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Month: May 2004

Chillin’ in Glasgow

Chillin’ in Glasgow

as-salamu ‘alaykum, I forgot to mention the chill out session that myself, Aftab Malik [Amal Press], Waheed Rasheed of Alhambra Productions, Haider Ali [Roots Distribution, official distributor of Alhambra Productions’ material], Nabeel Turner [official tour photographer for Shaykh Hamza] had with Omar Tufail of Deen Port and his brothers Usman and Ali. It was nice just to lounge about relax and chat, discuss, exchange ideas, drink tea, shoot pool etc. Usman took some video footage of the discussions some of…

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Tribute to my Mother

Tribute to my Mother

as-salamu ‘alaykum, My mother, is not an educated woman, but is a very wise lady. She has her own story, being an only child whose mother died when she was so young that she doesn’t clearly remember her. My maternal grandmother was a second wife and so my mother was raised by her stepmother in a family of brothers, after her own mother had passed on. When I was growing up my mother used to relate to me hadiths and…

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Interview with Radio Salaam

Interview with Radio Salaam

as-salamu ‘alaykum, I must be on a roll, three posts in almost as many days! Over the last two weeks I have given two radio interviews. First there was Saeed Mahmood of Radio Salaam in Manchester who interviewed me and then a few days ago Shafiq Morton from Voice of the Cape Radio in South Africa. The Radio Salaam interview will be broadcast on Friday 14th May at 8.00pm (BST) can be heard on their web broadcast site. Voice of…

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