By Arshad Gamiet. “Hajj… also symbolises the inward journey each and every one of us must undertake, to find our own centre, in the Kaaba of the human heart. What desires, what emotions and passions are still circling, making tawaaf around our spiritual heart?”
By Dr Husni Hammuda
“Three traits, whoever possesses them shall experience the sweetness of Iman : To love Allah and His Messenger more than anyone else. To love a man only for the sake of Allah, and to hate to return to infidelity after Allah has delivered him from it as much as he hates to be thrown into Fire..”
Al-Sayyid al-Jurjani defines deen as, “a divine convention that motivates rationally minded people – by way of their own praiseworthy choice – toward what is good in and of itself, being beneficial to them in this life and the next.”
By Dr Mohammed Omar Farooq Islam teaches us to submit completely and whole-heartedly. “O you who believe! Enter into Islam completely, whole-heartedly…” (Quran …
“There is no compulsion in Religion. But when we make any choice, it comes with responsibilities and there are consequences…”
“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..”
“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.”
“Truth and beauty are aspects of the same divine Reality. The truth and beauty of the Holy Quran will continue to inspire …
