The Qur’an talks of a time when 'the sky breaks, when the stars are scattered, when the seas burst forth.' When the 'sun is rolled up, when the stars are dimmed.' When hell is made to blaze. The IPCC recently warned that ongoing climate breakdown - extreme weather, rising sea levels, food insecurity, mass displacement - may be irreversible by the time of their next report in 2030.
Read More‘Subtlety of Tawhid can be explained, But what, if your mind is a house of idols.’ (Muhammad Iqbal)
Ramadan is abstinence. In desisting from desires that in excess debase us - food, sexual relations. And acts of disobedience that have distanced us from our creator. We break with the idols that have for a time satiated our nuffs and insecurities. Once emptied, we return to Allah. His book as our companion. And Salah as redemption.
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In Johnny Pitts' Afroeuropean, we see a new multiracial class in formation. This new Europe - Afroeurope, Muslim Europe, World Europe - shows the possibilities of a continental wide solidarity between the oppressed, the dispossessed, the mustadaefeen of Paris, Warsaw and Berlin.