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Advocating faith, reason, revelation and progress
My mission is to educate the public on Abrahamic godliness, known in ancient Arabic as Hanīfiyyah. Through sensemaking, I simplify sophisticated Qur’anic narratives and holistic prophetic guidance to show how they persuasively address contemporary social, political and psychological human needs.
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Essays & Insights
28.01.2019
Are long moustaches haram? The long and short of it
I frequently highlight the prevalence of shar'i ignorance, and that it's usually those who believe they're the…
2 Comments10 Minutes
07.02.2020
Going back to the beginning, shedding our baggage, and starting afresh
One of the greatest things I’ve come to experience in my public work and engagement, whether it be at mosques,…
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03.11.2017
There was no black ‘contribution’ to Islam
It’s bold to claim there is no such thing as a black ‘contribution’ to Islam, and perhaps intentionally provocative,…
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02.02.2020
Understanding “Muhammad is the Messenger of God”
4 min read Q: Shaikh, I'm not sectarian and I find that neither the sufi nor salafi appellation work for me. (I…
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"Whoever responds to the people merely based on what has been related in books that differ from their customs, habits, their era, their social/political circumstances and the contextual variables at play, misguides others and is himself misguided. He injures the faith greater than a doctor who treats patients failing to consider their different customs, habits, era, circumstances and contextual variables, merely seeking to reflect what is in the general books of medicine. Such a doctor is an imbecile and such a jurist too is an imbecile; both are the most harmful they could possibly be to the people’s faith or their bodies – may God help us!"
– Abu Bakr b. al-Qayyim, Damascene theologian and legal philosopher, d. 1350