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No food in the house this evening—only bread, yogurt and onions—but we won’t go to bed hungry.

It is interesting what you discover while checking sources. I am sure you will remember that at the height of the furore over the publication of cartoons in Jyllands Posten it was alleged that Danish theologian Professor Tim Jensen had advised its editors that, ‘It will offend Muslims and only cause pointless provocation.’

Well the sun peeped through the clouds for a few minutes, so I grabbed the camera and took a few shots (and realised I have work to do out there).

We first posted these photos on 16th April last year – that year when summer came early before the summer filled with April showers. Alhamdulilah, we’ve had plenty of showers this April, not to mention hail and snow. We’ll have to wait to see what the next few months have in store for us.

This is the view from my front door. I took it this evening with my wife’s camera when I came home from work. I took it because it means something to me; something that I’ve been thinking a great deal about for the past few days.

Snowfall after Fajr means there’s a snowball fight before Qur’an class.

1. Jihad is the struggle to remove all those things from one’s life that incur Allah’s displeasure, and to replace them with those things that will gain His acceptance. 2. Jihad is the struggle against one’s inner self and it’s bestial inclinations. It is this struggle, in fact, which the Prophet of Islam (Allah’s blessings [...]

I will make no secret of the fact that I begin this in a low mood, with a cloud of melancholy descending on me. I have been off work with a viral infection for the past few days, so I suppose a weakness of spirit is only to be expected, but it is not that. [...]

We never know, of course, when our chances will cease. I have just seen the CCTV footage showing the moment when a car driven by a drunken driver sped through red lights at a junction and ploughed into the car in which my brother-in-law was travelling the Sunday before last. The speeding car hit the [...]

As the years pass by, there is always a part of us that wants to look backwards, to reminisce about a life we have left behind now. We travelled up to North Yorkshire this weekend to visit my parents and I had in mind to take a detour to Hull on our return: to remember [...]

Salam alaikum, Some of you might have seen an article / heard a report on the BBC which suggested that the Turkish Government is preparing to “revise” Islam. I think this article in today’s Zaman (a mainstream Turkish newspaper) sheds some light on the BBC claims: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=135202 Speaking with Today’s Zaman on Wednesday, Dr. Mehmet [...]

As Selaamu Alaikum, Everything happens for a reason and nothing occurs without Allah’s (SWT) plan. I was feeling a bit down because of some problems at work. I was studying Qur’an with a friend. We had some questions and needed some answers, so looked in to various Islamic sites. While searching, this link popped in [...]