“A political government tries to find the scapegoat when there is pandemic or calamity and the circumstances show that there is probability that these foreigners were chosen to make them a scapegoat,” the court said in its order. Press Trust of India – August 22, 2020 Mumbai: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High […]
Shaikh Dr. Haroon Sidat Given the vast canon of ḥadīth literature available to us, it is important, nay, imperative, that we situate statements of the Prophet ﷺ in their right context. To take a statement related to him without paying due regard to how it should be categorised and understood can result in manifest injustice […]
Translated by Shaykh Abdur Rahman Ibn Yusuf and taken from his work Al Fiqh al Akbar Explained The Fundamentals of Divine oneness and True Faith [This treatise is on] the fundamentals of divine oneness and [tenets] upon which it is correct to base [one’s] belief It is obligatory [for a person] to state: I believe […]
Dr. ‛Abd al-Karīm Zaydān اَلخُْلُقُ فِي الُّلغَةِ اَلطَّبْعُ وَالسَّجِيَّةُ، وَفِي اصْطِلَاحِ الْعُلَمَاءِ كَمَا يعَُرِّفُهُ الْغَزَالِيُّ عِبَارَةٌ عَنْ هَيْئَةٍ فِي النفَّْسِ رَاسِخَةٍ، عَنْهَا تَصْدُرُ الْأَفْعَالُ بِسُهُوْلَةٍ وَيُسْرٍ مِنْ غَيْرِ حَاجَةٍ إِلٰى فِكْرٍ وَرَوِيَّةٍ. The literal meaning of the word khuluq is “one’s innate nature and habit”. And according to the ‛ulamā’, as defined by Imām […]
Hundreds of thousands of worshippers have gathered across the world to perform the first day of prayers for the Eid al Adha festival. Muslims in many countries around the world have started celebrating Eid al Adha, the annual festival of sacrifice. It marks the 12th and last month of the Muslim lunar calendar. […]
James Zogby – 31-7-2020 Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute, a fellow at the Sanders Institute, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. I’ve been engaged in Democratic Party platform debates for over three decades and am amazed at how the party consistently gets the section on the Mideast wrong. […]
Shaikh Yasir Qadhi 30-7-2020 On this blessed Day of Arafah, I just heard the news of the passing of my teacher, Sh. Muḥammad Ḍiyā Al Raḥmān Al Aẓamī. I have spoken about the Shaykh in length, and was blessed to conduct an interview with him last year (see comment below for link). During my […]
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) salutes public after a visit to inspect Hagia Sophia Mosque which will be opened on 24th of July for worship after 86 years with Friday prayer, in Istanbul, Turkey on 19 July 2020. Omar Ahmed – July 30 2020 The Hagia Sofia Grand Mosque was opened for public […]
Lady Evelyn Cobbold’s High Road To Islam She was buried in accordance with the principles of Islam on a distant hillside on her estate at Glencarron, Wester Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland, on a bitter day in January 1963. Britain was in the grip of a vicious winter. A lone piper, shaking from cold, […]
29-7-2020 The annual pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah has been allowed to take place but with new measures, including less worshippers than previous years, to try and prevent the spread of coronavirus This year only 10,000 people already residing in the kingdom will participate, a tiny fraction of the 2.5million pilgrims from around the world […]
• Jayati Ghosh – professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru university, New Delhi Draconian government responses to the pandemic have merely served to widen India’s class, caste, gender and religious divides In February, 12-year-old Jamlo Makdam left her home in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh to work as a farm labourer in the chilli […]
By Parvez Khan – University of Liverpool Department Member Prophet Isa Ibn Maryam (as) was raised up alive and that he will come back again. The prophet (saw) stated clearly that Isa Ibn Maryam (as) will come again before the hour. [bayhaqi] “And (remember) when Allah said: “O `Isa! I will take you and raise […]
This is the full transcript of the first Friday prayer sermon since the Hagia Sophia’s restoration to a mosque. 24-7-2021 Honorable Muslims! May the blessings and help of Allah and the peacefulness and divine abundance of Friday be upon you! In this blessed hour, in this sacred place, we are witnessing a historic moment. Hagia […]
Philip Weiss JULY 28, 2020 Writer/comedian Seth Rogen was on the Marc Maron podcast yesterday, promoting his new movie “An American Pickle,” which involves Jewish life in the U.S. Maron raised the idea of Jews moving to many places in the world after the Holocaust, and not to Israel. Rogen agreed: I think that’s a better strategy. […]
William C. Chittick Jalal al-Din Rumi was born in Balkh in present-day Afghanistan in the year A.H. 604/A.D. 1207. 1 His father, Baha’ Walad, was a well-known preacher, jurisprudent, and Sufi who traced his spiritual lineage to Ahmad Ghazzali, brother of the more famous Muhammad Ghazzali and master of such well-known Sufis as `Ayn al-Qudat […]
Muslims around Europe hailed the opening of Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Mosque to worship after 86 years with Friday prayer Muslims around Europe hailed the opening of Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Mosque to worship after 86 years with Friday prayer, Anadolu Agency reported. Vehbija Secerovic, muezzin of the historic Gazi Husrev-Beg Mosque in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, thanked Turkish President Recep […]
Turkey’s senior administrative court issued a ruling on 1 July that annulled the 1934 decision of the Turkish Council of Ministers to transform Hagia Sophia Mosque into a museum. It was another step in the secularisation of the Republic of Turkey under its founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. “The decision was taken to hand over the […]
“A temple from which the nation has been deprived for 86 years has opened its doors to believers again,” the Institute for Islamic Thought (IDE) said in a statement after Turkey’s decision to reopen Hagia Sophia as a mosque after years of it being classed as a museum. The 1934 ruling to convert the ancient […]
I became an American groupie because the India of my youth was bedevilled by poverty and protest. Living in the US for the past two decades — and the George Floyd protests this week — have offered me a sharply different perspective John Kenneth Galbraith famously described India as a “functioning anarchy”, an ungovernable country which miraculously survived despite […]
America’s love-hate affair with billionaires took an uncomfortable twist this spring: As the coronavirus spread across the country, both fans and critics wondered what these titans of capitalism would do to address this devastating health and economic crisis. The answer so far: Not much, when accounting for their vast personal fortunes. A Washington Post survey of the […]
amnesty.org.uk By Kristyan Benedict – @KreaseChan Over recent days, we’ve seen numerous major companies around the world issuing statements of support for the Black Lives Matter protests. In truth, many feel hollow – paying lip-service to the issues raised by George Floyd’s horrific killing without looking inward at their own responsibilities. Take the intervention from online holiday […]
Bilal ibn Rabah (may Allah bless him) is one of the most illustrious names in the Islamic history. A Negro slave originally from Habasha (Ethiopia), Bilal is an evident story of Islam’s respect for human equality, anti-racism and social equity. Born in 680CE in Makkah, to his slave parents — Rabah and Hamamah — […]
It helps not to keep old people in nursing homes In early march, before Turkey had formally registered its first case of covid-19, Sabah, a pro-government newspaper, praised the country for setting a “leading example” in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Some 160,000 confirmed cases later, the fanfare is rather quieter. Still, as the country […]
Dr. Craig Considine – Feb 2015 Relations between different ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East, U.S., and EU are deteriorating at a rapid pace. Across these three areas, Muslims are pitted against non-Muslims and black and brown people are pitted against white. What is needed now more than ever is a role model […]
Islam with its universal concept of brotherhood rejects all artificial and man-made marks of distinction. When listening to the radio, reading newspapers, surfing the Net or watching television, we are confronted daily with the same sad news: Violence, crime, wars and disasters. This constant awareness of fear and tension should make us think what has […]
Since early last decade, Defense Ministry teams have scoured local archives and removed troves of historic documents to conceal proof of the Nakba Hagar Shezaf | Haaretz.com Four years ago, historian Tamar Novick was jolted by a document she found in the file of Yosef Waschitz, from the Arab Department of the left-wing Mapam Party, […]
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Imam Zaid Shakir is a Muslim American scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. He teaches courses on Arabic, law, history, and Islamic spirituality. There are a large number of books that discuss the coming of the Antichrist, known to Muslims as the Dajjal (The Great Deceiver). One can spend a lifetime studying […]
The following is a detailed essay on the rulings of Sadaqah al-Fitr, written by Mufti Faraz Adam. The great Hanafi jurist Ibn al-Humaam mentions, “Sadaqah al-fitr is compulsory upon every free Muslim.” (Sharh fath al-qadeer 2/285 Dar al-kutub al-ilmiyyah) All the scholars base their opinion on the following: Abdullah Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with him) […]
15 April 2020 Dr. Zulkifli bin Mohamad Al-Bakri Federal Territory Mufti, Malaysia Question: Assalamualaikum ustaz. I heard in a video that a speaker spoke about a hadith of the Prophet PBUH which is narrated in Musnad Ahmad that the Prophet PBUH said if a star rises, then calamity will end. In Arabic, it is said […]
