01/09/2024
Ya Karim, Allah is so Generous, and we are in a state of gratitude for His Generosity.
For the past four years we have seen the Collective grow into a beautiful healing community for Black Muslim women.
We will be on a collective rest from September until after Ramadan. This means we will not host any programmes or events, with the exceptions of two Healing Circies in October and January.
This collective healing and work is in service of Allah’s generosity and many of us have benefitted from the transformational work of the collective. Our collective rest is also in service of His Generosity. Our rest is an embodiment of shukr, a way of clearing our hearts and minds and asking Allah through our stillness and silence to allow us to continue to receive and give from His Generosity.
It is not easy to rest or to challenge the normalisation of the exhausted Black women, but it is an essential part of the healing work. With this in our hearts we have decided to collectively rest which will be a means of processing, resting and reorientating our hearts so that we can deepen the future work of the collective
We pray that we are able to return to you with our energies shored up and new opportunities for us to gather, be seen, heard, and to continue healing.