al-Tahwiyyah: Pt 13- His Mighty Will

The Prophet SAW would teach his Companions the pure belief of Divine Decree (qadar). One day, the great Companion Ibn ‘Abbās, who was still a young boy at the time, was sat behind the Prophet SAW on a mount when the Prophet said to him: ‘O boy, I shall teach…

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al-Tahwiyyah: Pt 12- How Allah guides and misguides

He gives guidance to whomever He wills, protects them and keeps them safe from harm as an act of grace. And He leads astray whomever He wills, abases them and afflicts them out of His justice. يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَيَعْصِمُ وَيُعَافِي مَنْ يَشَاءُ فَضْلاً، وَيُضِلُّ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَيَخْذُلُ وَيَبْتَلِي عَدْلاً…

What’s the point of covering your head if you are not…?

Query : “Asalamualaykum, I wanted to seek your opinion on the matter of wearing hijab. Among my friends and family, we have been discussing the role and purpose of hijab in Islam. Some are of the view that it’s more important to be a good human being i.e best in…

The world demand the liberation of Jerusalem

The Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ) is proud to announce our preliminary program for marches around the world on Friday, 7th June 2013, to mark the forty-sixth anniversary of the occupation of the eastern part of the holy city of Jerusalem, which includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Church of the…

Urgent Action: Calling MP’s to Vote Against Same Sex Marriage

Assalamu Alaykum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu, Please help us in our Islamic campaign against the legalisation of same sex marriage (gay marriage). Send your letter to your MP before 20th May asking him/her to vote in Parliament on 20th May against same sex marriage. Only by having many letters, the…

So similar .. yet so different

Outwardly speaking, we can at times engage in identical actions to one another yet our inner motives can be dramatically different. The more one analyses the behaviour of human beings and ponders over their varying activities in life, the more one realises the accuracy of this observation. So accurate, so…

Anti-democracy: A response to ElBaradei

Dr Mohamed ElBaradei's June 23 op-ed in Foreign Policy suggests that Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi - one year into a four-year term - should either resign, or be forced, from power. ElBaradei's article comes in the context of the "rebel" campaign, which is designed to force Morsi to call for…

The Syrian Struggle… An Ignored Epoch

As the barbarous Alawite regime grabs at the forelock of defeat, it chooses to carry out a relentless spree of massacres against the Syrian civilian population. In what seems an attempt to obliterate every remnant of innocent life, particularly in the west coastal regions of Syria, government backed forces murder…

Panorama or Paranoia – The issue of Shariah Courts

The recent BBC Panorama program on shariah councils demonstrated yet another ‘straw man’ argument being used against the Muslim community. Muslims are introducing a parallel legal system alongside British legal system the viewers were warned. The second point being asserted was that shariah courts were being used as a mechanism…