Salam and Jummah Mubarak 🙏🏻🕌 “The learned understands the ignorant for they were once ignorant themselves. The ignorant does not understand the learned for they have never been learned themselves.” “Orang yang alim mengetahui orang yang bodoh karena dia dahulunya adalah orang yang bodoh, sedangkan orang yang bodoh tidak mengetahui orang yang alim karena dia…Read more Ignorance and Wisdom
Islam
British Islam
Navigating the Intersection between Islam and Culture. Join me at the London Central Mosque on 15th December 2022 for my lecture on British Islam: Navigating the Intersection between Islam and Culture. Click below to register:https://www.iccuk.org/page.php?section=education&page=librarylecture
Sohbet and Sufi Meditation 05.12.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “Whoever does good deeds, whether—man or woman—and is a believer, they will live a good life and will surely receive their reward in according with the best they have done.”~ Holy Quran 16:92 (Safi Kaskas) “The most perfect man in religion is one who excels in character. The best of you are…Read more Sohbet and Sufi Meditation 05.12.2022
Weekend Reflections 04.12.2022
Salam alaikum! This week I discuss the Limitations of the Human Mind, reading from Irshad: Wisdom of a Sufi Master by Shaykh Muzaffer Ozak Al-Jerrahi (1988), pages 421-4. https://youtu.be/q9RNTdsG4lY Recorded live on 4th December 2022
Friday Reflections 18.11.2022
Salam alaikum and Jummah Mubarak! I read about Concepts that Undermine Peace, from Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah's book, “The Path of Peace: A Vision for a Peaceful World” (2022), pages 18-29. May Allah ﷻ grant us a better and more profound understanding of Islam and to be among the peacemakers. Amin. 🤲🏻 https://youtu.be/YupxIC5cvQ4 Recorded live…Read more Friday Reflections 18.11.2022
Sohbet and Sufi Meditation 14.11.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “Believers, avoid being suspicious. Some suspicions are sinful. And don’t spy or backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? No, you would hate it. So remain mindful of God. God is the Acceptor of repentance, the Mercy giver.”~ Holy Quran 49:12 (Safi Kaskas)…Read more Sohbet and Sufi Meditation 14.11.2022
Sohbet and Sufi Meditation 07.11.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “We have only sent you (Prophet) as a mercy to the worlds.”~ Holy Quran 21:107 (Safi Kaskas) In this week's sohbet I discuss how to handle situations where people have bad habits or addictions. While these may be sinful, questioning a person's faith or screaming “haram” at them are neither the wisest…Read more Sohbet and Sufi Meditation 07.11.2022
God Loves You
When we face hardship and difficulties, we can stray from the remembrance and appreciation of God... Though these are precisely those moments when nothing could be more important or more comforting. Whatever difficulties we face in life, never forget God loves you, He created you and gave you life. If we allow ourselves to drown…Read more God Loves You
Friday Reflections 04.11.2022
Salam alaikum and Jummah Mubarak! I read and discuss the Forty-Fourth Discourse of Shaykh Abdul-Qadir Al-Jilani from the book, “The Sublime Revelation” (Al-Fath ar-Rabbani), pages 280-285 in my copy of the book, translated by Muhtar Holland (1992). May Allah ﷻ grant that we may be successful in this life and in the hereafter, and guard…Read more Friday Reflections 04.11.2022
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 