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LSE IFS (Islamic Finance and Ethics Society): Earning a living
Abdassamad Clarke speaking about Imam Ghazali’s work on ‘Right Livelihood and the Common Good’, the 13th book from his collection ‘The Revival of the Islamic Sciences’. The talk is based on Dr. Adi Setia’s (student of Sh. Naquib al-Attas) paper that is a translation of the text and will work to develop understanding of traditional …
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The Sciences of Tafsir
From the Tafsir of Ibn Juzayy Kitab at-tashil li ‘ulum at-tanzil “The Sciences of Tafsir” is translated from Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi’s Kitab at-Tashil li ‘Ulum at-Tanzil”. “The author was born in 693 AH. His name was Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad, called al-Qasim, ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi, i.e. from the Arab tribe of Kalb, …
Gazan Reflections
In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful, and may Allah bless and grant peace to our Messenger Muhammad and his family and companions. In trying to make sense of the appalling and utterly unacceptable Israeli slaughter of the defenceless Palestinians of Gaza, we must nevertheless look for causes and not surrender our …
Ya Ayyuha’sh-Shabaab
There is an apparently coherent narrative that posits a mythic ‘salafi’ Islam at war in defence of the Muslims against ‘Zionist Jews’ and ‘Crusader Christians’ in a triangular religious configuration. Since it is self-evident that there is slaughter of the Muslims in many lands on earth and their denigration in many other lands, what heroic …
Community and Caliphate
The jihad of the age is to invite and welcome people into Islam. This is quite different from the dialectical arguing that people do today and quite wrongly call da’wa. We repudiate utterly the ‘body count’ mentality of those preachers who go from city to city reaping ‘shahadas’ and leave in their wake a trail …
Debate
Debate without understanding, polemic without insight: why are they so much in fashion? Because they are so much easier than the arduous but rewarding task of understanding, which would change our lives and our behaviour. Because they are spectator sports like boxing. We are there for the thrill of the knockout and the blood on …
I am nothing
The claim “I am nothing” is perhaps the most arrogant claim of all, for there is that “I am” even if it is followed by “nothing”. It is like the abstemiousness of those who give up “things”. There may be nothing in the hand, but take a look at what is in the heart.
Nothing
Can someone who is nothing come to know One Who is no thing?
The Manufacture of Ignorance – Abdassamad Clarke and Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison
“I refused to go to college because I wanted an education.” Gore Vidal There is a vital need to re-introduce the independence of the scholar, scientist and expert, acknowledging that there are already a substantial number of such people within the academic nexus who against all odds have held to the highest qualities of scholarly …
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