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Advocating faith, reason, revelation and progress
My mission is to educate the public on Abrahamic godliness, known in ancient Arabic as Hanīfiyyah. Through sensemaking, I simplify sophisticated Qur’anic narratives and holistic prophetic guidance to show how they persuasively address contemporary social, political and psychological human needs.
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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
Nail Polish and Ablution: a colourful conversation
The validity of ablution (wudhu) for women wearing nail polish has been a persistent question posed to jurists in the…
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Is Jinn possession established in the Qur’an? Part 2
Nowhere near. Here I'll briefly deal with the most significant verse cited in favour of possession (2:275). The aim…
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Reforming the sharia? A misplaced idea
The reason any discussion of reforming the shariah is misplaced is because the statement assumes the shariah to be an…
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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!"
– Abu Bakr b. al-Qayyim, Damascene theologian and legal philosopher, d. 1350