Tag: Manchester

Manchester sits at roughly 53.5 degrees north. That single fact explains almost everything about why prayer times here behave so differently from those in Lahore, Cairo or Casablanca — and why a timetable printed for one British city cannot simply...

A large number of British Muslims can decode Arabic script without understanding a word of it. They were taught to read at seven, finished the Quran at ten, and have recited for the thirty years since without the text ever opening up. That is the ...

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...

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...

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