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.
FIRSTLY: LET US TAKE THE LONG VIEW. The first Empire with world hegemony was the British Empire. The British Empire began when Disraeli persuaded Queen Victoria to claim India as Imperatrix. She was declared Empress in 1877. The Empire lasted precisely 70 years. It came to an ignominious end under Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, whose wife, …
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A talk by Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaquobi on the Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom, our translation of the Jami’ al-‘ulum wa’l-hikam of Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, may Allah be merciful to him. This was Ibn Rajab’s collection of fifty hadith, comprising the Forty (actually 42) of Imam an-Nawawi, may Allah be merciful to him, and another eight …
Forget about any idea of sub-prime mortgages and other types of toxic waste being the cause of the current meltdown. The real story is the derivatives market, and to understand why, look carefully at the statistics below: According to the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), on June 30, 2008, U.S. commercial banks held $182.1 …
In 1812 Sultan Mahmut II sent an order from Topkapi that the wahhabis should be removed from the cities of Makkah, Madinah and Jeddah. It must be noted that the period of Mahmut’s rule, 1839-76, known as the Tanzimat, was, according to the confirmed Islamic perspective (differentiated from an Orientalist reading of events) the point …
So you are a new Muslim, and you may be such even if you have a lineage of Muslim ancestors that stretches back for generations, for each person who genuinely discovers Islam, confirms it and determines to live by it is always new. You are beginning to find your feet in this strangely topsy-turvey world …
?Unanimous Fatwa (Ruling) on Islamic Banks by the most Senior Islamic Scholars and Mufti’s from all the four Provinces of Pakistan. (This is the English translation of the last page of the fatwa where they conclude with a ruling signed by the Mufti’s as signatories, the full fatwa extends to a detailed judgment of …
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Many interpret the string of bank, and now corporation, collapses as if the power elite were suffering, forgetting that banks and corporations are not the same as their shareholders, and their interests are not the same. If you understand the nature of the ‘corporation’, that it is regarded legally as a ‘person’, meaning that its …
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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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 …