The Ten Best Days of the Year
By Dr Hossam Roushdi “Ramadan is the best month; its last ten nights are the best ten nights, and the best days …
Reflections on the Hajj
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?”
Love Allah and His Prophet above all else…
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..”
Stand and deliver! your religion or your life…
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.”
Hajj, and the neglected legacy of a great woman
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 …
What does Islam say about Freedom?
“There is no compulsion in Religion. But when we make any choice, it comes with responsibilities and there are consequences…”
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.”