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Do you ever head off as if into oblivion, running, running as if it is the only way? Whenever I am ill, when my body is weak and feverish this seems to happen to me. Is it the assault of shaitan taking advantage of my lack of strength or is it just weakness of mind? [...]

My email to Eddy Mair on Radio 4’s PM programme this evening: Can you prove to me that the huge crowds witnessed on the streets of Khartoum after Friday prayers today were because of the teddy bear insult? If you go to any Muslim city anywhere in the world after Friday prayers you will witness [...]

Who is it that knows what is in the hearts except God? Will you set yourself up as Judge? Do you claim to know what is in another’s heart? Will you place my faith in Inverted Commas too if I say something with which you disagree? I refer of course to an exchange in another [...]

I was so incredibly grateful to the poor Bengali community who, in their island of red brick terraces nestled between smart office blocks and towering skyscrapers, established that little mosque on the edge of the City. I am travelling to that unfamiliar quarter of Capitalist fame every day this week for training on developing .NET [...]

Some alternative readings on the cult of Apple (I think Apple make very pretty gadgets, but)… iSlave iPoison + iWaste iGenocide: Mass Murder, the iPhone, and You iPhone – Made In China No news of an eco-phone Gadgets and my slice of the pie How green is that iPhone? Post Script I have a mobile [...]

I have been reflecting quite a lot recently on what Christians refer to as ‘the addictive power of sin’, for I am one of those unfortunate souls that makes mistakes and repents only to repeat them again over and over. Faced with this phenomenon, I believe it is easy to appreciate how many Christians come [...]

Quote: justgrits.wordpress.com Bowes said, October 27, 2007 at 6:05 am Do you recall the murder of Victoria Climbié in the UK in February 2000? She died at the age of nine following months of barbaric abuse at the hands of her guardians, both of whom were evangelical Christians? She had been burnt with cigarettes, tied [...]

The beauty of Islam shows in the face of one who keeps silent about things he does not know and that do not concern him.

I have never liked the term “Islamophobia”. The misuse and corruption of the term “phobia” is an aside—although I could certainly explore this in some depth—for I also have some trouble with the term “anti-Semitic” where “racism” would do. I do not dispute that some Muslims face discrimination, that Islam is derided (as Christianity is) [...]

So we are making our escape, setting down in Istanbul on Saturday afternoon. That sprawling metropolis bridging Europe and Asia. InshaAllah we will pray Tarawih in one or two of the grand mosques. But soon we will be moving on. If we fly, we will be in Trabzon, eastwards along the Black Sea coast an [...]

“O you who believe! Avoid much suspicion, for some suspicions are a sin. Do not spy on one another, nor backbite one another. Would one of you love to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you would abhor it, [so similarly, avoid backbiting]. And fear God. Indeed, God is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [...]

Surely, those who have made divisions in their religion and turned into factions, you have nothing to do with them. Their case rests with Allah; then He will inform them of what they used to do. {Qur’an, 6:159}