Evolution, Prayer-Mats & Telescopes
“What is happiness? Do humans beings have a purpose? What is the meaning of life? Such questions are truly perennial; they have been asked for perhaps as long as human beings have been able to ask anything, and no doubt they will continue to be asked for just as long again.â€
We Need To Progress; But Where To? Part 2
What does it mean when some insist that ‘Islam needs to progress’ or that ‘it needs reforming’? What must it progress towards? How is progress to be measured? What needs reforming of Islam, and why? And who should take on the task of reformation?
We Need To Progress; But Where To?
Recently, I was surprised to learn that my name had been included in a launch publication which sets out a number of recommendations to combat terrorism. Released in an air of anticipated controversy, it listed a number of emerging progressive, British Muslim voices; of whom I was one. I wasn’t sure if I should feel concerned, bemused, privileged or bewildered by such an inclusion. Given I have no links with the ‘counter extremism think tank’ headed by two former ‘Islamists’ that published the paper,1 I’ve not yet understood what I’ve done to merit an inclusion. Truth be told, bemused or privileged I feel not; bewildered and concerned I most certainly am.
Issues and Concerns
The first in a series of papers tackling a variety of issues and concerns. It includes: does the 73 sects hadith imply most Muslims will go to Hell? Being distinct from non-Muslims in dress. Can parents oblige their son to divorce his wife? Reciting Qur’an for the dead. 40 day retreats.
More Fish Please!
In his book Happiness, Richard Layard argues that, “once subsistence income is guaranteed, making people happier is not easy.â€2 His central argument is that as Western societies have got richer, their citizens have not got any happier. In fact, all the indicators suggest that, despite the increase in living standards and material comforts, we are no happier today than we were fifty years ago.
The Immortal “Ifâ€: Musings on Rudyard Kipling’s Poem
Good poetry is, in a sense, timeless and immortal. This is not only because it is read by generation after generation of readers, but also because poems – unlike novels,
Tawhid: Asserting God’s Unity
Tawhid (or Tawheed), often referred to as the “key to paradise”, is the core of Islam. This article discusses what Tawhid truly means and implies. It also explores whether or
British Muslims & their Leadership
21 December, 2007
by Abu Aaliyah Integration and Interactions, Politics, Reflections & Responses 5 comments
John Donne, the seventeenth-century English poet and preacher, wrote in his Meditations: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part
What of Those Whom Islam Does Not Reach?
A translation of Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah’s answer to this question, which touches upon the following: Has Islam reached the entire humanity? Click here to read more
Jihad al-Nafs: The Greater Struggle
What are the dimensions of jihad? What is inner jihad? Ibn Rajab on inner jihad. One soul, three potentials? Click here to learn more…
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