Empowering New Muslims
“Be patient and prioritise. You can’t teach someone in a few days, what took you a lifetime to learn…”
Bring back the Barakah
“How did our ancestors make things of such exquisite beauty and ever increasing value, when today we make things that soon become valueless?”
Who Is My Neighbour?
“We have to step outside of our own prejudices, step out of our self imposed ghetto mindset. We have to understand that Allah has a reason for putting us here in this country at this time…”
Do’s and don’ts of Dawah
“Throughout history, the great achievements of Islam had nothing to do with the size of the Muslim population. It’s not a numbers game. It had everything to do with the quality and calibre of individual people. Sincerity, Ikhlaas, is what really matters…”
Lessons from North Africa
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Today in North Africa and the Middle East, Freedom is the idea, and it’s unstoppable…….”
The Importance of Relationships
“Muslims are told that life is a gift, that everything we have is a gift, on loan, on trust. We have an awesome responsibility to discharge that trust faithfully. So, instead living in a ‘me’ centred universe, instead of banging on about our rights and demanding more and more, we should be taking responsibility: taking responsibility for ourselves, for our families, taking responsibility for our communities…”
One World
“Many people in the West are attracted to Islam. Despite all the prejudice and Islamophobia, many curious, educated and articulate men and women are discovering, or rather, re-discovering Islam. Large numbers of new Muslims take Shahaadah every day, and over 70% of them are women..!”
Adam and Eve: a (very) human story
“The story of Adam and Eve is the story of every human being that ever was, is and ever will be. It’s your story and my story. It’s the story of our origin and our destiny, where we’ve come from and where we’re going to….”