Our wealth and our material possessions are a test from Allah, and a by-product of worshipping Him. It’s really not the main agenda. Sometimes, we forget our main agenda, to worship Allah, and we worship the by-products…
There is a huge difference between the rich and the poor, and the gap widens by the day. Crime, gambling and financial debt along with the breakdown of family life, drug and alcohol abuse, have become serious problems over there. Does this sound familiar?
If we look around us we find that our physical environment is made of 4 elements: Earth, Water, Wind and Fire. Each of these elements is of a lighter and finer substance than the other…
We must build bridges with our cousins in the family of Abraham, those Jews and Christians who stand up for justice, who …
Those people who have no faith will argue differently about what a “successful life” means: lots of money in the bank, a luxury car, a palatial home, a comfortable and sometimes hedonistic lifestyle..
Hajj is not only a journey through geography and history. It is perhaps most importantly, an inward journey to our own centre, to the human heart. Not the physical heart that pumps blood through our veins…
At the same time I must state very clearly that we Muslims should never, ever become defensive and adopt a ‘victim’ culture. We should not become victims and think and act like victims…
Through human error and human tampering, adding their own gospels, the Divine Word had been compromised. The pure monotheism taught by those great prophets, Moses and Jesus, was all but lost. It was time to put matters right…
