The Messenger (saw) said, «مَنْ يُرِدِ اللَّهُ بِهِ خَيْرًا يُصِبْ مِنْهُ»“If Allah intends good for someone then He afflicts him with trials.” (Bukhari) It can often be difficult to see loss, misfortune and affliction, including the current pandemic, in anything but a negative light. The pain we feel from the death of a loved one, the suffering we go through upon ill-health, the anxiety we experience during financial hardship

A few days ago, I was listening to a podcast about death, from an Islamic perspective. The women giving the podcast had recently lost her mother due to the corona-virus. In this intense moment of grief, this sister managed to make it an act of obedience, by not only putting her full trust in Allah (swt) with everything she faced but also turning her sorrow into a beneficial lesson for…

During the months of lockdown, violence against women has soared globally. News outlets, such as the BBC, on the 13th of March have discussed the various measure put in place to help women forced to self-isolate with abusive partners. In Italy flags were lowered to half-mast in the Spanish town of Almassora to mark the death of a women named Carina who was murdered by her husband at home in…

 Dr. Nazreen Nawaz, the Director of the Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir The talk explains how real change for women in the Muslim lands cannot be delivered through partial change or following the same path of adopting further gender equality legislation. Rather it requires a radically alternative vision for the Muslim world and its women. She illustrates how the principles, laws and systems of…