Perhaps I am unjust to the learned sage and the activists that support him. He protests his innocence of crimes defined by secular law. That is his sole concern; nothing more. Perhaps that accounts for this supporters’ silence too: to defend his innocence in the face of secular laws alone, and remain silent on moral matters …
Ajmal Masroor’s response to suggestions that the man who attacked the muezzin at London Central Mosque on Thursday afternoon was a Muslim convert who had been praying in congregation and attending lessons there for months, was that he was a man pretending to be a Muslim. In his mind, the perpetrator had been planning to …
Dear activists, don’t be so quick to gloat about the right wing racist terrorist who tried to stab the imam, but stabbed the muazzin instead, in a London mosque today. He looks kind of Muslamic to me, sporting a convert-chic ginger beard. Yes, he could be a right wing racist. Equally he could be a …
If you are to believe the activists who have successfully merged politics and religion, and call it dawah, you have a choice. If your affinity is in one sphere, to be pro-Muslim — that is, to side with Qatar, Turkey, Palestine, Pakistan and Malaysia in world affairs — and stand against the anti-Muslim agenda of …
Indeed, We have revealed to you the Book in truth so you may judge between the people by that which God has shown you. And do not be for the deceitful an advocate. And seek forgiveness of God. Indeed, God is ever Forgiving and Merciful. And do not argue on behalf of those who deceive …
The file is not empty; only you say it is. Nor the scale. If you were entrapped, it is because you were a willing participant. We were not wronged, but we wronged ourselves.
For the noble sheikh that supports you, it is more of a sin that a woman removed her hijab and considered it freedom, than a learned man engaging in adultery with her. The hardline sheikh — once heard uttering harsh condemnation of those that listen to music for enabling a culture of permissiveness and liberalism …
I’m not much impressed by the imams of social media, taking selfies, perpetually manicuring their public image. In the past I counted some of them amongst my friends, but I grew weary of their vanity. Give us a funny avatar instead, or a self-deprecating bio. Fall silent for a week or a month or a …
As I wander in and out of Muslims spaces, one thing bothers me: our eternal obsession with personalities, at the expense of a true relationship with our Lord, the Creator of all things. I don’t deny it: some people are great, and some truly extraordinary people deserve our attention and time. Still, however great some …
At work we’re being encouraged to take part in the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire, in an effort to lay the ground work for better team working. I never know whether this is a form of quackery, like Scientology or Landmark, but since it came from the top, I agreed and spent a few minutes responding …
This morning, a friend sent me an extremely harrowing video via WhatsApp, which appeared to show Chinese police systematically shooting dead victims of Coronavirus COVID19. A copy of this very upsetting video can also be found on YouTube here and here (discretion advised). Of course, me being me — having spent my early years as …
When called to account for their own actions, or those of their companions, suddenly Islam’s foremost advocates are secularists, protesting: “Nought but moral issues!” And there we see their activism for what it is.
Deal with him, comes the command from the top, and soon the trolls and hackers will come marching, determined to silence the insignificant writer nobody reads who speaks his mind too freely. Yes, I have seen the inbound traffic, causing that sudden spike, the flatline zero to one daily visitors suddenly shooting skyward. To battle …
Even more brazen than ever before, our fallen idol now likens himself to Malcolm X, brought low and undermined by his enemies. No humility here. When it was his groupies projecting this fantasy onto him, at least he could say: the delusional fanaticism of insecure admirers, taking things too far. But now he is master …
