The Importance of Self-Compassion

The Importance of Self-Compassion   By Hwaa Irfan Do unto others that which one would like done to one’ s self is one of the many teachings in the unadulterated Christian book the Bible , and in Islamic teachings one of essential components to any action is one’s intentions. However, as Prophet Muhammad (SAW) emphasized [...]

Behind the Masks of the Feminine IX: Arsenicum Album

Behind the Masks of the Feminine IX: Arsenicum Album   By Hwaa Irfan   We began with 3 Minerals of the natrum group…   I. Natrum muriaticum, depicts a woman who is very much a product of the Industrial Revolution. She has grown up in an emotionally distant environment depriving her of what she needs [...]

Heavenly Signs: Jupiter, and the Full Moon

Heavenly Signs: Jupiter, and the Full Moon The November 8/9 night sky after 12.00am had surprise in the presence of the waxing moon/ almost full moon. In the midst of a clear night sky, white opaque veils clouds wisped across and around the moon unlike any night before with Jupiter shining brighter than any star [...]

The Superiority of Having Autism

The Superiority of Having Autism     By Hwaa Irfan   As we bear witness to the call for change sweeping across the world to include the 99% of humanity who up until now have been in service to the 1% any real call for change has to include those who have been excluded in [...]

The Purpose of Work, Death and Sickness

Work, Death and Sickness By: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) From: Twenty-Three Tales (1881) Rights: Public Domain   God, say they, at first made men so that they had no need to work: they needed neither houses, nor clothes, nor food, and they all lived til  they were a hundred, and did not know what illness [...]

Just Feels Right

Courtesy of Right Middle Way Barik will be joining over 2 million people this month at Mecca for Hajj. Although for the last few years he had been thinking of going for Hajj, the thought of not coming back as a better person kept him from going. But this year he states, ‘it just felt [...]

Behind the Masks of the Feminine IX: Sulphur

Behind the Masks of the Feminine IX: Sulphur   By Hwaa Irfan   Three Minerals I. Natrum muriaticum, depicts a woman who is very much a product of the Industrial Revolution. Natrum muriaticum has grown up in an environment emotionally distant depriving this type of woman of what she needs to flourish in her life. [...]

What Strengths Do You Have That You Are Not Using?

What Strengths Do You Have That You Are Not Using?   By Hwaa Irfan Depending on how familiar one is one’s self, that simple question might be difficult to answer. Because we have sacrificed our true selves to a materialistic world that bases perfection as a condition that is predisposed to a cultural standard of [...]