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Welcome to The Red Umbrella, a podcast that explores questions of Islam in our modern world. Each episode will seek to understand Islam's moral, spiritual and socio-political voice[s], as they relate to the concerns and aspirations of humanity today.
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Moral Rules Do Not Replace the Need to Clean-Up Inside: (opens the original)
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MORALITY – the rules, values and standards that guide us to know right from wrong, good from bad, or virtue from vice – might be said to be of three kinds. There is a kind of morality needed to guide society. This is through knowing that there are certain shared values and standards of behaving […]
New PDF: Taqlid and Madhhabs: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly (opens the original)
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This booklet explores the place of taqlid and the madhhabs within mainstream Islam, and how attitudes towards both have been considerably warped and distorted in recent decades. Drawing upon the classical scholarly tradition, it seeks to correct common misconceptions, myths, half-truths and clear falsehoods in this matter. It will further try and recover the proper […]
Pitfalls for the Practicing Muslim PDF Booklet (opens the original)
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From the introduction: For converts, learning how to gradually grow into an observant, ‘practicing’ Muslim has a host of complex challenges. For those born into Muslim families, the journey towards becoming practicing presents its own set of hurdles. Once practicing, however, both the convert and born Muslim are exposed to the same set of pitfalls […]
Outward Obsessions (opens the original)
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Let’s start with two hadiths to set the tone. The first is the Prophet’s words ﷺ: ‘No one who has even an atom’s weight of arrogance in his heart shall enter Paradise.’1 The other is the Prophet’s ﷺ words — when he saw some people performing wudu’, but not washing their heels properly: ‘Woe to […]
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