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…
I’m entirely devoted to the grand and civilisational way of thinking, talking about, and advocating, true subservience to God. By ‘civilizational’ I mean…
Dear good Christian and Muslim friends, there is great confusion on matters of faith and what it means. Much of it has become…
When we think of public ventures, we think of concentrated efforts in particular realms. The problem, however, is that such efforts can only…
The threat to “islam” (subservience to God) today is not simply the West or secular ideologies which actually have relatively little impact on…
10 min read Is it a religion, a way of life, a belief system? Everyone has their own idea of what it is…
In the digital world ideological battles rage, whilst in the real world matters informed by faith are addressed in highly abstract ways. My…
4 min read Q: Shaikh, I’m not sectarian and I find that neither the sufi nor salafi appellation work for me. (I agree…
5 min read There is a very well known shar’ī maxim that goes: The default in matters is permissibility based on the verse,…