In the Name of Allah, the All Merciful, the Most Merciful And may Allah bless Muhammad and his family and companions and grant them peace. Letter to a New Muslim Allah, exalted is He, says that whose meaning is: Who could say anything better than someone who summons to Allah and acts rightly and says, …
Monthly Archives: September 2011
An Ominous Return – Abdassamad Clarke
A meeting here in Norwich recently reminded me of how much we have to be grateful for in this little island nation. A South American visitor told me of how in her society to be stopped by a policeman for a traffic offence necessarily means to be asked for a bribe. When she came to …
A Little Immodesty – Abdassamad Clarke
Sometimes a man must cast modesty and humility aside and stand forth. My turn has come. In the late 80s I was calling for the abandonment of paper money and a return to gold and silver. It was published and it is there in black and white for anyone to read. Now the whole world, …
Yeats and the Libyan Revolution
The Dreaming of the Bones by W. B. Yeats provides some unexpected insights into the current crisis in Libya. Yeats’s work might seem an unlikely place to discover a clue to a part of the current Libyan crisis. Yet it was just in such an unanticipated way that I came upon the route to something …
A Phenomenon
A phenomenon has seized my attention just as a young dog might seize and worry a rag doll thrown to it as a plaything. But this phenomenon is no philosophical abstraction, for men, women and children are dying, an enormous amount of wealth is changing hands, a whole country is being re-shaped while others look …
The Muslim: not blinded by science – Abdassamad Clarke
Although we were much cheered by one recent author’s brave moral call for an end to science (Understanding the Present, Bryan Appleyard) and even more so by another’s assertion that it has already ended (The End of Science, John Horgan), there still remain some matters to attend to and pertinent reasons as to why there …
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