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Building Good Character, Page 112

Elections, New Muslims and New School

Today, there is no shortage of self-styled ‘experts’ who rush to issue fatwas, and who provide an ever-growing list of things that are bid’ah, [innovations] or haraam [forbidden]. If you take all these people seriously…

Restoring balance in our lives

25% – that’s one quarter, of all pregnancies in this country end in abortion clinics. And, of those pregnancies that do actually go full term to childbirth, you will find that 41% of these are illegitimate…

A Failure of Leadership

We Muslims suffer a collective failure of leadership: From Muslim homelands, to our Muslim minorities in West. Our role model, Prophet Muhammad sws gave us leadership at every level: Individual, family, community, nation and civilization…

Islam’s Challenge to Sham Democracy (Eid al-Fitr lecture)

This day we contemplate our physical, intellectual and spiritual advances made during a period of intense and committed fasting. We also remember the physically and cognitively disadvantaged, the poor and needy, the sick and deceased…