As one of the largest societies on campus, the diversity of our students who come into UCL every morning is marked in both their culture and aspirations. It’s the gentle unpicking of those worldly hopes, however, to uncover a deeper purpose, that really binds us together as a community. And so, while some of us may spend our days by puzzling over the contradictions of Quantum mechanics and, others are left perturbed over the ruthlessness of Machiavelli, we all at some point in the day – whether in a spontaneous gathering after Dhuhr, a Tarbiyah session at 7 or happy hour after Jumu’ah – come together in a spirit not entirely dissimilar to the one harboured by three million of our brothers and sisters who converge on Makkah every year, chanting in unison, “Labayk Allahumma Labayk”.