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Haven’t you heard?  Muslims do it five times a day.  Or at least we’re supposed to.
But how do they find time?  Well, many drop everything and get down right there where they’re standing; others prefer to wait until the opportunity arises, after all, they’re at work for goodness sake.  For a few, it’s easy, the day is [...]

When life gets in the way I find I have no time to sit and look at the simple things. Look at the patterns on the prayer mat, so intricately intertwined, after praying; the shadows cast over the garden by the trees, a temporary mark on the face of the world; the look of [...]

Remember Little Jimmy and his comma?  Well, he’s back and this time it’s personal!
As it happens, teachers have fewer rights than I once thought.  It seems that Little Jimmy, not content with questioning the marking of his poorly punctuated piece of prose (and I use the term “prose” loosely) has taken it upon himself [...]

So we had a residential at work this weekend.  The main objective I guess was to complete a lot of work with the new head of department – now known as the CDL (don’t ask what the acronym stands for!  “Ciddle”?)  So the Ciddle, the rest of the English department and I set off for [...]

There are certain people in the world who get affected by everything.  People; what they say seems to resonate for years and years, they take things at face value, not realising that people speak without sincerity of intention.�
                “Oh of course you can come round whenever you like in years to come, when you’re [...]

The classical scholar Sufyan Ath-Thawri said, “Fear evil when you are in a good situation and expect good when you are in an evil situation.”

So after reading another blog post, I was inspired to write this…I hope the guy doesn’t mind me seizing inspiration from his idea!
To set the scene, the post was basically detailing different personality types and different types of Muslim girls, and this got me thinking, although it’s hard to bracket people into different camps, labelling [...]

A title for which Jon Bon Jovi may be well within his rights to sue me; however, despite the threat of a lawsuit and a lengthy trial, I still soldier on with the same title.
For a while people have been asking me why I named my site this, and after lengthy discussions, I have decided [...]

I guess despite being as “English” as my friends consider me, I still DO see the irony of a ladies only swimming session with MALE lifeguards.Â�
Apparantly, wanting a ladies only session is actually sexual discrimination as it excludes members of the opposite gender.  I would argue it doesn’t under the present circumtances as the local [...]