Illness (sometimes referred to as ill-health or ailment) is a state of poor health. Illness is sometimes considered a synonym for disease. Others maintain that fine distinctions exist. Some have described illness as the subjective perception by a patient of an objectively defined disease.

Introduction

The mode of being healthy includes, as defined by the World Health Organization, " [...] a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or ". When these conditions are not fulfilled, then one can be considered to have an illness or be ill. Medication and the science of pharmacology is used to cure or reduce symptoms of an illness or medical conditions. Developmental disability is a term used to describe severe, life-long disabilities attributable to mental and/or physical impairments.

Physical

Conditions of the body or mind that cause pain, dysfunction, or distress to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person can be deemed an illness. Sometimes the term is used broadly to include injuries, disabilities, syndromes, infections, symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts these may be considered distinguishable categories. A pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host. A passenger virus is a virus that simply hitchhikes in the body of a person or infects the body without causing symptoms, illness or disease. Foodborne illness or food poisoning is any illness resulting from the consumption of food contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, toxins, viruses, prions or parasites.

Adaptive response

According to evolutionary medicine, much illness is not directly caused by an infection or body dysfunction but is instead a response created by the body. Fever, for example, is not caused directly by bacteria or viruses but the body (after having immunologically identified their presence) seeking to clear itself of them through raised body temperature. Evolutionary medicine identifies a set of responses that aids fever in doing this called sickness behavior. These include such illness defining health changes as lethargy, depression, anorexia, sleepiness, hyperalgesia, and the inability to concentrate. These together with fever are caused by the brain through its top down control upon the body. They are, therefore, not necessary, and often do not accompany an infection (such as the lack of fever during malnutrition or late pregnancy) when they have a cost that outweighs their benefit. In humans, an important factor are beliefs that influence whether the health management system in the brain that evaluates costs and benefits deploys them or not. The health management system, when it factors in false information, has been suggested to underlie the placebo reduction of illness.

Mental

Mental illness (or Emotional disability, Cognitive dysfunction) is a broad generic label for a category of illnesses that may include affective or emotional instability, behavioral dysregulation, and/or cognitive dysfunction or impairment. Specific illnesses known as mental illnesses include major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, to name a few. Mental illness can be of biological (e.g., anatomical, chemical, or genetic) or psychological (e.g., trauma or conflict) origin. It can impact one’s ability to work or go to school and contribute to problems in relationships. Other generic names for mental illness include “mental disorder”, “psychiatric disorder”, “psychological disorder”,“abnormal psychology”, “emotional disability”, “emotional problems”, or “behavior problem”. The term insanity is used technically as a legal term. Brain damage may result in impairment of mental function.

Social

Social determinants of health are the social conditions in which people live which determine their health. Illnesses are generally related to social, economic, political, and environmental circumstances. Social determinants of health have been recognized by several health organizations such as the Public Health Agency of Canada and the World Health Organization to greatly influence collective and personal well-being.

Treatment

Health care is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions. The organised provision of such services may constitute a health care system. Before the term "healthcare" became popular, English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention of illness and disease. A patient is any person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often ill or injured and is being treated by, or in need of treatment by, a physician or other medical professional. Health consumer or health care consumer is another name for patient, usually used by some governmental agencies, insurance companies, and/or patient groups.

Medical emergencies are injuries or illnesses that pose an immediate threat to a person's health or life which require help from a doctor or hospital. The doctor's specialization of emergency medicine includes techniques for effective handling of medical emergencies and resuscitation of patients. Emergency departments provides initial treatment to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries, some of which may be life-threatening and requiring immediate attention.

A drug is any chemical substance other than a food or device that affects the function of living things. Drugs can be used to treat illness, or they can be used recreationally to alter behavior and perception. Medications are typically produced by pharmaceutical companies and are often patented. Those that are not patented are called generic drugs. Some drugs, if misused, can overwhelm the homeostasis of a living organism, causing severe illness or death. Essentially it is a type of poisoning. In the context of biology, poisons are substances that can cause illness.

Bedrest as a medical treatment refers to staying in bed day and night. Even though most patients in hospitals spend most of their time in the hospital beds, bedrest more often refers to an extended period of recumbence at home.

Human enhancement technologies (HET) are technologies that can be used not simply for treating illness and disability, but also for enhancing human capacities and characteristics. Medication is a licenced drug taken to cure or reduce symptoms of an illness or medical condition. A wheelchair is mobility device that takes the form of a chair on wheels, used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness or disability.

Shock therapy is the deliberate and controlled induction of some form of physiological state of shock in an individual for the purpose of psychiatric treatment. Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy in the treatment of impairments of health and a conditions of abnormal functioning.

Study of illness

Epidemiology is the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of individuals and populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine.

Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness. Clinical Global Impression scale to assess treatment response in patients with mental disorders. It's " Improvement scale" requires the clinician to rate how much the patient's illness has improved or worsened relative to a baseline state. Mental confusion and decreased alertness may indicate that a chronic illness has gotten worse.

Religion and illness

Jewish, Islamic law and Baha'i grant exceptions to people of ill health. For example, one whose life would be endangered by doing so is exempt from (and indeed forbidden to participate in) fasting on Yom Kippur or during Ramadan.

In the New Testament Jesus is described as performing miracles of healing.

Illness was one of the four scenes, referred to as the four sights, encountered by Gautama Buddha.

Korean Shamanism involves notions of "spirit sickness".

Folk medicine is collectively procedures traditionally used for treatment of illness and injury, aid to childbirth, and maintenance of wellness. It is a body of knowledge distinct from "scientific medicine" and may coexist in the same culture.

The border between normality and illness may be subjective. For example, in some religions, homosexuality is believed to be an illness.

See also

Convalescence

Wellness (alternative medicine) is used to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being.

Sickness behavior

References

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Name	Rock Hudson
Caption	An image from the trailer for Giant (1956)
Birth name	Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.
Birth date	November 17, 1925
Birth place	Winnetka, Illinois, U.S.
Death date	October 02, 1985
Death place	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Height
Years active	1948–1985
Spouse	Phyllis Gates (1955–1958)

Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985), known professionally as Rock Hudson, was an American film and television actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with his most famous co-star, Doris Day. Hudson was voted "Star of the Year", "Favorite Leading Man", and similar titles by numerous movie magazines. The tall actor was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. He completed nearly 70 motion pictures and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned over four decades. Hudson was also one of the first major Hollywood celebrities to die from an AIDS-related illness.

Life and career

Early life

Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., in Winnetka, Illinois, the only child of Katherine Wood (of English and Irish descent), a telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer, Sr., (of German and Swiss descent) an auto mechanic who abandoned the family during the depths of the Great Depression. His mother remarried and his stepfather Wallace "Wally" Fitzgerald adopted him, changing his last name to Fitzgerald. Hudson's years at New Trier High School were unremarkable. He sang in the school's glee club and was remembered as a shy boy who delivered newspapers, ran errands and worked as a golf caddy.

After graduating from high school, he served in the Philippines as an aircraft mechanic for the United States Navy during World War II. In 1946, Hudson moved to the Los Angeles area to pursue an acting career and applied to the University of Southern California's dramatics program, but he was rejected owing to poor grades. Hudson worked for a time as a truck driver, longing to be an actor but with no success in breaking into the movies. A fortunate meeting with Hollywood talent scout Henry Willson in 1948 got Hudson his start in the business.

Early career

Hudson made his debut with a small part in the 1948 Warner Bros.' Fighter Squadron. Hudson needed no fewer than 38 takes before successfully delivering his only line in the film.

Hudson was further coached in acting, singing, dancing, fencing, and horseback riding, and he began to feature in film magazines where he was promoted, possibly on the basis of his good looks. Success and recognition came in 1954 with Magnificent Obsession in which Hudson plays a bad boy who is redeemed opposite the popular star Jane Wyman. The film received rave reviews, with Modern Screen Magazine citing Hudson as the most popular actor of the year. Hudson's popularity soared with George Stevens' Giant, based on Edna Ferber's novel and co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. Hudson and Dean both were nominated for Oscars in the Best Actor category.

Following Richard Brooks' notable Something of Value (1957) was a moving performance in Charles Vidor's box office failure A Farewell to Arms, based on Ernest Hemingway's novel. In order to make A Farewell to Arms, he had reportedly turned down Marlon Brando's role in Sayonara, William Holden's role in The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Charlton Heston's role in Ben-Hur. Those films went on to become hugely successful and critically acclaimed, while A Farewell to Arms proved to be one of the biggest flops in cinema history.

Hudson sailed through the 1960s on a wave of romantic comedies. He portrayed humorous characters in Pillow Talk, the first of several profitable co-starring performances with Doris Day. This was followed by Lover Come Back, Come September, Send Me No Flowers, Man's Favorite Sport?, The Spiral Road, and Strange Bedfellows, and along with Cary Grant was regarded as one of the best-dressed male stars in Hollywood, and received "Top 10 Stars of the Year" a record eight times from 1957 to 1964. He worked outside his usual range on the science-fiction thriller Seconds (1966). The film flopped but it later gained cult status, and Hudson's performance is often regarded as one of his best. He also tried his hand in the action genre with Tobruk (1967), the lead in 1968's spy thriller Ice Station Zebra, a role which he had actively sought and remained his personal favorite, and westerns with The Undefeated (1969) opposite John Wayne.

Later career

Hudson's popularity on the big screen diminished after the 1960s. He starred in a number of made-for-TV movies. His most successful series was McMillan & Wife opposite Susan Saint James from 1971 to 1977. In it, Hudson played police commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan with Saint James as his wife Sally. Their on-screen chemistry helped make the show a hit.

In the early 1980s, following years of heavy drinking and smoking, Hudson began having health problems which resulted in a heart attack in November 1981. Emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery sidelined Hudson and his new TV show The Devlin Connection for a year; the show was canceled in December 1982 not long after it first aired. Hudson recovered from the heart surgery but continued to smoke. He was in ill health while filming The Ambassador in Israel during the winter of 1983-84 with Robert Mitchum. The two stars reportedly did not like each other, Mitchum himself having a serious drinking problem. During 1984, Hudson's health grew worse, prompting different rumors that he was suffering from liver cancer, among other ailments, due to his increasingly gaunt face and build.

From December 1984 to April 1985, Hudson landed a recurring role on the ABC prime time soap opera Dynasty as Daniel Reece, the love interest for Krystle Carrington (played by Linda Evans) and biological father of the character Sammy Jo Carrington (Heather Locklear). While he had long been known to have difficulty memorizing lines which resulted in his use of cue cards, on Dynasty it was Hudson's speech itself that began to deteriorate. Hudson was originally slated to appear for the duration of the show's 5th season, however, due to his progressing illness, his character was abruptly written out of the show and died offscreen.

Personal life

Hudson never publicly revealed any specifics regarding his sexuality. While Hudson's career was blooming as he epitomized wholesome manliness, he and his agent Henry Willson kept his personal life out of the headlines. In 1955, Confidential magazine threatened to publish an exposé about Hudson's secret homosexual life; Willson covered this by disclosing information about two of his other clients, in the form of Rory Calhoun's years in prison and the arrest of Tab Hunter at a gay party in 1950.

Soon afterward, Hudson married Willson's secretary Phyllis Gates. In Gates' 1987 autobiography My Husband, Rock Hudson, the book she wrote with veteran Hollywood chronicler Bob Thomas, Gates states that she dated Hudson for several months and lived with him for two months before his surprise marriage proposal. She claims to have married Hudson out of love and not, as it was later purported, to stave off a major exposure of Hudson's sexual orientation. The news of the wedding was made known by all the major gossip magazines. One story, headlined "When Day Is Done, Heaven Is Waiting," quoted Hudson as saying, "When I count my blessings, my marriage tops the list." The union lasted three years; Gates filed for divorce in April 1958, charging mental cruelty. Hudson did not contest the divorce, and Gates received an alimony of US$250 a week for 10 years. After her death from lung cancer in January 2006, some informants reportedly stated that she was actually a lesbian who married Hudson for his money, knowing from the beginning of their relationship that he was gay. She never remarried.

According to the 1986 biography, Rock Hudson: His Story, by Hudson and Sara Davidson, Rock was good friends with American novelist Armistead Maupin and a few of Hudson's lovers were: Jack Coates (born 1944); Hollywood publicist Tom Clark (1933–1995), who also later published a memoir about Hudson, Rock Hudson: Friend of Mine; and Marc Christian, who later won a suit against the Hudson estate. In Maupin's Further Tales of the City, Michael Tolliver links up with a closeted macho icon referred to as Blank Blank, which has been interpreted as a thinly disguised caricature of Hudson.

The book, The Thin Thirty, by Shannon Ragland, chronicles Hudson's involvement in a 1962 sex scandal at the University of Kentucky involving the football team. Ragland writes that Jim Barnett, a wrestling promoter, engaged in prostitution with members of the team, and that Hudson was one of Barnett's customers.

A popular urban legend states that Hudson married Jim Nabors in the 1970s. The two, however, never had anything beyond a friendship; the legend originated with a group of "middle-aged homosexuals who live in Huntington Beach", as Hudson put it, who would send out joke invitations for their annual get-together. One year, the group invited its members to witness "the marriage of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors"; the punchline of the joke was that Hudson would take the name of Nabors's most famous character, Gomer Pyle, and would henceforth be named "Rock Pyle". Despite the obvious impossibility of such an event, the joke was lost on many, and the Hudson-Nabors marriage was, in a few circles, taken seriously. As a result of the false rumor, Nabors and Hudson never spoke to each other again.

AIDS and death

and first lady Nancy Reagan at a White House state dinner, May 1984]] In July 1985, Hudson joined his old friend Doris Day for the launch of her new TV cable show, Doris Day's Best Friends. His gaunt appearance, and his nearly incoherent speech, were so shocking it was broadcast again all over the national news shows that night and for weeks to come. Day herself stared at him throughout their appearance.

Hudson had been diagnosed with HIV on June 5, 1984, but when the signs of illness became apparent, his publicity staff and doctors told the public he had inoperable liver cancer. It was not until July 25, 1985, while in Paris for treatment, that Hudson issued a press release announcing that he was dying of AIDS. In a later press release, Hudson speculated he might have contracted HIV through transfused blood from an infected donor during the multiple blood transfusions he received as part of his heart bypass procedure in 1981. Hudson flew back to Los Angeles on July 31, where he was so physically weak he was taken off by stretcher from an Air France Boeing 747, which he chartered and upon which he was the sole passenger, along with his medical attendants. He was flown by helicopter to Cedars Sinai Hospital, where he spent nearly a month undergoing further treatment. When the doctors told him there was no hope of saving his life, since the disease had progressed into the advanced stages, Hudson returned to his house, 'The Castle', in Beverly Hills, where he remained in seclusion until his death on October 2, 1985 at 08:37 PDT. Hudson was a month and a half away from his 60th birthday.

After Hudson's death, Doris Day, widely thought to be a close off-screen friend, said she never knew of Hudson engaging in any homosexual behaviour. Carol Burnett, who often worked on television and in live theatre with Hudson, was a staunch defender of her friend, telling an interviewer that she knew about his sexuality and did not care. As Morgan Fairchild said, "Rock Hudson's death gave AIDS a face".

Hudson was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea. Following his funeral, Marc Christian sued Hudson's estate on grounds of "intentional infliction of emotional distress". Christian tested negative for HIV but claimed Hudson continued having sex with him until February 1985, more than eight months after Hudson knew he had HIV. Hudson biographer Sara Davidson later stated that, by the time she had met Hudson, Christian was living in the guest house, and Tom Clark, who had allegedly been Hudson's partner for many years before, was living in the house.

Following his death, Elizabeth Taylor, his co-star in the film Giant, purchased a bronze plaque for Hudson on the West Hollywood Memorial Walk.

Hudson was the subject of a play, Rock, by Tim Fountain starring Michael Xavier as Rock and Bette Bourne as his agent Henry Willson. It was staged at London's Oval House Theatre in 2008.

Hudson was also the subject of another play, "For Roy", by Nambi E. Kelley starring Richard Henzel as Roy and Hannah Gomez as Caregiver. It was staged at American Theatre Company in Chicago in 2010.

Filmography

Fighter Squadron (1948)

Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)

Undertow (1949)

One Way Street (1950)

I Was a Shoplifter (1950)

Peggy (1950)

Winchester '73 (1950)

The Desert Hawk (1950)

Shakedown (1950)

Tomahawk (1951)

Air Cadet (1951)

The Fat Man (1951) (radio show)

Bright Victory (1951)

Iron Man (1951)

Bend of the River (1952)

Here Come the Nelsons (1952)

Scarlet Angel (1952)

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)

Horizons West (1952)

The Lawless Breed (1953)

Seminole (1953)

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

Back to God's Country (1953)

Gun Fury (1953)

The Golden Blade (1953)

Sea Devils (1953)

Bengal Brigade (1954)

Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)

I Love Lucy (1 episode, guest star) (1955)

All That Heaven Allows (1955)

One Desire (1955) .... Clint Saunders

Captain Lightfoot (1955)

Written on the Wind (1956)

Giant (1956)

Never Say Goodbye (1956)

A Farewell to Arms (1957)

Something of Value (1957)

Battle Hymn (1957)

Twilight for the Gods (1958)

The Tarnished Angels (1958)

Pillow Talk (1959)

This Earth Is Mine (1959)

Lover Come Back (1961)

Come September (1961)

The Last Sunset (1961)

The Spiral Road (1962)

"Marilyn"(1963)

A Gathering of Eagles (1963)

Send Me No Flowers (1964)

Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)

Blindfold (1965)

A Very Special Favor (1965)

Strange Bedfellows (1965)

Seconds (1966)

Tobruk (1967)

Ice Station Zebra (1968)

The Undefeated (1969)

Ruba al prossimo tuo (1969)

Hornets' Nest (1970)

Darling Lili (1970)

Once Upon a Dead Man (1971) (TV)

Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)

Showdown (1973)

Embryo (1976)

McMillan & Wife (29 episodes, 1971–1977)

Avalanche (1978)

Wheels (1978) TV mini-series

The Martian Chronicles (1979) TV mini-series

The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Superstunt II (1980)

NBC Family Christmas (1981)

The Star Maker (1981)

The Devlin Connection (13 episodes, 1982)

World War III (1982) TV mini-series

The Vegas Strip War (1984)

The Ambassador (1984)

Dynasty (14 episodes, 1984–1985)

Awards

Academy Award: Nominated 1956 Best Actor for Giant

Golden Globe: Winner 1959 World Film Favorite: Male actor

Golden Globe: Winner 1960 World Film Favorite: Male actor

Golden Globe: co-Winner with Tony Curtis 1961 World Film Favorite: Male actor

Golden Globe: Winner 1963 World Film Favorite: Male actor

Hudson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard.

See also

Rock Hudson's Home Movies - Rappaport 1992

Bibliography

References

External links

Transcript of CNN Larry King 7. June 2001, Special on Rock Hudson offscreen with Dale Olson

Transcript of CNN Larry King 1. October 2003, 18th anniversary of Hudson's death

Rock Hudson biography at TCM

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Name	Abu Eesa Niamatullah
Residence	Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Greater Manchester
Birth name	Niamatullah
Birth place	Barking, London,
Title	Imam
Religion	Sunni Muslim
Website	http://www.PropheticGuidance.co.uk

Imam Abu Eesa (, also known as Ustādh Abu Eesa Niamatullah and AE) is a British Muslim Imam and Lecturer.

Background

Abu Eesa was born "Niamatullah" in Barking, East London. His common name is in reference to his eldest son Eesa.

Before moving to Manchester, he trained as a DJ pioneering the art of mixing Compact Discs. He has lived in Manchester for over 13 years. He currently resides in Cheadle Hulme, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester.

Education

Abu Eesa completed his higher education in London. He read Pharmacy at the University of Manchester. His main teacher remains Sheikh Kehlan al-Jubury with whom he still continues his studies in Islamic Law and Exegesis. He has also studied Hadith under the Hadith Expert Abdullah al-Judai.

Current activities

Abu Eesa is a teacher and an international lecturer. He founded "Prophetic Guidance" following on from his teacher's magazine of the same name, an organization claiming to be "a non-profit educational institute" that aims to "unify the various Muslim communities by disseminating classical non-sectarian Islamic knowledge, utilising the media in its various present forms".

He was the previous Resident-Scholar of the Cheadle Muslim Association (CMA), Cheshire, England.

He is a writer online on blogs and websites, including a variety of articles found on Prophetic Guidance. He is an author of original works and a translator from the Arabic language, under the "Nahlah Foundation" publishing house. He teaches Islamic law and principles, and gives the sermon and was the resident scholar of Cheadle Mosque in his home-town of Cheadle in Cheshire. from religious worship to social and political issues. He has lectured in Britain, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and South Africa to audiences of Muslims and non-Muslims.

Abu Eesa teaches the Islam Channel televised class "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (The Book of Manners), and is the author of a detailed English commentary of the same work.

He has also been involved in various efforts to standardise the use of Islamic Finance principles amongst Western Muslims. He is a member of the C-100, a World Economic Forum (WEF) Initiative. He is of the religious leaders who attends Davos, the WEF Annual Meeting in Switzerland.

In an interview with Bloomberg during Davos 2009 on the topic of the global recession, the Imam criticized bankers, saying, "Bankers don't want redemption for the moral wrongs they've committed against humanity ... Redemption is a heavy word for Davos Man because remorse must come with sincerity and the desire to atone for the transgression. There are no sincere acts of sorrow in Davos."

He calls for increased political participation for Muslims as well as minority groups and women, yet is critical of what he sees as "over-kill" in continuing integration debate. Yet he has also cautioned against the unrestricted involvement of Muslim women in public roles, particularly the working environment.

Abu Eesa is known for his preaching of moderation and his refutations of extremist ideology, acknowledged both by Muslim and non-Muslim audiences. He is also a public commentator on social and anthropological issues affecting the Muslims, including citizenship and integration and gender issues.

He is a local fundraiser and a patron of St. Anne's Hospice in his local area of Cheadle. He completed the Great Manchester Run in 2006 raising funds for the Hospice. Abu Eesa's popularity seems to reach across the theological divides of the Sunni Madhabs, and he has been considered a reformer before his involvement with "The Pledge of Unity".

Abu Eesa was the first UK instructor for the American-based educational institute AlMaghrib and currently teaches seminars on law.

His main role currently is Strategic Director of the 1st Ethical Charitable Trust, working on social and community issues. He works closely with Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra of the MCB for the British Rainbow project.

Politically, he was considered an active Liberal Democrat campaigner for his personal friend Patsy Calton, the previous MP for Cheadle who was succeeded by Mark Hunter upon Calton's death from breast cancer. His political involvement with the Government has been criticised, more so when he joined part of a select group of religious leaders invited to attend monthly round-table dialogues with MPs at the House of Commons organised jointly by Sadiq Khan MP and the Muslim Weekly Newspaper.

Works

al-Adab al-Mufrad

The Last Testament

Recitation of Hisnul Muslim

The Sanctity of Human Life

Commentary to al-Adab al-Mufrad (unpublished)

The Cave – A Commentary to Surah al-Kahf

Boys and Girls - A Love Story (Video)

The Night of Power (Video)

Articles

What's Love Got to do With It?

The Defining Characteristic of Ahl'l-Sunnah wa'l-Jamā'ah during Fitnah

The Price of Shari'ah

The Best of the Best

Ramadhân: Have You Got What It Takes?

Reflections at the Onset of the New Hijri Year

Muslims in Britain: Hope or Hijrah?

Keeping it Real in the Prayer

Was There Not Amongst You Even a Single Merciful Man?!

The Importance of Giving – Charity Starts Here

You wanted a debate Jack. You've sure got one.

The Use of Certain Weak Hadīth in Promoting a Ribā-Free Society

Understanding Taqwā

Reviving the Recital of Sacred Texts

Sacrificing the White Bull

Translations

al-Ijma

Nur al-Basair

See also

British Muslims

List of Da'is

External links

Prophetic Guidance

Cheadle Muslim Association (Cheadle Mosque Website)

Imam Abu Eesa on Halaltube

Ustadh Abu Eesa's Video/Audio (Abu Eesa's Audio/Video Lectures)

AE (Abu Eesa's blog)

AE (Abu Eesa's old blog)

References

www.almaghrib.org / www.qshams.org

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