Many of you have read about my Hajj experience and without a doubt it was amazing and I have no complaints about Hajj, how can you have a complaint about the Hajj itself when you are the guest of Allah? Having said that, when you pay for a service you have to demand what you pay for and you expect that those from whom you have purchased the service from give you what you have paid for. This is true…
For some time I have been thinking about the name “Muhammad” and how in recent times it is often repeated and mentioned and remains the name amongst names. No other name evokes as much emotion and interest as the name “Muhammad”. In modern times the name “Muhammad” is not alien to Western ears and that is thanks largely, by Divine Providence, to the boxer Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali was the most famous man on the planet and still remains a…
Now that most of my work colleagues know that I am making the trip for Hajj and am starting to get curious questions and an opportunity to talk about the trip. Even the atheists are curiously interested in what it is all about, which reminds me of what Shaykh Hamza Yusuf once said in one of his lectures that he had never met an atheist who didn’t take God seriously. I have told everybody that when I come back that…