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A nikah is, in its essentials, remarkably simple. An offer, an acceptance, two witnesses, a mahr, and two people who both want it. Everything else — the hall, the caterer, the three-day programme — is culture, and culture is not obligation. ...

Almost nobody reads about this before they need it. Then a phone call comes at four in the morning, the family is in shock, and someone has to make decisions within hours — because in Islam burial is not delayed. This is a practical guide t...

For most British Muslims the pilgrimage is the single largest religious undertaking of their lives, and also the most expensive thing they will ever buy apart from a house. It deserves to be approached with the same care you would give a mortgage,...

Most of us learned the darood before we understood it. It sits inside every salah, recited in the final sitting, and for many people that is where it stays — a passage learned by sound, repeated for decades, never really examined. Tha...

Ask most people what stops them praying properly and they will name something external — work, tiredness, the phone. The Quran is less interested in those. It points at something closer: the nafs, the self, the part of you that want...

Most parents teach their children religion the way they were taught: a bit of Quran after school, a reminder to pray when someone remembers, and a sharp increase in pressure around the age of eleven when it becomes clear the habit has not formed....

There is a version of religious practice that is entirely external. The prayers are performed, the fasts are kept, the beard or the scarf is in place — and the person is no easier to live with than they were ten years ago. Still quick to ang...

Walk past a community hall in Longsight on a Thursday evening in Rabi al-Awwal and you may hear it before you see anything: a single voice, unaccompanied, carrying a line of Urdu poetry, and then a room of two hundred people answering it. For a gr...

Every generation of parents believes its own to be uniquely difficult. Muslim parents raising children today have a reasonable case. Their children carry a phone that offers unlimited access to material no previous generation had to contend with, ...

Friday occupies a distinct place in the Muslim week. It is not a sabbath in the sense of a day on which work stops entirely, but it carries an obligation that no other day does: the congregational prayer known as Jumu’ah, which replaces the ...

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