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All of this was prohibited from ancient times — a sign for men who give thought.
“John Ashton is the scientist that nobody listens to at the start of a disaster movie.”
Everyone loves an idiot who tells them what they want to hear. The wise man who speaks the truth hasn’t got a chance.
Do they not travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those before them?
I’m both a sheikh’s supporter and his critic. I am with him in all the good he puts forth — may Allah reward him — but I will not defend him unwaveringly in everything he says or does. He is just a man, capable of speaking absolute nonsense as well as profound truths. He is …
Sitting on a couch, the sheikh addresses his students: “One of the problems amongst modern Muslims is that they read hadith, and they’re not trained to read hadith. The collections of hadith were written for scholars; they weren’t written for common people.” Yes, but there is a problem. Amidst the twenty thousand copies and clips …
In the early days, I was enamoured with and very proud of the Muslim tradition of verification. So much so, in fact, that as a student of publishing, I wrote my Master’s thesis about it. In those days I marveled at the attention to detail that saw men and women scrutinizing the chains of narration …
What responsibility does the sheikh have to those that listen to him? All across the web — on YouTube, Facebook and numerous blogs — ordinary folk celebrate the impressive insight of the learned one. Beneath repackaged lectures on YouTube, hundreds of people respond in awe, amazed by a hadith narrated by the sage, so detailed …
It’s the perpetual refrain. The pause, mid-sentence, that follows a remarkable statement or strange declaration. “I’m not making this up.” For years I have just nodded my head, taking it on trust, certain that one who said he was not making it up would not be making it up. To do so would surely be …
A conundrum occupies many a Muslim thinker today: what steps must we take to reinstate the glorious supremacy of Islam as witnessed in its Golden Age a thousand years ago. For some, the answer is the resurrection of a caliphate to rule over the Muslim world with justice; thus do they yearn to confer the …
Say, ‘My Lord only forbids immoralities — whether they be open or hidden — and sin and wrongful oppression, and that you, without His sanction, associate things with Him, and that you say things about Him without knowledge.’ — Quran 7:33
A chasm has opened up between ordinary folk and a new generation of activists. For the former, Islam is a way of life and way of living. For the latter, it has been transformed into a marker of racial identity, coalescing in arguments about belonging. Thus an activist can say, in all seriousness, that Muslim …
