Muslim by choice
Today, I want to draw attention to the our newest brothers and sisters, who have risked so much, and who have endured and are still enduring so much in order to be part of our global Muslim family…
Be Islamic, Don’t Panic
This is a time for us to turn away from life’s many distractions, and to focus ourselves on the main agenda. What does God want from us? What is our particular role in the great cosmic scheme of things? Where should our energies and resources be deployed?
Nurture the Tree of Islam
That which is Islamic is in a sense obviously that which is radical because it is rooted. Our’s is a time when to be rooted in the past, to be part of an organic entity that goes back centuries has become the strangest and the most unusual thing…
Remembering Allah, and our Neighbourly Duties
It is especially important these days, when life has become so frenetic, so full of countless distractions. We’re all caught up in the daily rush to get to work…
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…
Seeking Knowledge
Our Holy Prophet Muhammad sws, laid great emphasis on the quest for knowledge, and he urged Muslims to ‘seek knowledge, from the cradle to the grave, and to seek knowledge, even unto China’…
Sincerity
Sincerity
Cultivating a Mi’raj and Isra of deliberative rationality
Critical, rational inquiry has been the work of Muslim philosophers for a long time: al-Farabi’s persuasion consists in offering argumentative reasons for holding a certain position; ibn Sina’s dialectics involves a process of rational argumentation…