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In Defence of Sayyid Qutb Against the Charge of Communism
A Man Hanged by Socialists and Accused of Socialism In the early hours of 29 August 1966, the Egyptian state hanged a sixty year old man who had memorised the Quran as a village…
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Taking Others as Lords: Parliaments
In every Muslim country today there is a building where a few hundred people vote on what citizens may do and what they must avoid, and once the votes are counted the result becomes…
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The Burning Child and the Silent Pulpits
Look at her. A little girl from Gaza sits wrapped in a blanket while fire swallows the walls around her, and in the next frame she lies in a hospital bed with burns across…
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The Ummah Unites Only Upon Tawhid
The Muslims today are great in number and light in weight. They are spread across more than fifty states, each with its own flag, its own border and its own loyalty, and every few…
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Harf Devrimi: Bir Reddiye
1 Kasım 1928’de Meclis’te kabul edilen ve 3 Kasım’da Resmî Gazete’de yayımlanan 1353 sayılı kanun, Türkçeyi yazmak için yaklaşık bin yıldır kullanılan Arap harflerini kaldırıp yerine Latin esasından alınan yeni harfleri getirmiş, devlet dairelerinden…
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Palestine Belongs to the Whole Ummah
For more than a hundred years the land of al Masjid al Aqsa has been bleeding in front of the eyes of almost two billion Muslims, and for more than a hundred years those…
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Selling the Cage as Freedom
To keep a bird in a cage you have two choices. You can catch it by force and shut the door behind it, and then it will beat its wings against the bars for…
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The Necessity of Political Parties and Their Permissibility in the Sharia
Are political parties lawful in Islam? This article argues that forming and joining them is permissible in the Sharia, and in this age necessary. Building on Āl ʿImrān 3:104, the Pledge of ʿAqaba and…
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Boycott Without a State is a Wound Without a Body
Boycott is obligatory. Bukhārī records a Companion cutting Makkah’s grain, no ruler’s command needed. Ibn Taymiyyah names trading with the enemy’s economy as aiding sin. Fifty Jordanian scholars, the IUMS, Indonesia’s MUI all ruled…
