About
Advocating faith, reason, revelation and progress
My mission is to educate the public on Abrahamic godliness, known in ancient Arabic as Hanīfīyyah. Through sensemaking, I simplify sophisticated Qur’anic narratives and broad prophetic guidance along with foundational principles to show how they persuasively address contemporary social, political and psychological human needs.
The Solution
Our social movement brings together like-minded people to revive the Qur'anic legacy of Abraham and mobilise believers with a shared godly social and political culture.
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Essays & Insights
Are long moustaches haram? The long and short of it
I frequently highlight the prevalence of shar'i ignorance, and that it's usually those who believe they're the…
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Must we break our fasts with dates – is it ‘better’?
This post is an exploration of the view that we ought to break our fasts with dates. The assumption comes from two…
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Can we wish a “Happy New Year”?
5 min read I've written this post in anticipation of the most absurd arguments that are used every year, with a…
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Hijab, male scholars and society
When a male scholar speaks of the hijab, there can often be the retort that men shouldn’t be telling women how to…
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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