In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful and may Allah bless His slave and messenger Muhammad and his family and companions and grant perfect peace.
The elephant in the room is of course not Islam, since the Muslims are everywhere under occupation, being bombed, killed and driven from their homes by warfare or famine, often the consequences of geo-politics or globalisation. The issue that will not go away is the imperial power of the US as the foremost representative of …
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The poet W. B. Yeats strove to make a unity of his life. “Hammer your thoughts into unity,” was his expression of that. Few things are more important for us today, as things and causes are automatically shunted into categorical boxes where they are rendered impotent like a freshly slaughtered Egyptian chicken tossed into a …
In the definitive political statement for the coming century, Dallas analyses the foundational substance of political democracy, revealing at its heart terror and totalitarianism. And there also, wielding substantive power, unelected and largely unknown: the finance and commodities elite. Drawing on a panoply of European thinkers from Ibsen to Heidegger, Dallas then delineates the coming …
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 …
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, …
“I’m a Muslim and I believe in Divine fate and destiny, and it was his destiny and his fate… and now he’s gone… and may Allah forgive him and bless him… that’s all I have to say…” Tariq Jahan (bereaved father) Three young Muslims in Birmingham who had left their neighbourhood mosque in the month …
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Confucius, when asked about the first act of government, said: “Call things by their right names”. There is something genuinely mysterious about this language we use, we human beings, which must be considered before embarking on the use of it and before using it to tackle the largest purveyors of language and their doings in …
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“There is no disagreement about what you say…” At the 4th Muslim Lawyers’ Conference in Potsdam 29th June – 1st July 2001, a group of ‘ulama and imams assembled to discuss the zakat and related matters. The names of those present are appended below the statement issued after the gathering. To open the meeting, Hajj …
Since we know: “that Allah should guide one person to Himself by means of you is better for you than everything over which the sun rises”, what can we say about the situation of someone by means of whom Allah prevents access to Himself?
202. Abu Khubayb – with a u on the kha’ – ‘Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr ibn al-‘Awwam al-Qurashi al-Asadi, may Allah be pleased with him, who said, “When az-Zubayr stood awaiting the Battle of the Camel, he called me over and I went to his side. He said, ‘Son, no one will be killed today except …