Dua: The Weapon of the Believers

Dua: The Weapon of the Believers is an invaluable book (and CD) to have in ones library. This is (to the author's credit) the most comprehensive treatise to have been written on the subject in English in recent times. It is exceptionally lucid and remarkably accessible to the layman without compromising the…

If not Ramadan – Then When?

Imagine seeing a man on the street in dire need - homeless, clothed in tattered rags wondering about in a confused state – he feels lost even though he is familiar with his surroundings. He lacks purpose and direction in his life and his affairs are scattered. He is in…

Found

Give me something to hold, that will penetrate through my heart  

Ramadan Feature

An Insight into Moon-sighting The start of Ramadan & the days of 'Id _______________________ _______________________ Ramadan: The Month of the Qur'an Reflections on Ramadan _______________________ _______________________ Peaking at the Last Ten Zakah al-Fitr Q&A _______________________ _______________________ Ramad-amnesia Ramadan Pointers _______________________ _______________________

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The Subtleties of Gnosis

(The poem is fromLataa’if al Ma’aarif (The Subtleties of Gnosis/) by Ibn Rajab Al Hanbali. The main aim of the translation is to deliver the power behind the poet’s message along with some of its spirit rather than to perform a direct rendition of the Arabic into English.)    …

Hanafi Salafism: An Oxymoron?

The Islamic Schools of Jurisprudence (madhabs) were formed over a thousand years ago at a time when shari’ah (Islamic law) was practised and Islamic legal theory flourished. It was during this period that jurisprudence took shape as an Islamic science, flourishing as discussion and debate on controversial juristic issues became…

The Road to Mecca

We ride, we ride two men on two dromedaries the sun flames over our head, everything is shimmer and glimmer and swimming light. Reddish and orange-coloured dunes, dunes behind dunes beyond dunes, loneliness and burning silence, and two men on two dromedaries in that swinging gait that makes you sleepy,…

The Tipping Point (Book Review)

Have you ever wondered how some trends, ideas and behaviours spread exponentially? Is there a defining moment where social epidemics cross a defining point and then spread like wildfire? ‘The Tipping Point’ is a book that aims to answer those very questions. Using anecdotes and interviews corroborated by independent psychological…