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Posts from ‘April, 2011’

Conversion or Metamorphoses?

Written by Tabbasam Hamid
After watching the BBC’s ‘My Brother, the Islamist’ last week, I was reading some of the comments that had been posted on the BBC blog site, and they seemed to somewhat mirror the tone of Robb Leech’s own experience: mothers grieving for lost sons, friends and relatives distraught [...]

The power of Ayat-al-Qursi

Written by Tabassam Hamid
Sometimes, aspirations and idyllic dreams are burnt to an ash, blown away, and we are left to despair.
In moments of turmoil, suffering, and distress, where is there to turn to relieve us of the intensity of our suffering? It consumes our horizon, this pain. It soars over us with its crushing greyness. [...]