Anse’s Blogs

Tuesday, April 15th, 2014 Did you pay your taxes? April 15th is ‘tax day’ in the USA. It is the deadline for filing forms that report on income and spending for the previous year. Procrastinators across the USA scramble to finish their forms and file them all day long today. What if we were to […]

Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 Tame your tongue The birds are singing in the morning and freshness is pervasive. Spring has sprung. Many women will begin to eye their stuffy homes with mop and scrub brush in hand. Warm and toasty woolen blankets will begin to look unbearable, and will be washed and packed away. Spring

January 9, 1960 – April 1, 2014 Maryam grew up in the English countryside, and could tell me the name of any flower I wondered about. As a mother of five, she and her husband opened her home to dawah – calling it a ‘dawah center’ and exchanged tending the flowers of the country with

Tuesday, April 1st, 2014 Maryam grew up in the English countryside, and could tell me the name of any flower I wondered about. As a mother of five, she and her husband opened her home to daʿwa – calling it a ‘dawah center’ and exchanged tending the flowers of the country with tending the hearts

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014 Grudges How many grudges do you carry in your heart? Are you calling them to mind? Against whom do you hold a grudge? Are those grudges helping you on your spiritual path? In a series of instructions to believers, Allah (swt) says in Sūrat Āl ʿImrān, {Who spend during ease and

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014 Respect The Prophet ﷺ said, “He is not of my umma, who does not honor/respect our elders, have mercy on our young, and know the right of our scholars” {Musnad al-Imām Aḥmad}. ليس من أمتي من لم يجل كبيرنا ويرحم صغيرنا ويعرف لعالمنا حقه مسند الإمام أحمد These are strong words.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 Fear. We live in an age of fear. We are afraid of what people will say, afraid of what the weather might be tomorrow, and afraid of how the economy might go next year. We are afraid to eat the chocolate cake, afraid to step on the scale and afraid to

Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 “Love is what turns bitter to sweet, dirt into gold, murkiness into clarity, pain into cure, prison into meadow, sickness into blessing and compulsion into mercy. It is that which softens iron, melts rock, resurrects the dead and turns slave master. All patients wish for cure from their disease except for

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is the ideal example of character, the epitome of inner beauty, and the quintessence of good behavior. Yet we struggle with patience, trustworthiness and kindness. We cover our faces with make-up to hide the spiritual darkness. And we are often heard yelling, seen rolling our eyes, and found

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28th, 2014 All over England I see wrap scarves of various shades, long flowing scarves covered in flowers, black scarves and white scarves, striped scarves and spotted scarves. The landscape is covered with a garden of hijabī women. The hijab is under attack in Montreal, it is forbidden in French public institutions (including