Women and Dawa
10 ways to doDa’wahfrom the comfort of your home!By Fatima Barkatulla SISTERS MAGAZINE 2008If you’ve always wanted to be a Da’iyah; to invite people to the Truth, but felt you don’t have time, then...
View ArticleHelp the people of Gaza
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE OF GAZA ?'During the last seven years, 14 Israelis have been killed by mostly homemade rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, while more than 5,000...
View ArticleThe Black Man and the Muslim
A black man and Muslim are sitting in the back of a police car. The black man says: “A black man can’t get a fair trial nowadays!” The Muslim looks at him incredulously: “You get a trial!?”
View ArticleGaza100
Muslims are getting more and more inventive in bringing our common causes to the masses, mashallah!“If” is a new charity recently set up which is about.... well...
View ArticleLiving in the West
Here is an article publsihed in the Middle East Times by Stephanie Carnes who interivewed me several times:LONDON -- Practicing Islam in the United Kingdom has become as easy – if not easier – than in...
View ArticleA new era in Dawa, inshallah!
The Invitation The word "dawa" in Arabic literally means invitation, and that is what this is about. Inviting people to Allah, and specifically inviting those who are not Muslim to embrace the religion...
View ArticleIt's all about the Bike...
Bicycles are amazing.It is mechanically and biologically extremely efficient. 99% of the energy transmitted by the rider is transferred to the wheels. You can travel at 15-25 kph and use only the...
View ArticleWhen we leave the Dawa....
Enjoining good and forbidding evil, amr bi'l-ma'ruf wa'n-nahiy an al-munkar, is the pivot and most important principle in Islam and it is the main reason why Allah sent His Prophets and Messengers to...
View ArticleFlow, Fasting and Falaah
I'm covered in sweat and my heart rate has gone through the roof. I could walk, and my body is telling me to sit down, or at least walk, but I crank the peddles, powering my mountain bike up the stony...
View ArticleMake Dawa your passion...and make your passion into Dawa
Most of you know by now, or at least I hope you do, about the importance of Dawa. Many moons ago there was a post on this blog about 101 ways to give dawa. This post was an off shoot of the dawa...
View ArticleDaughters and Sons
"We need to teach our daughters the difference between a man who flatters her and a man who compliments her. A man who spends money on her and a man who invests in her. A man who views her as property...
View ArticleIslam liberates women
Today is international women's day...if you didn't already know.While we constantly hear that women in Islam are oppressed shocking statistics are emerging in respect to the abuse of women in the...
View ArticleThe Day Hitler Became Dictator
On this day in March 23 1933 the The Enabling Act was passed that gave Hitler dictatorial powers. Everyone should remember how a "civilised", hard working, clever, ordered Christian nation embraced an...
View ArticleWorld leaders don't care about us or the planet...
Throughout the summit, this young man had been the picture of confidence and composure, briefing dozens of journalists a day on what had gone on during each round of negotiations and what the various...
View ArticleWipe out!
The World Bank also warned when it released its report that “we’re on track for a 4°C warmer world [by century’s end] marked by extreme heat waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and...
View ArticleArticle 7
4 degrees Celsius warming—7.2 degrees Fahrenheit—is “incompatible with any reasonable characterization of an organized, equitable and civilized global community.” This Changes Everything by N. Klein
View ArticleCorporate globalisation is the real culprit...
When historians look back on the past quarter century of international negotiations, two defining processes will stand out. There will be the climate process: struggling, sputtering, failing utterly to...
View ArticleCarbon fuel economy fuels its own demise
The twin signatures of this era have been the mass export of products across vast distances (relentlessly burning carbon all the way), and the import of a uniquely wasteful model of production,...
View ArticleIt doesn't fit!
large parts of the climate movement wasted precious decades attempting to make the square peg of the climate crisis fit into the round hole of deregulated capitalism, forever touting ways for the...
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our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs....
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