Medicine Men
‘Anyone who practices medicine but is not known as a practitioner, and injures a person or inflicts harm on him, will be held liable.’ This statement, purportedly referred to as a Prophetic ḥadith has been...
Scholarship
Attendance at Friday prayers
With several mosques, particularly in London, closing their doors despite any government injunction to do so, several questions have been raised about the viability of convening Friday congregational prayers, Jummah, in other locations. Many have...
The Magician
Amorbid fascination with the occult doesn’t seem to be limited to a particular society or civilisation. For some sections of the Muslim Ummah, the ‘supernatural’ occupies a place quite centre stage, at times with a...
A sickness, unto death
‘If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs’ [dropcap]R[/dropcap]endered in the famous lines of ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), these seem apt words for the year 2020. Unlike...
Thus spoke Ruwaybidah?
Are we witnessing one of the portents relating to the final hour? The aḥādith of the ‘Ruwaybiḍah’ is often mentioned in various contexts and has been feature of traditional Islamic works of ‘Fitan,’ relating to...