The Fast-a-thon, is such an excellent da’wah idea that I am surprised that we don’t have an equivalent in the UK! It is at times like these when at school, colleage, university or in the work place, our non-Muslim friends and colleagues are curious about Ramdan and there is a tremendous amount of goodwill towards Muslims (in general) that something like this can be used to spread the word and assist in the congeniality. It is an ideal opportunity for…
At Juma’ [Friday prayers] today I sat/stood behind a bearded young chap wearing a thauwb with a hoodie on top. On the back of the hoodie was emblazoned the slogan “Only Allah to Fear”, if that wasn’t bad enough the typography [font] used was a “horror” font more associated with evil, heavy metal and horror movies than religion. OK so, masha’Allah, this kid is deen focussed and “fears” Allah and that is good and to display that slogan in a…
I gave our local primary school that my son goes to a copy of Muslim Songs of the British Isles for their music department. It was very much appreciated by the music teacher there, she said: “Having spent over fifteen years working in London I have had an ongoing interest in finding new materials to work with in the classroom and have spent some considerable time researching materials. This is the first ‘quality’ publication that I have come across that…