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One day, sooner than we like to admit, the people currently sitting in shūrā rooms, chairing boards, delivering khutbahs, planning projects and signing off budgets will no longer be there. Some will h...

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27 Nov 2025 The Reality of Responsibility

Mohammed Yahya

The Right Space: Part 3

One of the quiet struggles in community work is that many people hold back because they feel they are not skilled enough to help. They worry they are too shy, too inexperienced, too unsure of themselv...

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27 Nov 2025 The Right Space

Mohammed Yahya

The Right Space: Part 2

When people talk about a welcoming environment, they often imagine smiles at the door or someone offering tea. But the real work of creating a safe, warm community space happens long before anyone arr...

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27 Nov 2025 The Right Space

Mohammed Yahya

Part 7: The Minority That Carries the Ummah: Guardians of the Flame

“And few of My servants are truly grateful.” Qur’an, Sabaʾ (34:13) “The truth will continue to be upheld by a group among my Ummah. Those who oppose them will not harm them until the command of Allah ...

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27 Nov 2025 Reviving the Ummah: Scholarship, Vision & Leadership

Mohammed Yahya

The Reality of Responsibility: Part 3

If the first part was a warning and the second part drew a rough map, this part is simply about the people who are walking that map, the ones trying to carry responsibility while juggling their own he...

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21 Nov 2025 The Reality of Responsibility

Mohammed Yahya

The Reality of Responsibility: Part 2

In every city now, the pattern is the same. A crisis erupts. Posters appear. A “major event” is announced; speakers are flown in; a trailer is cut with dramatic nasheeds and sharp fonts. The hall fill...

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21 Nov 2025 The Reality of Responsibility

Mohammed Yahya

Part 6: Building Institutions, Not Moments: Sustaining the Vision of Revival

“And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.” Qur’an, Āl ʿImrān (3:104) “The st...

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21 Nov 2025 Reviving the Ummah: Scholarship, Vision & Leadership

Mohammed Yahya

The Right Space: Part 1

Every community organisation eventually faces a simple but powerful truth: people remember how you made them feel long after they forget what the event was about. Not the timetable, not the speaker, n...

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17 Nov 2025 The Right Space

Mohammed Yahya

The Reality of Responsibility: Part 1

People are dying in other lands, and here in the United Kingdom people are quietly leaving the religion yet we still rush to protect our reputations. We gather around our idols: our platforms, our ins...

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17 Nov 2025 The Reality of Responsibility

Mohammed Yahya

Part 5: Knowledge That Transforms: The Role of True Scholarship

“It is only those who know amongst his servants that fear Allah.” Qur’an, Fāṭir (35:28) “Whoever travels a path in search of knowledge, Allah will make easy for him a path to Paradise.” Prophet Muhamm...

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17 Nov 2025 Reviving the Ummah: Scholarship, Vision & Leadership

Mohammed Yahya

Part 4: Revelation as Compass: Reforming the Muslim Lens

“Then is it other than the religion of Allah they desire, while to Him have submitted all those within the heavens and earth, willingly or by compulsion…” Qur’an, Āl ʿImrān (3:83) “Indeed, this Qur’an...

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17 Nov 2025 Reviving the Ummah: Scholarship, Vision & Leadership

Mohammed Yahya

Part 3: Training Future Leaders: Models That Build People

“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power…” Qur’an, Al-Anfāl (8:60) “The best of your leaders are those whom you love and who love you; you pray for them and they pray for you.” Ṣaḥīḥ M...

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17 Nov 2025 Reviving the Ummah: Scholarship, Vision & Leadership

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