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Importance of Contemplation (Tafakkur)

Article published in The Sunday Circle, Kingston Mosque, London, UK

“Allah has given human beings the capability of thinking and reasoning. It is this ability which makes humans different from animals and enables them with free will, compared to all other creatures…”

Zakāt reawakens the spirit of Humanity

By Dr Moin Qazi
“The real spirit of giving lies in doing it without leaving a trace of oneself. Giving with motives attached not only nullifies one’s own happiness but also burdens the receiver. After planting your seeds, you should expect nothing in return. ..”

My learning form every Ramadan

By Dr Moin Qazi
“The essence of Ramadan is to become humble, simple and free from ill will, anger, meanness and hate. It is a one-month refresher course from which we can emerge as the greatest version of ourselves. It is a month of penance, peace, forgiveness, atonement and reconciliation…”

Inspirational Palestinian Women

On this International Women’s Day, we are sharing stories of Palestinian women who embody resistance and steadfastness- Sumud. During its brutal establishment through the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns, Zionist militias and, later, Israeli forces committed massacres and used rape to terrorize Indigenous Palestinians and to induce their mass ethnic cleansing–the Nakba. Ever since, apartheid Israel has continued its oppression in an ongoing Nakba, directing its violent misogyny to Indigenous Palestinian women, viewing them as a “demographic threat”…

The Problem of Pain

By Osman Latiff (Uthmān Laṭīf)

” This essay will consider a fundamental outlook in C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain that draws on the Christian outlook towards the reasons behind the existence of pain in the world -as one emanating from the sin of Adam and Eve, as described in the Book of Genesis.”

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Europe, with billions for war, shows its true heartless face

By David Hearst
Middle East Eye
“This is a chance to show the world that the West can rebuild as well as destroy. But this is the last sentiment in the minds of Fortress Europe today. Fortress Europe ringfences its wealth. Its high electrified fences and drone patrols are there to keep the heathen hordes out.

What stronger stimulus could you give to millions of people to look elsewhere for leadership?”

The pathology of flamboyant denial

By Dr Uthman Lateef

Those who perform the burning of a Qur’an as a public spectacle are not simply denying Allah’s truth. They are arrogant and flamboyant in their denial, just like Pharaoh denied the the truth brought to him by Moses…

Muslims should beware the next threat – the Artificial Intelligence revolution

By 5pillars.com (RMS)
“We are either slaves to Allah, subordinating technology to fundamentally human ends which bring us to closer proximity with the Creator of the heavens and the earth. Or we are slaves to the algorithm, reduced to data metrics used to train AI systems which can potentially assume an unprecedented degree of power and sovereignty over us. One cannot have two masters.,,”