Listen to the proceeds of The 11th International Fiqh Conference in Cape Town, and in particular to Dr Habib Dahinden’s utterly lucid exposition of exactly why we are experiencing the crisis that we are. Audio only at present. I believe that the transcripts are going up soon. But it is well worth listening to. http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/content/conference2008.html
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The Shanty Towns of South Africa
Being at present in South Africa, I have had the chance to visit one of the townships springing up around Cape Town and to pass the enormous areas of ‘informal settlements’ (doublespeak for shanty towns). My companion on the journey told me that surprisingly the people who live in these corrugated iron dwellings in what …
Amirate and Caliphate
Those who insist that there can be no amirate but there has to be caliphate, and that thus the zakat cannot be collected until there is a caliph are like someone who being told to build a palace to live in refuses to build himself a hut to shelter in while he builds the palace …
The Great Crash and its Causes
(Irene O’Donoghue’s Essay on the Period) The Crash has almost inevitably become over the years the stuff of legend. Such a massive dislocation of ordinary existence must, perhaps unavoidably, grow in dimensions with the passage of time. Primitive peoples had the natural phenomena of lightning, wind and rain, of earthquake and pestilence which they clothed …
Crisis! What Crisis?
Last week the Church of England rolled out its big guns, in the form of the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, and trained both barrels on the perceived culprits behind the current world financial crisis in a ‘good cop-bad cop’ duo where the ‘bad’ cop (Canterbury) is so good that the ‘good’ cop (York) is …
The Collapse of the Monetarist Society, Part Three, by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
Usury. The monetarist society is one based on usury. It is a society of usurers. That means, alas, all of us within the financial system now globally established. Recently, we were shown on TV a remote Amazon tribe previously unknown to the Brazilian government. When they saw the small ‘plane fly over them, they rushed …
Georgia? Israel? What Territorial Integrity? by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
Why is Georgia so important? Let us follow the trail to its conclusion. When the self-styled ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the USA denounced the Russian Rescue operation in Georgia he stammered out that breaching Georgia’s territorial integrity was against ‘International Law’, and rabbited on about the rights of the sovereign State. Of course, this, coming from the …
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The Collapse of the Monetarist Society: Part Two
The Collapse of the Monetarist Society Part Two by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi The eroding of the coastlines is one of the effects of our analysed miasma. It is one of the indications of how the present world sickness is itself a defiance of the Divine Creator, may He be exalted, and the natural laws …
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The Noble Qur’an
THE NOBLE QUR’AN A New Rendering of its Meaning in English by Hajj Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley (1999 Madinah Press, pp. 664. Hardback. ISBN 1-874216-36-3) At last, here is a translation into English of the Qur’an which is easy to read and which gives easy access to the meanings of the original Arabic without compromising …
The Collapse of the Monetarist Society, part one
The Collapse of the Monetarist Society Part One by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi What, firstly, is the venous system of the present world society? The life-blood which activates every organ, limb and sinew of human life on our planet is of course, money. Not real-wealth, not commodities, not minerals and certainly not oil and gas. …
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