As we approach 2024 in a few hours, I look outside, it is raining, the raindrops falling on the windows and dripping away silently.

New Year has a different meaning for me. One is because I am getting older, therefore becoming more aware of how time is slipping through our fingers like sand. 

However, being old-fashioned I would debate that as much as digital media is wonderful, e-books are great and reading any book at the touch of a finger is truly amazing.

Together with our catering partner MyLahore Bradford, we have proudly provided over 100,000 hot meals since the project was established.

There's a twinkle in my eyes, my thoughts are saying YIPPEE!

Being a widow is difficult in any era but this did not deter Khadijah (ra) from becoming a very successful merchant, the most successful of that time in fact. Whilst Khadijah did not travel herself for her business she employed men to travel to Syria, Makkah and Yemen to sell the products of furniture, silks and pottery.