Self-imposed isolation This past week has been strange, to say the least. We are living in unprecedented times. My family and I spent a week apart (some 200miles away) so I have been living in a kind of ‘self-imposed’ isolation for a week. Second, I missed (deliberately) my first Jumu’ah since I could remember and […]
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When we look to the life of the Prophet of Allah (ﷺ), we see that he established a community around him consisting of individuals and families. This early community of believers was raised with the Qur’an as it was revealed. In particular, the first five revelations in Makkah transformed them on an individual and societal […]
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All in a squeeze Consider the following example. When we squeeze a lemon, we always get lemon juice and when we squeeze an orange, we always get orange juice. There’s never been an example when someone squeezed a lemon and got orange juice or squeezed an orange and got lemon juice. The juice that comes out of […]
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