A Believer and a Disbeliever Are Not Equal
According to Islamic teachings, the true criterion for human rank is faith (īmān). Lineage, colour, language, culture, sect, disposition, social service, or merely moral…
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Who Is Free from Disbelief (Kufr)?
A position for an imam became vacant at a mosque here in England, so the mosque trustees engaged one of our friends to serve. For some time he led the prayers, taught the children, and delivered talks. When the mosque’s governing council became satisfied with his abilities, they asked him…
Reminder: Create another world
Wherever you cast your gaze, you behold rampant evil and blazing corruption; wherever you alight or journey on, trials receive you in succession like…
Reminder: Speech is headache itself
Indeed, speech, even when it adorns itself in the garb of intimate supplication and veils itself behind a curtain of secrecy, is headache itself,…
Reminder: How Admirable Is Shibli’s Intellect, and How Admirable His Prose!
I said: How admirable is Shibli’s intellect, and how admirable his prose! They asked me: Why do you praise Shibli’s mind and extol it…
Reminder: A nation that cannot tell earthenware from pearls
We are a nation that cannot distinguish earthenware from pearls, nor clay from ruby; that does not discern between the sorcery of magicians and…
What Have the Muslims Lost Through Their Decline?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The question of decline has constituted one of the most intricate and urgent inquiries in modern Islamic consciousness. It is…
Reminder: Islam does not suit you, o you enamoured of comfort!
O you who are infatuated with comfort! O you who prefer safety above all, who delight in food and are devoted to drink, living…
Reminder: My darkness came from my purity
I am deeply enamoured of myself, profoundly deluded by her; I behold her in my eyes raised above her true measure, and I clothe…
The First Ramadan in Oxford
Ramadan in Oxford brings with it a peculiar atmosphere. This city breathes within an ancient scholarly air: the old university buildings that seem to…
Reminder: Refrain from sin
Refrain from sin, for sin diminishes your rank before your Lord, clouds the purity of your heart, and steals the radiance from your face.…