In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful and may Allah bless His slave and messenger Muhammad and his family and companions and grant perfect peace.
Confucius, when asked about the first act of government, said: “Call things by their right names”. There is something genuinely mysterious about this language we use, we human beings, which must be considered before embarking on the use of it and before using it to tackle the largest purveyors of language and their doings in …
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“There is no disagreement about what you say…” At the 4th Muslim Lawyers’ Conference in Potsdam 29th June – 1st July 2001, a group of ‘ulama and imams assembled to discuss the zakat and related matters. The names of those present are appended below the statement issued after the gathering. To open the meeting, Hajj …
Since we know: “that Allah should guide one person to Himself by means of you is better for you than everything over which the sun rises”, what can we say about the situation of someone by means of whom Allah prevents access to Himself?
202. Abu Khubayb – with a u on the kha’ – ‘Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr ibn al-‘Awwam al-Qurashi al-Asadi, may Allah be pleased with him, who said, “When az-Zubayr stood awaiting the Battle of the Camel, he called me over and I went to his side. He said, ‘Son, no one will be killed today except …
“The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was … The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man’s business to divide it… I see the whites all over the country gaining wealth, and see their desire to give us lands which …
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Heisenberg, in writing about Einstein, said, “In his earlier physics, Einstein could always set out from the idea of an objective world subsisting in space and time, which we, as physicists, observe only from the outside, as it were. The laws of nature determine its course. In quantum theory this idealization was no longer possible.” …
bully noun ( pl. -lies) a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker. The figure of the bully springs to mind, writ large and wreaking infinitely more devastation than the casual sadism of the school bully, but in essence the same. What is the point of having all …
It is not often mentioned that Liebnitz’s famous question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” must be asked twice. The first time, its answer is a knowledge in the heart that is almost impossible to articulate without demeaning the question. Having reached that first knowledge, then one has to ask again, “But why is …
Whoever resorts to Google in order to find out something about me will find my name paired very often as author with Harun Yahya. This is not true. In my professional capacity as an editor long prior to his subsequent fame and, some might say, notoriety, I edited the texts of a number of his …
“I would like very much to see a dialogue developing with Islam about this question of what a just, a reasonable rate of interest might look like in the light of a religious ethic but this is work, reflection, very much in its infancy to put it mildly.”1 Dear Dr Williams, We write to you …
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