SarimBlog aims to provide a fresh narrative on classical and contemporary issues, showing how Islam challenges and compels and is both obvious and remarkable.
The chasm of ‘Atheism’ may have been avoided were Christians loyal to the true message of Christ; that he is God’s servant and messenger, not God in human form. Without doubt, Incarnationist Christians have a lot to answer for...
A knowledge and appreciation of this concept is one of the most powerful incitements towards good action and greatest deterrents from injustice and sin...
At Muzdalifah, endless pilgrims line the earth, sleeping under the night sky, draped in white, as far as the eye can see. Like shrouded bodies they rest, side by side, until the break of dawn when they rise, much like the resurrection...
In almost all periods of Islam’s history, scholars – and in particular jurists (fuqahā’) – relied on a number of methods and initiatives to ensure their financial self-sufficiency...
The pagans of yesterday can be scorned at for their idolatry and insanity, but they could just as well, scorn at today's idol of ‘liberty’, under whose name thousands of unborn foetus are agonisingly torn out of their mothers’ wombs.
Al-Subki and al-Qarāfi would use the term Fāsiq in reference to scholars who flatter debauched authorities, despite such a title usually afforded to those who commit major sins.
Just one more gesture of kindness, just one more piece of litter taken off the pavement, or just one more mention of Allah's name, could have tipped the balance.
How did the scholars of Islam expose the historical alliances between ‘fraudulent scholars’ and ‘evil leaders’ to preserve their independence and maintain their integrity and impact on society?
Worship can also be a choice, but in so far as our recognising our little worth or capability when it comes to changing the universal order, submission is inevitable.
Seeing the variability in the types and natures of people, it follows that self-idolism, as one exhibition of Liberalism will ultimately create ideologies or ‘isms’ numbering about as many as its adherents.
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