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There was an interesting piece on Radio 4′s Open Book yesterday on how a listener who had found it difficult to concentrate on reading since bereavement fifteen years ago could get back into the habit. There is an organisation based in Liverpool which aims to help people like this achieve this very goal and its [...]

1. Jihad is the struggle to remove all those things from one’s life that incur Allah’s displeasure, and to replace them with those things that will gain His acceptance. 2. Jihad is the struggle against one’s inner self and it’s bestial inclinations. It is this struggle, in fact, which the Prophet of Islam (Allah’s blessings [...]