Jihad Hashim Brown Archive
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Nov 20, 2010
The debate surrounding divine action as an influence on the physical processes of the natural world will continue to be a point of contention as long as differing ideological camps compete with one another for ascendancy in the battle for explanatory authority. Read Article Divine action in a world of science
Nov 13, 2010
Sometimes you have to abandon something that is within reach to maintain the moral health of your inner constitution. Read Article It takes sacrifice to be ethical
Nov 06, 2010
Our collective habit of fact-avoidance prevents a more enlightened, more peaceful future. And the tension and confliction of what actually transpired remains in the hearts of the witnesses. Read Article We need to learn from our mistakes
Oct 30, 2010
For anyone, Muslims included, who operates under the assumption that Islam gives a husband licence to beat his wife, this is a misreading of the Quran. Read Article Domestic abuse is not condoned by Islam
Oct 16, 2010
We all live in the same space, in the same world, and experience the same reality. Nothing else makes sense. The differences lie in how to interpret that reality. Read Article The unity of religious experience
Oct 09, 2010
One of my Shaykhs once told me that the value of the path to God is indicated by the number of highwaymen along its road. Read Article Stand and deliver, your religion or your life
Sep 25, 2010
Unfortunately, in an unprecedented loss of nerve, many Middle-class and elite Muslims have contracted more islamophobia than the islamophobes. Read Article Are Muslims afraid of their own shadow?
Aug 28, 2010
The Quran is explicit that it is forbidden for one Muslim to kill another; and the punishment for such a crime is damnation. Read Article The killing fields of Ramadan in Iraq
Aug 21, 2010
Disciplining the soul to distance itself from animal passion lightens its being and lifts it away from the heavy, opaque, materiality of its existence and toward something more ethereal. Read Article Looking into the core of Ramadan
Aug 14, 2010
A person without understanding of the reality around him is easily cowed by the darkness of what he does not know. He is easily manipulated and unable to chart his own course through the world. Read Article Rethinking the meaning of Muslim, part six
