I hate Facebook. That’s right, I hate it, but I still use it, it is compulsive, compelling, addictive, it is pointless, waste of time, redundant, everyone uses it and everyone wants to be your friend. It has pointless add-on applications and a ridiculous “Poke” feature that once you poke someone you can’t stop. Currently I am a couple of weeks in sending Pokes to Azhar Usman as we send pokes back and forth, if someone pokes you, you just have…
Just a thought…. The Hajj is as physically demanding as it is spiritually uplifting. It is amazing how even the most ill and infirm of people, the most frail and weak seem to be given an injection of life in these places. Even those of us who are able-bodied seem to get this spurt of energy that enables us to walk 10 or 12 kilometres and not get exhausted. I have witnessed, with my own eyes, this phenomenon. It would…
I have been pondering this thought for a while now and have come to the conclusion that out of all the faith groups Muslims are the standbearers of faith. Why? Because Islam and Muslims have been under unbearable public and media scrutiny, the debate on religion has been forced into the public arena, it is persistent and incessant, and by and large, Muslims have given a good account of themselves. We are unashamedly religious, we have declared to our co-religionists…