Making khutbahs more effective
By Dr A Rahman Khan.
” Khateeb are the conduits and the harbingers of the values in Islam. Needless to emphasize, they play a vital role in our communities as role models for the young and old to emulate…”
Karen Armstrong: “There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity”
““Terrorism has nothing to do with Muhammad, any more than the Crusades had anything to do with Jesus. There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity. All religions have been violent, including Christianity. There was nothing in the Muslim world like antisemitism: that is an import of the modern period. They got it from us…”
A brief introduction to Islam, and the Prophet Muhammad (sws)
By Arshad Gamiet
“Six hundred years before Magna Carta limited the power of kings, Prophet Muhammad delivered his final sermon on the plain of Arafat during the Hajj. It was a remarkable speech for its time. It set down human rights and responsibilities that are still found wanting today, long after Magna Carta and despite the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. ..”
Proof that Allah’s universe is filled with life
By Rabbi Allen Maller During Medieval times almost all Christian theologians accepted the Ptolemaic earth centered Greek view of the universe as …
As a Muslim, I’m Fed Up With the Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Fundamentalists
By Mehdi Hasan
“And why have you been so silent on the glaring double standards? Did you not know that Charlie Hebdo sacked the veteran French cartoonist Maurice Sinet in 2008 for making an allegedly anti-Semitic remark? Were you not aware that Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet in 2005, reportedly rejected cartoons mocking Christ because they would “provoke an outcry” and proudly declared it would “in no circumstances… publish Holocaust cartoons”?
Charlie Hebdo: the danger of polarised debate
By Gary Younge The Guardian, 11 January 2015 In times of crisis, those who would like us to keep just one idea …
In search of the Prophet
By Shaykh Sadullah Khan.
“I found my source of adoration for you in the love and respect that the Almighty has proclaimed for you; in the honor that He bestowed upon you; in His confirmation of you as “the ultimate exemplar”; “seal of Prophets” and “mercy unto all existence…”
Trading with “Taqwa”
By Shiban Aktar, OBE
“It is believed by many that the collapse of Rana Plaza was not an accident but the worst form of structural violence….”