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I had only just repented for the sins of the previous days and returned to my Lord ashamed when, on my return from a brief saunter in the back garden, a name whispered its way into my mind. I did not need to respond to the surprising murmur, but all of a sudden I was [...]

Sometimes I cannot help being suspicious of Damascene Conversions. Of course God can change all hearts, I remind myself, from the most wicked to the most gentle. And indeed in the story of the Muslim faith there is ample evidence of this. Amongst the greatest personalities of Islam are those who were once its greatest [...]

“Say, ‘Whether you conceal what is in your breasts or make it known, God knows it.’” — Qur’an 3:29

A friend brought my attention to a post on Imam Anwar alAwlaki’s weblog entitled, A Muslim for the Sake of the Disbelievers, which represents his response to an email sent to him. When I first read its title, I thought the article was going to be about the duty of Muslims to convey the message of Islam to the whole of humanity, as in the saying of our Prophet, peace be upon him, that ‘I was only sent as a mercy to mankind.’

Islam teaches that actions are only by intentions and everyone has only that which he intended: ‘Whoever’s emigration is for some worldly gain which he can acquire or a woman he will marry then his emigration is for that which he emigrated.’ Therefore sincerity to God is the key to faith in Islam. Believers are [...]

Is it that you try to steal my identity? You take my name, and thinking yourself Italian, you mould it and morph it, and make it your own. But, oh, my dear friend, I am the original egotist. The Neurocentric, centred on himself; on his own wants and desires, and on his complaints about the [...]