One more day to go and I’m off!
Just wanted to request that you please make dua for me and my father - that we can complete our hajj successfully, free of complications, and that it may be accepted as hajj mabroor.
Yes, I’m nervous. But more of a nerve-tingling excitement induced nervousness. I’ve been preparing, but [...]

The ‘Jones’ is Sherry Jones btw, author of the book The Jewel of Madina.
I’m not writing to deliberate on Russell Brand or Jonathan Ross.
Erm… Okay let me just say a few words about Brand then. I really hate Brand.  Ughhh, I mean can those trousers get any tighter? The worst I can esteem him with [...]

I recently signed up to Stratfor ($99 offer). I’ve become a bit of a ‘financial crisis’ junkie, partly because following the news and events on such an issue is a little like missing an episode of a serialised cop/crime drama - miss an episode, and you miss out. There are also few out there that [...]

One of our contributors has been moonlighting elsewhere, tut tut.
The extraordinary demise of two the largest investment banks in the world, the nationalisation of insurer AIG and the shotgun marriage of HBOS and Lloyds TSB, in all has brought the number of banks and lenders that have fallen victim to the sub-prime crash to a [...]

Allahumma ‘j’alhu barran taqiyyaw wa ambit-hu fii ‘l-Islaami nabaatan Hasanan
O Allah, make him obedient and God fearing, and give him an excellent upbringing in Islam
Contributor to this blog, Brother Ande ka phanda’s (obviously not his real name) wife today at 1 AM has given birth to a healthy baby boy!
What wonderful news and in such [...]

Ramadhan Mubarak!!
Excellent weekend article by Naomi Wolf to be found in The Sydney Morning Herald (obviously an Aussie paper).
If anybody wishes to buy me something for ‘Eid, and wishes to see their brother childishly giggling with happiness, then yes, I would like one of Naomi Wolf’s books.
Ok, well, don’t all rush at once. Here is [...]