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• Religion and COVID-19

  By patrobin on July 8, 2020 • ( 7 )

  I recently read an article on the BBC about how people from different faiths have explored how they have coped with lock-down. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-53081929 There are some interesting insights, such as how people have been getting involved in online services or… Read More ›

• An Agnostic-Jewish woman reads the Qur’an and shares her thoughts…

  By patrobin on July 7, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Lezley Hazleton was a reporter for various newspapers both in Israel and the U.S and has two degrees in psychology (B.A in Manchester University, M.A in Hebrew University of Jerusalem). She is the author of two well-known books on both… Read More ›

• History: how not make the mistakes of the present

  By patrobin on June 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  As the rain beats down yet again on the beleaguered concrete path outside my home, my thoughts turn to the ancient world, and how it lived in depressing times. 2020 has been a difficult time to say the least what… Read More ›

• Romanticism and Islam: A tentative case for cultural relations

  By patrobin on January 13, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  I Romantic poetry is something of an enigma in modern Britain in some sense its impact has never left while the significance of its vision and philosophy of nature has long since been abandoned. Like much of our world of… Read More ›

• A Message from the beyond, Prophetic discourse and a possible means to understand them

  By patrobin on December 30, 2019 • ( 30 )

  

  If Mohammed had been a false prophet, there is no reason why Christ should not have spoken of him as he spoke of Antichrist but if Mohammed is a true Prophet the passages referring to the Paraclete must inevitably concern… Read More ›

• Entrance into Light

  By patrobin on September 7, 2019 • ( 4 )

  Windows, doors, curtains, and stars All they do is open, they beckon to the beyond, Abraham saw them and vanished in God West to East; known in their perishing Joseph saw them, thrown in a well! Moses followed them as… Read More ›

• I have been commanded to fight… (Clarification and affirmation of a valued tradition)

  By patrobin on March 15, 2019 • ( 46 )

  Source: https://abuaminaelias.com/forty-hadith-nawawi/ Jabir reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace, and blessings be upon him, said:  أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أُقَاتِلَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَقُولُوا لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ فَإِذَا قَالُوا لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ عَصَمُوا مِنِّي دِمَاءَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ إِلَّا بِحَقِّهَا وَحِسَابُهُمْ عَلَى اللَّهِ… Read More ›

• Will the real reformer please stand up?

  By patrobin on February 1, 2019 • ( 1 )