Baraka shone from the moment I met her in the South Hampstead classroom. She threw herself into the delights of the GCSE English language and literature course with such energy and talent. Every essay from her was a gift. I will not forget her: her grace, her...

It was a great honour to be invited to the second Memorial of your beloved daughter, Baraka. Her goodness and kindness shone through at the event on Sunday, and in all the wonderful contributions of family, her school and university friends, and her study...

Dear Beautiful Family and Friends of Baraka Khan, Today’s memorial was almost like an encounter with Baraka. Hearing from her family and friends about her character, her life, the people she inspired, and the remarkable things she did was so deeply moving for us...

“I’ll love you forever!”. This was one of Baraka’s favourite sentences to me, from a young age. I often wondered why she said this so often and what she meant by “forever”. It is now clear to me that by “forever”, Baraka was referring to the life of the world and...

Do you remember when you’d get a card or a note from Baraka? If you’re smiling right now, you’re probably remembering a time you dashed off a quick note or text to Baraka and got back a couple sides of solid text in return. Baraka believed in the long read. You...

A Mother’s tribute: My youngest daughter, Baraka, returned to her eternal home after a valiant three-and-a-half year battle with Stage 4 lung cancer. The twenty-four years that she was with us seems far too short. It has taken me nine months to get the courage to...

Baraka was a noble and pious girl. Although we last saw her as a child in mid 1990s, we used to hear a lot about her from her grandmother who is a family friend . May Allah grant her the highest place in Jannah in the life hereafter....

Baraka, the brave and brilliant girl with her radiant smile won our hearts and made her place which will stay with us forever. Beaming with joy and energy she had an infectious smile and we fondly remember our interactions with her….Whether it was guiding and...

I knew BK for only six months! What a blessed gift. Our first proper day spent together started with a doctors appointment. All the usual awkwardness of getting to know someone new quickly made way for almost non-stop laughter, story telling and intimacy. And that...

Unbelievably amazing sister! I have no words to describe such a sister. She has set the standard high for other women around the world and left for us a treasure of lessons to learn from. She left us so soon. We miss her exactly from the day she left us. May Allah...

Baraka, your exemplary life taught us embodied timeless lessons. One is that the measure of a life is not the number of its years, but rather its virtue and its moral impact. Your moral legacy is evident in the relationships, projects, and worlds you have gifted us...

Baraka’s wit and wisdom made her a wonderful student to teach at university. She always had a wry observation to make about Cambridge, something she’d read, or just generally about life, to start off a conversation — she was someone one could talk to for hours,...