as-salamu ‘alaykum, Well, it’s that time again when our local mosque holds its elections. These come around every three years and every time I hope and pray that some intelligent and sincere people are injected into the committee. Our mosque is typical of a lot of masajid in the UK. Our town is a one mosque town [now two since this was originally written], there is no other mosque, there is a house that doubles up as a “madrassa” to…
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…
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…