Listen or watch at the Al-Andalus Tribune Substack Undoubtedly the best-known Muslim journalist working in English, Yvonne Ridley has written for several of the biggest British publications, as well as al-Jazeera and Press TV. She is also an accomplished documentary filmmaker and one of Europe’s best known Muslim human-rights activists. Her books include In the Hands of the Taliban, Ticket…
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Signs from Allah: Is Nature Telling Israelis That They Don’t Belong?
By: Crypto Cranium | Date: May 4, 2025 | Muslimskeptic.com Israel is waging a war against Allah, and, as a result, nature itself has now turned against them. What the Israelis are facing at this current moment in time, particularly the illegal settlers, is just a mere taste of what awaits them in the next life for their kufr and…
Read MoreWestern Approved Sufism
By Zafar Bangash, Crescent International Given the intellectual decline in the Muslim world, Muslims have adopted practices that are contrary to the teachings of Islam. Who is unaware of the destructive role played by al-Qaeda, the takfiris and ISIS over the last 30 to 40 years? Propped up by the west, primarily the US, they have served as a cover…
Read MoreWhy Do People Convert to Islam? Here Are Hundreds of Stories
Videos of People Who Converted to Islam “Why We Became Muslims” is M.U. Qidwai’s collection of more than 250 conversion narratives averaging around 5000 words each. Read it on Scribd
Read MoreReview of Curtin, At the Lost and Found: Finding the spectacular in the society of the spectacle
Eric Walberg, a Canadian Muslim journalist, is the author of The Canada-Israel Nexus, Islamic Resistance to Imperialism, From Postmodernism to Postsecularism, and Postmodern Imperialism. By Eric Walberg (subscribe to his Substack The internet, computers have been a boon to essayists like Edward Curtin (and me!). He/you/we can publish at online sites (DissidentVoice.org is a favorite for us) and then publish…
Read MoreAdam, Iblīs, and the Lie of Hopelessness
A Fajr Club Talk by Imam Marc Manley May 13 Sūrah al-Baqarah has many merits as al-Haythumī, the great scholar of ḥadīth, reports from his Mujmaʿ al-Zawāʿid, according to Ibn Masʿūd, لِكُلِّ شيءٍ سنامٌ وسنامُ القرآنِ سورةُ البقرةِ “For everything there is a pinnacle and the hump pinnacle of the Qur’ān is Sūrah al-Baqarah.” Here I want to mention the…
Read MoreReviving Amanah: Trust And Responsibility In An Age Of Western Individualism
Published May 9, 2025, By Haya Ahmad, Muslimmatters.org We hold the sacred treasures of the dunya within ourselves. The grand wonders, rare gems, and precious natural resources that we see as the riches of the world do not compare to what has been bestowed upon us. Amanah is an invisible yet powerful gift — something we hold, use, and share every day. It’s reflected…
Read MoreJerusalem in the Qur’an: The Most Prophetic Book of Our Time?
Published on June 1, 2001, Sheikh Imran Hosein’s Jerusalem in the Qur’an may be the most prophetic book of our time, in both senses of the word: It foretold what was coming (Israel’s 2001 false flag attack on America and subsequent wars of expansion) and offered a powerful and original interpretation of divine revelation (casting Israel as the imposter state…
Read MoreWhat Is Shariah? And What Really Happened on 9/11? Interview with UCLA Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl
Audio archive Introduction from this interview, originally published in 2017: Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the world’s leading authorities on Islamic law and Islam, and a prominent scholar in the field of human rights. He is author of 14 books (five forthcoming) and over 50 articles on various topics in Islam and Islamic law. The Omar and…
Read MoreHuge Sufi Conference in Morocco Highlights “Global Citizenship”
People are more likely to follow rules of good behavior if they can directly sense, intuit, or even know that there is a divine Reality behind those rules. Mysticism teaches direct encounters with the Reality at the heart of religion.
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