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BOOK REVIEW

ISLAM – Its Basic Practices and Beliefs

by Abdalhaqq Bewley (2008, Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd, pp. 288. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-84200-088-5)

The Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said that an hour’s reflection is better than a lifetime of worship. This latest book of Hajj Abdalhaqq Bewley is the fruit of a lifetime’s reflection and a catalyst for a lifetime’s reflection. It is also very practical. It deals with actions and the meanings of these actions and the results of these actions, in this world and in the next. It is a reliable source of knowledge for those who rely on Allah, or who wish that they could rely on Allah. Above all, this book is illuminated by a knowledge which has been transmitted from living heart to living heart. Accordingly it is vast but not encyclopaedic. Since words tether meanings, it is also grounded in the understanding of well known reliable written sources of recorded knowledge which have been studied in depth. Accordingly it is the work of a scholar, but not of an academic. The Qur’an tells us that the people of knowledge are those who fear Allah (Qur’an: 35.28) ~ not those who accumulate information. Continue reading “BOOK REVIEW: ISLAM – Its Basic Practices and Beliefs by Abdalhaqq Bewley”

http://www.bogvaerker.dk/images/2.AdabRiyad.pdf. This masterwork of Imam an-Nawawi, may Allah be pleased with him, here in a new translation by Aisha Bewley, with all of the Imam’s notes translated by Abdassamad Clarke, who also edited and typeset the book. It is to be published by the UK Islamic Academy insha’Allah.

http://www.bogvaerker.dk/images/14.SalesTarghib.pdf
This famous work translated by Aisha Bewley, edited and typeset by Abdassamad Clarke and to be published by the UK Islamic Academy is the abridgement (mukhtasar) by Shaykh Shihab ad-Deen Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani of Hafidh Abu Muhammad ‘Abd al-‘Adheem ibn ‘Abd al-Qawi al-Mundhiri’s book at-Targhib wa’t-Tarhib.

Discourse: Britain-Money-Muslims-Monarch

“Usury I put down, as the great pivot of all their (the Irish people’s) disasters – the main and primary spring that sets on motion the whole machinery of Ireland’s calamities.” (Jeremiah O’Callaghan 1780 -1861)

Seeing Ulster hit the headlines again, one is revolted that the only thing offered its Catholics and Protestants is the severely over-rated virtue of ‘tolerance’ for each other. How about some facts that would make sense of their history, our history? For the truth is that Ulster straddles the fault-line whose recent shifts caused such tectonic shudders around the world: the great banking collapses of 2008 whose end we have by no means seen yet.

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The original 1987 Norwich conference, Usury: the root cause of the injustices of our time, was an eye-opening occasion. After endless decades of left and right, Conservative and Labour, Democrat and Republican obfuscation, here was an explanation that cut through these misleading dialectics in a single burst of conscientious erudition. Back then, the result was electric. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, it is proving little short of prophetic.
Recent events – the catastrophic bank collapses of 2008 and the impending total systems shutdown of 2009 – have furnished us with the opportunity to place this vital material before a new readership, one which has become witness to the unfolding nightmare of systemic disintegration. In 1987 such a scenario could still be dismissed as speculative doomsaying but denial is no longer an option; the time has come for real solutions.
Whatever the result of the signal events of 2008-9, a slide into depression, cataclysmic upheaval or a rebound into dynamic activity, the argument in this work still stands: Usury is demonstrably the motor of the injustices of our age and an adequate answer to this problem will not be found outside of any paradigm that refuses to acknowledge the iniquities inherent in the creation of money as debt.
Many people are waking up to the shocking reality of entrapment by the banks as their edifice crumbles around us threatening to destroy everything in its collapse. So our wish is only that this small work will be a tool and a touchstone for those determined to find sound bearings in the confusing times that lie ahead. This new edition contains the texts of the original lectures as well as some newer material that brings them up to date. However, as the reader will discover, these essays were not only strikingly prescient with respect to describing the problem but also with respect to prescribing the solution.

In the coming financial flood and the catastrophe it will bring with it, if Muslims have not already built the ship, then they must get to somewhere there is a ship ready built. And the ship? “The Sunnah is the ship of Nuh, whoever embarks on it is saved”. As for those who think that it consists of the length of the beard or rolling up the trouser legs for prayer or whether you flap your hands about in the prayer: watch out!

“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And Lo! It is our own.”

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