Voice of Unity (VOU) - Muslim Youth Magazine

‘Practice your religion without burdening others’ is the line of action that most of us try to incorporate in our lives as practicing Muslims in the west; a society where materialism is the faith, appearance is the key and where we are …

Landing, for the first time on my own, in the city of Beirut, I could not feel further from ‘aloneness’. With the rays of the bright sun flooding the plane and the echo of excitement disseminating through the entire carriage, I was …

In 2004 the US suffered from $525m worth of robberies in street crime. However in the same year an estimated $600bn was stolen through employee theft and fraud in the workplace in white-collar crime. Noting the ‘bn’ on that second figure, the …

“Iman (belief) means appreciation with the heart, iqrar (acknowledgment) with the tongue and amal (action) with limbs.” (Imam Ali (as), Nahj al Balaghah, Sermon: 79)
The saying of The Commander of the Faithful Ali (as), emphasized amal, which clearly gives the message; …

Ramadhan 2008 really riled up my  Jiminy Cricket. In a month when spirituality should be at its peak, it was a little disheartening to see it spread so thin on the ground in some places.
Yes, I am aware of how far …

With all this talk of financial crises and the growing concerns of the British public, I’ve come to realise something concerning; our selfishness is causing us to fail in our humanity.
Despite the continued and extensive coverage of the recession, markets in …

The previous issue of the VOU (Oct – Dec 2008) featured an article entitled “The Khoja community of Stanmore” which was the second in a series critiquing different Muslim communities; the issue before that considered the Pakistani community. The aim of the …