While righteous anger when the Prophet ﷺ is mocked or insulted is integral to faith, we Muslims need to invest greater efforts into adhering to the actual obligations and duties instated by faith - be it in our acts or worship; our ethics and behaviour; our relationships; or our social contracts and transactions. The Prophet ﷺ said: 'All my followers…
The World Gets Topsy-Turvier: Signs of the End Days [2/2]
One of the main themes that runs through hadiths about the End Days is how good will be considered as being bad; and visa versa, how trustworthiness and honesty shall disappear, how the worthless will be raised to positions of rank and respect, and how there will be an increase in disobedience and widespread violation of rights (kathrat al-‘uquq…
British Muslims & their Strategies for Living in the UK
In H.G. Wells’ The Sleeper Awakes, Graham, a troubled insomniac in 1890s England, falls into a sleep-like trance that he does not awake from for over two hundred years. When he finally does come out of his slumber, he awakens to a world with wondrous technological trappings, yet staggering social injustice and growing unrest. Horrified…
Takfir: Its Dangers & Rules
Takfir - accusing a fellow Muslim of apostasy; of having left the fold of Islam and being a disbeliever (kafir) - is indeed a grave affair in Islam. It is a fitnah, or "sedition," whose flames were historically put out by the defeat of the Kharijites (khawarij), only to be set alight again in our times, on a global scale,…