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The Salafi-mindset

The Salafi-mindset

The Salafi-mindset is the infestation of narrow and extreme convictions; which often misses the nuances and complexity of human life and portrays Islam as a static and micro-prescribing system. Instead of being perspicacious in essence, as the complexity of human social makeup does not allow rational thoughts to have binary thinking, the Salafi-mindset reads scripture…

Netflix’s Messiah

Netflix’s Messiah

It is clear that Netflix is tapping into the Muslim market with an upcoming savvy series called the ‘Messiah’. It is yet to be released, but the trailer alone has already triggered a massive religious delirium amongst Muslims. A big bravo to the Netflix’s team on their successful marketing skills; then again religious subjects are…

Everything is Haram!!

Everything is Haram!!

One key characteristic that is quite apparent in some Hadith-centric theology is that it is trigger happy with the injunction – Haram. A few specific examples would be the prohibition of music, wearing of gold and silk by men, garment stretching below the ankle, plucking of the eye brows, tattooing, hair extension, dietary prohibitions such…

Which category are you?

Which category are you?

The Qur’an expresses that soon after the legacy of a particular messenger, the revelation is adulterated and loses many of its fundamental teachings. Many deranged innovations are added in the name of the messenger and the revelation. In between the period of this state and the period of reformation in the form of a new…

Islamic boarding schools in the nineties

Islamic boarding schools in the nineties

Not sure about nowadays, but when I attended ‘Darul-Uloom’ (Islamic boarding school) in the early nineties, one of the first thing I noticed was that the schools had a very flimsy vetting process in place, if at all, and enrolled anyone and everyone. Consequently, a huge percentage of the students ended up in the institutions…

MY PERSONAL JOURNEY TO QUR’AN-CENTRIC ISLAM

MY PERSONAL JOURNEY TO QUR’AN-CENTRIC ISLAM

In the name of Allah, the most Merciful, the most Beneficent. Though I was a very boisterous and a roguish child, I did have my little moments where I contemplated questions about human life and its surroundings – what it all meant. At appropriate opportunities I would ask any grown-up I felt bonded to about…

THINKING AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF MAN

THINKING AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF MAN

Adam was not the first man in the sense that he didn’t have parents, but he was the first man to have consciousness and cognitive abilities, and thus the father of modern man. He was not created outside the evolutionary system which all life has been established by, he was simply the first human to…

The Qur’anic institution of marriage

The Qur’anic institution of marriage

The institution of marriage in the light of the Qur’an (as per my personal reading), is a highly recommended, but not compulsory, union of two adults as spouses, that have mutually consented to form an unit in which they will share intimate interpersonal relationships in a haven of peace and love, and potentially create a…