A Muslim girl prevented from praying took Michaela Community School to court. The High Court, last Tuesday, ruled in favour of the school’s right to decide to ban prayer for all pupils. [1] Trip down memory lane My own prayer experience at school I remember when I was at college, we were not given a permanent room so we would utilise any room that was free. This carried on for many months. One day after class, during the winter, around ten of us prayed Maghrib in congregation. As we were praying, we heard a door open. Maybe someone had heard us and was about to join? Until we could h ..read more

Innā lillāhi wa innā ilayhī rājiʿūn. Indeed, to Allah we belong, and to Him we are returning. It is with great sorrow that we share the news of the passing of Shaykh Abdul Majeed ibn Aziz al-Zindani, one of the most distinguished Yemeni scholars of his time. A founder of the International Union of Muslim Scholars and the founder of the Commission on Scientific Signs in the Qur’ān and Sunnah, Shaykh al-Zindani was 82 years of age. [1] The late academic and political leader is remembered for his life spent studying and teaching, defending the rights of his fellow people, and playing a major role ..read more

Many parents, students, and school leaders were understandably shocked to learn about the recent High Court ruling which upheld Michaela Community School’s controversial ritual prayer ban. But the judgment leaves a number of serious questions unanswered. Will the judgment lead to prayer bans across all schools in Britain? Where does this judgment leave basic rights of religious expression? Could this judgment be challenged? All of these questions and others need careful consideration and a co-ordinated response from the Muslim community, legal experts, and educationalists. Michaela is unique F ..read more

أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَن تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّـهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ الْحَقِّ وَلَا يَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِن قَبْلُ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدُ فَقَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ “Has the time not come for those who have believed that their hearts should become humbly submissive at the remembrance of Allah and what has come down of the truth? And let them not be like those who were given the Scripture before, and a long period passed over them, so their hearts hardened; and many of them are defiantly disobedient.” [1] It is an understatement to say that the even ..read more

In an unprecedented move, on Sunday Iran launched a massive military strike targeting Israel, marking the largest such drone attack and first direct Iranian strike on the Zionist state in history. [1] The assault was in retaliation to a devastating Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April. While mentioning the military operation’s name, True Promise, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stated during a defiant public address, “Today, not only us, but the people of the region and the world are aware of the authority of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. “The peo ..read more

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. I send blessings and peace upon the best of prophets and messengers, Muhammad ﷺ. How true is the Promise of Allah? The fulfilment of Allah’s Promise is clear, foretelling the ever-growing alliance and deceitful ploys of hostile disbelievers against Muslims in all circumstances, emphasising their never-ending enmity towards us. Muslims should establish allegiance towards their religion and their brothers, becoming one unified body in the face of their enemies. Muslims do not have ..read more

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 A community that was under siege, ostracised, and cut off from the world for simply holding a different belief — this was the harsh reality faced by Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and his followers during the boycott of Banu Hāshim. In a calculated move to silence their message, the Quraysh leadership ostracised the entire clan, forcing them into a confined valley for three gruelling years. To make it worse, they would buy all the food that entered Makka ..read more

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 Abu Ja’far al-Mansūr became the Khalifah and took bay’ah (a pledge of allegiance) from the people. But due to political grievances and rebellion, the authorities added a condition: if you rebelled or broke your allegiance, your wives would be divorced and your slaves free. Imam Mālik (raḥimahu Allah) narrated a report he believed to be authentic, a narration said to be passed by a number of companions of the Prophet ﷺ, that is that the forced divorce ..read more

Many Imams and khatībs are wondering, what is our Eid message this year? How can we celebrate while our brothers and sisters are being subjected to a holocaust that scholars have been calling a “textbook genocide”? [1] There are a few important points to bear in mind here. Eid is not a worldly celebration The purpose of the celebration of Eid is to celebrate the opportunity that Allah (‘azza wa jal) gave us throughout Ramadan to draw closer to Him through siyām (fasting), qiyām (night prayers), du’ā (supplication), dhikr (remembrance), and sadaqa (voluntary charity). Through the Eid celebratio ..read more

In a rare slapping down of Israel, United States President Joe Biden has expressed his apparent “outrage” and being “heartbroken” over the needless killing of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers in Gaza. [1] The incident, which occurred during an Israeli airstrike on 1 April, has prompted some of Biden’s strongest criticism yet of the close US ally. In a statement released by the White House on 2 April, Biden said, “I am outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen, including one American, in Gaza yesterday. “They were providing foo ..read more