For the seekers, searching.
I’m a firm believer that what has most impact on successful career development is not your level of education, qualifications or even actual skills, but rather your self-confidence. When I see the rapid trajectory of some I have worked with, from quite junior roles into service management and beyond, it’s clear that their greatest asset …
Just moments after penning those sentiments about attempting to arrive at some kind of normalcy, an email plops into my inbox at work. Neurodiversity describes the naturally occurring variations in human neurocognitive capabilities that exist in every culture, race and gender. Neurodiversity acknowledges that each person’s brain is unique and we all bring individual experiences, …
One day, I realise, I may have to become an advocate for others bestowed with this condition. To do so, I know that I will have to give it a name: to own it. To do that, I will have to rise above the stigma associated with it, to be unfazed by negative and embarrassing …
Misunderstanding the words of his wise one, the pious chap laughs in his condemnation of those that fast and give charity: “We do not not believe in empty rituals.” This he says with unkempt hair, bangles on his wrist and a ceremonial dagger tucked into his pyjamas. Irony is lost on this fellow. All his …
I think I have established that treatment has a positive impact on my mood, cognitive performance and self-confidence. Conversely, neglecting treatment has a detrimental effect, causing me to think negatively, generally feel despondent, lack motivation and exhibit heightened anxiety. This the thought that occurs to me ten days after my last injection, when I would …
I don’t know if anyone else in the world could have coped with me, and the tests we were assigned. For sure, I’m so grateful to that brother from West Ealing mosque, whom I didn’t know very well at the time, for introducing us. A brother who, until moments after my mildly racist diatribe on …
Today, I nearly reached out. Well, in fact I did. But after stewing on it all afternoon as I worked on code, I had second thoughts and ultimately took it back. Not because I didn’t mean it. No, I meant every word. It’s just that it doesn’t seem appropriate to make contact in that manner. …
When I think of all the wrong I have done — and continue to do — it makes me feel quite despondent. Yes we have those words of encouragement: “Who despairs of God’s mercy except one who has gone astray?” But still, those memories which fleet across my mind nevertheless cause me to shudder, pangs …
It’s strange witnessing British alarm about small boats crossing the English Channel given that for five-hundred years Britain sent great vessels to foreign shores all over the world in its ambitions to build the largest empire in human history. We worry about a few rubber dinghies, transporting a bedraggled crew, when once we sent whole …
In another two weeks it will be Ramadan once more, the blessed month of fasting. For me, my twenty-fifth attempt to ward off evil and become more conscious in my actions. O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may be mindful of …
Perhaps we have been gifted with a great night: a mercy from our Lord. “Verily, God looks down in middle night of Sha’ban and He forgives all of His creatures, except for the one who associates partners with Him and one filled with malice.” Hadith May those I have wronged forgive me. May I forgive …
I can’t really explain why I remember some people but not others. On the eve of Ramadan last year, I wrote to one such individual. We were never friends; if anything, the complete reverse. Still, through all the years that followed, I never forgot their name. Those old days had been on my mind a …
