did not take notes from the beginning There was an expalination of the Prophets name Mohmmad= praiseworthy one. This name by the majority of scholars (not consnsus) was not given to anyone but the prophet among the arabs. That the paraents of the Prophet were Devinely inspired to give this name to him. A Prophet is [...]
Archive for May, 2007
notes from sunnipath lesson, with shaikh Faraz rabbani, on the Rank and Rights of the Prophet
May 28, 2007A heretic never claims to be a heretic, he claims to transcend orthodoxy
May 21, 2007Learn that you are the merest shadow of Another’s act; thus you will learn humbleness, which is the beginning of understanding
‘For Allah created the English mad – the maddest of all mankind.’ (Kipling)
To learn truth is always to relearn. To lapse into falsehood is not always to relapse.
42. ‘What can I say – it must [...]
Approach the teacher as the comet approaches the sun. AHM
May 21, 2007burn, burn….and burn
greater jihad
May 17, 2007Documentation of
“Greater Jihad” hadith
(upd. Feb 28, 2005)
The “Greater Jihad” hadith comes to us
• marfu` (as a Prophetic saying),
• mawquf (as a Companion-saying), and
• maqtu` (as a Tabi`i-saying or later).
I. Marfu`
As a Prophetic saying this hadith has two similar wordings from Jabir:
1. “Some troops came back from an expedition and went to see the Messenger of Allah sallallahu [...]
the hijacked caravan
May 17, 2007www.livingislam.org
Ihsanic Intelligence, the think tank behind a highly controversial study, have spent two years studying suicide bombings by Islamist terrorists and their conclusions are both timely, controversial and intended for a global readership.
Titled ‘The Hijacked Caravan: Refuting Suicide Bombings as Martyrdom Operations in Contemporary Jihad Strategy’, the study systematically analyses al-Qaeda’s literature for recruiting the [...]
Muslims under non-muslim rule by Yahya Michot,; oxford
May 17, 2007Book Review – The father of Islamic radicalism?
Muslims Under Non-Muslim Rule, by Yahya Michot, Oxford: Interface Publications, pp. 190, 2006, HB.
Born in 1263 in Harran (located close to Damascus) into a family of Islamic scholars and Hanbali jurists, Ibn Taymiyyah received his early education in Arabic and traditional Islamic sciences at home under the tutelage [...]
Defending The Transgressed By Censuring The Reckless Against The Killing Of Civilians
May 17, 2007Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti
Defending The Transgressed By
Censuring The Reckless Against The Killing Of Civilians
Mudâfi’ al-Mazlum bi-Radd al-Muhâmil
‘alâ Qitâl Man Lâ Yuqâtil
Introduction by Shaykh Gibril F Haddad
Fatwa Against The Targeting Of Civilians
© 2005 Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti
This text is also in pdf < O >
It has been published by Amal Press in a volume with other [...]
Dodging the Homeschool Stereotype beliefnet.com
May 8, 2007I’m not a militia-supporting separatist or a seven-day creationist. The reality is a lot more complex
By Susan Wise Bauer
This defensive reaction doesn’t do justice to my own reasons for homeschooling. The truth is, I am teaching my sons at home for religious reasons; I find most classrooms to be toxic social environments, where [...]
From ‘The Spy of the Heart’ by Robert Darr
May 7, 2007 The Meeting of Two Satans
Again the world-devouring wolves met face to face
and plans of darkest treachery they’ve set in place.
Either one of them could teach the very Devil
tricks of treachery, murder, falsity and evil.
Through some new magic they numb the mind;
Instead of peace, give humanity war in kind.
They meet to tell the world that they [...]
SELECTIONS FROM CONTENTIONS AHM
May 3, 200793. To attribute the maqam of da‘wa to one’s self is to be open to the Divine ruse.
94. Wonder is the first passion.
95. The Qur’an shows, it does not just explain.
96. Courtesy and knowledge are like two hands washing each other.
97. Without the inward whom can we worship? The Outwardly Manifest?
98. No-one is uncircumcised, for [...]
