By Surkheel Abu Aaliyah Niels Bohr, a founding father of quantum physics, is once said to have remarked that anyone who is not mind boggled by quantum physics, hasn’t really understood it. So let’s have a stab at trying to… Read More ›
Gai Eaton
Thought for the day
The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to “think for himself” and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions… Read More ›
In an Islamic society political sovereignty belongs only to God
The belief that God is the sole Legislator flows directly from the Muslim confession of faith, la ilaha illa ‘Llah, which can be interpreted as meaning that ‘there is no legislator but the Legislator’. The message embodied in the Qur’an… Read More ›
The grandfather of British Islam
I came across this picture of the final resting place of Gai Eaton. He is buried in the Muslim Section of Brookwood Cemetery. Reading his sublime work Islam and the Destiny of Man was central to my conversion to Islam.
Submission
“Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and… Read More ›
An awareness of differences is an aspect of intelligence, an aspect of being human.
When westerners, while paying lip-service to the spiritual aspects of Islam, denounce the Islamic social system… they are acting true to form. The imperial tradition did not expire in the 1950s. It changed its focus, and the triumphant civilization still… Read More ›
Seeing objectively
“People are not always what they say there are – or even what they think they are. There is but One who sees us objectively, and we have reason to be thankful that He is called the Merciful, the Compassionate,… Read More ›
The modern illusion of individual belief
“The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to “think for himself” and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions… Read More ›
Human beings and the vastness of space
Among the comedies of misunderstanding which can arise between people of different cultures none is more frustrating than the situation in which two people say the same thing in almost the same words and mean quite different things by what… Read More ›
Submission
“Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and… Read More ›
Recommended blog: “The Quran and the Bible”
I have just discovered this excellent Muslim blog by brother Faiz. Just click on the screengrab:
Islam and the Irish Referendum on same sex-marriage.
The Irish Referendum on same sex-marriage: Divine guidance, democracy and the psychological virus. Gai Eaton died in 2010 at the age of eighty-nine leaving behind a body of work that continues to inspire Muslims and all seekers of truth from around… Read More ›
A hadith
The Prophet (pbuh) is reported to have said, “In the times in which you are living, anyone who abandons a tenth of what he is commanded will perish; but a time is coming when anyone who does a tenth of… Read More ›
