Assalamu ‘alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
This isn’t really news, it’s a bit more like stating the obvious!
No doubt you will already have noticed that this blog has been on intensive care life support for a while. I’m not even entirely convinced that we could call it intensive care, perhaps stale bread and water is a [...]

He admitted that he hadn’t told anyone else – family or friends – about how he was feeling. I think this was the reason I kept calling him despite his apparent happiness. On some level I’d recognised the subtle signs of the same act that I’d been playing for years.

I had learnt the meaning of spirit. For many people, a “spiritual” environment involves the warm glow of candles, the exotic scent of incense, the sound of a flute, stillness… For some, these things are almost a requirement for meditation. Indeed an industry has developed around this idea.

And of mankind are some who take (for worship) others besides Allah as rivals (to Allah). They love them as they love Allah. But those who believe, love Allah more (than anything else).

The Noble Qur’an: Surah 2, Ayah 165

We are all thoroughly lucky that committing shirk ul-akbar isn’t a guaranteed way to become non-Muslim. However, [...]

We have just had an (anonymous) comment left on one of the posts. It had a couple of points that I agree with and perhaps some clarification is in order:

@ 5:14 PM Anonymous said…
Is this website serious, whats the purpose of this blog. Do you want some one to share your meaningless life experiences [...]

Alhamdulillah, a sister in Canada wrote recently on her blog asking about Machiavelli
November 16, 2005
Are Politicians Bound by Morality?
In The Prince, Machiavelli seems to suggest that a leader can override the constraints of morality for the sake of political interests. Troubling though it may seem, his book raises the question of whether one can uphold [...]