Women Scholars
Even though, for most people, the single most important and useful thing they do in the world is to raise a family — to…
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Belief
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…
Formation of thoughts
Thoughts are formed independently of reason and before they are articulated in some form of language. Thoughts arise out of empathy of fellow feeling…
Some notes on Surat al-Shu`ara’
This surah addresses theintense anxiety that God’s Messenger, ﷺ, suffered on account of the kinds of negative response that he got when he conveyed…
Informal notes for a tafsir class on Surat al-Muddaththir
In my lecture I will go through the surah in detail. In these notes I take the opportunity to reflect, still in relation to…
Surrogate motherhood
Your question: Since the surrogate mother is being injected not with sperm, but a fertilized egg. I’m having difficulty understanding the basis of necessitating…
Surat al-Mursalat
This surah alerts us to the very evident reality that life in this world subsists within a beneficent arrangement that has been put in…
Surat al-Jinn
When someone behaves in a way that shows that they are not in control of their will, that they cannot sense what is harmful…
Surat al-Nazi`at
In the opening line, the words are related to the verb naza`a, meaning to drag away or strip out forcibly. Other common words in…
A Meeting with Maulana Muhammad Tariq Jameel
Translated by Syed Huzaifah Ali Nadwi, Cambridge On Sunday, July 29th 2018, I had the chance to meet the very well-known speaker Maulana Muhammad…
Children,s Drawing
In my judgement, Muslims should not be presenting the Qur’an to children in a form designed to compete with modern secular books for children.…