“From the evil of an envier when he envies”. Envy is a disapproved characteristic both constitutionally [in the human] and in the shari‘ah. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Al-Hasad eats up good deeds as the fire eats up firewood.”1 One of the men of knowledge2 said, “Al-Hasad …
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Learning Communities
The modern age is rooted in the ‘People of the Book’. Ibrahim Lawson has used the term ‘learning community’ for any formal or informal, gathering and configuration of people for the sake of learning together, in person or online, not necessarily led by a charismatic figure or ‘teacher’, but on a model of shared or …
Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi on Israel
by Dr. Riyad Asvat 5/11/2023 In 2014 Shaykh Abdalqadir, rahimahullah, said: “The removal of Hamas will change nothing. There still remains a nation divided by its two contrary elements …” The nation he is referring to is Israel. The first element is that the citizens of Israel suffer from post-concentration-camp-psychosis disorder. The Shaykh explained it …
Mawlid København 2023
1. Love “Say: If you love Allah…” Everyone has their own Qur’an: for some it is a terrible book full of warnings about eternal punishment, for others it is a legal work with regulation of all affairs of life, and with others it is a spiritual book detailing knowledge of Allah and His Messengers. Once …
Book Burning
In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful the Most-Merciful It is absurd beyond measure that burning a book, which is a record of speech, should become an issue of freedom of speech. Clearly it is designed to silence speech, in this case the uncreated Speech of the Divine, of the Essence itself, of That which …
Tradition and Madinas of the Future
(To avoid confusion, it must be made clear that this has nothing to do with the ‘traditionalism’ of perennialists and esotericists.) Recognising the catastrophe of the age and its cause in the loss of the tradition, the issue is not a simple one of returning to the tradition or restoring it. One must recognise that …
A vignette
Allah, exalted is He, said in a famous hadith: “Do not abuse time, for I am time.” What Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi brought was a renewed relation to time. What made him a man of his time was that he was pre-eminently a man of the moment, intensely alert to it. That was because it …
Mawlid Lolland 1444/2022
Der er egentlig ikke behov for en diskurs. Dette har været en aften med det, der kaldes samaa’ – som ikke er musik, men at lytte. Hele denne aften har været en undervisning. Allah talte til os i Surah Ya Sin, og store ‘ulama’ og shaykh’er talte til os i de qasidahs vi sang og …
Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi – On the End of Capitalism and the Revival of Islam
Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi On the End of Capitalism and the Revival of Islam1 by Dr. Riyad Asvat The inspiration for this article came from my research for a book on the political writings of Shaykh Abdalqadir (1930-2021), may Allah be pleased with him. The article is long because it is …
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Covid Passes
Acknowledgements1 ‘… one of the most dangerous policy proposals ever to be made in the history of British politics.’ Statement by Church leaders.2 In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful And may Allah bless His Noble Prophet, the Last of the Messengers, and his family and companions and grant them peace Introduction …