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 event of the Georgian Programme, or rather, its result, the situation, has proved to be one of the pivotal tremors which indicate a profound tectonic shift of the continental plates. The landscape is irrevocably altered. As a result of the incursion into Georgia and that tiny country’s political response, everything has changed. The very …
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…she wrote in a letter to the poet Thorkild Bjørnvig: “The smallest fragment of a gold coin, even dust scraped from it, is always gold. But a corner snipped off a hundred kroner note, even half of it – is nothing, of less value than a piece of white paper, which at least you can …
Nothing explains Islamic modernism, the whole rush to Islamic banks, the Islamic state and Islamic democracy, etc., more clearly than this passage by Ibn Khaldun. : 22. The vanquished always want to imitate the victor in his distinctive mark(s), his dress, his occupation, and all his other conditions and customs. The reason for this is …
Few realise that the other key element of Islam, its practice, is as well preserved and impregnable as is the Book of Allah. This has been confused in recent years by an understanding of hadith, the recorded oral transmissions from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that has created a great …
When people talk about the free market and how it operates, they take as a given the ‘law’ of supply and demand. This is one of their axioms, i.e. self-evident truths that need no proof. But the law of supply and demand is far from axiomatic, indeed many societies for great swathes of their history …
It is well said, in every sense, that a man’s religion is the chief fact with regard to him. A man’s, or a nation of men’s. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign and, in words or otherwise, assert; not this wholly, …
A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote. A journalist makes up his lies, And takes you by the throat. So stay at home and do your prayer, And let the neighbours vote. (With apologies to W. B. Yeats)
“Real Sufism” a talk by Hajj Abdalhaqq Bewley, 3pm Sunday 29th June at the Piano Room (The Playhouse Theatre), Norwich. Reflections: “The Path Less Travelled – a discussion about community against the backdrop of an emerging world state.” 8pm Sunday 29th June at the Workshop, Earlham Road, Norwich.
The first Celtic community to emerge in recorded history as accepting Christianity was Galatia in modern Turkey Christianity arrived in Galatia in the person of Paul of Tarsus who visited Pessinus, on the Galatian frontier, which was the tribal capital of the Tolistobogii, sometime between 40 and 50AD. Paul was apparently sick when he arrived …
And meanwhile, there is one mysterious Force which is under no control. A mysterious Force, like a Secret Society spreading through all nations and controlled by no nation. This is the Force of Finance. A few hundred men on the face of the earth, with huge sums of money behind them, exert their wills and …