“Nor should the Believers all go forth together: if a contingent from every expedition remained behind, they could devote themselves to studies in religion, and admonish the people when they return to them, that thus they (may learn) to guard themselves (against evil)” [9:122]
Allah (SWT) in surat Taubah, indicates that not all should go forth together, but some of you must devote themselves to studies in the deen, so that upon their return, those who know can teach the others to guard themselves against evil.
“For truly is they want to …

On the 1st September, the NSPCC released a new condemning survey spelling out the reality of teenage relationships in the UK. The survey explored the lives of 13-17 year olds where alarmingly 1 in 6 teenage girls felt pressured to sleep with their boyfriends and 1 in 16 had been raped. Violence is also an increasing factor in the lives of the young girls as one quarter said they had been slapped, punched or beaten by their boyfriends.
Unsurprisingly three quarters of girls found their experiences harmful. Sadly this is …

The Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu alaihi wassalam) said: “The ulama are the inheritors of the Prophets”

Reducing carbon emission is about a lifestyle change in the West but in the developing world it is a matter of life and death.The climate change debate is incredibly Western centric. Using growing fears in the west over carbon emissions to take a pot-shot at the relatively recent economic growth in China and India is profoundly disingenuous given that since the industrial revolution the West has been solely responsible for most of the carbon dioxide emissions in the world today.
The members of the Group of Eight (G-8) – …

In a speech to the French parliament on June 22nd, French President Nicholas Sarkozy said:

The coming of the Mahdi is one of the major signs of Judgement Day.

The Struggle for Islam and Call for Khilafah
Assalamu alaikum
For years now we have seen an almost constant attack on Islam by politicians and the media in the west.There has been very little respite since we saw the desecration of the Quran in Guantanamo Bay, the calls for it to be banned in Holland, the banning of Hijab in France, the attack on Niqab by a British government minister, and the slandering of RasulAllah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) in pictorial and written form, to name but a few examples. Most recently we …

Reported in the Times on 19th May 2009, sexually transmitted infection cases (STIs), especially Chlamydia, are on the rise amongst under 16s. More than 2,000 15 year olds were infected with Chlamydia after having un-protected sex. Lisa Power, head of policy at the Terrence Higgins Trust summed up Western philosophy on the issue saying “We need to accept that having a legal age of consent will not stop some young people from having sex; what we can do is make sure that those who do are equipped with all the …

During Barack Obama’s recent tour of the Middle East he delivered a speech in Egypt which was ostensibly designed to reach out to the Muslim world.This was a stillborn effort, as the US had resumed bombing Muslims in Pakistan a mere three days after Obama came to power.Whilst waxing lyrical about Islam’s contribution to the world over the centuries which saw Europe burning people at the stake for witchcraft and praying to the bones of saints for medical cures, he rather conveniently failed to mention the political order that Islam …

Such is the scale of the economic disaster hitting the world, that people were no longer shocked by the most recent mega collapse.A 100 year strong legacy, almost 250,000 employees and over 16 million cars sold in 140 countries.All of which came to a grinding halt on June 1, 2009 as the world’s largest automaker American giant, General Motors (GM) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court. GM’s collapse constitutes the world’s third largest bankruptcy filing after Lehman last year and Worldcom in 2002. GM’s is …