Spreading LOVE when there is HATE. What can we do when we feel helpless watching disasters unfold all over the world? What should our response be? Can we afford to sit back and watch or is there anything we can do? ‘O you who believe, be patient and compete in patience, and protect your frontiers,…
Delivered 2017.
Physical, mental, and social benefits of Ramadan and fasting.
Delivered 2016.
Background to, and arguments for and against, the 2016 burkini ban in France
Delivered 2016.
Comparing and contrasting the three main Abrahamic faiths
Delivered 2012.
A more detailed explanation of what charity means in Islam. Includes many useful hadith and ayat about charity
Delivered 2016.
Discussing how religion can teach us important lessons even today, using examples from the Prophet PBUH’s Farewell Sermon, and Caliph Umar RA’s speech on his deathbed.
Delivered 2016.
Reasons why ISIS goes against everything Islam teaches, using Quranic evidence
Delivered 2017.
The importance of empathy, and how a lack of empathy can be damaging for groups of people and wider society. Examples of empathy in nature.
Delivered 2015.
Specific examples of inspiring and respected women from the time of the Prophet PBUH. Also notes on Quranic accounts of Eve and the Queen of Sheba.
Delivered 2016.
Personal reflections on Hajj, and the impact it has on your life.
Delivered 2015.
Talking about Ahmed Mohamed, a 14 year old who was reported by his school when a teacher mistook a homemade clock for a bomb
or ‘Synecdoche’.
Delivered 2018.
Personal reflections on what it is to be a Muslim woman in society, and how society treats minorities . Inspired by ‘This is Not a Humanising Poem’ by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Delivered 2018.
A discussion of how Muslim women are oppressed by Western society far more than from inside Islam, based around a Tedx talk by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
Delivered 2018.
The importance of learning and seeking knowledge in Islam. Some of the ways God tells us to seek knowledge, and some of the things Muslims have done through history to gain and spread knowledge