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The greatest commodity to purchase – Qana’ah- life satisfaction
Shakirah Hunter For years I had been sitting online, adding things to my cart, and then lamenting that I wouldn’t be...
Public Interest SA Lodges Complaint with US Authorities Against Bain & Co.
By Umamah Bakharia A South African civil society group, Public Interest SA, has lodged a complaint against Bain &...
May you blossom in Jannah O Nawar al Awlaki!
Ebrahim Moosa - Opinion | 20 Jumad al Ukhra 1438/19 March 2017 Black and red. It has been said that the history of Islam can be captured in two colours. Black from the ink of scholars, and red from the blood of martyrs. If one has to consider the Awlaki family with...
NOW is the time to save water
Ebrahim Moosa - Radio Islam International | 16 Jumadal Ukhra 1438/15 March 2017 It’s official. Water restrictions have officially been lifted in Gauteng. “The Department of Water and Sanitation did gazette the lifting of the water restrictions in Gauteng on 13 March...
China’s Communist Party takes aim at Islam
Radio Islam and Agencies | 15 Jumadal Ukhra 1438/14 March 2017 China's ruling Communist Party has hardened its rhetoric on Islam, with top officials making repeated warnings about the spectre of global religious "extremism" seeping into the country, and the need to...
Turmoil of the tongue – the ferocious five
Yusuf Omar - Opinion | 14 March 2017 There is an English phrase ‘You are what you eat’. I beg to differ. I believe it should be ‘You are what you utter’. Give me the next few minutes to explain why. The boneless tongue has the ability to make peace and end wars. It...
“O Allah! Teach them how to visit the sick!”
Radio Islam correspondent | 23 Jumad al Ula 1438/21 February 2017 It is narrated that when Sayyidina Siiri Siqti RA once fell ill, some people visited him and sat there for a long time. After some time, they asked him to make dua for them. He reportedly prayed as...
The Netanyahu Handshake: Mmusi Maimane’s showerhead moment
Ebrahim Moosa - Opinion | 21 February 2017 Just mention Jacob Zuma, and for many South Africans a reel of largely negative images begin to crystalize in the mind’s eye. 783 counts of corruption, the Nkandla cattle kraal and firepool, the insensitive giggle…It would be...
The Dirty Politician that lives within us
Yusuf Omar - Opinion | 8 February 2017. Politics is not an easy game to play. At the same time, it’s not easy to just walk off the field. On the one hand, there is a need to follow stories and issues that affect our lives and the lives of others however, on the other...
Trump will bring peace to this crazy planet
Yusuf Omar - Opinion | 31 January 2017. US president, Donald Trump, recently signed an executive order that he claims would keep radical Islamists out of the country. The effect of this rather bold move brings a 90 day ban on foreign nationals from seven...
A poetic letter to Muslims of America
Dearest Muslims of America... I know it's easy for us to hear Trump and just laugh But we don't know the concerns you have about your headscarf It's easy for us to say Trump is a man we never feared But we ain't you sitting in America wondering about our beard ...