In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful and may Allah bless His slave and messenger Muhammad and his family and companions and grant perfect peace.
This is from a page produced by the Majlis of South Africa: In a recent 14 page article, the venerable Mufti has unambiguously exposed the riba of the ‘Islamic’ banks. Mufti Taqi Uthmaani of Pakistan had spearheaded the ‘Islamic’ bank movement. He was the prime supporter of ‘Islamic’ banks. Just recently, in a lengthy article …
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Whoever resorts to Google in order to find out something about me will find my name paired very often as author with Harun Yahya. This is not true. In my professional capacity as an editor long prior to his subsequent fame and, some might say, notoriety, I edited the texts of a number of his …
“I would like very much to see a dialogue developing with Islam about this question of what a just, a reasonable rate of interest might look like in the light of a religious ethic but this is work, reflection, very much in its infancy to put it mildly.”1 Dear Dr Williams, We write to you …
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When Paris of Troy abducted Helen (or did they elope? depends on who you believe), her husband Menelaus demanded of his brother Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, and all the other Greeks, help in retrieving her. Agamemnon agreed because if he had not done so then no Greek woman would have been secure since the …
It is a commonplace among the Muslims that Allah has declared war on usury, but the reality is much more serious than that: Allah, exalted is He, has declared war on believers who will not give up usury. He says in His Noble Book: 277 You who have iman! have taqwa of Allah and forgo …
Listen to the proceeds of The 11th International Fiqh Conference in Cape Town, and in particular to Dr Habib Dahinden’s utterly lucid exposition of exactly why we are experiencing the crisis that we are. Audio only at present. I believe that the transcripts are going up soon. But it is well worth listening to. http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/content/conference2008.html
Being at present in South Africa, I have had the chance to visit one of the townships springing up around Cape Town and to pass the enormous areas of ‘informal settlements’ (doublespeak for shanty towns). My companion on the journey told me that surprisingly the people who live in these corrugated iron dwellings in what …
Those who insist that there can be no amirate but there has to be caliphate, and that thus the zakat cannot be collected until there is a caliph are like someone who being told to build a palace to live in refuses to build himself a hut to shelter in while he builds the palace …
(Irene O’Donoghue’s Essay on the Period) The Crash has almost inevitably become over the years the stuff of legend. Such a massive dislocation of ordinary existence must, perhaps unavoidably, grow in dimensions with the passage of time. Primitive peoples had the natural phenomena of lightning, wind and rain, of earthquake and pestilence which they clothed …
Adh-Dhahabi said: “Texts have come to us affirming the annihilation of this abode and its inhabitants and the razing and scattering of the mountains – and these reports are by way of multiple chains of uninterrupted narration which are incontestable; and no one knows when this will happen except Allah, exalted is He, and whoever …