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Geopolitical tensions around the Strait of Hormuz escalated sharply after Iran rebuffed a claim by Donald Trump that the waterway would become US territory, with reports of another ship being struck in the region. The standoff comes as Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya heads to Cairo…
One of the more quietly profound teachings in Islamic financial ethics concerns how we treat debt — not just whether we repay it, but how promptly, and what our delay communicates about our character. The Prophet (peace be upon him) stated plainly: procrastination in paying debt…
A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia early Saturday, killing at least five people and triggering regional tsunami alerts in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation. The disaster unfolded as global markets priced in heightened geopolitical risk: oil ros…
A comment made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week has drawn sharp criticism from political allies and opponents alike. Describing the United Kingdom as “the first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon,” Netanyahu appeared to be responding to British diplom…
For a while I’ve been playing around with Mu - an open source project that provides tools for agents behind one MCP server and app.
Mu’s news streaming now remembers the guardrails. When you ask for recent news, the answer is built with a caveat attached to the first visible line — a plain statement of how fresh the search results are. That caveat used to vanish during reconnection: if the stream was interru…
The US escalated its economic pressure on Iran, with Treasury Secretary Bessent promising a combination of “economic isolation like the world has never seen before” and the continued blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, while the Navy works to relieve the troubled carrier USS Abrah…
The story of the Queen of Sheba in Surah An-Naml is brief, but its political wisdom is remarkable. When a threatening letter arrived from Solomon, Bilqis did not react. She did not convene a war council to confirm what she had already decided. She gathered her advisors, laid the…
The Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, with Iran’s Persian Gulf Authority insisting it will not reopen until its conditions are accepted, directly contradicting claims from the US. Oil prices edged down 0.2% to $83.13, but the disruption continues to threaten global supply chain…
The hadith shared today is deceptively simple. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said that a believer to another believer is like a building whose different parts enforce each other — and then he clasped his hands together, fingers interlaced, to show what he meant. It is…
Oil prices climbed on Wednesday after deadly Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman killed six people, the first fatalities in over a year, heightening supply concerns and straining global shipping routes. The US struck a containership in response, while Trump…
One of the quieter tensions in modern life is between the human need to be recognised and the spiritual reality that true greatness belongs to none of us. The name Al-Mutakabbir — one of the ninety-nine names of Allah — points directly at this. It means the Supremely Great, the …
A small change to how Mu handles news searches: when the available results are older than the current day for a date-sensitive query, the answer now leads with a freshness caveat before listing any stories. The caveat appears first, not buried at the end.
Oil prices edged higher again today, with Brent trading at $82.41, as the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz continued to rattle markets. Donald Trump’s claim of “total control” of the strait and demand for Iran to pay reparations has deepened the deadlock, with traders doubtin…
The eighth chapter of the Quran opens in the aftermath of the Battle of Badr — a moment when a small, outnumbered community had just survived an existential threat. Verse 8:30 is striking in its directness: enemies had gathered to capture, kill, or exile the Prophet. Three optio…
Today, the model context protocol is what we’re all standardising on for communication between agents and tools. To facilitate this tool access, I’ve embedded an MCP server in Mu which agents can use to access the blog, news, chat, video and so on. It also includes mail if they …
Ten years ago I started a company called Micro. The idea was simple: standardise the building blocks of software so developers could share infrastructure the way Google does internally. Open source, open standards, open APIs. A kind of lego system for the internet.
Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz remain the dominant story, with the US reaffirming its grip on the blockade by turning away 55 ships as talks stall, according to CNBC. Oil prices edged up 0.4% to $78.47, but the market seems to have priced in the protracted crisis. Meanwhile, …
There is a striking intimacy in one of Allah’s names that often gets overlooked. Al-Mujeeb — the Responder to Prayer — does not simply mean that Allah occasionally answers those who call upon Him. The Arabic root suggests something closer to a standing readiness: He is already l…
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