Fatima Barkatulla

Sr. Lauren Booth interviews Ustadha Fatima Barkatulla

The Gifts of Islam for Women - Hhugs Charity Masquerade Ball. In this address Ustadha Fatima Barkatulla addresses an audience of sisters at the Hhugs (Helping Households Under Great Stress) Charity Masquerade Ball. She highlights 5 of the many gifts that Islam gave to women and what we as women should do once we acknowledge those gifts.

The Love Sheikha answers a question from a young sister who has broached the subject of marriage with her parents but who seem dead against their daughter marrying. How should she approach this issue? How can she stay patient and avoid falling into sin in the meantime?

Is living a disciplined life a boring and old-fashioned thing? Isn't Islam all about rules and restrictions? In this series of excerpts, Ustadha Fatima highlights some of the gifts that Allah gave to women through Islam. [Nasheed clips from Nashee artist Safe Adam's vocals only collection]

Fatima Barkatulla recalls the story behind the new Omar Esa Nasheed: 'Muhammad's Company', written and produced by Fatima Barkatulla and the lessons she learned from working on the project.

Envy - Hasad - a disease of the spiritual heart that causes its destruction if indulged and acted upon. What are the real causes of envy? In part one on 'envy', Fatima Barkatulla looks at the evil and causes of envy and what exactly Hasad is and is not.

Ustadha Fatima Barkatulla points out three powerful ways for Muslims to respond, in times when anti-Muslim hatred increases and the Islamophobia industry is hard at work

Some people look at everyone around them as opponents on their path to success. Fatima Barkatulla argues that there is an abundance of goodness to go around and your success does not depend on the failure of others - it depends on Allah's will.

If you are a person with high aspirations, do you have friends with high aspirations too? Or do you always surround yourself with the naysayers who cast a shadow over all of your ideas and projects? Ustadha Fatima Barkatulla says that you should make sure you have a core group of people who you meet regularly, to keep you in the right mindset for excellence.

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Is living in the past holding you back? Many of us carry the past with us wherever we go. When we look into the future all we see is our past sadness, past failures, past obstacles. Fatima Barkatulla asks in this clip: What if you filed the past in the past? What could that do for your future? What if you saw the future as a blank canvas? It would change your life!