Opinion and Analysis Articles

18 March 2026 5-minute read How do we go on this journey of becoming the Beloveds of Allāh? إِنْ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ إِلَّا الْمُتَّقُونَ Allāh says, ‘those that are Beloved to me are those who have Taqwa’. After the great month of Ramadhaan, the levels of Taqwa are high....

17 March 2026 4-minute read Islam is about love, through and through, but you need to make Allāh your Beloved and you need to become the Beloved of Allāh before you can radiate the love of Allāh to the rest of humanity. You know you can pay lip-service and say, ‘Oh,...

16 March 2026 4-minute read Every relationship that we enjoy on earth is not purely based on love, it always has some ulterior motive, some self-interest that is attached. In other words, there is no-one on planet earth who loves you purely out of love. They may love...

13 March 2026 4-minute read When you buy your own car for the first time, you are happy. But when you buy your son a car for the first time, then that's not a smile on your face, it's a smile on your heart. When you see that you have brought a smile to somebody else's...

12 March 2026 4-minute read Every Muslim, young or old, black or white, Arab or non-Arab, male or female, pious or not, all desire to become the beloveds of Allāh. That is the goal. That is the zenith and the apex of what we desire and hope to achieve. Jannah is an...

11 March 2026 3-minute read A Hadith is mentioned by Mundhiri رَحِمَهُ اللهُ in his Targheeb [wat Tarhib] إِنَّ للهِ خَلْقًا، خَلَقَهُمْ لِحَوَائِجِ النَّاسِ Sometimes you and I may assist but we feel 'hey, why do they come always to me? They only know my door'. ...

10 March 2026 4-minute read What we need to understand when we study History, and even Islamic History, is that we always discuss the youth and the generations to come but the problems of the generation to come stem from the fact that we are only obsessed with our own...