Ruqaya's Bookshelf: From our Hearts to yours

Getting my 2.5-year-old daughter to go to bed at night is quite the operation. It involves tears (I won’t say whose tears), arguments and – in all ...

I didn’t decorate my house for Eid. There were no cute banners, no hand-made lanterns, no fancy balloon or flower arrangements… Before anyone jumps...

Like many parents, I worry about my daughter’s perception of beauty and how it will affect her as she grows. (Read more on what I think of our soci...

A friend of mine was recently reminiscing about her days as a young girl. She told me that her father would take her and her brother to Friday pray...

A friend of mine recently told me she was diagnosed with a condition that causes infertility. She’s newly married and in her twenties. While I know...

In the first nine months of my daughter’s life, she was a very needy baby. I hardly had any sleep and her constant fussing drove me up the wall. I ...

Even for the most disciplined among us, being in a continuous state of gratitude to God is a difficult endeavor. But it is something that we consta...

Most Egyptian men, at some point or another, have to serve in the Egyptian army. Usually when they’re done with their education, they are called fo...

A letter to my daughter: Out of all the other people in the world, Allah (swt) chose Prophet Musa (as) to experience a unique journey that had many...

When we perform the pilgrimage to Makkah and circle around the ka’bah seven times, we are affirming that Allah is the centre of our existence. We a...

Prophet Zakariyyah (as) was old in age and his wife was barren, and yet he still yearned for the blessing of a child. He would go to where Maryam (...

Most of us in the Western world live compartmentalized lives. We eat, sleep and live between four walls. We are transported from place to place in ...