Both general principles and concrete applications must be learnt together for creation to fulfil its Creator’s purpose. If you don’t learn how to interpret an engineering design into an engineered object, then all your engineering skills will be spent on repeating a limited number of engineered objects.

There is no reliable information about Dajjal that is sufficient responsibly to change your behavior or your policies. What, then, is the point of the Prophet’s giving any information, however limited, about Dajjal? The answer must begin by reflecting on what need people have to know something about such matters.

The primary function of courts in any jurisdiction, Islamic or otherwise, is to settle disputes according to rules that both disputing parties know and agree. One of the main functions of the state is to uphold the authority of the courts…

عقد معهد السلام مجلس سماع للحديث الساعة الخامسة إلى السابعة مساء الأحد سابع رجب سنة 1441هـ بلندن عاصمة المملكة المتحدة، حضره العلماء والطلاب رجالا ونساء في عدد كبير، قرأ فيه الشيخ العالم المسند المحقق محمد زياد التكلة جزء الحسن بن عرفة بن يزيد العبدي (150-257)، وجزء الاعتقاد للإمام محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري (ت 256)، والقصيدة الوضاحية في مدح أم المؤمنين عائشة رضي الله عنها للشيخ الإمام أبي عمران موسى بن محمد بن

The fact is that the `ulama’ are not a respected group in society. The respect that they are given is primarily sentimental because of the emotional attachment that all people have to their religious and cultural background. That background in all societies without exception, until the last century…