The Humble I

In-Depth

A full list of issues on the blog that have been tackled in depth, or interrogated with some degree of thoroughness. [Updated: 20/3/2021]:

• Denying the Ahadith Concerning the Return of Jesus

• Humiliation of the Muslims: Causes & Cure

• The Hanbalis & Merry Christmas: To Greet or Not to Greet?

• Impediments to Suluk: Six Steps in the Devil’s Deception

• Muslim Fitnah-Makers & their Fascist Fiqh

• Rethinking Our Da‘wah in Post-Monotheistic Britain

• Is Din Private ‘Religion’ & Is Iman Blind ‘Faith’?

• British Muslims, Racism & Do Black Lives Matter?

• Kalam & the Hanbalis: Is It Really Relevant Today?

• Muslim Scholars Must Learn To Be Macro Thinkers

• Principles v. Practice: Questions on Modern Muslimness

• The Path of Knowing, Doing & Becoming

• Man, Universe & Macro Theology: Created in God’s Image

• Women & Mosques: Misogyny to Misrepresentation

• The Veiling of Islam and Modern Muslimness

• Reading Qur’an for the Deceased

• Seven Rights of the Prophet ﷺ

• Khawarij Ideology, ISIS Savagery: the Takfiri Origins

• Khawarij Ideology, ISIS Savagery: Caliphate & Jihad

• Khwaarij Ideology, ISIS Savagery: the Wahhabi Inspiration?

• Searching for the Spouse-To-Be

• Fussing Over the 15th of Sha’ban

• The Seventy-Three Sects: Is Most of the Ummah Deviant?

• Ijtihad, Taqlid & Madhhabs 1/2

• Ijtihad, Taqlid & Madhhabs 2/2

• The Prophet ﷺ & Salafi Love

• Rulers, Righteous Outrage & Rethinking Revolutions

• Black Holes, Stephen Hawking, Heaven & Hell

• Navigating the Husband, Wife & Mother-in-Law Matrix

• Beware Pseudo-Scholars & Half-Baked Knowledge

• A Perennial Problem: Is Islam the Only Valid Path to God?

• Justice, Equality & Feminism: the Quranic View

• Western Muslims: Prophetically-Inspired Voices of Dissent

• Signs of the End Of Times 1/2

• Signs of the End Of Times 2/2

• The Male Lust, the Female Form & the Forbidden Gaze

• Proofs for God’s Existence 1/2

• Proofs for God’s Existence 2/2

• Understanding Jihad, Martyrdom, War & Peace

• Concerning Functional Fatwas & Dysfunctional Muftis

• Does Science Point to God or Atheism?

• Joining Feet to Straighten Prayer-Rows: Is it Sunnah?

• Tawhid is Much More than Just a Theological Abstraction

• Political Violence & the End Days

• Reward for Muslim & Non-Muslim Doers of Good in the Afterlife

• Islam’s Rational Monotheism

• Knowing Qualified Scholars from Cowboy Speakers

• Scholars, Speakers & the Culture of Edu-Tainment

• Moonsighting: Unity or Lunacy?

• Beards, Hijabs & Body Language: Gender Relations

• Contemporary Challenges to Islam & Muslims: Atheism

• “We Only Follow the Qur’an & Sunnah.” Really?

• Zakat: Helping the Needy at Home or Just Abroad?

• Music in Islam: Should We Be Making a Song & Dance of It?

• Was the Universe Expecting Us?

• Times Will Get Worse Before They Get Better

• Dhikr Repetition: Is It Allowed?

• On Salafis, Ash‘aris & Fossilised Theologies

• Copycats: Imitating Non-Muslims & their Festivals

• Doctrine of the Divine Attributes

• The State Seeking to Domesticate Muslim Scholars

• Step-By-Step Guide to Hanbali Fiqh

• Terrorism is to Jihad As Adultery is to Marriage

• Takfir: Its Dangers & Rules

• Reason, Revelation, Religion: How They Fit Together

• The Greater Jihad: Is It Just A Myth?