Every Ramadan, the mosques fill up. Taraweeh queues stretch out the door. Quran apps rack up reading streaks. Khatms get completed. By all outward appearances, this is the month of the Quran. But there is a question worth sitting with honestly: does any of it actually land? Allah (swt) says in Surah al-Hashr: Had We sent down this Quran on a mountain, you would surely have seen it humbling itself and crumbling from the fear of Allah. Such are the parables We put forward for mankind that they may reflect59:21 A mountain. If the Quran had been sent to a…
Author: Editorial Team
Dubai sells itself as the crown jewel of modern Muslim world. Gleaming towers, halal brunch menus and five-star mosques but for Muslims paying attention, the picture emerging in 2026 is something else entirely. The UAE is not a beacon of Islamic life. It is a state that has repeatedly worked against the interests of Muslims worldwide and it’s time we talked about that. While Gaza Burned, Dubai Offered Soldiers a Holiday Let that sink in. As the world watched the horror unfold in Gaza, Israeli soldiers were boarding FlyDubai flights for a rest break in Dubai. Reports citing Hebrew media…
Three million pages. Thousands of images and videos. Released by the US Department of Justice in January 2026, the Epstein files didn’t just expose one man, they blew the lid off the world that runs your life. Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender and trafficker of women and girls. He pleaded guilty. He went to prison. And then, the most powerful people on the planet kept his number in their phone. Peter Mandelson, a man Keir Starmer chose to represent Britain in Washington as recently as December 2024 allegedly sent supportive messages to Epstein while he was behind bars,…
🎧 Audio Discussion Included The NSS presents a sharply nationalist and realist reorientation of the execution of the American grand strategy. Its central argument is that the U.S. foreign policy – since the end of the Cold War – has lost its strategic discipline by pursuing global dominance, liberal internationalism, free trade orthodoxy, democracy promotion, and open-ended security commitments that exceeded America’s resources and weakened its domestic foundations. The post WW2 era was dominated by an ideological struggle with the USSR and communism. This required the US to support and strengthen Europe in this battle and established an order with global…
🎧 Audio Discussion Included September 20th saw the largest gathering of the far right in the UK for many decades, with up to 150k people marching in Central London. The Unite the Kingdom march was organized by Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon. This march followed race riots in the summer of 2024, after 3 young girls were stabbed to death. The far right spread misinformation that the killer was a Muslim immigrant and immigrant centres, mosques were attacked over a two week period across the country. The killer was neither an immigrant nor Muslim. Shortly before the recent big…
🎧 Audio Discussion Included In February of 2022, China and Russia announced, an historic agreement to embark upon a strategic “no limits” partnership as a signal for the beginning of a new era in global international affairs, driven by technology transformations and globalised economic supply chains, and characterised by multipolarity, as opposed to the domination of the US-led Western exceptionalist global order of the preceding three decades. In a state visit to Russia in March 2023 Xi Jinping said to Vladimir Putin “There are changes happening, the likes of which we haven’t seen for a hundred years. Let’s drive those changes…