Remembering 7/7
The only way we can begin to understand why it all happened, is after a full, fair and public enquiry. This is what many of the victims’ relatives have asked for, and this is what must be done…
Scoring Goals and Setting Goals
Britain today is a country of many cultures. We speak different languages and our parents have come from many different parts of the world. Yet I am sure each one of us is likely to have some burning ambition…
Trading Gemstones for Gravel
The great scholar and jurist of Muslim Spain, Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi, tells us that those who prefer the pleasures of this life and who disregard the life to come, are like people who exchange gemstones for gravel…
Easter and Mawlid al-Nabi 2006
Easter and Mawlid al-Nabi 2006
Our Global Responsibility
There is a wrong way and a right way to handle disagreements. The wrong way is to be arrogant, dismissive and aggressive towards others believing that you must be right and only your opinion has any value…
Staying connected
Hajj is the last of the five pillars of faith: our Kalima Shahaadah. It’s also largest act of collective worship on the planet. It is the ultimate level of connecting our universal family, the Muslim Ummah…
Advice to students
Advice to students
Advice to students
In a way, every student is also making a kind of Hegira, a migration by travelling far from their homes and loved ones, in search of knowledge. And at a much deeper level, those who go forth in search of knowledge are making the Hegira or migration from ignorance towards Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom…