Abu Dhabi Khutbas & More15 Jan ’10 No surprises. “This is not your grandfather’s world,” the advertisement might read. Contrary to popular notions of progress, the world is winding down. Human nature is not “virtually the same” and the future is not – in every way – superior to yesterday. Although we have definitely increased in the quantity of [...]
Sheikh Jihad Hashim Brown | 23 Jan’ 2010 Eleven-year-old Anna St Louis was going to be a lawyer. For three days she lay trapped beneath the rubble of a building in Haiti, her right leg crushed by a steel beam. “Lord God save me. I don’t want to die,” she cried out. Far from the [...]
Sheikh Jihad Hashim Brown | 09 Jan ’10 Cesare Borgia, ruthless, cunning, treacherous, sometime muse of Niccolo Machiavelli. He knew exactly what he was after and the most direct path to get it. But while the realist scores quick wins in the moment, fate has seldom been kind to his style of operation. Borgia’s political [...]
Friday Sermon | Sheikh Jihad Hashim Brown | Delivered in NYU’s New York Campus From October 2008 To Listen: To Download: Patience is Beauty (mp3 | approx running time: 22 mins)
Sheikh Jihad Hashim Brown | Jan 02 2010 (This post was originally published with a piece missing at the end. It has now been added) A healthy dose of self-criticism is a good thing. God knows I’ve engaged in my fair share on these very pages. But scholars writing in Arabic have differentiated between self-criticism [...]
