Strength and cowardice are often misunderstood. They are sometimes wrongly attributed to dominance. The strong are the ones who are dominant. The weak who wield little influence. While these are indeed long-term results of strength and cowardice, they often mislead in the short term especially when judging individuals.....

Allah (swt) Al-Qawwi. Al-Aziz said in His revealed Book, the Noble Quran, (وَمَا النَّصْرُ إِلاَّ مِنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ الْعَزِيزِ الْحَكِيمِ) “And there is no victory except from Allah the Almighty, the All-Wise.” [Surah Aali-Imran 3:126] And He (swt) said in the Book in which there is no doubt within it . (إِن يَنصُرْكُمُ اللَّهُ فَلاَ غَالِبَ لَكُمْ وَإِن يَخْذُلْكُمْ فَمَن ذَا الَّذِى يَنصُرُكُم مِّنْ بَعْدِهِ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ) “If…

In a declined society hit by crisis after crisis, the first signs of revival are caused by the crisis itself. What the crisis does is shake the society into thinking about what went wrong. Although this thinking process is spread across the whole of society, it is generally more refined among the intellectual circles and thought leaders. Societies can turn crisis into opportunities but the prerequisite is correct diagnosis of…

Sisters if I made the suggestion to you that a 4 year old boy who drew a cucumber and mispronounced its name, could be considered to be in need of referral to a de-radicalisation programme, you might in another world sadly accuse me of bordering on insanity. However we live in 2016 in the UK and it is at this moment in time, that the child in this case actually…