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Annual Graduation Dinner 2023
Al-Salam Institute will be holding its Annual Graduation Dinner, in-person, on Saturday 9th December 2023 at the Islamic Foundation in Leicestershire, Markfield
Inheritance Law: Based on the Text Al-Sirajiyyah
A 2-day seminar, with Shaykh Akram Nadwi, which will go through the laws of inheritance according to the Hanafi madhhab
Student Retreats
During the academic year, there are two annual Student Retreats which take place in the idyllic British countryside
Tafsir al-Kashshaf
One of the most important Quranic commentaries of all time, and probably the greatest linguistic commentary with grammatical and rhetorical analysis
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Taysir
Taysir means taking the easier path to manage a difficulty. As a term in Islamic scholarship, it means giving advice or a ruling in favour of the easier option, provided the matter is one in which preference between options is allowable.Taysir is very much...
read moreThe successful life
The successful life as measured in this world does not secure safe passage into the favour of God in the hereafter. The good or virtuous life as measured in this world does not secure safe passage into the favour of God in the hereafter. In both matters,...
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Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars of Islam
ASI is launching an exclusive book campaign to enable individuals, researchers and institutions to gain access to Shaykh Akram Nadwi’s world famous Al-Wafa’ bi Asma’ al-Nisa’. The 43-volume compilation of female hadith scholars and narrators is a specialist work in...

The meaning of ‘inshallah’, ‘mashallah’ and ‘bidhnillah’
Translated by Dr Imran NavedThey asked: What is the meaning of ‘inshallah’?I replied: Is there any Muslim who is unaware of the meaning of this word which is so frequently used in our lives?They said: Its usage is so varied among people that its meaning...

The Classical persistent western attitude to the natural world
1- The natural world is world as given. This world includes the human being before it is influenced by other human beings. In other words, the natural world includes the human being as an animal, not as an human. 2- This distinction between animal and human echoes...