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Khutbah Category, Page 75

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad on Islamic Education

“The region with the densest and most inventive Islamic education is Indonesia. There are over 100,000 Islamic colleges in Java alone; and many are pioneering new models of spiritually-rooted education that fights the modern tendency to fragment knowledge, by reuniting everything under the principle of Tawhid…”

Allah is sufficient for true Believers…

By Dr Husni Hammuda
“In Gaza today as in 7th Century Arabia during the time of Prophet Muhammad sws, the true believers put their trust in Allah and continue to strive in doing good and forbidding evil. They depended not on their numbers, but on their nearness to Allah…”

Prophetic respect for Christians and Jews

By Ibrahim H Malabari
“Given that Prophet Muhammad’s followers believe in all of the earlier prophets (peace be upon all of them), they never defamed or degraded them. (Contemporary hostilities between Muslims and Jews are based not on anti-Semitic Islamic teachings, but on the politics of occupation and resistance in the Holy Land.)

Playing at religion: Wearing ideological blinders

By Irshad Hussain.
“… what religion is meant to do – to bind men to God and thus unfold for them a perspicacious and penetrating insight, An insight that is necessary if society is to apply revelation to one’s era in the most beneficial way possible – an insight that promotes the growth of knowledge across all fields, that leads to spiritual depth, and human connectedness …”

Empowering New Muslims

By Arshad Gamiet
“A good Muslim personality is constructed from the inside, not from the outside. It begins with the right attitude, the right disposition of the heart… When the attitude is right and the qalb, the spiritual heart is sound, everything else, including the hijabs, niqabs, burqas, beards, thobes and turbans may (or may not) take care of themselves later… Let’s always keep our sense of perspective, and remember our priorities.”