Reflections
The latest Reflections stories from odyc.
Enakmen Rizab Melayu 1913 dan pesawah yang terperangkap dalam kemiskinan
Ahmad Faezal menggunakan AI untuk menghidupkan semula kisah pesawah Melayu tahun 1934, dan berhujah bahawa dasar British memastikan mereka kekal miskin.
Can journaling rewire your brain? One writer's case for daily reflection
A Medium essay argues that a few minutes of reflective writing a day eased the writer's decision fatigue. Here is the method, and what the science behind it does and doesn't say.
Valentine's Day, love and the case for easier marriage
Mohammad Zahid's essay on Ink of Faith argues that Islam honours love every day of the year, questions the roots of Valentine's Day, and asks families to stop making nikah so hard.
How the Qur'an reached English, and where translations went wrong
A rediscovered 2003 study, now translated on Ink of Faith, surveys English renderings of the Qur'an's meanings and argues that many carried the biases of their translators.
Ahlan Ahlan Ya Ramadan and the art of remembering the Qur'an
Sameera Hameed's essay on Ink of Faith turns one forgotten surah into four practical lessons for staying close to the Qur'an, before Ramadan and long after it.