Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Foundation has ended its relationship with a US-based Muslim organisation after its founder used the slogan: “From the river to the sea” and described ‘Israel’ as an “apartheid state”....

Al-Qurtubi continues by saying, وقيل قالت اليهود إنك أوتيت الحكمة، ومن أوتي الحكمة فقد أوتي خيراً كثيراً، ثم زعمت أنك لا علم لك بالروح؟! فقال الله تعالى قل وإن أوتيت القرآن وأوتيتم التوراة فهي بالنسبة إلى كلمات الله تعالى قليلة“It was said, the Jews said, “You have been given wisdom, and whoever has been given wisdom has been given much good..

The role of the Ulema (scholars) has been well defined and understood within Muslims. It has been narrated in Sunan Abu Dawud where Kathir ibn Qays said: I was sitting with Abu Darda' in the masjid of Damascus. A man came to him and said: Abu Darda, I have come to you from the town of the Messenger of Allah (saw) for a tradition that I have heard you relate…

 The advent of postmodernism coincided with the cultural and political crises of the 1960s and 1970s. Disillusionment with the failures of modernity – manifest in two World Wars, the rise of fascism, colonial and imperial violence