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The Prophet of Islam and his Western Admirers
Book Review, Prophet of Islam and his Western Admirers - By Muhammad Mojlum Khan About Muhammad: The Other Western Perspective on the Prophet of Islam, edited with an Introduction by Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Surrey: Legacy Publishing, pp107, 2010, HB, £12.99 The rise of Islam in the seventh century Arabia changed the course of human history – politically, economically and culturally. Inspired by th...
Wisdom as Wide as the Texas Sky
"Everything's bigger in Texas." That's what they say. And when one gazes at the seemingly endless blue sky on a sunny spring day or when one hears the slow, deep rumbling of thunder in the distance and see the massive grey almost black clouds approaching just before a lightening-filled storm, it sure seems true enough. And the churches, well some of them...
On 'Planting a Seedling'
"Even if the end of time is upon you and you have a seedling in your hand, plant it!" I first encountered this Prophetic Tradition years ago in a Friday sermon “on the occasion of Forest Week.” In the following years, I came to understand that these words are constantly cited via this unfitting correlation. Those who vociferously repeat these words in order to encourage the...
Fitr Alms
One of the five basic principles Islam offers to man to gain happiness in this world and the next is the Ramadan fast. The five basic things that the religion of Islam aims to protect are religion, nafs (ego or soul), the mind, property and chastity (maslahat al-khamsa). When looked at in the light of these principles, it can be seen that all of religion's commands and prohibitions serve the prot...
Vincenzo: Being a Muslim in the Middle of Europe
digg_title = "Being a Muslim in the Middle of Europe"; var sburl1133 = window.location.href; var sbtitle1133 = document.title; Interview with Ahmad Vincenzo Islam and Europe... These are the two concepts which have been increasingly subject to big debates, particularly since the last ten years. Living as a Muslim in Europe, thus, rises a lot of issues related to the...
Quicunque Vult: or, My Journey to Islam - IV
PART IV: “Christians, too, Can Recognize the Quran as the Word of God” As the Muslim years pass, one's sense of gratitude and humility increases, usually with the realisation that one still knows little. Theory becomes (attempted) practice. There are meetings with remarkable men: the beauty and compassion of Sufism; and the lessons learned the tragic superficiality of Wahhabism. There is the fell...
Quicunque Vult: or, My Journey to Islam - II
PART II: My journey to Islam When, in 1976, a Hayward Gallery exhibition unveiled the arts of Islam, I looked for an equivalent to the penitential moods of Christianity. Not one religious painting in the National Gallery offers a smile (unlike the pagan gods, who reappear, apparently amid much relief, at the Renaissance). But in Ottoman miniatures, of religious or profane subjects, everyone smil...
Quicunque Vult: or, My Journey to Islam - I
PART I In a former church, my heart is a mihrâb, Urging me to repent, the erasure of old but remembered sins. (Sünbülzâde Vehbî) Wild talk of a new Islamic hermeneutic hatching in the Muslim communities of the West has been with us for some years, with sadly insufficient justification. This memoir is offered, at the persistent request of some Turkish friends, by a monotheist whose fo...
'Life of Muhammad' gave a broad overview of the Prophet of Islam
Jul 11,2011 Rachel Tarley There were high hopes for this three-part series and with the competent and conscientious Rageh Omaar at its helm, Life of Muhammad didn't disappoint. It's true that opening with footage of the 9/11 attacks seemed a questionable choice and arguably, the programme faltered in its early stages. Omaar appeared to be taking an Islam-by-...
The Mawlid
These are poems about the birth of Prophet Muhammad, the various stages in his life, his miracles and his death. Although many works have been written on these subjects in Islamic/ Turkish literature, the poem entitled Vesiletu'n-necat, completed by Süleyman Çelebi (d. 1422) in Bursa was loved the most and is still being recited today. Written in the aruz "failatun failatun failun" meter and in p...
Lived, Had, Hoped For
I open my eyes, and I can see. Without conscious intention, I blink moistening the delicate windows through which the world around me is made apparent. For me this has always been possible. But I have a friend afflicted with multiple sclerosis who suffers just to raise her stiffened, bent hand to rub her dry, aching eyes. She is bound to a hospital bed in her home u...
We are not all Equal
True. We are all created by the Giver of Life as descendents of Adam and Eve and born into this world with pure souls having free will. But in accordance with the All-Knowing's infinite wisdom, that is the extent of our equality. Each and every one of us faces different surroundings and circumstances from the moment we are born. Even children in the same family ...
