Current Affairs

It takes a village to raise a child, so where has it gone? 

Nur Choudhury

Parenting has become isolated and screens have filled the gap, but we can still rebuild.

What happened to Chris?
Yusuf Patel
Can you be Muslim and gay?
Ali Jaffery

I Nearly Died From COVID-19 – This is What I Learnt

Jahangeer Akhtar 17 Min Read

Jahangeer Akhtar, CEO of READ Foundation, shares a touching account of how he came face-to-face with death and had a startling realisation...

WhatsApp Contains Pornography – do your children have it?

Zishan Khan 10 Min Read

Not many people know but a LOT of apps come pre-installed with sexually explicit material, warns Islam21c’s Tech Manager Zishan Khan. Here’s what you can do about it.

Representation matters! (Except when it doesn’t)

Zimarina Sarwar 16 Min Read

If one is required to leave so much of their self at the door before stepping in to ‘represent’ their community, how impactful and authentic can such representation actually be?

Practicing Medicine Without Studying

Visualised 0 Min Read

"Whoever practices medicine without having studied it shall be responsible for any harm he causes"

UAE told by Pakistan it will not accept ‘Israel’

Shaheer Choudhury 4 Min Read

“I categorically presented Pakistan’s stance on Israel to the UAE’s foreign minister that we will not and cannot establish a relationship with Israel until a concrete and permanent solution to the Palestine

Scholars vs Sultans

Ahmed Hammuda 12 Min Read

In this instalment, Ahmed Hammuda describes how scholars of the past not only curtailed the political establishment but empowered society to morally ‘punish’ it should it lose sight of justice.