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I will always be indebted to Ustadha Zaynab. She answered my emails during my tumultous twenties, and I still remember her compassion and sincere concern. Her wisdom, tact and intelligence played a huge role in my decision to study ‘ilm in Jordan. She made the time to speak to me on Skype before I travelled to Jordan, and I still recall her advising me to get my notes in order before I had children. At that point in my life, I felt so lost and I could not fathom being in a healthy and happy marriage, let alone have any children.
SubhanAllah, almost five years has passed from those difficult days. Allah has blessed me with a loving husband and a beautiful baby daughter. Alongside these blessings, Allah has given me the means to teach the introductory level of personally obligatory knowledge of Shafi’i fiqh, including the fiqh of menstruation. Allah Kareem.
Ustadha Zaynab, may Allah reward you for showing me so much kindness when I needed it most, and believing in me long before I could believe in myself. The world desperately needs many more lady scholars such as yourself. May Allah ease your heartache and that of your family, and reward you abundantly in both worlds.
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Raidah Shah Idil is a student counsellor, poet, writer, and creative instructor with a passion for YA (young adult), fantasy, sci-fi and detective fiction. She was born in Singapore and moved to Australia at the age of 12. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (English) and Bachelor of Science (Psychology) from the University of New South Wales in 2005.
After working as a marketing copywriter and studying the Islamic Sciences in Amman, Jordan for nearly two years, she returned to Sydney, got married, then moved to Malaysia. While working as a part-time tutor at Axiom Learning, she works as an online counsellor for Seekershub Global. She has completed her Diploma of Counselling through the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors. Her full-time job is raising her baby daughter. Everything else is squeezed in between. Literally. Her writing has been published in The Feminist Wire, SISTERS magazine, Daily Life, Lip Mag and Venture Beat. Raidah’s poetry was recently published in the ‘Armed With Only Our Souls’ online DDFS chapbook by New York poet Caits Meissner. Her debut double-featured novel, “Finding Jamilah and the Story of Yusuf” was published by MyLegacy publications in early 2014.
In her spare time (ha), she reads, listens to audiobooks, goes on walks, and is always on the lookout for tasty noodle soup. She currently lives in a green, leafy suburb in Kuala Lumpur with her husband, three small children and mother-in-law.
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