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South African Muslims reject the violence of extremists

“Warfare does not absolve the members of any Islamic caliphate, state or entity from the responsibility of human rights and the rules of engagement where women, children and the elderly as well as civilian non-combatants [are concerned]. Their lives and property are never targeted, but safeguarded,”

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…”

The Qur’an’s ultimate disclosures

By Shaykh Fadlallah Haeri
“What is the essential message of the Quran?.. Tawheed, Divine Unity, God-centricity….. and the infinite variety of pairs, complimentary opposites, multiplicity that emanates from Unity….. ; Guidance for frail humanity: creatures of earth, of time/space, longing for eternity…”

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…”

The way ahead for Western Muslims, by Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool

“How can Muslims in Britain adopt “British values” and yet be faithful to the core tenets of Islam? Is it possible? are there any contradictions?

South Africa’s Ambassador to the USA, Ebrahim Rasool, draws lessons from his many years as an activist in the anti-Apartheid struggle to advise the Muslim Council of Britain on the way ahead. ..”

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.)