About the author
Afshan Khan: Afshan Khan is a contemporary British Muslim counselor and author who writes on marriage, family life, and personal well-being from a Qurʾan- and Sunna-rooted perspective. Trained as an Islamic psychotherapist, NLP life coach, CBT therapist, youth mentor, and parenting and marriage counselor, she brings roughly thirty years of experience working with couples, families, and young people. Much of this work runs through Sukoon Healing, the practice she founded to provide Islamic psychotherapy and mediation services for Muslims, and she remains an active part of community life.
She is best known for her accessible "Secrets to..." series, written for ordinary readers rather than specialists. Secrets to a Successful Marriage, her most widely read title, gathers pre-marriage guidance, everyday advice for keeping affection alive, and tools for working through conflict with better communication. Companion volumes extend the approach to other relationships and to the self: Secrets to Surviving In-Laws, Secrets to Successful Families, and Secrets to Self Esteem: Rebuilding the YOU that Allah Created You To Be, along with a Secrets to Successful Habits journal. Across these books her method stays consistent, pairing real case studies with practical to-do lists and reflective exercises grounded in Islamic teaching. Her writing has found a steady readership among Muslim couples and families seeking calm, faith-centered guidance on the relationships that shape daily life.
About the editor
Abia Afsar-Siddiqui: Abia Afsar-Siddiqui is a British editor and publisher, best known as the Managing Director of TaHa Publishers, the long-established London Islamic publishing house. Her path to publishing was unusual. She trained as a chemical engineer, earning an MEng from Imperial College London, with a study placement in Rome, followed by a PhD in fluid instability, also at Imperial. She joined TaHa Publishers as an editor in 2003 and, after her father retired from the role, became Managing Director in 2022. Over more than two decades she has guided a broad list of accessible English-language Islamic books, ranging from works of fiqh and worship to titles for families, women, and young readers. She co-authored A Guide to Ramadan and Fasting with Dr. Musharaf Hussain, a concise manual setting out the fiqh of fasting across the four Sunni schools alongside the spiritual dimension of the month. As editor she has overseen many TaHa titles, among them the translation of Izhar-ul-Haq: The Truth Revealed by Maulana Rahmatullah Kairanvi, Islam and the Business Mindset, and a range of practical and educational works. Her contribution lies less in single-authored scholarship than in the steady editorial and managerial work of bringing reliable Islamic literature to English-speaking readers.
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