By Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi  Ya Walad – with these words our great scholars and Awliya have started their letters of counsel and guidance on the path of our sublime Deen. They were in every case words on the future life of the youth so that he should achieve maturity, and strengthen the Muslim community …
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Shari’ah
Chapter 23 Tijarah – Trade, from Shari’ah by Abd ar-Rahman I. Doi, edited, revised and expanded by Abdassamad Clarke.
There will be blood
If art holds the mirror up to life, then the meaning of the film There Will Be Blood is that we are in serious trouble indeed: subjects of a drunken murderous capitalism in a life or death struggle with a pseudo-religiosity, a struggle which the former wins. But what this mirror shows us is so …
Makkah Imam Calls for Islamic Common Market
   Makkah Imam Calls for Islamic Common Market  15 March 2008 — Sheikh Saud Al-Shuraim, imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah and a member of the teaching staff at Umm Al-Qura University, has called for the establishment of an Islamic common market.  Delivering his Juma sermon at the Grand Mosque …
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Malikis praying with their arms by their sides
A fabricated story has gained some credence among some Muslims who say that Imam Malik’s arms had been damaged, may Allah be merciful to him, in the punishment inflicted on him by the governor of Madinah, and that he was thus unable to fold his arms over his chest in prayer, and that the Malikis …
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War is a racket
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 June 21, 1940), nicknamed “The Fighting Quaker” and “Old Gimlet Eye,” was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. In his 1935 book, War Is a Racket, Butler presented an exposé and trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views …