Q. As Muslims, what should our stance be on racism or racial discrimination, and should we be supporting social justice movements like Black Lives Matter (BLM)? And isn’t all...
From the outset, the Qur’an establishes a link between worshipping Allah and knowing Him. The first half of the ‘Opening Chapter’ of the Qur’an, Surat al-Fatihah,...
Allah ﷻ informs in the Holy Qur’an: Made beautiful for mankind is the love of desires for women and offspring, of hoarded heaps of gold and silver,...
How do we distinguish a scholar from a da‘i, motivational speaker or ‘knowledgeable brother or sister’? What are the proper qualifications for true scholarship? How serious a sin is giving fatwas and religious rulings without...
Is Islam (the religion and way of life the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ came with) the only path to God? Does the Qur’an extend the validity of religions beyond...
Sh Abu Aaliyah Surkheel charted the rise of Islam’s first heterodox sect, the Khawarij, in the first segment of this series. The Khawarij are those who were described...
As ISIS continues its murder and violence across the provinces it controls and seeks to control, and as it continues to plague the conscience of the...
This was originally posted on www.islamicate.co.uk and re-posted on the Humble I One of the enormous achievements of our Prophet is that in less than twenty years he managed to...
In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien puts these words into the mouth of the brave though modest Faramir (younger brother to the brave but impulsive Boromir): ‘War...
By: Abu Aaliyah (Surkheel Sharif) Without doubt, the greatest trait to nurture in our worship of God and in our journey to Him is hudur al-qalb – “presence of...
