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It is better to be reproached and held to account in this world, and for it to be a driver for reform, than to wait until the Hour. Alhamdulilah in all circumstances, as my wife would say.

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 [...]

Today we can travel between different locations faster than ever before, whizzing along in our cars. Journeys that once took weeks, months, even years, can now be covered in hours. Indeed, it takes me four hours to reach Istanbul from London. When I arose this morning I did not have to go out of my [...]

DURING MY days of ignorance, when caught in the grip of sin, I used to say, ‘God curse me, let me burn in hell.’ As an agnostic living in the slipstream of a contemporary reinterpretation of heaven and hell, such a remark was so easily said. It was as if to say two things: I [...]

Nicky Gumbel, 1994, Searching Issues, Kingsway Publications, England p.31 I WAS reading Searching Issues by Nicky Gumbel (of Alpha / Holy Trinity Brompton fame) recently and I came across the above statement in the second chapter, ‘What About Other Religions?‘ The question I want to address here is whether this is true. The actual context [...]