Editor’s Note

The Night Journey of our beloved Prophet form the Holy Mosque in Mecca to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Palestine and the Ascending through the Heavens was meant to show the Prophet a bit of Allah’s signs, amongst which are His Power, His Mercy, His Unfathomable Creation, His Might, making the impossible quite possible. Dear Brothers and…

As Warsan Shire once put it; “No one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark,” sometimes migration is a solution to many turmoils, calamities, and a change to an unwanted reality. Migration of Muslims was perhaps divinely inspired, but it was also timely and much needs, given the unbearable circumstances Muslims…

Dear Everybody, Assalamu alikum, Again, it’s been a long long while since I last talked to you. It’s been quite an eventful year for the world and for me on the personal level. On the global level, we’ve all been taken by the Coronavirus pandemic and its hazardous impact on the world which left us…

“Are you pleased with your achievements, lifestyle, convictions, career, beliefs and character? People Invariably want to maintain the kind of perfect personality that earns them the satisfaction of others and that of Almighty Allah, otherwise they remain entrapped in a personal struggle the eats up much of their energy and hinders their spiritual tranquility. Are you pleased with…

Assalamu alikum brothers and sisters, Been away for a while and so happy to connect with you again in another note coinciding with a national festival in my dear country Egypt, celebrating the 36th memory of Sinai Celebration. We all Muslims know for a fact and perceive that Muslim who is killed in defence of…

“There’s a clear and repetitive stress in the Quran and Sunnah on the importance of working hard, excelling whatever is done, and fulfilling the higher aims of living as servants of Allah SWT and his loyal vicegerents on earth; i.e. developing communities and enjoining what’s in their best.”

“Integration, whether for Muslims amongst themselves, Muslims living in Non-Muslim Communities, or Non-Muslims living in majority Muslim Communities, is the same- it has one philosophy and abides by the same rule of co-existence, i.e. balanced human harmony that ‘s bound by mutual respect and responsibility.” Headscarf and full-face veil ban in Europe, racial attacks and…

“Numerous instances in the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet, pbuh, enforce the imperative impact and influence of the work of the heart in general, home to pure and genuine Iman, and emotions of love and tenderness in particular as an essential quality guarding human relations and keeping them sound and balanced.” Even beyond…

“Oppressed, downplayed, second in importance and representation”– sheer heresy.. “To be avoided, weak, and marginalized” — complete ignorance and total deviation from the truth. Beyond misconceptions, whether purposeful, manipulated or unintentionally spread, what do women mean to Islam and Muslims?