Articles written by Abdul Hakim Murad:
British and Muslim?
From Drury Lane to Makka
Abdal-Hakim Murad recounts the tale of theatrical scene painter, Hedley Churchward, who in 1910 became the first confirmed British convert to Islam to make the Hajj pilgrimage.
The Fall of the Family (Part II)
By Abdal-Hakim Murad
"Many houses have become more like dormitories than homes. Mealtimes are desultory, tin-opening affairs; both parents are too exhausted to spend "quality time" with active children; and the sense of belonging to the house and to each other is sadly attenuated. By the time children leave home, they feel they are not leaving very much."
Boys will be Boys - Gender identity issues
"Walaysa al-dhakaru ka’l-untha, says the Qur’an: the male is not like the female. This is why we say, respectfully ignoring the protests of old-fashioned feminists, that men and women, in a God-fearing society, will tend towards different concerns and spheres of activity. Our aim, after all, is human happiness, not political correctness."
By Abdal-Hakim Murad.
The Fall of the Family (Part I)
"Back in the 1950s and early 1960s, British family values were still recognisably derived from a great religious tradition rooted in the family-nurturing Abrahamic soil. While the doctrinal debates between Islam and Christianity remained sharp, the moral and social assumptions of the "guest-workers" and their "hosts" were in most respects reassuringly and productively similar. That overlap has now almost gone."
Abdal-Hakim Murad
British and Muslim?
Unsettled, discontented second generation Asian immigrant Muslims in Britain tend to "locate their radicalism not primarily in a spiritual, but in social and political rejection of the oppressive order around them. Their unsettled and agitated mood is not always congenial to the recent convert, who may, despite the cultural distance, feel more comfortable with the first rather than the second generation of migrants, preferring their God-centered religion to what is often the troubled, identity-seeking Islam of the young".
By convert to Islam, Abdal-Hakim Murad.
Bin Laden's violence is a heresy against Islam
"Mainstream theologians have come out unanimously against the terrorists. What we must now ask them is to campaign more strongly against the aberrant doctrines that underpin them", writes British Muslim convert scholar, Abdal-Hakim Murad.
Recapturing Islam from the Terrorists
"Muslims cannot deny forever that doctrinal extremism can lead to political extremism. They must realise that it is traditional Islam, the only possible alternative to their position, which owns rich resources for the respectful acknowledgement of difference within itself, and with unbelievers."
by British convert to Islam, Abdal-Hakim Murad, 14 September 2001
The poverty of fanatacism
"The Islamic movement risks ceasing to form an authentic summons to cultural and spiritual renewal, and existing as little more than a splintered array of maniacal factions. The prospect of such an appalling and humiliating end to the story of a religion which once surpassed all others in its capacity for tolerating debate and dissent is now a real possibility."
By British convert to Islam, Abdal-Hakim Murad.
The Trinity - a Muslim Perspective
A lecture by Abdal-Hakim Murad given to a group of Christians in Oxford, England.
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