Don’t Just Say “Insha Allah”, Make It So!

By Paul Salahuddin Armstrong As Muslims, it is our custom to say "insha Allah" (God willing) whenever we agree to do something. The sad thing is, many brothers and sisters today, just say "insha Allah" even if they have no intention whatsoever, of doing that which they are agreeing to do. If you really are…Read more Don’t Just Say “Insha Allah”, Make It So!

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Happy New Year 2013

Calling Southern Baptists to the Way of Jesus

The Last Day?

By Paul Salahuddin Armstrong The Last Day? Sometimes people can be swept into a frenzy over nothing... The world will undoubtedly end eventually, but it's senseless constantly worrying about it, no one knows the hour. Each of our lives will most likely come to an end, long before then, just as those of our ancestors…Read more The Last Day?

So Peace Is On Me

I've been reflecting on a most interesting speech, by a great American General and President, a tremendous man to whom we in Britain and Europe owe in great part, our 20th Century deliverance from Nazi aggression. While the Soviet Union is thankfully no more, the "Chance for Peace" speech by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower…Read more So Peace Is On Me

Happy Winter Solstice! (2012)

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem: "Now among His signs are the night and the day, as well as the sun and the moon: [hence,] adore not the sun or the moon, but prostrate yourselves in adoration before God, who has created them - if it is Him whom you [really] worship. And though some be too proud…Read more Happy Winter Solstice! (2012)

If I could finish reading all these books…

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem: As the timeless words of Allah SWT, the Holy Quran is unlike any other. The study guide for life, death, and what then follows. Therefore, it most assuredly deserves a great deal more careful study than any other book, necessitating the reader return to the early narrations of those who witnessed its…Read more If I could finish reading all these books…

Give Peace a Chance

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem Aggression feeds further anger and hatred, continuing ongoing violence... Leaders on both sides in Palestine and Israel need to calm down and sit around a table, and AGREE a permanent settlement to end SIX DECADES of violence. Which eventually, at some point they must. The longer that takes, gives some indication of…Read more Give Peace a Chance