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QaysArthur.net 7 Days Away

I am happy to announce that the new website will be called QaysArthur.net: ...my main focus with this website is students- past, present, and potential. This site is about a continued relationship...

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New Website on the Way

Robert Fisk: Turkey's long road to reconciliation | The Independent

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How Can God...?

The question of free will is a theological difficulty. Sunni Theologians have always maintained that its reality lies at the very limit of human intellectual capacity and it is not something that is...

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The Light of Theology

Does it Make Sense...


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Reading Huxley's Brave New World

Subhan Allah. I've finally gotten around to reading Huxley's Brave New World and it is more disturbing than Orwell's 1984 . The parallels between the world of the book and the world in 2012 are...

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CableGate Libya & the Arab Spring

The Focus of Islamists

R.I.P. Ethics

A Note on Political Theory

Note on Wael Ghonim's Letter to Tantawi


Spirituality

The Gnostic & the World

From today's lesson; the one who knows Allah (the gnostic) has no dunya. This, in the Shadhili path, isn't due to the utter absence of worldly possessions or comforts from the life of the gnostic but...

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Arrogance

The Night of Arafah

The Second Basis

First Basis

Being Self Pleased


Law

Thirteen Sunnas of Eid ul-Fitr

Thirteen things are sunnah on the day of Eid ul-Fitr (from Heavenly Ornaments of Imam Ashraf al-Tahanawi): Thirteen things are sunnah on the day of Eid ul-Fitr: (i) To adorn oneself according to the...

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On Professor Abou El Fadl's Shariah

Shaykh Zakariyya Kaandhlawi on Dhikr

The Independent, Rape & Marriage: Musings of a Student of Law

What are muslim women entitled to after a divorce?

Brothers!


Tech

LifeStyle | e-Reading | Why e-Readers

I recently purchased an e-book reader on eBay and have been most pleased with the results. It has enabled me to carry a library of books around in my bag in a format that I can actually read. The...

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Why Debian GNU/Linux


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Parenting: Arguably the Most Important Rule

So one could say that arguably the most important rule of parenting has nothing at all to do with the child. And that rule is what was mentioned by Imam Abi Abdillah Al-Muhasibi (Allah shower him in...

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Parenting and Life: First Thoughts


Poetry

The Frowns of Clowns

A poem I wrote sometime around 2000. The Frowns of Clowns Flickering flight of fear, thunder and rain, sights of Death duly contained in a Living-room set with cathartic clowns fickle wearing faces...

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Ortiz's Moment of Silence


Podcast

Obama's Message Part 4

In this, the final epidsode I present the picture that emerges when Obama's message is looked at as a whole and demonstrate why it is in fact more of the same American imperialism that should be...

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Obama's Message Part 3

Obama's Message Part 2

Obama's Message Part 1


Video

Another Important Video

I am firmly convinced that an important part of Muslim nations' succeeding in the future is in studying the history of the US, not as a "great satan" but as a nation which started with...

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Qibla Free Event: Freedom, Virtue, and the Good Life

Important Video UPDATED

Al-Habib Ali Jifri | Major Events Before The Birth Of Muhammad