The Nightingale

Newsletter: The Heart of the Matter
n the times we live in, the heart’s function has been marginalised to the point that it is now discussed only with regards emotion.
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In Conversation With A. Helwa
A. Helwa is a writer who has inspired readers through her passionate, poetic, and love-based approach to spirituality. Her popular blog @quranquotesdaily, was established while obtaining her Masters in Divinity, as a means of helping others overcome personal and spiritual...
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In Conversation With Yahia Lababidi
Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-American author of poetry, prose, and aphorisms. Lababidi’s new collection of essays and conversations, Revolutions of the Heart, is available now. Conversation: Ibrahim (Ib): There is no avoiding it, we have to speak about the thing...
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Reflections on 'Essentials of Islamic Epistemology'
The book Rethinking Islam and the West by Ahmed Paul Keeler discusses the Part/Whole problem – the Mereological principle which encapsulates the axiom 'the whole can contain the part, but the part cannot contain the whole'. In the realm of...
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In Conversation With Humairah Jamil
I settled with homebound in the end because I felt that my poems have a sense of grounding the self back to the fact that we are all fleeting, and that we are all on this common journey of seeking light, of coming back home to God.
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Reflections on 'Al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya'
The present edition of the Shama'il, that contains the Arabic text as well as English translation and notes by Abdul Aziz Suraqah and Shaykh Mohammed Aslam, is a landmark work.
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Reflections on 'Rethinking Islam and the West'
The idea of progress-at-any-cost of our age is unsustainable. Continued growth (both in terms of population and economy) is an impossibility on a finite planet. But yet we still cling on to the doctrine of progress and growth. Why? Because modern...
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Reflections on 'Burdah of Imam al-Busiri'
We think the publishers have achieved their intention in instilling love for the Prophet SAW and much more because this new work, bound in tan leather and featuring classical illumination on each page, positively crackles with baraka.
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Reflections on 'With the Heart in Mind'
With the Heart in Mind is a ground-breaking work that should be read by everyone who wants to be serious about religion and wants to be serious about building a better life. If we remain unaware of our emotional and moral intelligence, we run the very real risk of jeopardising all aspects of our lives – including the lives of those we hold most dear.
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