to ban.
