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As a weekend Ramadan Retreat drew to a close yesterday, the thought that stayed in my mind was that it was just what the doctor ordered. Though one fellow was heard muttering that it was just a social gathering — perhaps anticipating a hermit’s flight — for me ‘retreat’ indeed summed it up. For it [...]

This Ramadan I resolved to memorise the remaining short suras I have thus far failed to learn. One sura a day, I told myself, for I can do it, for it’s not that hard, for I have learnt twenty ayats in an afternoon or a morning before. But taking stock, on this the nineteenth day [...]

When will you believe, I ask myself? When will you set aside your foolish games and get down to work for Him? When will you stand your nights in prayer, when will your heart contemplate, when will your supplications move you? I ask the question, but the desires remain, and so too my paltry faith [...]

Most search engine terms that people use to find my website are quite mundane and boring. This one today really made me laugh, however: ‘muslims are smelly neighbours london‘. They would have got my post on remembering your neighbours’ rights, but all sorts of pictures are now flowing through my mind… An estate agent who [...]

He reads my words and then he frowns. ‘I want to hear your true voice,’ he mourns, ‘I was expecting something deep, something meaningful.’ But this is my true voice; this is what I am. We are the Pharisees in his mind, devoid of the spirit and light. If only, he weeps, we were as [...]