Rays from the same lamp, needed now more than ever. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall …
Let’s face it: we’re on our own. Our managers are barely keeping it together, battling their own problems at work and at home. We permanently have that key colleague on longterm sick leave, who may or may not return, whose work is simply dished out sideways. Those that remain, though burnt out and fed up, …
Why do you feel compelled to lie so much? Can your cause not be supported simply by telling the truth? If you have to make things up just to move forward, what is it worth? Is that truly a cause worth fighting for?
The reality is that we will never understand the mentality of warlords and the disturbing games warmongers play in pursuit of power and control. Theirs is a world we simply cannot comprehend.
I was invited this week to make a speech at an event in town regarding the ongoing conflict in the Levant. I declined, however, on the grounds that I am not a speaker, my voice generally too soft to have any impact on others. But that was a convenient excuse more than anything. The real …
What better way to commemorate Remembrance Day than protesting against war? After all, that war remembered was meant to be the war to end all wars. What better way to honour the twenty-million killed in those battles a century ago than to petition for peace today? It would be disrespectful not to.
And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and a garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous. Those who donate during ease and hardship and who restrain anger and who pardon the people — and God loves the doers of good. Quran 3:133-4
We talk about the great faith and resilience of the Palestinian people in the face of the greatest of calamities. What we don’t talk about is shock and trauma. What to the outside observer may seem like unwavering taqwa may to those afflicted by unmatched upheaval be a numb shell shock. In the language of …
Everywhere we go, there is a crisis of leadership. Internationally, nationally, locally. In the community, at work, at school, at home. Is anyone at all fit to lead?
The moment you take up the path, demand our activists, you must embrace their cause célèbre. Otherwise, you’re not one of them. But actually it’s not like that at all, for you didn’t jump aboard the caravan because of them. Remember the road that led you here, and what you were seeking. Don’t be sidetracked …
May it be sadaqa to others in our absence.
Even if you can’t bring yourself to call the actions of the so-called resistance morally repugnant, surely you can condemn their tactics. For every single time they launch an attack on the civilians of their enemy, the enemy responds by flattening whole neighbourhoods, wiping out entire families. If you can’t bring yourself to accept that …
The right wing say it is a battle of good against evil. No, it is a battle of evil against evil. In this battle, the good are only casualties. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
