Ainur Rafeqah binti Norharidan (Pages 5-9)
BIOGRAPHY
• Leila Fuad Aboulela
• Born 1964, Cairo, raised in Khartoum
• Egyptian mother Mona Khalifa, Sudanese father Fuad Aboulela
• She was sent to American Primary School for her primary education.
• Later she attended The Sister’s School which is a private Catholic school.
• She furthered her Degree of Economics at University of Khartoum.
• Then she continued her journey in M.Sc in Statistics at London School of Economics (Aboulela, 2006).
• In 1987, Britain is the turning point in Najwa’s life.
• She started to wear hijab and submitted to her faith, Islam.
• Back then when she was in Khartoum University, she admired the girls wearing hijab.
• But she did …show more content…
I didn’t have a name for it. Whenever I heard the azan in Khartoum, whenever I heard the Qur’an recited I would feel a bleakness in me and a depth and space would open up, hollow and numb.” (Aboulela, Minaret, p. 134)
- Thus, Najwa also disregard the presence of God when she and Anwar were in a place where people do not care of what they were doing
- Hence, she met her turning point and started to change gradually after life hits her down slowly in London
ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES - FAITH
- One should not blindly follow others without knowledge (mimicry) as everything will be asked in the hereafter
- “And (do) not pursue what not you have of it any knowledge. Indeed, the hearing, and the sight, and the heart all those will be [about it] questioned.” (Quran 17:36)
- Man are of spiritual and physical identity
- Men have testified Allah as our Lord long before we were born to this world
- And (remember) when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed (or from Adam's loin his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves (saying): "Am I not your Lord?" They said: "Yes! We testify," lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: "Verily, we have been (Quran