As Muslims feel sorrow at the passing of our faithful friend, the blessed month of Ramadhan, we also feel joy at the coming of Eid.
Ramadhan is the month we have remembered Allah and, inshallah, become closer to Him through fasting, recitation of the Quran, and standing in nightly prayer. It’s also a month – just like the month of Dhul Hijja, where Muslims feel united as one Ummah.
But for so many years Ramadhan and Eid have been tinged with sadness as our Ummah suffers under occupation, oppression, poverty and hardship.The …

The British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, paid tribute to a South African anti¬apartheid activist Joe Slovo – a friend of Mr Miliband’s father – during an interview on BBC Radio 4 in August. In doing so, he exposed the double standards prevalent in Western Politics.The BBC Radio 4 presenter had asked the Foreign Secretary:“Are there circumstances in which violent reaction, terrorism, is the right response?” Miliband responded:“Yes, there are circumstances in which it is justifiable, and yes, there are circumstances in which it is effective”. In making the statement …

While British politicians lambasted the celebratory reception that greeted home Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber, there were similar scenes of celebration in some quarters in the UK.
These would be, behind closed doors of the board rooms of some of Britain’s biggest firms, particularly those in the Oil Industry. Despite harsh criticism of the Libyan regime and its oppressive treatment of its citizens, the release of al-Megrahi is widely seen as a move to improve Britain’s already rewarding trade relations with Libya. UK exports to Libya rose 21% last …

UN Food & Agriculture Organisation announced, a record one billion people are reported to be undernourished and is blaming the global financial crisis for a surge of 100 million more hungry since last year. All of this throws dirt on the UN’s belief that poverty can be completely eradicated by 2025.
Even with a cratered global economy the underlying inequities of Capitalism are clearly seen – agriculturally rich countries that have starving people.Already in a frighteningly quick manner this situation is set to worsen, with the recent increase in ‘landgrabbing’; whereby …

The story of a particular wedding at the London Muslim Centre certainly did not have a fairy tale ending.An important event of Bodrul Islam’s and Mahbuba Kamali’s life, the wedding attended by the MP for Poplar & Canning Town, Jim Fitzpatrick, descended into farce as he decided to walk out in protest at his “intolerance” of gender segregation. Calling the event “a very exceptional occasion, it’s a new occurrence”, the MP not only demonstrated his ignorance of Islamic etiquette but also of the Muslims he claims to represent, who …

The visit by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to Africa and her meeting with Somalia President

“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) – …