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This is our third Ramadan in Finland. Each year, there’s always something new we learn from the experience. This year, most Ramadan is taking place while school is still open. 2km each way walking from home to school, it is tough. Being among the small minority at school, they have …

Photo credit to KMSS Media Unit A muslim speaks well. They choose good words to speak their mind and heart. To speak well is to be well educated and to be cultured. O you who have believed, fear Allah and speak words of appropriate justice. [al-Ahzāb 33: 70] It is …

khalifahschool.com Is my school Islamic enough? This is the toughest question to answer. Even with the Douglass and Shaikh’s article, plus the guideline given by Shaykh Ramzy Ajem which I found very beneficial for me to start with, I found the question of ‘Islamic enough’, questions my own understanding about …

“You neither eat nor drink the whole day?” Tan asked me. “Yes. The whole day. But not at night. Only from dawn to sunset” I replied. “How can you survive? Can you survive?” Tan asked again. “Well, it’s not just you. Even Habib Bourguiba, the late President of Tunisia who …

A topic to be discussed in a halaqah or usrah “Hmm.. Allah had saved the grossly ignorant dwellers of Makkah who had not only tarnished Masjidil Haram with more than 300 idols but also performed circumambulation around it naked! Still, Allah had saved them from the attacks of Abrahah’s Elephant Army,” I …

“Quite against my will, my lecturer has managed to convince me that the Theory of Evolution is actually true. I felt very uncomfortable in class” said Nazri, one of my fellow coursemates. “The point now is to figure out whether or not the Theory of Evolution is really against the …

Orientalism was and always one of my favourite subjects. It helps my understanding and challenges my ability to analyse current events such as the Zionist crime in Palestine, under the shade of role played by the ‘experts’ behind the scene. Our main figures among the Orientalists whom we analyse their …