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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 boy, who had finished his tafsir of the Book of Allah inside a prison cell, whose death sentence was passed in…
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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 law, enforced by police, courts and schools on everyone, whatever the Quran and the Sunnah say about the same matter. Most…
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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 her face, staring into the camera with eyes that ask the whole Ummah one question. Where were you? Where were the…
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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 years a new summit, a new alliance or a new slogan promises to bring them together before it falls apart like…
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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 gazetelere, ticaret defterlerinden okullara kadar herkesi bu harflere geçmeye mecbur kılmıştır [1]. Bu karara bugün sahip çıkanlar genellikle şunları söyler: Geçiş…
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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 Muslims have been taught to watch it like spectators watching a match in a foreign league. Children are pulled from under…
