The first video of one of my speaking events during my 2019 Winter lecture tour to Canada is now online alhamdulillah. The event, filmed on 28th January 2019, at Al Noor Masjid, in St.Catherines, Ontario, Canada, featured a presentation on… Read More ›
Revival Thought (Al Nahda)
VIDEO: The Usuliyyoon of Western Civilisation -introduction and course summary
In anticipation of the coming 10-week course by The Quran Institute, “The Usuliyyoon of Western Civilisation”, starting 11th January 2019, a “trailer” video and a course summary video have been produced and are viewable below. Full full details about registration… Read More ›
IS IT WRONG FOR MUSLIMS TO STUDY WESTERN CIVILISATION?
Recently The Quran Institute [TQI] begun enrolment for a course studying an objective overview of Western Civilisation, its philosophy and influential thinkers. Many Muslims were quite interested in this course, and it is surely a pioneering project that not many… Read More ›
How The Battle of Ain Jaloot wasn’t what ultimately stopped the Muslim world falling to the Mongols: A tale of how Allah helps those who help themselves
Now in the today’s world, many Muslims have developed a warped understanding of Islam that resembles a kind of fatalism. They believe that there’s no point doing actions for good because Allah (SWT) will achieve things for them (or against… Read More ›
Imam Ghazali’s Movement for the Unification of the Ummah & Caliphate – A reply to ‘Mufti Abu Layth’ and secularists
I recently addressed a particular detractor of the Islamic obligation for Muslims to be politically united under a Caliphate. ‘Mufti Abu Layth’ [or ‘MAL’ for brevity] preaches that belief in the Caliphate is a ‘cancerous ideology’, an ‘erroneous view’, and… Read More ›
Imam Ghazali’s Obligation of Caliphate: A Response to ‘Mufti Abu Layth’
It was drawn to my attention that a critic has made some contentious remarks about a previous post of mine, where I copied out a large tract of text by the eminent Imam Ghazali from the section ‘On Showing that appointing… Read More ›
‘IT CANNOT BE DENIED THAT APPOINTING AN IMAM [CALIPH] IS OBLIGATORY’ [IMAM GHAZALI]
Imam Ghazali and why the Imamah/Caliphate is an Obligation upon all Muslims My last post [1] critiquing the arguments of those who express rancour against the Islamic concept of a Caliphate (Khilafah) has, predictably, faced some critique of its own…. Read More ›
Why Do Some People from Muslim Backgrounds Hate the Islamic Belief of the Necessity of a Caliphate (Khilafah)?
A tale of mental Colonialism and being ashamed of Islam Many people who convert/revert to Islam are awe struck and amazed with the profound idea at the core of Islam, that mankind’s place in the universe is part of a… Read More ›
The Secularisation of Ehsan (Islamic Excellence)
Ehsan, is the Islamic concept of doing good, and additionally, attaining excellence in the good, both in belief and action. The word can also be used to emphasise sincerity (earnest and seriousness to achieve good in an action), and doing… Read More ›