Paul Ryan takes picture with interns on Capitol Hill

Allah the Exalted has said in Surat Al ‘Imran (3:98-101): Say, ‘People of the Book, why do you reject Allah’s Signs when Allah is witness of everything you do?’ Say, ‘People of the Book, why do you bar those who have iman from the Way of Allah, desiring to make it crooked, when you yourselves…

Allah the Exalted declares in Ash-Shura (42:11-12): What you call the mushrikun to follow is very hard for them. Allah chooses for Himself anyone He wills and guides to Himself those who turn to Him. They only split up after knowledge came to them, tyrannising one another. The present world situation is marked by the…

Allah the Almighty says in His Qur’an (Al- Hajj 22:42-44): I allowed time to the kafirun but then I seized them. How terrible was My denial! How many wrongdoing cities We destroyed, and now all their roofs and walls are fallen in; How many abandoned wells and stuccoed palaces! Have they not travelled about the…

There is war in Libya and in Afghanistan. Muslims there are being daily slaughtered on an authority from the political class, men who wage war by proxy and at a safe distance. Look at the two faces of the Defence Ministers of the U.S. and Britain – look carefully at their mouths. These are cowards,…

“You can fool all of the people all of the time – at least till you get through the crisis.” This is the philosophy of the financial elite who are to be congratulated on the success of their deception. Unfortunately, it is doubtful that the con-trick will survive long enough for the oligarchs to make…

At the heart of ‘The Heart of Darkness’, Conrad’s towering masterpiece, Marlow, the author’s narrative voice, recounts the death of the Belgian trader in the remotest of up-river settlements on the Congo. “Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn’t…