By Shaykh Hassan Elwan
Islamic Institute of Orange County
“Serving Allah is a source of loving delight. Islam is simply the loving surrender of our lower Self to Allah. The road to misery is to follow your own desires, your own whims and caprices, without restraint. The road to lasting contentment is to delay gratification, and to follow with loving obedience whatever pleases Allah.”
By Hisham Abu Yusuf
Cambridge Central Mosque
It’s crucially important that we nurture the innate talents that Allah has gifted every child. Children often show an inclination, a skill set in their early years, that can easily be lost by the many distractions of modern life. Here are some illuminating examples shown by our beloved Prophet sws…
By Talha Asghar
In challenging times like these, Muslims must respond to bad behaviour with dignity and wisdom. As ambassadors of Allah, we should aim to win hearts, not arguments. The spontaneous gathering of thousands of ordinary people protecting mosques and asylum centres proves that there is a core of decency, a fitrah, in everyone that we can reach out to.
By Essam Mahgoub
Paradise, Al Jannah, is not for everyone. It is for those with purified souls on whom Allah has shown mercy. Muslims aren’t Allah’s “chosen people.” We have to work hard to earn Allah’s good pleasure. That means that we will constantly be tested to see whether our our words and our actions are of the same substance….
By Essam Mahgoub
Good Muslims work hard on the five Pillars of Islam. We should also avoid the Pillars of Kufr (disbelief): Pride, Arrogance, Envy, Anger and unholy Desires. Faith can become weak if it isn’t strengthened by daily good habits. The path to evil begins in small careless steps, so we must be constantly checking our behaviour.
By Sheikh Hasan Elwan
How often do we give advice, but inappropriately? How do we respond to advice, defensively? This khutbah unlocks the secret of sincere advice giving and advice acceptance.
By Talha Haroun
When we see the injustices in Palestine and all around the world this should be a reminder for us that this world will never be a world of total justice –
By Arshad Gamiet
Islam is not a spectator sport. It’s not good enough for us to sit around, like couch potatoes in front of our giant TV screens, complaining and criticising without lifting a finger to improve the situation. Some of us think that we’re helpless, that the problems out there are too big and too complex. We sit there and we blame others and we complain. But there is so much that we can do to make a difference…
