It’s okay, a contemporary of William Wallace has declared all that the wicked ones do halal, so do not listen to these modernists who, eight hundred years later, feel queasy as they read the rulings of the scholars of scholars. Of course, it is only modern man that is afflicted by his context, swayed by …
The number of Muslims in the Great Britain is around three million. The population of Great Britain as a whole is heading towards sixty-seven million people. Around five percent of the population is Muslim, therefore. The converts amongst them number no more than 0.15 percent of the population. Over fifty percent of the population self-identify …
Every Friday for the past month, a growing army of volunteers representing the major political parties has gathered outside the mosque to canvas worshippers leaving the Friday mosque. The first week I suggested to a friend that we should do as Jesus is reported to have done in the Christian gospels, when he turned the …
It is not all or nothing. There doesn’t need to be a simple binary of love or hate. The men and women that teach you don’t deserve your undivided loyalty. Take the good from them and leave the rest. Don’t let your respect for a teacher turn into idolatry. Don’t worship your sages and scholars. …
And the topic of today’s sermon is… you guessed it… about raising money to pay for the new toilets… Not that we needed new toilets… they just needed a regular good clean. Perhaps we do need some investment in activities for youngsters though, to stop them gravitating towards gangs, street fights and drugs. But that’s …
It is rare that you encounter people who have balance in their lives. I can only think of a few people in my own sphere that I think are balanced. To know such folk is a blessing and a mercy, for most people I know exhibit almost schizophrenic behaviour as their lived faith clashes with …
Dear poor oppressed demagogue, sobbing that Facebook censored your latest diatribe yet again: Facebook’s moderators are people, paid low wages for long shifts in poor working conditions to sift through the detritus published on the platform by people like you, on the Left and Right, Conservative and Liberal, religious and atheist, nationalist and globalist.
Hmm, I wonder. Who is more likely to know how the people of Medina prayed in ancient times? A preacher born in Jamaica in the 1940s, or a jurist born in Medina ninety years after hijra. Decisions, decisions.
So it has come to this. Women and their children attend a mosque gathering to celebrate the birth and life of their Prophet, peace be upon him. In their ephemeral wisdom, the learned ones — these so-called students of knowledge — decide to use the occasion to tell their congregation that most of the followers …
Politicians out in force today, canvassing outside our local mosque after Friday Prayer. Naturally I felt compelled to say something, so I said: “Remember what Jesus did to the money lenders at the temple!” Ah, but little do they understand.
And they will say, “Our Lord, indeed we obeyed our masters and our dignitaries, and they led us astray from the way. Our Lord, give them double the punishment and curse them with a great curse.” — Qur’an 33:67-8
There may be an argument to be had as to whether The Muslim Lifestyle Expo should really be called the South Asian Muslim Lifestyle Expo, but I’d rather have a discussion about the targeted consumerism that stands at the heart of the venture.
I am envious of the one who says, “God has forgiven me.” Not because I believe God really has forgiven them, mind, but for having that certainty which allows them to move on. That is some kind of freedom. For my part, I hope that God will forgive me for all that I have done …
The charitable view is to say the activists sincerely believe the lies they have told themselves. Otherwise, they are out and out liars, deliberately misleading all who follow them. Let me give them the benefit of the doubt and say they have been deceived by their own deception.
In the name of politics, they demand your silence on moral issues normally upheld, insistent that cunning conspirators are at work. You are being played, they contend obstinately, raising their voices. Perhaps so, but here the protagonists are many. One thing to be certain of: when activists demand your silence on the precepts and prohibitions …
