“The Night of Power” is also the name of the painting you see in the video by Palestinian artist #LailaShawa showing the many hands in prayer of Muslims around the world during this auspicious night that is, as the verse says in the Quran, “better than a thousand months.”
— Madinah Javed (@MadinahJaved) May 15, 2020
“The Muslim soundtrack is a male one. It has been for as long as I have a memory and for as vastly as I have travelled this world (and that is vast).”
— Madinah Javed (@MadinahJaved) May 15, 2020
“Let alone live unless it was an all female gathering. Now there are some #femalereciters entering competitions and we can only hope they enter our homes as well… How did we as a Muslim community decide that women should not be heard reciting in public?”
— Madinah Javed (@MadinahJaved) May 15, 2020
“I at times wonder at the spiritual lobotomy that has taken place among us in the last centuries. I pray that God keeps it far away from me and the walls of my home and that we free ourselves of these ungodly chains.” — Fazeela Selberg Zaib @SelbergZaib
— Madinah Javed (@MadinahJaved) May 15, 2020