By Naseerah Nanabhai 02:04:2020 Moulana Suaimaan Ravat and Mufti Yusuf Moosagie recently explored this topic. “It is part of the grandee of Allah (SWT) that one honours the elderly. We should have mercy on the elderly and Islam has given them a great status, that we appreciate.” Mufti Moosagie explained. Moulana Ravat mentioned that “there is a perception, that as people get older they become more difficult and unreasonable; often they become...

Umm Muhammed Umar     02.04.20 South Africa and much of the world is currently in lockdown, and ‘normal’ life has changed for everyone, overnight.  Expecting a lockdown in the United States to be extended, freelance writer, Brooke Anderson posed six (refreshing) “Daily Quarantine Questions” to help her ‘structure’ her days. She reminds us also, that it is a privilege to even be safely sheltered at home and asking these questions.   What am I grateful...

  Faizel Patel - 2/04/2020 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143)   As South Africa nears the halfway mark of the 21-day lockdown imposed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, social distancing, quarantine and self-isolating; all these ‘restrictions’ means we have been, and will continue to, spend a lot of time at home. While many of you have completed all the ‘intelligent’ activities that you think you should be doing such as...

  Faizel Patel - 1/04/2020 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143)   Esteemed Islamic scholar Ml Sulaiman Moola says the Ummah is only in a crisis because we have abandoned the Qur’an. Ml Moola was speaking during his Reflections with Ml Sulaiman Moola programme on Radio Islam on Wednesday. The renowned scholar says Islam is very practical and pragmatic. “By Allah, if we come back to the book of Allah, you will just be amazed how Allah answers everything in one...

    By Mumtaz Saley-Moosa 31:03:2020   While many schools have stressed and put into measures course work during the lock down, we look at educational websites that may prove that learning can be fun. Firstly, a good routine has to be set up in your home. Every child be it teen or toddler needs some sort of routine. This may seemingly be difficult but its needed, set up a time for learning and for creativity. In my home we do learning in the...