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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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Essays & Insights
17.03.2020
Should mosques remain open for congregational prayer? Countering a poor fatwa
To read a comprehensive article on the issue, click here. Some friends sent me a fatwa that represents the position…
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08.06.2020
Believers and the ‘black experience’
Before moving on to discussing the 'black experience' in private communal contexts (mosques, Muslim spaces etc), it is…
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16.12.2019
Accepting Christmas presents
3 min read Some scholars, from various denominations, are of the view that it is not permitted to accept Christmas…
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02.09.2019
Is it permissible to drink standing?
For many Muslims, the notion of drinking standing up is taboo, and many of us have been witness to those who,…
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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