Longing for a leader like ʿUmar (raḍiy Allāhu ʿanhu)
Longing for a Leader like ‘Umar On one particular Friday the Khatīb, as usual, spoke of the calamity in Syria. He did not deliver anything new per say, nor did he decorate his sermon with touching...
View ArticleShaikh Haitham on the 2015 elections
In the name of Allāh; all praise belongs to Allāh; may His peace, salutations and blessings be upon His final Messenger, Muḥammad (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam). Many Muslim leaders call for political...
View ArticleTakfīr Is Not Your Job
Deliberation before Condemnation – Part 4 Part 1 | 2 | 3 Imām Ibnu Taymiyyah said, هَذَا مَعَ أَنِّي دَائِمًا وَمَنْ جَالَسَنِي يَعْلَمُ ذَلِكَ مِنِّي: أَنِّي مِنْ أَعْظَمِ النَّاسِ نَهْيًا عَنْ أَنْ...
View ArticleWhy Muslims Support Erdogan – Sh Haitham al-Haddad
Shaikh Dr Haitham al-Haddad talks about the Islamic legitimacy of the leadership of Turkey’s President Erdogan, the problem with military coups, a brief recent history of Turkey, and why he believes...
View ArticleThe Story of the Ummah’s Struggles. In Tweets
Concise principles to understand the crises the Ummah is going throughIf we understand the role that Allāh سبحانه وتعالى has created for the Ummah of Muhammad (sallAllāhu ‘alayhi wasallam), it will...
View ArticleExploiting Female Islamic Scholars
I have always found it fascinating to read the various pity pieces about Muslim women; how we need saving from hairy chest-and-women-beating Muslim men; how our hijabs should be ripped off by the...
View ArticleLessons Learnt as a New Imam
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Having been blessed and honoured to take on the role of an Imām, I have learnt and been taught first-hand many new things that will neither be taught nor mentioned in books. For...
View ArticleFinding Your Human Potential
Everyone reading this right now is alive, but how many of us are truly living? Let us begin by observing the world around us and recognising that the laws of the universe dictate that everything is...
View ArticleHow the Prophet ﷺ made leaders out of broken people
When Muḥammad (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) became the last Prophet, most of the people amongst him were crippled and subdued due to the situation of the time. But it is these people that went on to...
View ArticleWhat I learnt from Arsene Wenger
“Wisdom is the lost property of a believer; wherever he finds it he is most worthy of it.”[1] These words, although somewhat weakly attributed to the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam), give a...
View ArticleUnscripted #7 | Turning down the Prime Minister!
In this episode, Umer and Salman talk about the Tory leadership race, the Myriad Foundation turning down Theresa May’s invite for an “Eid Party”, and a unique event raising awareness about autism in...
View ArticleUnscripted #14 | Understanding Kashmir with Adnan Rashid
Join us this week on our Unscripted podcast with Adnan Rashid. They give a much needed background to the current Kashmir crisis, Hindu extremism, the importance of learning our history and preparing...
View ArticleAdvice to Youth in the Public Eye
With the rise of social media it is easier than ever to become an overnight sensation and to have crowds of people following you and imitating your ideas and actions. This poses a particular challenge...
View ArticleCrisis of Social Media & Muslim Leadership
For the past few years, there has been an ongoing crisis – a crisis that has rooted itself in various facets of our community. This crisis has more recently been amplified by social media. It is a...
View ArticleThe Ingredients To Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Success
As the dust settles on the retirement of the most dominant athlete to ever set foot into the mixed martial arts arena, we look back at the career of the impregnable Khabib Nurmagomedov and analyse the...
View ArticleNurturing The Men Around Us
Part 1 | Part 2 In a previous article, I wrote about the importance of appreciating the men around us. In this article, I want to explore some aspects of helping boys become men, as well as supporting...
View ArticleHow to Achieve Goals: A Sacred Truth From the Qur’an
We continue our new Ramadan series by our Tarbiyah Editor Sh Ali Hammuda, called ‘Sacred Truths’.This article and video series will take you on a journey of universal principles from the Qur’an...
View ArticleA Preparation For Leadership
There is a particular prophet to whom the Qur’an has given a noticeable amount of attention. His name is repeated more than any other prophet: around 183 times across 25 different contexts. Not only...
View ArticleHow should Muslims react to the election of Humza Yousaf as Scotland’s First...
CLARIFICATION – How to read this advice Some well-wishers have alerted us to some slander and innuendo that may have been circulating concerning the intent of the author and this article. As such we...
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Why the Muslims lost the mandate to rule
For a people whose very name means “those who submit”, the Muslims have gone through history doing anything but. We were the ruling class of the East and the West — as foretold by the Prophet ﷺ — and...
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