A massive explosion devastated the port city of Beirut on Tuesday 4th August, killing at least 200 people, injuring over 6,000, and leaving hundreds of people homeless and missing as thousands of homes were reduced to rubble.

Animals were subjected to a string of brutal attacks at a farm that sells goats’ milk to Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and other supermarkets, footage from hidden cameras has revealed. Goats were seen on video being punched, kicked, hit with a pole and slammed onto their backs at a plant that supplies St Helen’s Farm, in East Yorkshire. (Source: The Independent 27/07/2020)

As we enter the blessed month of Dhul-Hijjah we are reminded of the sacrifices of Khalilullah, Ibrahim (as) as he left his baby son and wife in the barren desert between Safa and Marwa.  We remember that years later he and his son Ismail (as) built the Kaa’ba. We recall how Ibrahim (as) stoned the Shaitan and in obedience to Allah (swt) was prepared to sacrifice his son without hesitation.

Allah (swt) describes the Ummah as the best and most unique community ever created. Islam has the solutions to all human problems. But although the Islamic Ummah has the solutions to each of these problems, it is evident that without a state that implements these solutions and that conveys these solutions to all of humanity