Of Wolves and Caliphates (Part 1)
In the name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful When I was 8 years old I came across two interesting chapters in a school book. One chapter was about Muslims being brothers to each other. Muslims do not care for borders that divide the Muslim world and it does not matter where a Muslim is from. This was a fascinating idea for me. The child in me began to dream of the amazing connection a person can have with so many other people all over the world. The chapter ended with the emphasis that the current sociopolitical order of borders and divisions within the Muslim world was wrong. It ended...
Read MoreUsing Names
In the name of Allah most Gracious, most Merciful Khutbah Hajjah I would like to discuss two issues today that have come up more than once after my Jummah khutbaat. 1. The issue of using names of criminals and stating their crimes.Brothers we are all humans and we make mistakes and sin deliberately. None of us here is an Angel or a Prophet to be masoom of any wrong doing. We also know that when we see a fault in each other we correct them and infact hide their faults. However there is an exception to this rule. This has to do with sinning openly. So when someone is driving while intoxicated,...
Read MoreThe Impending Attack on Syrian Chemical Weapon Sites
The US and UK are about to attack Syria. By now we have all heard that America wants to do something about the Syrian situation. There are a few points to keep in mind about the whole situation. 1. America does not care about Muslims dying in Syria. If anything their logic so far has been beyond sane human understanding. It goes something like this. To Bashar Al Assad they have said: You can kill as many people as you want, but you cannot use Chemical Weapons to kill them. That would be a red line. Regardless, the Syrian Army has crossed this line before. This time however, social media has...
Read MoreOur Scholars
It is with great sadness we read about Imam Halawa’s children being detained by the Egyptian police. We pray for their quick release. May Allah keep them safe. A few points can be made in context of these arrests. Our Shayookh should now realize that the most severe difficulty and problem facing the Ummah is not their ignorance of how to pray, doing ablution or fiqh issues of fasting in Ramadhan. Think of the hearts of those Muslims who for decades have had their loved ones kidnapped, arrested, imprisoned, tortured, raped and even killed by the very state agencies that are meant to...
Read MoreFreedom of Speech and Irish Newspapers
The call for Islam continues to grow across the Muslim world and in particular the desire by many for a return of the Caliphate. As we watch the current bloodshed by American backed General Sisi and his supporters in Egypt, we are also seeing an interesting pattern in the world of news reporting. This pattern is called “Censorship”. Anything and everything to do with the Islamic Caliphate is actively being censored. At the time of the Prophet saw, the Kuffar employed similar techniques. Initially they tried to match the message of Islam with their own mythological tales. Once...
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