These are the Main Posts on different topics throughout my time here.
Alhamdulillah, many of us have been fortunate enough to serve the community in a number of different projects. Others will have been fortunate enough to study the sacred sciences and advance in their religious studies. However, have you ever wondered why there isn’t something which blends the two? Of course there are some dawah initiatives…
For those of you who did not see this, our brothers and sisters gathered together in the Bay Area to pray for rain after a long drought. Within hours Allah opened up the skies. . . Here are some photos taken by local journalists: http://photos.mercurynews.com/2014/02/01/photos-bay-area-muslims-gather-in-pleasanton-to-pray-for-rain/#1 . Here is the khutbah by Shaykh Hamza which I…
I will never forget that moment. It had been around 3 months since I had first arrived in Cairo. It had been my dream to take time out to study Islam and this was finally the opportunity to do just that. I had always wanted to tread the footsteps of the great men who came…
Mark Gonzales summarises my feelings about writing in a way I never could. Beautiful. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MAF97lmI6U]
This is perhaps one of the most striking passages I have read for a while. It describes the modern world with startling accuracy. In our fear of an increasingly authoritarian rule, we have allowed a far more dangerous vision to come true: heedlessness Below is the foreward of Neil Postman’s book “Amusing Ourselves to Death:…
It’s funny. We look at hamsters running on their wheels with amusement; why do they spend so much time and energy running after nothing? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to spend all that effort on something more tangible or meaningful? But so long as you keep on feeding it, the hamster won’t care. It doesn’t…
This is my father’s study circle at the Solihull Islamic Education Academy – SIEA. He has been teaching this every friday non-stop for 14 years, not missing a SINGLE WEEK. He would schedule holidays, work and even weddings to fit around this. Over the years, he’s covered everything from tafsir, interfaith, fiqh, tazkiyah and now…
— Written by a good friend We frequently use Abdur Rahman ibn ‘Awf (RA) and Uthman ibn Affan (RA) as examples to state that “there is nothing wrong with being rich, it’s how you spend the wealth”. This is true but it’s a “premature” conclusion. Imam Ghazali writes on the topic of “Love of wealth”:…
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْكَلِمَةُ الْحِكْمَةُ ضَالَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ فَحَيْثُ وَجَدَهَا فَهُوَ أَحَقُّ بِهَا [2687 سنن الترمذي كتاب العلم باب ما جاء في فضل الفقه على العبادة] المحدث السيوطي خلاصة حكم المحدث حسن Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “The statement…
On the Path of Knowledge 