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Historic and culturally important landmarks are being destroyed to make way for luxury hotels and malls, reports Jerome Taylor

There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is’t to leave betimes?

– Hamlet, William Shakespeare

I am sharing this brief note extracted from "Fadl al-Ilm wa al-Ulama", the Blessed book by Aarife-Billah, ash-Shaykh al-Imam Naqi Ali al-Qadiri Radi Allahu Ta'ala Anho on the Excellence of Knowledge and the Ulama.

The Jeddah Astronomy Society's mistake in sighting of the new moon in Saudi Arabia has angered the many Muslim nations who followed suit and pronounced Tuesday as Eid al-Fitr wrongly.

Farid Esack is a writer, scholar and human rights activist, well-known for his opposition to apartheid and his appointment by Nelson Mandela as a gender equity commissioner. He has taught at many universities, including Harvard University and Xavier University in the US, the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. At the request of Sendamessage.nl, Esack wrote this open letter that has been sprayed entirely on the wall in Palestine. Recently a brother recorded the letter as he drove along the route

Wassam Azaqeer, a Lebanese, who lives in a country surrounded by icebergs called "Greenland", is the only Muslim in this state who is fasting daily for 21 hours with full determination.