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Comment on Abdassamad Clarke by admin

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:18:49 +0000

Wa alaikum as-salam,

The version of complete translation of the Muwatta is that done by Aisha Bewley and Yaqub Johnson.

There is no original fiqh book by Malik such as you mention, but there are books by followers of Malik which detail his positions in fiqh, the most famous of which is the Mudawwanah of Sahnun. It is a very large book in Arabic and is as yet not translated. Maliki fiqh books draw on this material transmitted from Malik. The most famous early work of Maliki fiqh is the Risalah of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani.

Abdassamad Clarke

Comment on Abdassamad Clarke by asim iqbal

asim iqbal — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:54:11 +0000

Assalam-u-alaykum!

I couldn’t locate Mr. Abdassamad’s email due to which I am posting in comments. I want to know the name and details of the English version of Complete Malik’s Muwatta and not abridged version translations or versions mentioning Hadith only and not comments. There were cases where despite quoting Hadith with impeccable Isnad, Malik had rejected putting the Hadith into practice. So what is the original Maliki Fiqh book by Malik which gives rulings according to Amal of Madina and not simply ives translations of Hadith of Muwatta.

Comment on The Expansion of the Universe and the Qur’an – Abdassamad Clarke by Muhammad Elijah

Muhammad Elijah — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:36:43 +0000

Assalaamu ‘Alaikum waRahmatu(A)llaahi WaBarakaatuh
The attitude by some educated Muslims you mentioned in the article has a psychological basis.Muslims who recieve modern education but don’t recieve an education in Tafseer,Hadeeth,Fiqh and Tasawwuf unconsciously succumb to an inferiority complex about Islam.Only new Muslims like those of your background can cure this psychological phenomenon.One of the factors is that such Muslims remain at a distance from the traditional ‘Ulamaa who teach Tafseer,Hadeeth, Fiqh and Tasawwuf.Your readers and audience would be predominantly such Muslims, so keep in mind their psychological dilemmas in mind and encourage them to learn from traditional ‘Ulamaa whose works are in their indigenous traditional languages like Urdu,Malay and others.
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Comment on Mukhtasar al-Quduri by Faisal

Faisal — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:55:10 +0000

Nice one, Ali.
I guess the author did not intend it to be a commentary but a simple translation – something which he states in the introduction.
Anyhow, there are glimpses of fine commentatorship throughout the book.
Its justice done to the book.

Comment on Ibn Khaldun on ‘Evolution’ by admin

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:29:00 +0000

You must understand that there are many different thoughts that look superficially like each other, each of which has been called ‘evolutionary’ which upon deeper examination have different foundations and different consequences.

I am certainly not saying that a thinker like Ibn Khaldun endorses what we call ‘Darwinian evolution’.

What I am saying is that Muslims have mistakenly taken up Christian creationists’ arguments against Darwin. Although we do not stand with Darwin, neither can we stand with Christian creationists since their tawhid is seriously flawed.

In other words, there is a need for some real thought on this issue by those Muslims who have the requisite grounding both in Ash’ari kalam and scientific thought.

Comment on Mukhtasar al-Quduri by Ali

Ali — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:46:57 +0000

I finally got my book from IB publishers. I think the book is a good addition to the translated hanafi works out there. I wish there was more commentary in it. I guess I have to wait for Turath’s Lubab Sharh al Kitab to come out.

Comment on Mukhtasar al-Quduri by Faisal

Faisal — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:50:03 +0000

Try Zaytuna. They might have some in stock, though they are not distributors or retailers.

Comment on Mukhtasar al-Quduri by Ali

Ali — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:04:11 +0000

Publisher wasnt very helpful. They said the US distributor was IB Publishing. Called them they didnt even have it in stock. Does anyone else know when the book is coming out in US?

Comment on The Blind Professor by Ruzzi

Ruzzi — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:14:48 +0000

Thank you for you reply. The perception that i have, as everyones is different, even people from the same schools of thought is, the God that we are trying to understand, could it not be a collective of us every single thing… and not an entity presiding soley seperate from us. My belief is the key is in applying principles within ourselves to truely be a God fearing nation of mankind instead of trying to figure out who and where God is..Islam has intrigued me since I’ve become aware of myself and its ironic, i practice it in principle, i.e. A way of life with regard to my personal hygiene and awareness of the principles..i just have difficulty believing everything that is written in a literal sense.

Much respect.

Regards
Ruzzi

Comment on The Blind Professor by admin

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:56:18 +0000

Ruzzi,

Again, return to the two steps. It is impossible to imagine that things just pop into being from nothing, for the first step in western scientific thought is to know that things have causes and that nothing just happens without a cause. Therefore, if individual things have causes, why would the sum of all things – the cosmos – be the one exception to this rule?

In the above we have made no assumptions about the nature of the cause of the cosmos. However, rationally we would expect the nature of the cosmos’s make-up to tell us something about that cause. The extraordinary vastness of the cosmos must tell us something. The exquisite manifestation of scientific law throughout it tells us something. I leave the rest to your reflection.

Regards,

Abdassamad