Khutbah 14:7:17 – the decree and will
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Khutbah 9/6/17 – forgiveness and the ‘Islamic State’
Khutbah 9:6:17 – forgiveness and the ‘Islamic State’
Khutbah 30/6/17 – taqwa
Khutbah 30:6:17 – taqwa
Khutbah 7/7/17 – credit and debt
Khutbah 7:7:17 – credit and debt
Khutbah 16/6/17 – the Laylat al-Qadr and the fire in London
Khutbah 16:6:17 – the Laylat al-Qadr and the fire in London
Swedish Islam
What constitutes a barrier preventing Islam from being an indigenous religion in Sweden? When writing about Islam in the West the most compelling topic must be its relations to our post-modern society, in which respect Sweden is certainly at the forefront. But, how can Muslims, who clearly represent a pre-modern culture, have something to say …
In the Beginning a Man
In the beginning there was nothing technical, but there was a man, and he was almost always a man, not a woman. Initially, he had some gold and silver, usually on trust from others. His great trick was to play his cards close to his chest. Did he have a hundred or a thousand or …
The Priceless Value of Youth
If one, even if only for a moment, refuses to see the patternings that media and its pundits tell us are there, one begins to see others, and when one sees them, one can never again not see them. It was while watching demonstrations – three in all – outside Downing Street, that it hit …
Jesus, a Muslim’s Perspective
A presentation at “Jesus, the Muslim and Christian Perspective” in Preston on 21st April 2015 Modernity Early Modernity (1453–1789) arguably begins with the fall of Constantinople to the Osmanli Turks, but that would mislead us into thinking of that as its cause. Much more germane to our topic would be the life of Cosimo di …
Heisenberg’s Quantum Leap
This article was written for and published by Globalia Magazine. It appeared in issue No.10 of July 2011. Werner Heisenberg giving the lecture on Natural Law and the Structure of Matter delivered on the hill of pynx, on the 3rd of june 1964 Heisenberg’s most penetrating insight is still largely unknown When we turn to …