Health is an Intention

AL-MANAAR MUSLIM CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE
244 Acklam Road, London W10 5YG

Saturday 7th April 2007

We currently operate on the premise that health is the absence of sickness. Thus we have a medicine that expends all its energies on the identification and eradication of sickness. Our medicine is a war medicine, and that is probably because its real origins and its major successes have been in wartime or in crisis and emergency situations. We think if the enemy is dead, then the friend will be alive and well.

A Muslim Response

The Archbishop and the Shari’a

Many heaped opprobrium on him, his Synod gave him a standing ovation, but British Muslims have so far had little to say about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent foray into the minefield of community cohesion.

Who could say anything better

than someone who summons to Allah

and acts rightly

and says, "I am one of the Muslims"? (Surah Fussilat: 33)

Shari'ah – the Islamic Law

This famous book by the late Professor Abd ar-Rahman I. Doi, may Allah be merciful to him, has long been a standard work on the bookshelves of both Muslims and non-Muslims. Now, it has received a complete revision both of the existing material, and the addition of a great deal new of new matters, particularly from great classic works of Shari'ah such as the Waraqat of Imam al-Juwayni, the tafsir of al-Qurtubi, the Taqrib al-usul ila 'ilm al-usul, the Kitab at-tashil li 'ulum at-tanzil and al-Qawanin al-fiqhiyyah all by Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi. Naturally, the books has been completely re-typeset.

Fair Trading – by Hajj Asadullah Yate

Fair trading ('adl) in the market-place is based on trust. The establishment of healthy trade is an act of worship, modelled upon the trading practice of the Messenger of Allah, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

Where the Buck Stops
Abdalhamid Evans

What we want to do is to try and find out what has happened, what's gone wrong. How did we get to where we are?

Let us imagine that we are looking at the body of a crime victim. Multiple injury, heavy duty GBH, rape and robbery of an unprecedented nature. The victim's condition is serious, critical, but there is still life. It's not yet time for an autopsy, but it soon will be, if something is not done.

We have come across the scene of the crime, stumbled over the body, probably got some blood on our clothes. Naturally we are concerned, horrified, but what can we do? We could walk away, pretend we didn't see it, we weren't actually there. Its probably too much to deal with anyway. Can't handle it. Don't get involved.

Or we can accept responsibility for where we find ourselves. The victim is clearly in need; surely there is something that we can do, even if we are not experts.

The victim is the planet and its inhabitants, the people, animals plants, oceans, forests, the air, earth and water. Life itself.

Jumua Khutba

Shaykh Muhammad al Qasabi – 3rd November 2006

Jumua Mosque of Cape Town

Muslims you should know that amongst the most important objectives of the Islamic shariah is being united, helping one another to goodness and taqwa and these are amongst the most fundamental goals which the shariah pursues. Our mutual experience of solidarity and gathering and mutual assistance in our obligatory acts of ibada such as the prayer, zakat and hajj and the celebrations of the two Eids is nothing but an active proof and a container of the secrets of the communal nature of our din. It also shows that the din encourages co-operation and mutual concern. There are quranic ayats and prophetic hadiths which order us to come together and forbid us from splitting up.

Read the khutba in English

Shaykh Muhammad al Qasabi is Imam of the Granada Mosque.

Oversættelse af Jakob Werdelin, Abdassamad Clarke og Suád Østergaard

Havens Forlag

Bestilles hos NBC

The Compendium

of Knowledge and Wisdom

Jami' al-'Ulum wa'l-Hikam

by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbal

The Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom "Jami'al-'ulum wa'l-hikam [108] fi sharh khamsina hadithan min jawami' al-kalim is a comprehensive collection of sciences and wisdom in commentary on fifty hadith from the concise comprehensive speech [of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace]," by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali. Translation generously commissioned by The International Centre for Islamic Studies.

NEWS. It is to be published soon by Turath Publishing Ltd., of London.

The author adds another eight hadith to the famous Forty Hadith of Imam an-Nawawi and gives a much more elaborate commentary: on their chains of transmission, on the rulings that they entail and on the spiritual dimensions of the hadith, their explanations with respect to ayat of Qur'an and other hadith, and what the great salihun and awliya of Islam have said about them. The book soon-to-be-published by Turath Publishing. Here is the fiftieth chapter from it.

GLOBAL CAPITALISM - A MUSLIM'S PERSPECTIVE

by Abdassamad Clarke (Imam of Ihsan Masjid, Norwich) Saturday 24th June 2006 at 6.15 pm, Dublin Masjid & Islamic Foundation of Ireland, 163 South Circular Road, Dublin 8, Ireland. In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful

Abdassamad is ainm dom, O’Cleirigh is mo ainm slinne; os Carraig an Fergus me.

In what we are about to embark on I would ask for your patience, your utmost concentration, and your forgiveness for a procession of English and European figures, many of whom were inflicted on me in history classes in my childhood but whose significance I have only recently come to terms with. I would suggest that no matter where one comes from today, Africa, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or Ireland, one’s destiny has been affected by the obscure doings of English kings and Italian bankers which I will now relate.