SubhanAllah, so often we take decisions on the spur of the moment, we take the risk thinking that we’re intelligent enough to outweigh all the risks, then we think “˜damn’ - as the result of that decision comes crashing back down on us. Fortunately, there are some results that can be fixed, but dangerously, there [...]

Last Friday, the Singaporean government decided to go ahead with the hanging of 25-year-old Australian drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4490754.stm.
The Australian people and government were outraged by it. Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock described the punishment as being “barbaric”. Australian PM John Howard made five personal pleas to the Singaporean leadership. Such statements and actions are [...]

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, [...]

I’m sure by now most of you have probably seen the bizarre video of naked Royal Marines fighting each other, apparently as an initiation ceremony for joining the 42 Commando’s Regiment. If you watch the news, you can’t miss it since they’re still repeatedly replaying it. Go here, here and here for more details.
I met [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been in formal education for years… 21 years at last count (wow I’m getting old!) and I was beginning to think that maybe I’ve had enough of all this studying lark. Actually it isn’t the study that bothers me because I quite like learning new stuff, its the constant exams.In American schools, the two [...]