The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #28, March 2015 | Page 2

Welcome Message By Laila Ali Salam, Welcome to “The Mahdi Times”, Issue #28, March 2015. I pray you are all well and in a place most pleasing to Allah (swt), InshaAllah, Mola Ali Waaris. In the past few issues I have presented topics that are about empowering individuals, more so women, as the society we are in and the social structures that have been set are created to disempower the divine feminine and to diminish her role as a leader, moulding her into a confused follower of material expectations. The biggest role the divine feminine has is to carry and develop the next generation, for the woman is the first school of the child and in essence, is the standard setter in terms of the child’s expectations and projections onto the world. Before the industrial era, the divine