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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Tablīghī Jamāʿat deserves our appreciation
In the history of Islam, Tablīghī Jamāʿat occupies a luminous and effective chapter that bears witness to sincerity, simplicity, and a deep connection with…
Knights of Knowledge and Literature
In an age in which libraries overflow with a multitude of publications, the book Fursān al-ʿIlm wa-l-Adab (Knights of Knowledge and Literature) by the…
The Solitude of the Wise
In the journey of life, there emerge among people certain individuals who appear to walk a different path. They do not speak excessively, are…
A Word on Human Grief
I never imagined that I would find myself writing, at a time when humanity boasts of its advancement, about a city being annihilated in…
Tarīqah-yi Pṛhnē kā (The Method of Reading)
Reading is among the most vital means for the development of human consciousness, the awakening of intellectual insight, and the refinement of spiritual culture.…
Karak Chai
Some years ago, on one of the nights of ʿUmrah, my dear companion Zayd and I were taken, after ʿIshāʾ prayer, by Shaykh ʿAbd…
A New Synthesis
When the rare heavens willed to adorn the pages of history with fresh colours, the grandeur of the house of Tīmūr—which for centuries had…
Two Educational Gatherings in London
Arrival in East London I travelled to East London with my family, accompanied by my daughter Maryam and her children Sufyān and Amīrah. In…
A Letter: The Story of My Student Days at Nadwah
My dear one, You asked a simple question—yet it opened the sealed chambers of my heart like the sudden arrival of spring on a…
O Son of Nothingness!
O son of nothingness! O you who were brought into being when once you were not even a thing to be mentioned! Death shall…
“Al-Rāʾid” (1981–1983): An Analytical and Intellectual Study
From the years 1981 to 1983, a careful reading of al-Rāʾid, the Arabic journal of Dār al-ʿUlūm Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ in Lucknow, reveals a vibrant…
School of Thought Never Let Me Go
It is with some difficulty that I attempt to express what lies within my heart. My thoughts, observations, and experiences are of the kind…