The Nightingale

Turning the Tide: Reawakening the Woman's Heart and Soul is very intricately written, and a cursory reader may not appreciate the beauty of its construction. The book is designed to uncover layers and layers of reflection, like waves lapping on the shore, at the edges of our spiritual awareness.

In Islam, poetry (in its many forms) has been a mainstay in devotional expression.

We write not only to record, but more importantly to think through ideas, to integrate them, and to elaborate them in our own words.

Story time is a gift of parental love, a gift that keeps on giving because it establishes the reading habit.

Emotion does not have to be a force that pushes us apart and disperses us into separate cells.

Just like how spellcheck cannot replace the discerning eye and sensibility of an experienced editor, it is a mistake to believe that algorithm can replace curation.

It may be cheaper, more convenient, easier and faster to destroy knowledge than to appraise, catalogue, preserve and make it available but to abandon knowledge for the sake of short-term expediency is a sure route to weakening society’s grip on truth.

n the times we live in, the heart’s function has been marginalised to the point that it is now discussed only with regards emotion.

Keep reading, dear reader. InshaAllah, we will become, both individually and as a community, empathetic, pro-active, objective, tolerant, and spiritually grounded.