Okay, so this is more than two months late. But better late than never There are many excellent books out there for Hajj. For starters check out Al-Rashad press, and make sure you buy the invaluable Performing Hajj DVD by Imam Tahir Anwar. Regardless of how much I prepared for Hajj,  when I was actually [...]

Before you jump to the pictures, please read this: I want to apologise for the earlier post I wrote about preparing for Hajj. I haven’t deleted or edited the post, mainly as a reminder to myself, but the tone of the post was totally wrong. Worrying about the state of the toilets or getting conned [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]