Responding to the coronavirus pandemic requires a comprehensive system of care working at all levels, where the wellbeing of all of the people is the primary concern. The Islamic way of life is well equipped to take care of the affairs of the people, with its beliefs and values, and systems that are built upon them.

The nationalist borders that are promoted and defended by the capitalist governments lead to great suffering by the people. Without the Westphalian borders, the people would not divide themselves so rigidly, such that a man can be born on one side into immense privilege, while on the other side his brother could be poverty stricken and die of hunger.

The Appeals Court in England has declared that a nikah with hundreds of witnesses cannot be considered a marriage; therefore, in the case of divorce the spouses have no rights and no legal protection. This is the failure of the secular state, which cannot accommodate people of different values and faiths. On the one hand, it promotes promiscuity as a modern liberal right, while denying separating couples, who have not…

An independent Islamic school is seeking judicial review of its failure to pass an Ofsted inspection on the sole grounds that its library had a 25-year-old leaflet for the Khilafah conference organised by members of Hizb ut Tahrir in Britain in 1994.