Articles On Islam

RECLAIMING OUR RELIGION Being a muslim we need to reclaim our religion from the prongs of a strict interpretation, we are witnessing attempts to make this strict ideology the one and only accepted face of Islam. We have seen what...

“The Missing Muslims: Unlocking the British Muslim potential for the benefit of all” , a report by the Citizens UK Commission on Islam, Participation & Public Life, is yet another report into “the Muslims”, which follows a familiar theme....

THE ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE by Johnson Ayomide To speak gratitude is curteous and pleasant, To enact gratitude is gorgeous and noble, But to live gratitude is to touch heaven and make it a save haven. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues after Piety, But...

Click here for previous session       Ahem. Where was I? Oh, yes … So picture the church fathers, some three hundred years following the ministry of Jesus, being handed the Trinity—a mystical invention they simply could not recognize as the doctrinal child conceived through the teachings of Jesus. How did the church handle the dissenting bishops? It exiled them, along with Arius, after which none of the others dared to deny the doctrine. 109 Only after overcoming Arius and other prominent Unitarians were the Trinity and the Nicene Creed...

Click here for previous session     One may wonder what, from the New Testament, separates these two groups by such a vast expanse of understanding. Trinitarians, Unitarians and Muslims all claim to follow the teachings of Jesus. But who really does, and who doesn’t? For centuries the argument has been advanced that Trinitarians follow Pauline theology in preference to that of Jesus. This charge is difficult to deny, for Jesus taught Old Testament Law whereas Paul negated it. Jesus preached orthodox Jewish creed; Paul preached mysteries of faith. Jesus spoke of accountability; Paul proposed justification by faith. Jesus described himself as an ethnic prophet; Paul defined...

Click here for previous session     Dr. C.J. Scofield, D.D., backed by eight other Doctorates of Divinity, asserts the above even more clearly in his footnote to this verse: “It is generally agreed that this verse has no manuscript authority and has been inserted.”131 “Generally agreed”? In the words of Professors Kurt and Barbara Aland, “A glance at the data in the critical apparatus of Nestle­Aland (which is exhaustive for this passage) should make any further comment unnecessary to demonstrate the secondary nature of this addition and the impossibility of its being at all related to the...

Read previous part here # Don’t Expect From Others: Another factor that hurts the most, brings stress into life and breaks the relations that bring happiness is the expecting from others. We as humans tend to expect from other people and...

Purifying our hearts is the key to success in the sight of Allah SWT  “He has succeeded who purifies himself, who remembers the name of his Lord and prays.” (Surah Al-A’la 87:14-15) What is a pure heart? The Prophet SAWS taught,...

And We adorned the nearest (LOWEST) heaven with lamps (stars) to be an adornment as well as to guard (from the devils by using them as missiles against the devils). Such is the Decree of Him the All-Mighty, the...

The creator of the universe has made the world and its content diverse in nature, such that He created us into categories of physical, habitual and intellectual differences. We have the black or white race, of which within the two...