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The reality of this road is that it is difficult. It may be straight, but it is steep and at times rough, and often vulnerable to the molestations of bandits. As anyone who journeys to the highlands of any nation will know, the easiest route to the top of a mountain is via the winding [...]

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.

Why all the killing? I really cannot comprehend it at all. A bomb planted in a Peshawar marketplace extinguishes the lives of 91 in an instant as it rips through everything in its path; 200 more are left injured. Just a matter of hours earlier 150 are slaughtered in Baghdad. Islam holds that indiscriminate violence [...]

When will you believe, I ask myself? When will you set aside your foolish games and get down to work for Him? When will you stand your nights in prayer, when will your heart contemplate, when will your supplications move you? I ask the question, but the desires remain, and so too my paltry faith [...]

If all you have ever known is the flood, would you recognise when you’re drowning? This thought keeps on recurring in my mind whenever I encounter those words that speak of an age of depravity in the latter days. I used to pray that I would not live to see those days, but no more. [...]

Behold, your Lord said to the angels: “I will create a vicegerent on earth.” They said: “Will You place therein one who will make mischief therein and shed blood? Whilst we celebrate Your praise and glorify Your Holy Name?” He said: “I know what you know not.”

It occurred to me during my study class last Sunday morning that I cannot account for the past eight years of my life. I cannot account for the way I used my time. On the one hand I acknowledge that there’s some kind of amnesia clouding my vision at the moment – I have been [...]