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How easily we plant the seed of enmity in our hearts, fostering contempt of our own brothers, and how quickly it grows into a tree bearing bitter fruit. Most days I receive an email from across the Atlantic ocean reminding me of higher wisdom. The last one I read imparted these gems: Wise Quote of [...]

This evening, my good friend, Rashid ibn Jeffrey of Hounslow, coined a new phrase to replace the tired out names given to those who embrace Islam later in life, such as converts, reverts and new Muslims. He proposed, and I accepted, ‘the dekafirnated tribes’. So overjoyed was I by this innovation that I agreed to [...]

I feel sorry for my brethren of South Asian descent. For when it comes to the English, they cannot win. As non-Muslims, the English attack them for colonising this green and pleasant land with mosques — for taking over and making Britain Islamic. Yet as soon as an Englishman embraces the deen, he is all [...]

In her rage at Tony Blair on Friday as he sat before the Chilcot Inquiry she accidentally dashed over a goblet of red wine. To his crimes of forging war and invading a sovereign state, she added the painful stains on the beautiful wooden floor. Thus acts the modern Muslim, scared to take the self [...]