Abdul gives a rundown of the contemporary Muslim Zeitgeist, the various challenges and ills facing us, and what can be done as a start to counter it. Our current Muslim diaspora has monumental challenges barring the development of communal success, from community leaders making odd statements of neutrality towards obvious haram, to imams being disempowered…
Allah said, “Descend as enemies to each other. You will find in the earth a residence and provision for your appointed stay.” Quran (7:24) Nietzsche argued if there is no God then morality does not exist, and humans “make” their own morality. This creation of individualistic morality is fairly evident in the modern Western world.…
From Ibad, a striking and pertinent essay on what the characteristics of the one who struggles for God’s sake looks in the modern day, through Jungian archetypes. Struggle is an intrinsic part of the human experience. Mankind’s history is replete with tales of struggle by men against forces much greater than themselves. The man struggles…
Chinese sweatshop trinkets won’t make you happy or lead you to paradise, says CHARLEMAGNE:
Can the centralized model (hitherto referred to as The Madinah Model) of Islamic community organization be copied and pasted as a Dawah strategy for Muslims in the West in the 21st Century? Robert makes the case for why it’s not that simple:
An impassioned journey home, one year after Afghanistan’s liberation from two decades of U.S. State Department Pantsuit Occupation, told by BASIL