“Do not give advice only on the condition that it is followed. Otherwise, you are a tyrant, not an advisor; you are demanding obedience, you are not allowing religious feeling and brotherly spirit their due. Neither reason nor friendship gives you the right to insist. It is rather the right that a ruler has over [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Posted in Rose Petals on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Living a Single Life…
Posted in Scented Sheets, Tinkling Glasses on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
by Fatima Asmal
During my first trip to Makkah, as a 24-year-old, I met an inspirational mother of one, who eleven years after giving birth to her first child, desperately wanted another baby. Three years after going through a divorce, I too, was desperate – to get married again. When I told this sister about [...]
Speaking Without Knowledge: An Anology
Posted in Glitter, Rose Petals on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Years ago, and several hours into a road trip in a Muslim country with my family, we were a little confused about the correct path to take. We stopped to ask for directions and got them. We tried to follow them, but they were confusing, so we stopped again. A while later, we stopped yet [...]
An Answer
Posted in Scented Sheets on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Will you accept an answer from someone not well-versed in science and theology? I believe I know nothing about quantum physics in particular. And perhaps I will answer you question be evading the need to answer it.
Your friend’s contention with the belief in God seems to be two-pronged: 1) that human reason is subjective and [...]
Posted in Rose Petals on December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ali b. Abi Taalib – Allah be pleased with him – said: “Narrate to people what they can understand; do you want Allah and His Messenger to be disbelieved?“
[Quoted by Al-Bukhaari, As-Sahih, Chapter about a person preferring some people with certain knowledge to the exclusion of others.]
Posted in Rose Petals on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is reported from the famous worshipper Raabi’ah – Allaah have mercy on her – that she said: “I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the caller who will announce the Day of Resurrection, and I never see the falling snow except that I imagine the flying pages of the records of [...]
“So much longer than khawatir…”
Posted in Glitter, Glowing Light, Scented Sheets on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It was at the same time one of the most beautiful and incredible experiences of my life and one of the hardest and most painful. We were literally cut off from what br Mokhtar calls the “intoxicants of the qalb” – television, music, books, excessive food, sleep, speech. It was literally like waking up. You [...]
My Imprisonment in Kenya and America
Posted in Winged Words on December 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Daniel Joseph Maldonado, an American convert, was arrested by the Kenyan military in January 2007 and handed over the US authorities. In April he pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving training from a foreign terrorist organization and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in June. In this exclusive first-hand account from his cell in [...]
Yugharghir
Posted in Musk on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
وقال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم : ” إن الله عز وجل يقبل توبة العبد ما لم يغرغر”
رواه الترمذي وحسنه الألباني (2802) في صحيح الترمذي
And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Allah will accept the repentance of His slave so long as the death rattle has not yet reached his [...]
Not Without Her Makeup
Posted in Scented Sheets, Tinkling Glasses on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tazin Abdullah
Media Student, Macquarie University
(This is a satire written to mimic articles, reports and stories generally written about Muslim women by women from Western non-Muslim backgrounds. It is, to some extent, an attempt to convey to the readers how it feels to be `other’ and to be judged superficially in accordance with only one’s own [...]
Why I Am Never Going Back To America
Posted in Scented Sheets on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Zeba Khan, US Citizen
May 10, 2003
A Thoughtful Article By A Sister For The Parents In America.
I may be an American citizen, but that’s not my fault. I ask the reader to please forgive me that much and continue with the rest of the article. As a consequence of having been born, raised, and college [...]
