Wanderlust Women: Rethinking the Outdoors for Muslim Women
Accessing the outdoors can be filled with barriers for people that lay outside of hegemonic norms, particularly Muslim Women. With 82.9% of people living...
Willowbrook farm – The UK’s first Halal and Tayyib farm
Willowbrook farm, residing in Oxford, are the UK’s first halal and tayyib farm that rears traditional animal breeds, free from hormones and artificial chemicals.
With...
Caught in a Consumer Trap
What do complaints like “I’m on a diet”, “I’m too busy” or “I can’t make up my mind” have in common? They’re distinctly problems...
How Halal is the Halal Meat Industry?
Have you ever found yourself questioning halal standards of slaughter? Is it possible to maintain halal when meat is overproduced in the modern day?
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Spiritual Malnutrition
When our body is deprived of certain types of food, over time it develops what are called ‘deficiencies’. For example, sailors in the olden...
What Islam teaches us about depression
There's a false misconception that Muslims can't be depressed because of their belief in God. Some may also falsely think that suffering with depression...
Ten easy breakfast meals to have for suhoor [2022]
When it comes to eating at Suhoor time, our stomachs can often turn at the thought of eating leftover chicken karahi at 3:30am. Yet...
Mindfulness in Salah and Fasting
The Oxford dictionary defines mindfulness as: focusing one's awareness on the present moment, especially as part of a therapeutic or meditative technique.
Have you ever...
The Shared Science behind Ramadan and Intermittent Fasting – When Two Worlds Collide
Fasting during Ramadan doesn't just benefit us spiritually, but it's a chance for us to detox our bodies too.
In the last decade, Ramadan...
Ramadan, Digital Detox and the Science behind it.
During Ramadan, we find that the time we normally spend eating is now empty space within our calendars. Our usual routine becomes amiss as...
