Last week at Speakers’ Corner
Islam
What is the Sunna?
“Sunna” is the Arabic term for the prophet Muhammad’s way of life and legal precedent. It comes from the pre-Islamic Arab notion of Sunna as the way of life of a tribe, which is reflected in the Qur’an’s use of… Read More ›
How to Explain the Sharia to Your Christian Neighbor
By DANIEL HAQIQATJOU In order to explain the Sharia to your Christian neighbor, simply ask this series of questions: Do you believe in God? If so, do you believe that God loves humanity? If so, do you believe that God wants… Read More ›
A Secular Muslim
A Secular Muslim is someone who believes that the Creator was sufficient enough to set highly calculated mathematical and physical laws that organize planets in their orbit, but wasn’t sufficient enough to create laws that organise the human society.
The Divine order
An unpopular view, but it is there in the Jewish Bible, the New Testament, the Qur’an and the hadith. There are a number of caveats but fundamentality that’s the way it should be wa-Allahu A’alam.
Unpopular opinion: this hadith is not just speaking about patriarchy, but hierarchy too. ‘Islamic feminism’ and egalitarianism are un-Islamic
Our Prophet ﷺ said: ‘Indeed, each of you is a shepherd, and each of you is responsible for their flock. The ruler is a shepherd over the people, and is responsible for his subjects. A man is a shepherd over… Read More ›
