The largest sporting event in the world, the Olympic Games is about to kick off in Tokyo after being postponed for a year due to the Covid pandemic. Sports fans around the world are preparing to support their country in…
Last week BBC reported that nearly 7,000 rape cases were under investigation in schools. “School abuse: ‘Rape culture’ allegations are shocking” said Williamson the Education secretary. If British schools are regarded as the bastion of morality and decency, then this…
How do we live out religion? Can we develop a common religious approach to the world, the challenges of world peace and reconciliation, the pandemic and the climate crisis? Religions teach that we should help each other. Many religious people…
Friendship is space and time where and when we can be together with those who we like and whose company makes us feel happy. Often because they provide us with the chance to develop and validate ourselves. Good friends give…
After seeing Boris-Dominic’s decades-old friendship turning to a battlefield, it’s made me examine my friends. You’re asking for trouble when you choose the wrong friend, ‘If you want to fly with eagles, you can’t run around with turkeys.’ Eventually, you…
It’s 1968 and I am sitting in the Royal Albert Hall in London with young and old sobbing; tempers are high as some people start chanting Allahu Akbar. As a ten-year-old, I was feeling sad and angry. Yes, this was…
Ramadhan is a month of fasting, abstention, frugality and simplicity. This thirty-day long exercise teaches how to control our desires (Nafs), refine the ego and tame the beastly tendencies of anger and selfishness. If we can achieve these, we are…
As we approach the final days of Ramadhan, we eagerly expect the good news of ‘Itqum min naar’, freedom from the fire. How do we spend this blessed and rewarding time? What are the best practices? Here I suggest three…
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