Human Rights, Human Wrongs
Muslims everywhere are always deeply distressed by any acts of violence against their brothers and sisters, whether it be in Iraq or Kosovo, in Kashmir or Palestine.
Muslims everywhere are always deeply distressed by any acts of violence against their brothers and sisters, whether it be in Iraq or Kosovo, in Kashmir or Palestine.
The Ummah today numbers about 1 billion followers. But, when you consider our influence on world affairs today, it is very small. At every level, Muslims are aware of this, and we are calling for Unity.
In Britain today, there are some 2 million Muslims in a total population of about 60 million. That’s a mere 3.5%. However, we are not the first Muslims to face the challenge of how to relate to a non-Muslim majority.
Through intoxicants and gambling Shaytaan hopes to divert our minds from remembering Allah – knowing well that only by remembering Allah are the hearts of the believers at rest and will there not be need for drugs to provide a false sense of security.
A Muslim lives two lives: a religious and a worldly life — a kind of apartheid rooted in our very personalities. Often we are torn between two loyalties.
Through the takbir we realise our tremendous power as an Ummah. The Ramadhan brought us together in a common bond of brotherhood. Together we sacrificed our food, together we abstained from vain talk and useless acts.
Do we Know, that, among us are an insecure and oppressed minority who are denied basic human rights to move around freely and safely, to earn a living without feeling patronised, even to have free access to a masjid?
The tide of Islam when it crossed the North African regions , finally penetrated in its first trek into Europe, penetrated to Spain and there in Spain the Muslims built up a civilisation that will remain the pride and envy of all the races, peoples and ideologies gone by…