Reflections and du’ah for Palestine
Dr Omar Suleiman
Yaqeen Institute
Homosexuality in Islam
By Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
Gender fluidity and same-sex relationships have become normalised in many countries. Those who still value the traditional religious view are under pressure to conform. How should we Muslims answer the question of homosexuality? Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad offers some helpful advice in this short video clip.
AI and Chat GPT: Spiritual resilience and Ethics
By Omar Suleiman
“With the advent of AI and ChatGPT, how do Muslims approach convenience and rapid technological innovation with the proper spiritual resilience and framework needed to thrive? This timely khutbah raises important questions about the uses and abuses of of emerging technology.”
Eidul Fitr 2023
By Arshad Gamiet
“In the midst of our Eid celebrations, let us also not forget how differently Eid is being celebrated right now in Gaza,in Kashmir, India, in Iraq, in Syria, Yemen, among the Rohinya Muslims in Myanmar (Burma), the Uighurs in China and other places of conflict around the world. Allah has given us the blessing of safety and security over here. We sometimes forget how lucky we are….(To read further, please click on the picture above)”
Saving Planet Earth
“Last week’s Climate Conference (COP27) in Egypt involved a lot of talk, but once again it made very little progress. After many years of conferences like this one, the rich nations who consume the most and pollute the most, are still unwilling to pay their fair share to put things right. It’s the poor nations who consume the least and who pollute the least who suffer the most.,,”
Green Friday
By Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
“The Climate Conference in Egypt has failed. Human beings have become victims of consumer addiction, that is destroying our planet. Allāh has set up a balance that pervades the cosmos. Allāh warns us in Sūra Al Rahmān that we should not upset the balance, the Mīzān…”
Be authentic: be yourself
By Arshad Gamiet
“In North America today, Islam is spreading rapidly where our brothers and sisters welcome others, without judgement, in the spirit of ta’līf, which means, to bring together, or to reconcile. Their motto is:
“Come as you are, to Islam as it is.” No fuss, no bother, no complicated rituals. It’s a simple invitation to just “Come as you are, to Islam as it is.”
It’s a way of being authentic, being true to yourself, and accepting the real, authentic Truth that is Islam.”
Hijra
Brothers and sisters, some of us may have come here to study or to advance our professions and to increase our personal wealth; others may have come to find a refuge from political violence and oppression. These are perfectly good reasons for migration. But remember that he best migration, the real Hijra for us is to undertake the journey from what we are now to what Allah wants us to become…