The Islamic Scholarship Programme (ISP)
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Course Overview This lecture touches on the contribution of the female scholars of hadith (al-muhaddithat) to the Islamic intellectual heritage.
Index of the Major Hadith Collections Course Overview In the third part of the series, students will go through the remainder of ...
Course Overview In the second part of the series, the course provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of the six primary ...
Al-Muwatta and the Books of the Four Imams Course Overview In the first part of the Bustan al-Muhhaddithin series, students ...
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Da’wah – Invitation to Islam
God says He does not love that men say what they do not do (al-Saff). This means two things. (a) Be careful of the language you use. Don’t be like those poets who say things that sound very impressive but are impossible to do…
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Surah al-Nazi`at
In the opening line, the words are related to the verb naza`a, meaning to drag away or strip out forcibly. Other common words in Arabic derived from the same root include meanings like struggle, death struggle, the agony of death.
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Surah al-Mursalat
This surah alerts us to the very evident reality that life in this world subsists within a beneficent arrangement that has been put in place and operates independently of human will and agency. Although this reality is obvious everywhere and at all times…
Surah al-Kahf
This surah was revealed in Makkah at a time when the hostility of the Quraysh, and their fear and hatred of Islam and of the Prophet, were at their height. They adopted every measure to stop the Prophet from preaching…
Surah al-Takwir & Surah al-Infitar
These surahs compel us to call to mind realities that we accept are true but which we almost-never include in our conscious, deliberate calculations when we decide on a course of action or when we put a value on something when we say…