History

The Odyssey reveals how civilisations die

Hamza Saleem

Homer saw what modern societies have forgotten: when a people casts aside the law above its desires, the house begins to collapse from within.

Powerful Lessons from the Life of Khadījah (ra)

Ustadha Fatima Barkatulla 17 Min Read

Fatima Barkatulla distils five lessons from the Mother of History's Greatest Nation...

The Resilient Rohingya: a People Greater than their Crisis

Aayesha Fazal 8 Min Read

A teacher in a school for Rohingya refugees writes of the children's inspirational resilience due to their īmān. SubhānAllāh...

50 Virtues of Masjid al-Aqsa Every Muslim Should Know

Amin Habib 11 Min Read

Read them, internalise them, be creative and disseminate them, etching them into hearts and minds...

When the West Glorified Islam

Omar Hammuda 14 Min Read

“We are much taken with moral outsides, whereby the Turks exceed Christians; for they are more modest in their conversation generally than we...”

“What’s wrong with you Afghans?”

Salman Momin 11 Min Read

There is a long queue stretching for miles at Torkham, one of the major international border crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Men, women and children are queuing up to get their hands

When I Met the Family of Ahed Tamimi

Z A Rahman 11 Min Read

We have all been reading about Ahed Tamimi, the young brave symbol of resistance against the brute of the occupying Israeli forces...