Impediments to Suluk: 6 Steps in the Devil’s Deception
6 Steps in the Devil’s Deception: Masters of the inward life tell us that the aim of suluk or spiritual wayfaring to God is: al-tahabbub ila’Llah bi ma yarda, i.e.,…
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A Perennial Problem: Is Islam the Only Valid Path to God?
Is Islam (the religion and way of life the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ came with) the only path to God? Does the Qur’an extend the validity of religions beyond…
The Deception of Balancing Deen and Dunya
The following article is a summary of a lesson from my teacher, Ustadh Huzaifa Noori al-Qasmi, alongside some comments and additions from my side."Should life be…
Iqbal’s View of an Ideal Muslim Woman
Introduction:Allama Iqbal and Altaf Hussain Hali are probably the only two poets in modern Urdu poetry whose ghazals do not contain gender degeneracy, nudity,…
Some Reflections on Contemporary Jahiliyyah
When Ignorance becomes the New Truth...Once upon a time, a pumpkin plant grew near an old oak tree. The tree was huge with its roots deeply buried in the depths…
Islam’s Rational Monotheism
Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad explains: "In the Western milieu, converts to Islam claim that they are attracted to what they regard as its clear, rationally-accessible…
A Critical Analysis of Secularism
All praise is for Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, and peace be upon His Prophetﷺ, his Companions, and his Family.The contemporary discourse revolving around…
Al-Ghazali’s Ethical Order: How to Restore the Fiṭrah through its…
This article deals with the (Neo)-Ghazalian framework pertaining to the internal ethical system of human existence. It seeks to understand how our innate fiṭrah…