A Muslim Woman's Diary

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Although himself uneducated, he laid the foundation for a network of schools in the valley - the first boys' primary school came in 1922, followed within a few years by the first girls' school. But I knew that she could hear so I told her who I was and I told her where she was, and she indicated by her eye movements that she understood. Allah is the forger of time, the molder of space, the weaver of souls, the turner of hearts, the One who creates everything in stages yet is beyond the limits of time. TV presenter Hamid Mir looks back on the attack and the country's realisation that the Taliban were capable of shooting a young girl as a defining moment. There is another tool which is provided by Islamic teaching to help keep a Muslim on the path of the righteous.

Shehrezade was the intelligent and resourceful woman in “A Thousand And One Nights” who used stories to change the mind of the king, save her own life, thousands of other women.These vehicles are seen everywhere in Mingora - a little like covered pickup trucks, open at the back, with three lines of benches running the length of the flatbed. Before that day, Khan says, he had never heard the name Malala Yousafzai, but he was soon left in no doubt that he was treating a high-profile patient.

Some societies, and some people here, too, have decided that if women copy the West and start wearing skirts and jeans, they will find freedom, or if they are allowed to go out of their homes to work they will find freedom, but a woman in jeans can be beaten as much as a woman in a burqa. The procedure began with shaving part of Malala's hair, and then cutting away the bone, before placing the portion of removed skull inside her abdomen in case it could be later replaced. Acquiring the habit of wudhu not only fulfills the religious injunction, it also helps you maintain habitual cleanliness and self discipline. Just a few hours' driving from Islamabad brings you to the foot of the Malakand pass, the gateway to the valley.

The wearing of the outer garments and veiling of the body leads to veiling of the heart and shielding it from impure thoughts. A similar patient in the UK would have been having her blood pressure checked continuously via an arterial line - according to Malala's charts, hers had last been checked two hours earlier. On 15 October 2012, Malala arrived at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham, where she would remain for the next three months. These include: oiling and combing of hair after washing, keeping fingernails and toenails trimmed and clean, and removal of superfluous body hair, including the armpits and pubic areas.

I was not a special little snowflake that needed extra attention because people who shared the same religion as me were murderers. We may differ in opinion but just remember we are all humans and I only wish to inform you of my disapproval of your statement but in the kindest of respect. I opened my eyes and the first thing I saw was that I was in a hospital and I could see nurses and doctors," she says.

Muslims, especially Ahmadis, do not celebrate birthdays in the same fashion as they are celebrated in Western society. The first of these was Miangul Gulshahzada Sir Abdul Wadud, appointed by a local council in 1915 and known to Swatis as "Badshah Sahib" - the King. On the afternoon of 9 October, she walked out of school as normal and boarded a small bus waiting outside the gates. Hazoor has defined “minimum Islamic purdah” as wearing a loose fitting outer garment and a head scarf. It honours the world's first Muslim after the Prophet Mohammed – his wife Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, who was a successful businesswoman and contributed immensely to the spread of early Islam.