Islamic Thought

Dr Uthman Lateef's reflections from his recent trip to Auschwitz...

Many of us will be unaware that we have entered a new Hijri year—1439. Had today been January 1st, every one of us would know about it and some may have even celebrated it. Have we become detached from our heritage?

On this day 86 years ago (16th September 1931) Omar Mukhtar (rahimahullāh) at the age of 73, was executed and hanged to martyrdom by Italian colonial forces. Omar Mukhtar was born in the year 1858 in an impoverished household in the region ...

John was not rich or famous, he had no special standing in the community. But he was our neighbour...

As the scorching sun beat down on the sand, an exhausted man turned and began to walk away from his family. His shocked wife called out to him, asking where he was going. The man did not reply. Clutching their ...

Signs of the Last Day (Ashrāṭ al-Sāʿah) The Dajjāl Part 1 | 2 | 3 The actual title given to the Dajjāl is al-Masīḥ al-Dajjāl. Al-Masīḥ means Messiah; and the particularisation is due to there being two Messiahs, one of ...

The Rohingya Muslims are predominantly from the region in Myanmar, Burma, called Arakan. It is also known as the Rakhine State which has exerted considerable political and cultural influence on the Southern and South-Eastern parts of Bangladesh from the early ...

Bismillāh Alḥamdulillāh Wassalātu Wassalāmu ʿala rasūlillāh, Wa ʿala ālihi wa saḥbihī wa man wāla With deafness being the second largest disability in the UK,[1] it is surprising that the overwhelming majority of the British public do not understand the concept ...

In no era in history has the means of comfort and welfare ever been so within reach like they are today. Never has the knowledge of the world’s complex mysteries and the ability of subduing nature’s unfriendly elements ever been ...

Our two eyes weigh less than 30 grams each, yet are made up of more than 200 million working parts, and serve a function that around half of the brain is dedicated to. According to the Discover Eye Foundation, our ...