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Meeting on 28 Dec 2024
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The Nightingale

  • Reflection on 'The Girl and the Ghost'

    Reflection on 'The Girl and the Ghost'

    Apart from the scary scenes and a power-greedy bully in a form of a bomoh, the book teaches us the strength of friendship and how this is so important in going through the hurdles of life. Suraya’s forgiving character is a reminder to us all to not inflict harm in retaliation to anyone who has caused us pain. By the end of the story, we are left with the familiar heartbreak of goodbyes. (Alas all good stories must end.)
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  • Reflection on 'The Ethics Of Disagreement In Islam'

    Reflection on 'The Ethics Of Disagreement In Islam'

    The book address how from our Prophetﷺ to our early generation of scholars engaged and handled differing opinions and viewpoints amongst the ummah, while still maintaining good etiquette and decorum, never allowing personal grievances to cloud their judgements, always keeping the higher principles of the shariah in mind.
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  • Reflection on 'The Illumination On Abandoning Self-Direction'

    Reflection on 'The Illumination On Abandoning Self-Direction'

    Reading this book is like an act of devotion because at every passage, you are invited to contemplate. Broadly, the core message of this book is submission both outwardly and inwardly. The outward submission is abandoning self-choice in favour of the Prophetic sunna, and inward submission is abandoning any opposition to Allah’s decree at every instant.
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  • Reflection on Ian Abdul Latif Whiteman's Average Whiteman

    Reflection on Ian Abdul Latif Whiteman's Average Whiteman

    Sometimes you have to make mistakes, as we all did, and shed a few skins before finding who you really are and quite where you fit in… It's curious how for any sincere person, Islam appears to slowly peel away the facades and eventually reveal the true person underneath, even if it takes a lifetime.
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  • How to Take Smart Notes

    How to Take Smart Notes

    This book is about how we process information by making notes when we read and then synthesising these notes within a knowledge system in order to develop our own ideas and then produce original content based on our insights.
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  • Muslim Activism in Singapore

    Muslim Activism in Singapore

    Activists in Singapore really have two choices: cooperate with the state or conduct activism in areas in which the state is ambivalent because it does not challenge their political legitimacy as keepers of the peace and stewards of success.
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  • Reflection on Onjali Q. Rauf’s The Boy at the Back of the Class

    Reflection on Onjali Q. Rauf’s The Boy at the Back of the Class

    The child’s narrative voice and innocent internal logic is captured perfectly by Onjali Q. Rauf, and adults reading the book are given a glimpse of what life used to be, before they became world-weary (ok, cynical) grownups. Yes, there are hundreds of thousands of refugees spread across the whole continent, but if we all try very hard and ask the people in charge, we can maybe find Ahmet’s parents.
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