Recent Blog Posts

• October Halaqa: Wealth in the Qur’an

  There is a lot in the Qur’an about how people with wealth should give it away and use it to benefit those with less but there isn’t much that addresses people in receipt of that money. Why is that? This was the central question one of our volunteer imams was grappling with as she approached […]

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• “For an occupying power, I might pose more of a danger to Israel than a fighter”

  IMI exists in solidarity with the people of Palestine who have a right to remain in their homeland and deserve to be free from their occupiers. We condemn all forms of interpersonal and state violence. While the state of Israel ramps up its violence in Gaza, we’re going to highlight the writing of Palestinian journalists […]

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• Reflections on Arba’een

  Every year, Muslims gather from across the UK to join a procession down Park Lane in London, raising their voices in cries of Labbaik Ya Hussain, I am here, O Hussain. The procession commemorates the Arba’een pilgrimage from Najaf to Karbala in Iraq. It memorialises the death of Imam Hussein (ra) and the death of […]

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