“When will it be right to be Muslim and gay?”
Background The above question has been the subject of a lingering controversy over the last few weeks, spawning heated, emotional…
“We only die once” – Turkey’s Call to Arms to protect Jerusalem
Turkey says it has been rallying together an international peacekeeping force as the world looks on in horror at the…
“Vote Today; Be Kafir Tomorrow”: The Issue of Voting
That season of jostling for space to express a view on voting has once again descended upon the population here…
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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…
Umdah Al Fiqh (Book Review)
Fiqh is a subject that to some extent is being neglected these days with more concerted efforts taking place in the realm of aqidah (creed), and although it is undoubtedly pertinent that one learn what is permissible and not in relation to their beliefs, it is similarly important that the…
From Allah to Allah
I read the devil once
Shadows in Palestine
They walk like shadows of whom they were
The Calamity
Just another hour, just another day.
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I was deeply saddened on Sunday morning to see the article in your newspaper maligning…
