Farhat Amin

Farhat Amin was a British author and public speaker who hosted the Smart Muslima podcast, sharing life advice with Muslim women on marriage, parenting, hijab and faith through her website, books and courses. She grew up in London and lived in various parts of the UK. ^{1 2}

She was formerly a secondary-school English teacher. She graduated from the UCL Institute of Education in 2009, began producing coaching materials for Muslim parents in 2008, and left full-time teaching in 2015 to work from home, teaching online and podcasting. Her author biography says she had shared her know-how with Muslim women for over twenty years. ^{1 3}

Her books include Smart Single Muslimah, described by Islam21c as a Malaysia best-seller, Hands Off Our Hijab, Girl, Your Goal Is Jannah, Smart Teenage Muslimah, Questions to Ask a Potential Spouse, Sex Education for Muslim Kids: A Guide for Muslim Parents, Child Loss, Bereavement and Hope — a Muslim mother's perspective — and The Muslim Marriage Journal. On the Smart Muslima podcast, running since 2019, she addressed topics such as preparing for marriage, parenting teenagers, entrepreneurship, secret marriages and group manipulation, and she also hosted conversations for The Thinking Muslim podcast. ^{1 3 2}

She told her listeners that she had been diagnosed with cancer and asked for their prayers. Islam21c reported her death on 30 April 2025: her husband, Muhammad Jalal, the political scientist and educator who hosts The Thinking Muslim podcast, announced that she had died after courageously living with cancer for over three years. Her funeral prayer was held at Masjid e Umer (Walthamstow Central Mosque) in London, and funeral reminders by Dr Sohail Hanif and Sami Hamdi were released in the days that followed. ¹