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With Allah, Letter No. 4

The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Whoever blesses me once, Allah blesses ten times over” (Sahih Muslim, 1.306 (408). S). What is the result? Allah tells us the answer in verse 33.43 of Surat al-Ahzab: “It is He who blesses you, and His angels, to bring you forth from the depths of darknesses into perfect light; And verily He was ever all-compassionate to believers.” This is a mighty blessing and priceless piece of knowledge, for most of the miseries in our hearts come from real or imagined darknesses,

Blue Plaques of Muslim London

By Isla Rosser-Owen The Blue Plaques Scheme was started in 1867 by the Royal Society of Arts, upon…

A Perspective on the Pandemic

ven the atheist brain knows ours for a time of hubris: we madly ravage and violate nature and walk upon the moon; every other species cringes from us as ecosystems die; our gamed financial system is increasingly parasitical upon the poor. From our human perspective Covid-19 is an infection which disorders our world; but seen from the world’s perspective humanity itself has, over the past age, become a still more deadly disease: like a fungus or a hookworm we suck the blood of the host, multiplying insanely until the ecosystem itself, the planet which we vampirize, starts to sicken and die. Bani Adam, released from the natural restraints urged by religion, has itself become a disease, in its planning and its wisdom no more intelligent than a microbe. We have become a Qarun-virus.

The Law of Repentance

Being a translation of Qanun al-Tawba, from Abu al-Mawahib al-Tunisi al-Shadhili’s Qawanin hikm al-Ishraq ila kafat al-Sufiyya bi-jami’ al-afaq

Video: Muslims and Literature

Mas’ud interviews teacher, author, writer, poet Novid Shaid on his work, influences and the importance of literature.  

Audio: Donald Trump and the Triumph of Islam

Oriental Encounters

The circumstances which gave birth to Pickthall’s travelogue Oriental Encounters are described in the Introduction below. His manservant…

Audio: Donald Trump and the Triumph of Islam

Transcript of interview of Abdal Hakim Murad by Dr Enes Karic

Published in Ljliljan, a Bosnian-language newspaper. Enes Karic [EK]: Can I start by asking about your belief that…

Sufferings Necessary for Success: A sermon preached by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

‘Or do you calculate that you will enter Paradise when there has not come to you the like…

Plovdiv: Granada of the East

When the Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi passed through the Balkan city of Plovdiv in 1650, he pulled out all the organ stops of Ottoman panegyric to describe this ‘mighty city.’ He counted fifty-three mosques, seventy Qur’anic schools, nine madrasas, seven colleges for advanced Qur’anic recitation, eight public baths, and eleven Sufi lodges

A Masterpiece of Punjabi Poetry in Praise of the Prophet

Transliterated and translated from the Punjabi with notes by Asif Jehangir Naqshbandi Introduction This Punjabi poem in praise…