By Mawlana Muhammad Manzoor Nu’mani
Translated by Mohammad Asif Kidwai M.A., Ph.D
If an article is bought from someone on a price, it is called Ba’i and Shira (buying and selling), in the special usage of the …
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Answered by Shaykh Mohammed Haroon Abasoomer
Question: There is a hadith that says don’t teach women ‘kitabat’ (to write). (Al-Mishkat and Abu Da’wud) First of all what did Rasulullah ( mean by ‘kitabat’? Is it the …
By Khalid Baig
“We mortals hear only the news and know nothing at all” – Homer, The Iliad.
Several years ago an Indian reporter for Time magazine approached Maulana Waheeduddin Khan, a prominent scholar and author in …
[Condensed from a talk by Justice Mufti Taqi Usmani, delivered at the International Conference of the World Muslim Congress.]
The nineteenth century was a century of political oppression whereby the powerful Western nations enslaved …
Reviewed by Murad Wilfried Hofmann
From its very beginning, Islam has been under attack not only physically but academically. Christian demagogues like John of Damascus, Peter the Venerable, Raymundus Lull, and Martin Luther later were …
Reviewed by Bilal Ali Ansari
The great Imam Nu’man ibn Thabit Abu Hanifah, or al-Imam al-A’zam (or the Grand Imam), divided fiqh into three categories. According to his definition of fiqh, which meant simply “understanding …
By Mawlana Sayyid Muhammad Yusuf Binnauri
Translated by Saad Khan
When stating the necessary fundamentals of Islamic belief, scholars of the ummah usually mention a few examples in their books. A misunderstanding that occurs in …
An Edited Anthology of the Spiritual Teachings of Hakim Al-Umma Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi
(Originally translated in South Africa – Edited and published by Mufti Abd Al-Rahman ibn Yusuf/White Thread Press www.whitethreadpress.com)
Reviewed by Ismaeel Nakhuda
In spite …
Shaykh Shabbir Salojee’s Foreword:
FOREWORD
Muslims everywhere are going through a period of uncertainty, turmoil and suffering. Throughout the world, there appears to be a concerted effort to wipe out the very presence of Muslims. Bosnia, Somalia, …
Reviewed by Ayub Khan
It is a tragedy of the post-911 world that the field of Islamic concepts and terminologies have also fallen a victim to misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and plain hysteria. Fuelling these fears among the …
Reviewed by Dr. Mahmood Ghazi
The dawn of the colonization of Afro-Asian world in general and the Muslim world in particular brought in its wake efforts by the western academia to justify colonization in a variety …
Answered by Mufti Abdurrahman ibn Yusuf
Question:
Are we accountable for the things which we do not know, for example if there is a fault in our prayer or an fiqh issue? Will we be accountable for these …
By Mufti Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf
Question:
Why don’t Hanafis combine prayers, when there are authentic hadiths about it?
Answer:
In the Name of Allah the Inspirer of truth.
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Condensed from Ta’neeb ul-Khateeb of Shaykh Zahid Al-Kawthari
Prepared by Mawlana Muhammad Karolia
It is quite common these days to hear people criticizing Imam Abu Hanifah rahimahullah because “he doesn’t practice on the Hadith of Bukhari that…”. …
By ‘Allamah Abu ’l-Hasan ‘Ali al-Nadwi
The fast of ‘Ashura was prescribed before the fasts of Ramadan. The Jews observed it and so did the people of Arabia before the dawn of Islam.
It is related by …
By Hadhrat Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad (db)
Extracted from The Treasure of this World and the Hereafter
In 1987, Qari Abdul Basit was visiting America, the same Qari Abdul Basit whose cassettes of the Holy Quran have become …
By Shaykh Musa Furber
The horrific and heartbreaking news from India is tragic enough on its own: two alleged victims of gang rape have died, one a 23-year-old woman who succumbed to her wounds and a …
By Shaykh Muhammad Abdullah al-Gangohi [1]
Extracted from Ikmal ash-Shiyam [2]
Whoever asserts tawaadhu’ (humility) for himself, is undoubtedly a man of pride because when a claim of humility is made, it is made after the perception of one’s (supposed) …
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