I couldn't possibly count the number of taxi rides I've took in my life. As girls I think we get in the taxi hoping that the driver won't start unnecessary conversation. Unavoidably there are times when we're stuck with those that ask way too many personal questions, sometimes we get the lucky silence or those that are too busy on the phone, but there are also the odd few drivers that actually provide interesting conversation. Yesterday was one of those.  It's become the norm for people to ask me where I'm from when they see (I guess) that I'm white and wearing full hijab, and when I reply "England" I often get responses such as "Yeah but, originally, your parents?" and so the conversation went as such yesterday evening. Upon realising then that I'm a revert the driver continued to say how he found that interesting and started to ask why; again something that I've grown used to. Then he spoke about himself... I was surpris...

﷽ (In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful) السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُه Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May the peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you all) I think that the title of the post speaks for itself so I'll just say that appropriate for my 10th post, below I thought of 10 reasons as to why I  love being a revert to Islam, rainbow style so it seems. Enjoy.  1. Having a past... This might raise the question of 'why would a person like the fact that they've done some things considered haram?' but of course they weren't wrong or haram to me at the time. What I'm referring to is being able to remember the abandonment of any sin, any arrogance or ignorance that I possessed beforehand, which Alhamdulillah wasn't of a drastic level since as I've before mentioned, people had told me prior to reverting that I would make a good Muslim. An example of past and present furthermo...

Results Day Results Day has fast approached us, and now in the last hours of waiting I know that many of you will be full of worry and there'll be tension every time you refresh your emails in the morning, just waiting. What I plan to get through in this post has been said many a time, in better words than I could use, but I just want to go ahead and give my view on the whole situation anyway.  Each person is different, but I have never personally been one to spend time worrying about what might be on that piece of paper (maybe that should be a worry in itself). I simply don't feel as though I can allow a letter to define me, and on top of that - to this day I'm unsure as to what my aspirations actually are. I remain in my dreamy mindset of simply wanting to travel and see the beauty that this world beholds, photographing it along the way, for pleasure. It goes without saying that we all secretly want to see A's, but we all differ in reaction if we don...

﷽ (In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful) السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُه Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May the peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you all) The aim of this post is to cover the beauty of acceptance in Islam. If you don't have an understanding of the character that most true Muslims  possess, you might be worried about several things when entering the religion or hearing of somebody close to you doing so. I know that some of my family members worried about things like my race, language barriers, generally making friends within the mosque and so on. I didn't worry much myself as having looked into Islam a lot and already having many lovely Muslim friends, I had faith in the Ummah. I was right in having such faith, as up to now  I could probably count the negative approaches I've had since coming into Islam on one hand. The positive ones? Endless.  Going into college after ...

﷽ (In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful) السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُه Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May the peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you all) Source from Google images. I said my first prayer on the 10th December 2014. My friend explained to me how to do wudhu (the act of cleansing yourself before prayer) and then primarily taught me how to pray the 2 rakats of Fajr namaz (morning prayer), talking me through it whilst I recorded it on my phone. I remember practising that night, listening back to the recording and making notes on it so that I would be able to pray Fajr for the first time that morning. Honestly, I cried. Subhan'Allah I have no idea why but after I had prostrated myself to Allah s.w.t for the first time (even though now I know that I was facing the wrong way) I couldn't help but cry, I'm going to assume due to emotions such as relief, hope, and accomplishment. After that...

﷽ (In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful) السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُه Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May the peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you all) My family have never been religious. I wasn't christened and neither were my siblings. We would never attend Church nor would my Dad ever talk to us about religion, it just wasn't something that was within the family and still isn't. Putting it briefly, within the family over the years we've not had the best of luck in terms of losing people and so on, so a lot of the older members of my family have the view of "if there was a God then he wouldn't have done this to us". Whereas Alhamdulillah I've been able to see that Allah s.w.t tests those whom He loves the most. He puts us through hardships and grants us the strength to overcome them - and verily, with every hardship comes ease. I know that Allah loves me and I know that any neg...

﷽ (In the name of Allah, Most Beneficent, Most Merciful) السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُه Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May the peace, mercy and blessings of Allah be upon you all) I think that without doubt, hijab can be considered a controversial issue, and that's even just the name never mind the physicality. Some see hijab as being just the head covering, whilst others know that it is much more than that. Hijab is everything, hijab is beauty. Hijab is one of the main things that stood out to me when I started to look into Islam. When I talk of hijab, I talk of the modesty that most Muslim women maintain. Modesty in Islam is a beautiful thing and as sisters we are proudly defined by our modesty. Before becoming Muslim, I was quite self-conscious about showing too much anyway, even just my arms for some odd reason. So I wouldn't say that the way in which I dressed was awfully inappropriate, but of course it differed to how...