By Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool

Ebrahim Rasool August 2020 I think it is time to take the Moulana Dawood Sampson debate to a different level. We have all had our outrage, our evaluations of the impact of his words, and the extent of rebuke by his peers among the clergy. The strategic question, now with just a few days to…

Ebrahim Rasool 6 April 2020 The Prophet Muhammad (s) is reported in Bukhari as having said: “The likeness of the one who observes the limits prescribed by Allah and that of the one who transgresses them is like the people who get on board a ship after casting lots. Some of them are in its lower…

This manual concludes with an essay from Ebrahim Rasool, former South African ambassador to the United States, who reflects on the lessons learned from South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle. Rasool argues that defeating Islamophobia means recognizing it as a part of a larger family in a “genealogy of bigotry” that includes fear and ignorance, prejudice and…

written by Ebrahim Rasool 22 March 2020 A Moment of Rupture Globally the community of Muslims has had to make an almost unprecedented decision: whether to close the mosques for both the communal daily prayers as well as the Friday prayers in response to Covid-19 or coronavirus. That the majority of clergy and congregations have…

written by Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool High on the Swiss Alps, in the cold and fog, the World for All Foundation and the Carter Center convened clergy and community leaders from countries in Europe and North Africa to discuss a response to islamophobia and extremism. Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool told the gathering: “The year 2017 is a…

written by Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool “The Call of Islam was an organisation that was militant but not violent; radical but not fundamentalist; and revolutionary but not extreme.” In the nuances of each of these binaries lie the possibility for Muslim organisations across the world who live under occupation, despotism, military rule, extremism and other forms of…

Ebrahim Rasool 30 January 2015 Khutba Delivered at Claremont Main Rd Mosque Cape Town, South Africa It was in the 9th year of the Islamic calendar, 9 years after the Hijra, 9 years after the strategic retreat from Mecca to Medina, that God revealed the chapter of the Quran, Surah Hujurat or the inner apartments.…