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 …
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Arthur Eddington on Science
“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 …
The African Caliphate
Davos, debt and denial
If you needed more proof that fiat money is insane and that capitalism is now over: http://www.drschoon.com/articles/DavosDebtAndDenial.pdf
William Rees-Mogg: In crisis never forget value of gold
The dollar is simply a piece of paper. Gold is a much better store of value and is the best insurance against future shocks By William Rees-Mogg The Times, London Monday, February 16, 2009 Last week was a bad one for bank shares; after the HBOS L8.5 billion loss, Lloyds shares fell by a third …
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The Books of the Mudawwanah
The Mudawwanah is the record of the answers given by Abdarrahman ibn al-Qasim in particular, Ibn Wahb and other direct students of Imam Malik, who were living in Egypt, to the questions of Sahnun. I post just the names of the book headings here since it is an interesting view of the things that these …
Ibn Khaldun on ‘Evolution’
It should be known that we – May God guide you and us – notice that this world with all the created things in it has a certain order and solid construction. It shows nexuses between causes and things caused, combinations of some parts of creation with others, and transformations of some existent things into …
The Mawlid
‘Ali ibn ‘Abd as-Sadiq said: “The (fast) is classified in different ways: for example, it may be an obligation; or may be makruh, like for example, (fasting) the day of the Mawlid, the Prophet’s birthday, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. This (latter judgement) is recorded from Zarruq from one of …
“Hadith are misleading except to people who know fiqh,” Ibn ‘Uyaynah
Surely one of the most pertinent quotes from the salaf for our age, only matched by that from Ibn Wahb, “Every man of hadith who has no Imam in fiqh is astray. If Allah had not rescued us by Malik and al-Layth we would have gone astray.”
Khilafah and khalifah
Modern man calls for khilafah and is locked in a ceaseless and hopeless struggle to bring it about, whereas the Companions and all our predecessors picked a khalifah and quickly had success. Look to the man not to the concept.