Ramadan Kareem
The Editors and technical team extend their warmest greetings to you. May this Sacred Month bring you Allah’s mercy, forgiveness and freedom from the Fire. Ameen
Inspirational Palestinian Women
On this International Women’s Day, we are sharing stories of Palestinian women who embody resistance and steadfastness- Sumud. During its brutal establishment through the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns, Zionist militias and, later, Israeli forces committed massacres and used rape to terrorize Indigenous Palestinians and to induce their mass ethnic cleansing–the Nakba. Ever since, apartheid Israel has continued its oppression in an ongoing Nakba, directing its violent misogyny to Indigenous Palestinian women, viewing them as a “demographic threat”…
The Problem of Pain
By Osman Latiff (Uthmān Laṭīf)
” This essay will consider a fundamental outlook in C.S. Lewis’ The Problem of Pain that draws on the Christian outlook towards the reasons behind the existence of pain in the world -as one emanating from the sin of Adam and Eve, as described in the Book of Genesis.”
Turkey-Syria earthquake: Europe, with billions for war, shows its true heartless face
By David Hearst
Middle East Eye
“This is a chance to show the world that the West can rebuild as well as destroy. But this is the last sentiment in the minds of Fortress Europe today. Fortress Europe ringfences its wealth. Its high electrified fences and drone patrols are there to keep the heathen hordes out.
What stronger stimulus could you give to millions of people to look elsewhere for leadership?”
Sharing the Good News
by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad
Do you know about Sir Robert of St Albans, a Templar Knight who became a Muslim and joined Saladin in the Battle of Hittin to capture of Jerusalem? Do you know about the Scottish soldier Robert Keith who joined the Ottomans and became Governor of Madinah? This khutbah describes some amazing stories of the search for truth and meaning in life that brought, and continue to bring people to Islam…
The Uncreated Qur’ān
By Sadik Miah
“Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal suffered painful persecution for standing by the belief that the Holy Qur’an is the Uncreated Word of Allah. His principled stand came at great personal loss, and he was a living example of the words in Sura Al-‘Asr: “By (the passage of) Time (through the ages), Truly, humanity is in a state of loss, except those who have Faith, and do good deeds, and (join one another) in teaching Truth, and Patience, and Steadfastness.”
The pathology of flamboyant denial
By Dr Uthman Lateef
Those who perform the burning of a Qur’an as a public spectacle are not simply denying Allah’s truth. They are arrogant and flamboyant in their denial, just like Pharaoh denied the the truth brought to him by Moses…
Muslims should beware the next threat – the Artificial Intelligence revolution
By 5pillars.com (RMS)
“We are either slaves to Allah, subordinating technology to fundamentally human ends which bring us to closer proximity with the Creator of the heavens and the earth. Or we are slaves to the algorithm, reduced to data metrics used to train AI systems which can potentially assume an unprecedented degree of power and sovereignty over us. One cannot have two masters.,,”