What Salah Taught Me About Cybersecurity
Five times a day, we are told to guard something. It took a master’s in security to understand how much that word holds.
Read the post →I’ve walked into server rooms where people were surprised to see a woman in an abaya holding the admin password. The surprise says more about the last hundred years than the last fourteen hundred.
اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ“Read in the name of your Lord who created.”Surah Al-ʿAlaq 96:1
The very first command of revelation was to read. Not for men only — for the whole ummah.
The women who built before us
- Khadijah RA ran a trading business across Arabia.
- Aisha RA became a foremost source of hadith and jurisprudence.
- Fatimah al-Fihri founded al-Qarawiyyin in 859 CE.
Your faith is not something you leave at the door of a technical career. For many of us, it’s the reason we walked through it.
Rumaisa Amir teaches the Quran as something alive and leads IT & security at an educational institute in Dubai. Author of 99 Keys to Ease. More about my work →