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New School Insights

A weekly dispatch reviving the primordial covenant of Abraham. We unearth forgotten truths, decode scripture with reason, and challenge modern problems with an ancient code. Not a modern religion. A restoration.

(Responding to questions I get every Ramadan) What the Prophet actually did Ā’ishah relates that “The Messenger of God prayed one night in the mosque, and some people came and prayed along with him. He prayed again the following night, and more people joined. By the third or fourth night, pe...

Feb 12, 2026

Clarifying Zakāt

Zakāt is one of the foundations of subservience to God and one of the oldest aspects to the covenantal law. It shows that what God intended isn't jsut personal piety but the institution of an order that is sustained. In reference to its primordial judgement, God tells is in reference to the Israe...

Feb 06, 2026

Immigrant Communities and Abrahamic Restoration in the West

Identity doesn't arise in a vacuum. Psychological and sociological research consistently shows that when individuals or communities are exposed to instability, humiliation, or sustained insecurity, they construct narratives whose primary function is not truth but preservation. As social identity ...

Jan 23, 2026

Recovering Covenant from Identity

In a world characterised by revolutionary change, perpetually contrasting social and political demands require that we periodically destroy what has been created in order to reconstruct a renewed conceptualisation better suited for the next wave of life, competition, or technology. This unsettles...

Jan 16, 2026

Theology vs The Covenant

The Proclamation (al-Qur'ān) consistently frames the human relationship with God as a binding pledge rather than an intellectual assent to doctrines. Humanity is depicted as having entered an ancient covenant prior to any theological formulation, a covenant that establishes responsibility before ...

Jan 09, 2026

The Myth of Europe

In this newsletter, we’re addressing the so-called ‘myth of Europe’, a thoroughly modern fabrication that presents Europe as a single, continuous, and inherently Christian civilisation which supposedly stepped neatly into Rome’s sandals after the fifth-century collapse and then, with impressive c...

Jan 02, 2026

Why “Monotheism” is the Wrong Question

Modern religious discussions often begin with a numerical question: how many gods do you believe in? One, many, or none. From this framing then emerges the familiar binaries of monotheism, polytheism, and atheism. Yet this entire conceptual map is foreign to the covenantal tradition. It's a very ...

Dec 25, 2025

The Problem with Liberation Theology

Liberation theology emerged in the 20th century as a moral response to poverty, political repression, and structural injustice, particularly in Latin America. Its motivating impulse was extreme inequality and state violence, where Catholic theologians read scripture through the lived experience o...

Dec 21, 2025

Validation through Tragedy

There is a responsibility on God’s people that sits right at the heart of the Abrahamic covenant: to build, maintain, and defend a just, stable, and responsible society. Every revelation, every prophet, every covenantal renewal comes back to this. It is never simply “feel something about sufferin...

Dec 12, 2025

The Religious Inheritance Illusion

Most Muslims talk about “Islam” as if it were a single unbroken beam of light, shining cleanly from Muhammad in 7th century Arabia into the 21st century, untouched by history. Christians do something very similar with “Christianity” and Jesus. In both cases, an entire mountain range of imperial p...

Nov 28, 2025

Recognising Leaders

God has not distributed anything equally. Cognitive ability, money, emotional resilience, physical strength, artistic taste, political instinct - you name it. God's Proclamation repeats that He “raises some above others in levels” so that He may test every person in what they’ve been given (Q 6:1...

Nov 28, 2025

Closed Doors

The statement “the doors of ijtihād are closed” is one of the most frequently invoked clichés in modern Muslim discourse. Ijtihād (اجتهاد) is an Arabic term that means “to exert oneself” or “to strive with effort.” In the context of covenantal law, it refers to the process of independent reasonin...

Nov 07, 2025

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