Who Is Free from Disbelief (Kufr)?
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The Educational Institution Where the Questioner Is Hunted
The relationship between education and questioning is much like that between a lamp and its light. If a lamp exists but gives no light,…
Guidance for Muslims living as minorities
An academic recently asked me to reflect on the situation of Muslims who live as minorities and are exposed to systemic injustices, marginalization, and,…
Faith, Family & the Future: Navigating Chaos with Purpose
The religion of Islam is not merely a set of rituals but a comprehensive way of life that prepares the believer for the Last…
Women’s Travel: a balanced perspective on freedom and safety
The faculty of discerning between what is righteous and what is reprehensible has been bestowed equally upon both men and women. This moral faculty…
How to benefit from the Qur’an
Today I will be talking about different aspects of how we, as believers, can get from the Qur’an the benefit that, by the grace…
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Balancing Confidence and Humility in Serving the Dīn
A student’s questions My student, a sincere seeker of knowledge and dedicated teacher, Nilofer Ahmadi, wrote to me: Assalāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatullāhi wa barakātuh,…
Who Are You?
You say that with but a single gesture of yours lamps are extinguished, lanterns go dark, stars hide themselves, the moon vanishes into eclipse,…
Cold is Cold and Heat is Heat
The history of humankind is such that in every age of reason we have invented chains of the scaffold and the gallows. From the…
The Origin of “Kāhil”
Professor Mushīr Ṣāḥib, of Lucknow University (may God preserve him), wrote the following query: al-salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmat Allāhi wa barakātuh. I hope that…
Pay Attention to Ninety-Nine Percent of Muslims
Many of my students are active in the fields of teaching and daʿwah among Muslims. Their efforts are bearing fruit, but they have also…
Journey to America (56)
We prayed Fajr in the mosque of Zaytuna College, perched high upon a lofty hill whose summit greets the first breaths of the morning…
Women’s Education
Among the many problems confronting Muslims today, one of the most critical is the question of “the status of women in Islam.” Serious effort…
The Golden Age of Letter Writing: Faint Memories of a Lost Civilisation
“I called you, but you did not pick up.” “I sent you a WhatsApp message, but you did not think it proper to reply.”…
The Important Duty of the Time
In 1912, news spread that some Muslims of Shahjahanpur had apostatised. At that time, ʿAllāmah Shiblī was gravely ill. Upon hearing this news, he…
You are the Proof
All praise is due to You that we have known You. It is by Your favour alone that we have recognised You. How did…
We Do Not Know Laylā
The story of Laylā and Majnūn has, since ancient times, been recognised in Eastern literature as a celebrated and authoritative tale of love. For…
Religion, Opinion and Madhhab
Islam is not merely a religious system or a set of rituals and acts of worship. Rather, it is an all-encompassing, divinely revealed way…