Iffet Rafeeq

Ustadha Iffet Rafeeq is a British scholar and teacher of the sacred sciences and holistic wellness, born and raised in the UK of South Asian heritage and now residing in Cape Town, South Africa. She specialises in womb cycle health and intimacy in Islam, and her course "The Seasons Within" has taught more than a thousand students in over fifteen countries. ¹

According to the biography published by the Khidma organisation, she completed the classical 'Aalimah course in the UK, topping both male and female students in every exam she took, and studied part-time under Shaykh Atabek Shukurov Nasafi and Shaykh Burhan. While studying she was appointed by her teacher as a teacher and spiritual counsellor for reverts. After graduating she was one of three students gifted a scholarship to Al-Azhar University in Cairo, where she completed an intensive Arabic grammar course. She then returned to the UK to teach Islamic theology at City Hasanat College while completing a business management diploma and continuing to study under Shaykh Zain ul Aqtab Siddiqui at the Suyuti Institute. ²

The Khidma biography describes her as a co-founder of Dust To Diamonds, a dawah and counselling organisation. More recently she co-founded the Blue Lantern Institute and its app, and teaches through the Feminine Arts Academy. In Glasgow, the Amina Muslim Women's Resource Centre hosted her "Seasons Within" session on menstrual wellbeing, describing her as the founder of the Blue Lantern App and an educator on Muslim women's health, in particular menstruation. ^{2 1 3}