As human beings we can easily get used to believing that the way we live is ‘normal’, thinking it will last forever and not expecting any major changes. Yet, when you look at history you’ll see that major changes happen… Read More ›
Wisdom
“Just be yourself” is silly advice.
“Just be yourself” is silly advice. What if you are rude, mean, an asshole? The whole point of civilization is to discipline and restrain yourself. Don’t be yourself. Be a decent human being. And if that requires faking it, then… Read More ›
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. ~ Camille Paglia
Great line, not enough people seem to understand this concept.
The Talmud prohibits any intimate contact with a person with whom one is forbidden to have sexual relations – in the same way and for the same reasons as the Shariah
Being that men are visually stimulated and are wired to their carnal appetites, Talmudic teachings are brutally frank and aware of man’s flaws. Various regulations were taught to prevent sexual improprieties from sullying a person’s holiness and closeness to God…. Read More ›
What is your best piece of advice?
Remember death oh Son of Adam! You are nothing but a number of days. Whenever each day passes then a part of you has gone. ~ Imam Hasan Al-Basri
A Secular Muslim is someone who believes that the Creator was sufficient enough to set highly calculated Mathematical and Physical laws that organize Planets in Orbit but wasn’t sufficient enough to create laws that organizes the human society.
This Five Minute Meditation is about the demands made on Muslims to align their religious teachings with the liberal orthodoxies of the age, and what our response to such pressures ought to be.
Why Equality and Fairness are Not the Same Thing
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar.
Human nature: some difficult conclusions
“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion…draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it… Read More ›
Searing confessions of top New Testament scholar Dr Dale C. Allison
This is a no holes barred academic discussion of the Quest for the historical Jesus by one of the leading historians in the field Dr Dale C. Allison. Allison is Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological… Read More ›
Limericks to Engage the Faith-Based Mind
A hippy who was ever so calm, Thought that peace was the whole of Islam. His faith got derailed; God’s Oneness, he veiled; For a penny, he’ll now read your palm. II A da‘i who spoke against pride; Bragged we couldn’t… Read More ›
We Have Humiliated Ourselves – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
Painful words of wisdom from the West’s leading Muslim scholar
100 Instructions From Qur’an
1. Do not be rude in speech (3:159) 2. Restrain Anger (3:134) 3. Be good to others (4:36) 4. Do not be arrogant (7:13) 5. Forgive others for their mistakes (7:199) 6. Speak to people mildly (20:44) 7. Lower your… Read More ›