Every person experiences occasions during his or her life time where he or she is suffering, struggling, worrying or mourning or is under pressure in some other way due to circumstances. In most cases...
Every person experiences occasions during his or her life time where he or she is suffering, struggling, worrying or mourning or is under pressure in some other way due to circumstances. In most cases...
“Measurement” is not always easy, especially if what is measured is intangible. How can we measure the degree of our tazkiyah (spiritual purification) in the path of God? It is easy to think that we a...
For some, the month of Ramadan is a month of refraining from eating and drinking between dawn and sunset. For some, it is the month of reading more of the Qur’an and saying more prayers and supplicati...
Prologue This is an abridged version of a detailed article that I have written on the same subject titled The True Meaning of Universality of the Qur’an. The purpose of this article is to provide reas...
“Measurement” is not always easy, especially if what is measured is intangible. How can we measure the degree of our tazkiyah (spiritual purification) in the path of God? It is easy to think that we a...
We all face situations in our life where we need to pray for ourselves or those who we care about. At times, we feel that our prayer has been answered. At others, we feel it has not been answered. Som...
One of the privileges afforded to us today is having access to scholars who try to engage Islam rationally and who depart from the traditional approach to understanding Islam. These scholars bring a f...
This article is in response to an inquiry about the issue of female circumcision. The person who asked the question referred me to a youtube video where a scholar was using a Hadith to argue that fema...
This article is based on an answer that I wrote for a question regarding the definition of Sunnah. In this writing I am comparing the implications of the way that Sunnah is defined traditionally with...
When I was kindly invited to attend the London Institute of South Asia (LISA) seminar on Islamophobia I was both pleased and surprised. I was pleased to have the opportunity to see activists and resea...
It is one thing to seek power and revenge out of emotion and anger, but another to establish an Islamic state. If we are not good enough to do the second, then let us at least be brave enough to refra...
Every person experiences occasions during his or her life time where he or she is suffering, struggling, worrying or mourning or is under pressure in some other way due to circumstances. In most cases...
My talk had just finished and I was being greeted by some of the members of the audience. I saw him coming towards me with a smile and in a very gentle manner. He said al-salāmu ‘alaykum , and then ga...
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Hadīths are narrated on a regular basis among the community of Muslims. There are those who accept any Hadīth that is narrated to them. There are those who reject any Hadīth that is narrated to them....
The following short writing is motivated by the questions that this author has received where clarification and explanation is sought about the reported assassinations at the time of the Prophet (sws)...
Islam, as taught to us in childhood and afterward, puts strict restrictions on working and mixing with non-Mahrams. What are the real facts and teachings of Islam regarding that?
One of my friends claims that Jesus never says the exact words “I am God” in the Bible but He does proclaim that He is God. (John 10:30, John 8:58, John 1:1, John 1:14) Acts 20:28 states: “Be shepherd...
I was explaining Islam to a non-Muslim friend. He came up with a couple of questions that actually confused me as well. I have been told since I was a kid that Islam is one true religion and everythin...
