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 […]
Read moreReflection on the Coronavirus – [1] Human Need
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 […]
Read moreDo you see with both eyes?
The universe of man Man is the meeting point between the celestial and the earthly realms. He has a unique position in this world that is not given to any other species. When he looks towards the horizon, he sees with two eyes: the eye of sight and the eye of insight, the eye of […]
Read moreAiming for the sky
Blue sky thinking says: ‘The sky is the limit’. As great and wonderful this saying is, it is still limiting. The Qur’an is a book which has been sent to free the mind and soul from our limiting constructs and conceptions to the expanse of the realm of the Infinite. ‘The sky is the limit’, they […]
Read moreWho are you?
Imagine Imagine yourself in a quiet and serene location, with open skies, among nature away from people. Perhaps you are on an empty beach, with your feet resting on soft white sand with turquoise water, and the sound of the waves gently breaking upon the shore whilst you look out unto the horizon. Perhaps you […]
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