Dr. Ebrahim Rasool is the former Ambassador of South Africa to the US. He has a legacy of going to prison with Nelson Mandela and eventually being a minister in the first elected South African government after the fall of the Apartheid, and then an elected Premier of the Western…
On the need to re-visit the Quran to discover new maqasid/objectives, which are much needed to build new Islamic approaches for new disciplines and new questions McGill University – Montreal – January 15, 2016
Question: As-salamu alaykum. How does Islam view adversities in life? If our fate is already written by Allah, what is the need for praying: O Allah, save us from all fitnah (sedition) and masa'eb (hardships and sufferings) of life?