You wake up to two text messages. The first says, “My beloved father has passed away”, and the second says, “We’ve had a beautiful baby girl!” Sadness, tears, send condolences. That’s then followed by joy, smiles, send congratulations. Close the phone. You go to the Masjid. The Imam asks everyone…
I feel reluctant to be talking about fiqh and adab and sensitivity issues when we have such a tragic backdrop of the deaths of hundreds of thousands on land and sea fleeing from al-Assad and the Syrian Regime. Our thoughts should be focused on overcoming the pain of the graphic photos and…
That’s a rhetorical question by the way before all of you start saying yes, because I can’t write poetry for toffee. I mean, sure, I like to mess about with fun poetry along the lines of “Roses are red, violets are blue, I don’t have a clue what to add…
And as we know from before, Tina Turner put it even more bluntly in the next line of her hit song, “What’s love but a second-hand emotion?” You have to give it to song-writers: they really do express the truth sometimes in remarkably effective fashion. The issues of love, prospective…
Once Ramaḍān ends, our empathy for the poor whilst fasting throughout the blessed month still continues with hopefully a new habit of giving charity regularly. The first stage of this is something which is given just before the ‘Eed Prayer itself called Zakāt’l-Fiṭr which could almost literally be translated as…
For a Nation that was commanded “Read!” before anything else, it is disappointing to see a certain reluctance for the Muslim masses not only to read more in the general sense (and even those that do read can’t get past a few paragraphs without a good old whinge), but one also notices a…
