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“Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.” Source: “Food for Thought”, LESSON OF [...]

“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 Allah. Indeed, Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [...]

I often make fun of the eating habits of the Eastern Hemşinli people, who reside in Artvin Province, Turkey — the group to which my wife belongs — but I am only joking. I make fun of their taste for Black Sea Cabbage, for every meal seems to involve this pale-leafed brassica, and I am [...]

From Abu ‘Abd ar-Rahmaan ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, radiya’llahu ‘anhu, that he said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah, salla’llahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, say: ‘Islam has been built on five: witnessing that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establishing the prayers, paying the zakaah, making the [...]

“This country has gone over the top with political correctness. We as a society feel that Muslims have to have attention otherwise we are not being fair to them. Muslims have protested outsite churches making remarks about Jesus. Could a Christian abuse Muhammed outside a Mosque, without being arrested? NO” – Mr Holden, Northern Ireland [...]

Ever since three tube trains and a bus were blown up in London last year, various commentators within the British media have begun to repeat the notion that multi-culturalism has had its day. Political correctness is so ‘year before last‘ and racism is back in fashion. It seems that when a criminal act is perpetrated [...]

Eleven people have been charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic airliners. If this was their plot, can we then be in any doubt about the mess we are in? If the allegations are true, there is now an even greater need to make the fatwa against the targeting of [...]

Defending The Transgressed By Censuring The Reckless Against The Killing Of Civilians

The comment by the second anonymous under my recent post entitled “Conspiracy” threw me a little bit: “you and I are set on conquering this land” Well, technically, muslims are meant to work for just this to happen – not just “this land”, but to create a world-wide ummah. The fact that other people take [...]

In 2003 my mother wrote an essay entitled “Help, there’s a Muslim in my family!” for the interfaith module of her Masters degree in Theology. After reading the copy she sent me, I wrote the following essay, and sent it back in May of the same year. It was a useful exercise for us both, [...]

When I as studying for my Masters degree in Publishing six years ago, I was interested as a recent convert to Islam in the question of safeguarding knowledge now that technology had brought publishing within virtually anyone’s grasp. This was in the days before ‘Blogging’ existed as it does today and when the Internet was [...]

Okay, so I am writing again already. Prompted by the first comment left by yet another “anonymous” under my last post, something needs to be said about media-induced distress. I cannot say that I have no sympathy for sufferers of this ailment; indeed it would be hypocritical for me to deny the anxiety stirring power [...]