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Between Extremes

(interpreting faith in the world today, discussing gender, identity, culture, politics and contemporary issues in the world today) I don't think it makes much difference on these issues that Muslims are living as minorities or as majorities. The culture that we...

Al-Jami al-Muin By Dr Akram Nadwi

كتاب الجامع المعين في طبقات الشيوخ المتقنين والمجيزين المسندين د. محمد أكرم الندوي، أوكسفورد صدر لي أخيرا كتاب (الجامع المعين في طبقات الشيوخ المتقنين والمجيزين المسندين (ألف ترجمة أو أكثر في سبعة مجلدات) بطباعة دار الكتب العلمية ببيروت سنة 2023م، فسألني بعض إخواني أن...

Reading the Qur’an During Menstruation

There are two predominant scholarly opinions regarding this issue. In the following response, I will outline these opinions in detail and then offer my reflections and some practical guidance that Muslim women might consider adopting.

Inheritance: a general overview of the laws

Concepts and arguments related to inheritance are in many respects so finely detailed and entangled that it is difficult to keep in mind the general principles and goals of inheritance laws and customs in Islam. These principles and goals are, as we should expect,...

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...

The 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,...

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...

The Qur’an should not be valued as merely a sacred object

1. Allah says in the Qur’an about the Qur’an, that it is a self-consistent, coherent message from the Creator to the most favoured among His creatures. He also says of it that it is the final revelation of His will and purpose for mankind, the completion and...