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.
Khutbah – Ihsan Mosque, Norwich – 7/5/10 Those commands to do with the tongue are recitation of the Qur’an, dhikr and du‘a, and today we want to talk about the fourth matter: commanding the right and forbidding the wrong. Allah, exalted is He, said, that whose meaning is: Let there be a community among you …
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This excerpt is an incomplete translation of the section which Ibn Khaldun devotes to the subject of the Mahdi, and comprises in full his study of the ahadith on him. If we examine first the ‘aqidahs which are acknowledged, such as those of at-Tahawi, an-Nasafi, or Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (in his Risalah and the Kitab al-Jami‘) …
The following examination of the ayah of Qur’an which is taken to refer to the expansion of the universe is a single example of what is becoming a burgeoning literature claiming that science proves the Qur’an to be true. This literature can be said to date from the book of Maurice Bucaille: The Bible, the …
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This is a timely work. With black people in the US beginning finally to emerge from the centuries of degrading slavery and the false start of the Civil Rights movement, and with Africa itself increasingly looking to be the continent of the future for Islam, nothing written in this area is without politics. Thus, it …
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The Medium is the Message Marshall MacLuhan, of the well-turned epigram, is too tempting to cite really, and too much needed in this utilitarian age that sees only content and not this other matter, sees only the message and not the medium by which the message comes, and what a matter that is! Of course, …
A concept of ‘The Islamic State’ has become very widespread among Muslims and non-Muslims and although the following document is based on my analysis of an essay whose origins I have so far been unable to trace, it has simply articulated a misconception that is very widespread. This is certainly not an attack on the …
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O Allah bless our Master Muhammad and his family and companions and greet peace Because of our ignorance of history and our ‘ulama’s ignorance of of history, certain events have come to assume mythic proportions. One of these is the event of Kerbala. The movement of this event-as-myth to the centre stage of Muslim discourse …
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Brev till en ny muslim (del 1 av 2) I Allahs namn, den Allnådige, den Nåderike Och må Allah välsigna Muhammad, hans familj och hans följeslagare, och må Han skänka dem frid. Allah, upphöjd är Han, säger det vars mening är: Vem kan säga någonting bättre än den som kallar till Allah och handlar rättfärdigt …
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In the Name of Allah, the All Merciful, the Most Merciful And may Allah bless Muhammad and his family and companions and grant them peace. Letter to a New Muslim Allah, exalted is He, says that whose meaning is: Who could say anything better than someone who summons to Allah and acts rightly and says, …
The Dreaming of the Bones by W. B. Yeats provides some unexpected insights into the current crisis in Libya. Yeats’s work might seem an unlikely place to discover a clue to a part of the current Libyan crisis. Yet it was just in such an unanticipated way that I came upon the route to something …