Naseerah Nanabhai 01-09-2021 September is Global Deaf Awareness Month, an initiative started by the World Federation...
Opinion and Analysis Articles
Vacation Drives changing mindsets, soon everyone will be onboard
Ejaz Khan Whether it's WhatsApp driven or just pure fear, people are genuinely afraid to travel far from work and...
4. GREEN MUSLIM SERIES: SCIENTIFIC WONDERS OF THE QURAN: WATER – PART 2
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Kind Radio Islam Green Muslims Series: Scientific Wonders of the...
No thing as an Ordinary Muslim: Remembering Hittin and Salahudeen
July 4 marks the anniversary of the Battle of Hittin in 1187, between the Crusaders of Jerusalem and the forces of the Ayyubid dynasty under Salahudeen. It bears remembering these events, least for how they formed the historical and religious geopolitics of the...
Ramadaan: The Quality of our Fast relates to Communal Duty
The fifteenth night of Sha’baan has passed. Eager to atone for the past years sins, to unburden weights on their shoulders, shackles on their minds, seekers flocked to the mosques and graveyards. In what can only be described as a calendar homecoming, we once...
Appropriating Madiba “after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more…”
Writing about Nelson Mandela’s condition on whatever level seems like appropriation. Perhaps there are levels of appropriation, from the vultures camped outside his home reporting on the inane: about the number of joggers, domestic workers and...
Turkey: The Need To Separate Muslim Bashing From Legitimate Activism
South Africa and resistance are synonymous. From major events like the 1956 Women's March against pass laws and the 1976 Soweto Uprising to more recent cases: Andries Tatane who died during service delivery protests in Ficksburg, and the notorious Marikana. 6000...
Death of a Giant Spiritual Mentor – Hakeem Mohammad Akhtar (ra) [1928 2013]
The death of Aarif billah, Shaikh Hakeem Mohammad Akhtar Saheb [1928 – 2013] in Karachi yesterday has united seekers around the globe. Celebrating his life and reminiscing over his legacy, hundreds of thousands mourn the loss of their beloved spiritual mentor...
Muslim women repudiate typification
There is only one thing worse than sensationalist trends amidst Western media wanting to save brown women from brown men: Muslim women having to prove they’re human! If it wasn’t enough that Muslim women make the news largely to feed the...
Talaq with Taqwa Avoiding PTSD
A 48-year-old divorced Briton confessed last Sunday that he had killed his two young children by slitting their throats near the eastern French city of Lyon. The bodies of a five-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were discovered in the man’s...
You are what you Read
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” [Oscar Wilde] Novels may have more power than you think. According to a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social...
“Mintiro ya bula bula” – your work will always speak for itself
Renowned SABC television and radio presenter Vuyo Mbuli’s sudden death reported on Sunday leaves us with stark reflections about the human role within the media and communications industry. It should also leave us determined to improve the quality of...