I have written so many letters on our women folk and sometimes I receive pro-male emails from persons who believe all kinds of strange things about the genders. I have said on numerous occasions and I want to say again, if we know the standing of women in the “eyes”...

Some time ago (May 2011), I read the story of Sayyiduna Uthman (r.a.) and how he was killed. My heart sank. I could not understand how Muslims, even some who had met Nabi Muhammad (ﷺ) or had met those who had met him (ﷺ), could allow or could be part of an act that...

Every now and then one hears or reads about scathing attacks against the Awliya’ of Allah (ﷻ). In many cases, as in a recent case on one of the radio stations, there is very little understanding of the sources and the nature of what Awliya’ say. It is for this reason...

Sometimes our hearts are filled with matters, which make us cry, and other times, they are filled with matters, which we wish to share with others. Both the tears and the knowledge, in a sense, have their origins in the heart, as we understand. We do not always know...

All of us are very minute particles in the cosmos. This vast creation of our Lord is so enormous that to talk of ends or beginnings is playing games. Its vastness just stretches and stretches, appearing almost endless. Somewhere on one of its smallest planets in one...

Foreword THE LETTERS in this collection are some of the letters I have written to the murids in South Africa over the last few years. Most of them concern matters that arose with or among the murids.  In many cases, I would use such a matter to explain one or other...