Four Steps to Heaven
“Spread peace, feed the poor, keep families together, pray for part of the night and you will enter paradise…”
Do’s and don’ts of Dawah
“Throughout history, the great achievements of Islam had nothing to do with the size of the Muslim population. It’s not a numbers game. It had everything to do with the quality and calibre of individual people. Sincerity, Ikhlaas, is what really matters…”
Signs of the Last Day
If you hold a sapling in your hand when the Last Hour approaches, go ahead and plant that sapling…(Hadith)
Mu’min and Kafir: Negotiating Shared Space
http://www.marcmanley.com/mumin-and-kafir-negotiating-shared-space/
Lessons from North Africa
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Today in North Africa and the Middle East, Freedom is the idea, and it’s unstoppable…….”
The Importance of Relationships
“Muslims are told that life is a gift, that everything we have is a gift, on loan, on trust. We have an awesome responsibility to discharge that trust faithfully. So, instead living in a ‘me’ centred universe, instead of banging on about our rights and demanding more and more, we should be taking responsibility: taking responsibility for ourselves, for our families, taking responsibility for our communities…”
Resisting Opressors
EM resisting oppressors
The Jewish school where half the pupils are Muslim
“In Johannesburg, we have Jewish schools, but they’re 100 per cent Jewish, so we were a bit shocked when we first came here. But the integration works so well. It’s clearly the way to go in today’s world. My son is eight and has loads of Muslim friends.”