Stranger Thoughts // أفكار غريبة

• Death Arrives Unannounced

  THE BITTER (or) SWEET TASTE OF DEATH The Prophet ﷺ told us: لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ سَنَامٌ “Everything has its pinnacle” but what is the pinnacle of our lives? For the righteous believer, it is death itself; the summit of a life lived with purpose, where every… Read more

• Is Belief Bad for Business? The Struggles of Muslims in the Modern Workplace

  A Stranger in the Crowd A few weeks ago I was at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, a place where crowds have regularly gathered for the past 200 years to watch people debate and preach, and that day was no different, as there was a… Read more

• Now or Never – Breaking Down the ‘Anti-Hijrah’ Rhetoric

  As I lay in bed scrolling through twitter, I came across a clip from an Ilmfeed podcast with a ‘mufti’ and his daughter discussing the topic of Hijrah which is the Islamic concept of migration from the lands of Kufr to the lands of Islām,… Read more

• Contemplating Knowledge and Faith through Caetani’s ‘Annali dell’Islam’

  Judging books by their covers Within Chatsworth House there exists a repository of books that would make a collector burn with envy, and prompt an avid reader to think; ‘what a waste’. I found myself among the latter as I wandered through an ocean of… Read more

Stranger Thoughts // أفكار غريبة