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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 struggle and deed converges in a single, brief separation of…
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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 sizeable crowd present, most likely due to the good weather.…
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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, for the sake of Allah. I could tell almost instantly…
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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 books, struggling to see beyond the metal rods imprisoning them…
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Stranger Thoughts // أفكار غريبة 