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muslim

  • Decolonising The Mind – A Tariq Ramadan Lecture

    A couple of weeks ago, I attended a Tariq Ramadan lecture on the ‘Deconolisation of the Mind’. I found the lecture to be incredibly inspiring – Ramadan is most definitely groundbreaking…

  • Parables of the Qur’an

    وَلَقَدْ ضَرَبْنَا لِلنَّاسِ فِى هَـذَا الْقُرْءَانِ مِن كُلِّ مَثَلٍ “…And indeed we have set forth for mankind, in this Qur’an every kind of parable…” (Qur’an 30:58) The Qur’an is essentially a…

  • The Importance of the ‘Middle Path’

    “O Allah, guide us to the Straight Path” (Surah al-Fatiha: verse: 6) The entire Quran is an explanation of this verse. The essence of being a Muslim is to follow the…

  • The Spiritual Purification of the Heart

    Beginning the current month on a wishful spiritual-high after attending Ustad AbdelRahman Murphy’s enlightening HeartWork Tour. As the tour title suggests, the focus of the talk was on the miraculous nature…

  • Islamic Schools in India attract Hindu students

    Clad in white and blue salwar kameez (traditional Indian dress) and translating an Arabic verse from her Islamic studies textbook into Bengali, 15-year-old Puja Kshetrapal could pass for a Muslim. But…