What a beautiful way for the Ilma team to mark the end of 2015, by writing on a theme that is very dear to us; ‘Returning to Allah’. Our Lord, our Creator, created us from dust “then from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot, and then from a lump of flesh, formed and unformed”. [Qur’an, Surah Al-Hajj: The Pilgrimage, 22:5] Surely we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. We do not want to return to our Lord only in our final state which displeases Him but return to Him every day of our lives, at least five times a day. We want to return to Him when we are going through hardship; when we are alone by reciting words of ‘Dhikr’ (remembrance of Allah) and be reminded of Him when we are with our friend/s.