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Playing at Religion

“While ostensibly upholding and defending religion, a strongly ideological approach tends to undermine the deepest most profound aspects of religion. It binds men to specific ways of filtering and judging reality instead of doing what religion is meant to do – to bind men to God and thus unfold for them a perspicacious and penetrating insight..”

We Need to Learn From Our Mistakes

“Crimes that injure whole populations are wounds to the body of humanity. But fact-avoidance is the infection. It may be, that quite often, extremist violence is the very pus produced by a wound. If we continue to neglect wounds, they are sure to fester.”

Eid-al-Fitr Khutbah 2013

This Eidul Fitr khutbah was delivered in Kensington Mosque, Cape Town, South Africa, by Sheikh Abdullah Awaldien To listen to the Arabic …

Reconciliation

A cardinal principle in the equation of human relationships is that all members of every human community should learn to care deeply …

Metaphor and Parable in the Noble Quran

“The Holy Qur’an is more than just the greatest work of literature in any language. It’s much more than a collection of amazing stories, metaphors and parables. It’s pre-eminently a THE book of divine Wisdom, the Criterion between right and wrong, the radiant guiding light to navigate our way through the treacherous waters of life…”