University Friney

I knew Friney from university where we both studied. From her first year she spent many a time with the us at the airport lounge (the medical school cafe), a bright fun light of joy and positivity. She was always funny (and occasionally clutzy) but was a great friend...

Family Games Night

One of our favourite and most recent memories of our beautiful Aafrine baji was our family games night… boys vs girls done in her honour!! It was full of so much laughter from acting out a robot to guessing her favourite flowers (pink roses!) to finally coming to the...

Lovely memories

I have some lovely memories of Aafrine from the time I met her first at Sunderland University in 2005. She was this chirpy and lovely girl who made me feel so comfortable in the university even after I felt so overwhelmed. After graduating as well we kept in touch...

Random notes

One day, mama asked me to look through her notes to find a shopping list. But this was hard, because she did not give any indication as to which one was which. So as I was scrolling, I just saw, ‘ List, List, List…’ and so on. Until something else caught my eye. A...

Fond memories

Dearest Samara and Zaki We have many fond memories of your dear Mama. The first time I met her was at your parents Walima. MashAllah she was so beautiful and her radiant smile lit up the room. I thought that MashAllah Usman was a lucky man that he had found someone so...