For a while I’ve grappled with widespread Islamic narratives feeling like I’m in an alternate reality. For yonks I’ve been trying to understand how people have translated the Quran and the sunnah into something so uninspiring, problematic, irrational, anxiety-inducing, and destructive. But as time has gone on, it’s becoming quite clear.
Now one would think that the title, at least to a monotheist, would be pretty common sense. Yet to many Muslims (let alone…
6 min read Anyone who cares about the present as well as the future of the believers, has to be concerned with the…
5 min read The last post provides the perspective I intend when discussing the study of īmān over aqīdah here. What aqīdah study…
Over the years, I and many of my colleagues have come to experience that the vast majority of Muslims do not require scholars…
On the 10th Muharram we are encouraged to fast, not simply because Muhammad, the final messenger of God did so, but because the…
Amongst many, religious culture and cultivation tends to centre on imaan boosters: perceived short term-fixes that leave people on a religious ‘high’ for…
I have written before that I believe today’s believer can: be committed to the Quran and the sunnah without being salafi; benefit from…
Salah is the ultimate expression of subservience to the Most High, ordained by God from the earliest times of Sapiens’ existence (Q 42:13),…
In the Qur’an God speaks about faith/imaan from various perspectives. One that is highly relevant to the ways in which we identify faith…