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My mission is to educate the public on the tradition of Abraham, known in ancient Arabic and other ancient languages as Hanīfīyyah. Through sensemaking, I simplify sophisticated Quranic narratives and broad prophetic guidance along with foundational principles to show how they persuasively address contemporary social, political and psychological human needs.
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Essays & Insights
21.10.2019
British & American Muslims: differences & ramifications
5 min read A matter to highlight is that we are very different from our American brethren, and it doesn’t work well…
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09.06.2019
Claiming the “understanding of the salaf”
“Understanding of the salaf” (salaf here meaning early Islamic scholars) is possibly the most misrepresented claim of…
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24.01.2017
Thoughts for the Contemporary Mufti
There are personalities who issue fatwas on politicised matters of faith seeking to position themselves as moderate to…
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19.11.2019
Are Arabs the best scholars, just because they’re Arabs?
6 min read I rail against paternalistic Eastern (Arab and Asian) superiority and the infantilization of Muslim…
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"Whoever responds to the people merely based on what has been related in books that differ from their customs, habits, their era, their social/political circumstances and the contextual variables at play, misguides others and is himself misguided. He injures the faith greater than a doctor who treats patients failing to consider their different customs, habits, era, circumstances and contextual variables, merely seeking to reflect what is in the general books of medicine. Such a doctor is an imbecile and such a jurist too is an imbecile; both are the most harmful they could possibly be to the people’s faith or their bodies – may God help us!"
– Abū Bakr b. al-Qayyim, Damascene theologian and legal philosopher, d. 1350