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{ Would that I had taken a way with the Prophet ... } Sura Al-Furqan (25), verse 28

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Imam Shafi`i: Knowledge is what benefits, knowledge is not what one has memorized. [+]

About This Site ... (more than 750 pages.)

This site is a joint venture. We hold that Islam cannot be reduced to an utopia for the perfect society in this world (dunya), so Islam is not a social-utopian / political project. Instead life in this world (dunya) is a means and support for man in the Hereafter (akhirah). Furthermore Islam is neither limited to the domain of faith (imân), nor to its domain of law (shariah), instead there has to be a revival of Islamic (haqîqah), which is the science of Reality. [more]

Traditional Islam is fully aware of the nature of the (post-)modern world and capable of explaining that world as well as expounding in a contemporary language the teachings of Islam in both its exoteric and esoteric aspects to both the West and the Islamic world itself. SHN

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Defending The Transgressed By Censuring The Reckless Against The Killing of Civilians, By Shaykh Mohammad Afifi al-Akiti

Shaykh Gibril F Haddad wrote this introduction to the following elaborate fatwa:
Gentle I am honored to present the following fatwa or "response by a qualified Muslim Scholar" against the killing of civilians by the Oxford-based Malaysian jurist of the Shafi`i School and my inestimable teacher, Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti, titled Defending the Transgressed by Censuring the Reckless against the Killing of Civilians.

The Shaykh authored it in a few days, after I asked him to offer some guidance on the issue of targeting civilians and civilian centers by suicide bombing in response to a pseudo-fatwa by a deviant UK-based group which advocates such crimes ... [more]

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Contemporary Issues

Some Reflections on Woman-Led Prayer,
by Umm Zaynab Ansari

They believe that Islam needs to be freed from centuries of male-dominated, conservative scholarship to adequately address issues of human rights and gender equality. While this idea might appeal to some, it certainly has its flaws. Many of the Progressives' ideologues envision a wholesale reformulation of Sacred Law. This divine gift of guidance has withstood the test of time immemorial...
As Sidi Nazim Baksh so eloquently put it, "Any movement, artistic or scholarly, whether an idea or a book, that lures people away from the principles of Divine guidance embodied in the Prophetic era, is degeneration - a regression, not progression." [more]

Three Things In This World:

 

Imam Shafi`i said: 3 things in this world have been made lovely to me: avoiding affectation, treating people kindly, and following the way of tasawwuf.*

He also said: I accompanied the Sufis and received from them but three  words: their statement that time is a sword: if you do not  cut it, it cuts you; their statement that if you do not keep  your ego busy with truth it will keep you busy with  falsehood; their statement that deprivation is immunity.
[more] [-Al-Shafi`i] [*What is Tasawwuf - Sufism in Islam?]

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On Extremism, Terrorism

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There is no legal precedent in the history of Sunni Islam for the tactic of attacking civilians and overtly non-military targets.

The reasons why we deem suicide or 'martyrdom'-operations and the killing of civilians as unlawful and cursed, constituting without exception a reprehensible innovation (bid`ah) in Islam and a crime in general, will be shown below, with proofs and various texts presented, but also diverging opinions for references. [more]

 

The war on and occupation of Iraq was wrong, illegal; against Islamic law as well as against international law, as lawless an endevour as were the attacks on Afghanistan with the subsequent occupation and negative for international relations between the US and the Muslim World. [more]

La illaha ill-Allah - There is no divinity except Allah (swt)

The Meaning of Peace
The Islamic world seeks to reassert its independance, and right so. Islam has again become a force to be reckoned with, despite of recent trends of Islamic "fundamentalism", Islamic modernism and the spread of secularism. People need to lay off with (following their leaders of disinformation in) their nonsensical ways of finding fault with Islam* - the last authentic world religion, and see to their governments to leave the Muslim peoples in peace, going about their business. *The faults of Muslims are not the fault of Islam.

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Muhammad - When They Insult Our Prophet (pbuh) by Nouman Ali Khan
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Disclaimer:
Not all the movements using the name, symbols, and language of Islam are of an authentically Islamic character, least of all radical and violent forces that pretend to represent Islam and that distort the teachings of the religion for their own political ends.

 

Islam has authentic traditions with chains of transmissions, thoroughly examined by Muslim scholars preserved and taught to the present day.
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Two centuries ago, if Westerners or others were to study Islam,
they would have encountered but a single Islamic tradition.
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The name Salaf has been usurped by a movement which seeks to impose its narrow interpretation of religion towards a re-fashioning of the teachings of Islam. link

It is established that the Prophet used to exhort his Community
to hold on to his Sunna and warn them not to contravene it.
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"They (Khawarij = those outside) transferred the Qur'anic verses meant to refer to unbelievers and made them refer to believers."
Said the Prophet (saws). link

One charactersitic of modern thought is the loss of the sense of the sacred.
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The reduction of intellect to reason has made sacred knowledge inaccessible and to some even meaningless.
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