Sakineh, the Roma, Pakistan
“What drives my moral indigation, and my sense of solidarity? My commitment and the causes I support? Is it my social, community, political or religious affilation, or the common dignity of the world’s women and men?….”
Eid Khutbah: “People who reflect”
“Don’t just take your Islam for granted, following blindly. Allah wants you to question, to inquire, to investigate, to interrogate until you find the truth…”
Burning Qurans
“We Muslims complain that Islam is being blamed for the actions of a few violent political extremists. How can we then blame all Danish people for the actions of a few cartoonists and their newspaper? How can we blame all Americans for the actions of a few neocons and a deluded preacher? It’s hypocritical! Where is our wisdom?…”
Eid Mubarak 1431H
Eid Mubarak to all readers and listeners of KhutbahBank
Allah Pardons Almost Anything
“Never belittle the smallest good deed you’ve done. Never let your sins leave you so overwhelmed by guilt and remorse that you give up doing good. Never despair of Allah’s overwhelming capacity to forgive and show mercy…”
Reason and Rhetoric in the Quran
“The Holy Quran uses both rhetoric and reason in a powerful way. It addresses us, the readers, not as passive consumers of information, but as critical and sentient human beings, engaging our intellect and our innate sense of balance, fairness, reason, logic and beauty…”
Islam found me [when I had no intention of being discovered]
“I had set out to vet a religion for my daughter, but while doing this promised research for her I found God, and Islam found me.”
Finding Forgiveness in Ramadan
“Don’t just ask Allah for forgiveness generally or vaguely… ask him precisely what you want to be forgiven… be specific…. this is part of the healing process…”