ISLAM

There are a multitude of women who are not celebrated or honoured. They are the silent ones who carry on with their lives under challenging circumstances and are never noticed or mentioned, writes JASMINE KHAN. IT is August, when we celebrate Women’s Day. In fact, with media...

At the start of the journey, Khidr told Nabi Moosa (AS) that he would not display the required patience or sabr during this journey, writes ADIEL ISMAIL. THE action of Khidr in ayah 74 of Surah Al-Kahf, in the Holy Quran, was apparently so repulsive that it...

For centuries, space was considered to be a cold vacuum of emptiness, a fixed permanent entity in which the cosmic drama is playing itself out, writes DR YUSUF NOOR. THE universe is largely empty space; planets, stars and galaxies occupy relatively small regions of space. Our planet...

To reach the level of loving someone for the sake of Allah is not easy; it is a journey of faith, writes JASMINE KHAN. IN my dealings with women with emotional problems, I am often asked: ‘What does it mean to love for the sake of Allah?’...

In the first of a series of articles on creation, DR YUSUF NOOR provided a glimpse into how the scientific community viewed how the universe came into being. He now looks at how the Quran describes the layout of the solar system. He emphasises that the amazing...

In reflecting on the dawn of another Eid during lockdown, JASMINE KHAN reminds us that there are many things we should be grateful for. WE are about to celebrate a second Eid-ul-Fitr during the pandemic. Thankfully, the situation is a little better than last year; we are...

JAMIATUL ULAMA SA EID MESSAGE THE celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr is a marker that the spring season of immense rewards that is Ramadaan is behind us. This invokes an emotional ambivalence as a sense of apprehension lingers while, at the same time, we rejoice with a sense of...

WE live in a time of speed and haste. Ramadaan is a month that offers us a few additional moments for reflection, contemplation and learning. Still, we find ourselves looking for faster ways of assimilating knowledge. The Basics is a series of booklets, written by Shaikh Ismail...

Dr ESHAAM PALMER dealt with the prevalence and seriousness of sexual abuse of children and adolescents in the Muslim community, in the first part of this series. In part two, he covers the issue from an Islamic perspective, how to avoid sexual abuse and what to do...

Dr ESHAAM PALMER, in the first of a two-part series, deals with the prevalence and seriousness of the sexual abuse of children and adolescents in the Muslim community. CHILDREN are our future and thus they deserve special protection from adults. Every child is someone’s child; every child...