A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following was taken from “ Benedicte cave maledictionem ,” “Benedict Beware of Malediction!” by Shaykh Abu Faydhan Faridi Muhammad Harun Riedinger, and published in Women’s Own, in the October 2006 issue.   Once again, a potentially heavy thunderstorm is building up in the skies over the Muslim world.   This time not caused by the profane vulgarities of an ignorant cartoonist, but by the insensible remarks of someone who should have known better.   To set the record straight, in the related issue, the Pontiff himself actually did not make the derogatory remarks about Islam, and jihad , which he is being decried for by Muslim leaders all over the world, but “only” quoted someone else’s remarks, remaining totally non-committal about them himself – or at least giving this impression …   The situation is somewhat like this: A teacher says in class that he read somewhere that someone had accused an ancestor of one of his stu...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following was written by Shaykh Abu Faydhan Faridi Muhammad Harun Riedinger ( q.s. ), on the 02 nd May 2014.   The ongoing conflict between proponents of science and religion in general and between evolutionists and creationists in particular, is caused and perpetuated on one hand by the ignorance and blindness of the advocates of the materialist philosophy of science, who try to cover up and eliminate the Ultimate Cause of all existence, and on the other hand by the limited perception and lack of vision of the formalist theologians, who fanatically insist on a literal interpretation of the scriptures, which is no less than another kind of ignorance, blindness and materialism, no less deplorable than the one the former are afflicted with.   The fact of the matter is that true knowledge, whether it is in relation to the Creation or in relation to the diyn , the rules of conduct for man to live in harmony with himself, his fellow ...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is the biography of the late Shaykh Abu Faydhan Faridi Muhammad Harun Riedinger, first written on the 26 th April 2008.   He passed away on the 22 nd July 2017.   This was first published as a 4-part series in “Women’s Own” in the April, May, July and August 2000 editions as Odyssey of the Spirit .   “Since I became a Muslim in 1975 and settled in this country [Pakistan], I have been asked over and over again, how my conversion came about, mainly by my Muslim brothers and sisters who were astonished that someone who had been raised in the socio-economic comfort of a wealthy western nation should give up that background to live with them as one of them, putting up with all the backdrops and inconveniences of a developing country.   Allah   ( s.w.t. )  has informed us in His Generous Book, of the most crucial event of our existence, to which however most of us do not have conscious access.   The...