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This is an interesting issue.  Over the years I have asked various scholars and received fairly mediocre answers.  Personally with the Autostyle online store, it was started with the correct intentions.  Sure one of it was to improve turnover but also to provide a service to our customers with:
1) online catalogue,
2) easier & quicker way to order,
3) safe online enviroment to purchase,
4) door to door delivery,
5) servicing customers who cant drive to our store.
However, in Islam one cannot sell a commodity without owning it.  For you to sell a tyre, you must own the tyre and then sell it to whoever. I suppose using this logic the world economy would be in a better place right now. (more…)

Social media continues to build bridges and networks individuals like never before. Kaitlen Foley runs the InsideIslam news blog over at the University Madison Wisconsin. We met through Twitter and opened up a whole new angle on their blog by getting in touch with several Muslim South African bloggers.

I have taken up the post of guest blogger for their project and hope to contribute some meaningful and beneficial Islamic content over there.

Check out http://insideislam.wisc.edu/

Seth Godins blog is part of my Google Reader,  a few days ago he posted a short post on “Remembering”

Is it worth doing?

What was my impact?

Will it matter in the long haul?

What sort of connections did I create?

Wherever you live, whatever you do, you have an obligation.

I explained this to the owner & founder of IFISA - I have been commisioned to create an online Islamic Finance magazine for the Muslim African population.

What prompted me to write this post, a reader all the way in Athens, USA posted a comment and subsequent email.  This was from reading the daily Ramadan Quran Translations I have been posting on MyUmmah.co.za (more…)