Why doesn’t Happiness Last?
Why doesn’t Happiness Last? Have you noticed that no feeling lasts. Our moods are fluctuating constantly and moments of happiness evaporate into thin air. Why is happiness so transient? And why does life often...
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Loving your Parents
Delivered 2018. Discussing how special parents are, and the importance of loving and looking after your parents.
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Belonging to Respected Professions
Why Teachers should belong to Respected Professions In the lengthy introduction of Sahih Muslim, Imam Muslim makes mention that it is impermissible for knowledge seekers to humiliate themselves. They should avoid entering professions that...
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How the Reward for Teaching depends on Intention alone
The Importance of having the Right Intention Purity of intention is one of the most important ingredients a teacher requires. He must be honest with himself and sincere with Allah Almighty about the true...
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2:74 How Can I Tell the Condition of my Heart?
When, even after that, your hearts were hardened, as if they were rocks, or still worse in hardness. For surely among the rocks there are some from which rivers gush forth, and there...
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Materialism vs Everlasting Reward
The Connection between Abstinence and Knowledge Counter intuitively, instead of pursuing material gain, the best teachers of deen practice zuhud; abstaining from the quest for the perks of worldly life and possessing little of...
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Lessons From a Year at Cambridge
Delivered 2019. Reflections on being a Muslim at Cambridge University, and the importance of balance when studying.
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Protecting our Children from Atheism
Why Belief has to be Coupled with Thought Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the day and the night are evidence (of the existence of God)...
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Malcolm X
Delivered 2012. A biography of Malcolm X, and the many lessons we can learn from his life.
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Malcolm X – condensed version
Delivered 2016. A condensed version of Malcolm X's story, and the lessons his life can teach us
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The Miracle of the Quran
Delivered 2014. Reasons Muslims believe the Quran itself to be a miracle.
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Muslims of the World
Delivered 2016. Similarities and differences in dress and architecture of Muslims in different countries, and a discussion of how being different ultimately brings us closer together
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