Deen
Deen: Start Here
Every Deen article in one place. Search them, filter by topic, or follow a reading path from the Qur'an and the Prophet ﷺ through hadith and the schools to money and Islam in Australia.
Deen
Deen is a whole way of life: belief, worship, character and law. I read it from the Qur'an and the Sunna, and I show my sources.
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The Qur'an: What It Is, How It Came Down, and How It Was Kept
A guide for anyone curious about the Qur'an: the world it came into, how it was revealed over 23 years, how it was written down and kept, why Muslims say not one word has changed, and a tour of all 114 chapters.
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The Hanafi Umbrella: Deobandi, Barelvi, and the Category Error
Hanafi is a school of law. Deobandi and Barelvi are movements inside it. Three names, but not three parallel choices, and the confusion does real work.
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What Sharia Is (and Isn't)
The word, the sources, the five rulings, the aims, the ḥudūd and the doubt maxim, and what any of it asks of a Muslim living under Australian law. Sunni and Shia methods side by side, with the weak reports labelled.
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Character (Akhlāq) and Iḥsān: The Third Dimension
The third part of the Hadith of Jibrīl is iḥsān. Here is what the Qur'an and sound hadith say about character, from anger and the tongue to envy and justice, with every report graded.
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Family, Neighbours and Community: The Rights of Others
What the Qur'an and the sound hadith say we owe parents, spouses, children, relatives, neighbours of any faith, orphans, guests, the sick and the dead, with the weak sayings sorted from the sound.
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Ramadan and Fasting in Australia
The same rules as my parents' Ramadan, in very different circumstances: what the Qur'an says, what breaks a fast in each school, why Sydney mosques start on different days, and the likely 2027 dates.
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Prayer (ṣalāh): How and Why
What actually happens on the prayer mat, five times a day: the words, what they mean, the times in Sydney, and where the Ḥanafī, Mālikī, Shāfiʿī, Ḥanbalī and Jaʿfarī schools do it differently.
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Belief in God, the Prophets and the Unseen
Every Muslim creed starts with one God, unlike anything. The arguments begin after that: His hand and Throne, seeing Him, the created Qur'an, free will. Five schools of theology, set side by side.
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The Five Pillars and the Six Articles of Faith
Where the five pillars and six articles of faith actually come from: one conversation in the mosque at Medina, set beside the Twelver roots and branches.
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The Sunna in Daily Life
How the Prophet greeted people, ate, slept, dressed and spoke, habit by habit, with every report linked and graded, and the famous sayings that turn out to have no reliable chain.
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Halal Food in Australia
What the Qur'an forbids, how slaughter works, where the five schools differ on stunning, seafood, gelatine and alcohol, and what a halal logo on an Australian product does and does not tell you.