Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities
مسلمان اقلیتوں کے مسائل فقہ اسلامی کی روشنی میں بقلم: ڈاکٹر محمد اكرم ندوى آكسفورڈ فقہ الاقلیات کا مفہوم: بین الاقوامی استعمال کے مطابق اقلیت ایک سیاسی اصطلاح ہے، جس سے مراد کسی ملک کی وہ جماعت یا جماعتیں ہیں جو نسل، زبان، یا مذہب میں وہاں كى اکثریت سے مختلف انتساب...
The evil eye
Translated by Hala Akram and Aisha Akram 1. Introduction and Context A question was put to me by the well-known Qur’anic scholar, Ustādh Nouman Ali Khan, about the truth of the evil eye. Answer: Imam Bukhari narrates in his Sahih from Abu Hurayrah, and Imam Muslim...
The Most Ridiculous Question
Translated by Dr. Abu ZaydThey asked: To atheists, we affirm the existence of God and point to the causes of everything, and then to the causes of those causes until we arrive at the cause of all causes, the Prime Mover, God, who is the creator of the...
Few Thoughts on Surah al-‘Ankabut
The surah begins with the question: {a hasiba n-nasu an…} It is not right to translate hasiba as ‘think’/‘imagine’ or ‘suppose’/‘conjecture’. The meaning here is ‘reckon’, ‘calculate’, to use reason to weigh up options in order to come to a judgment about…
Desire and Love in Marriage
I want to begin by trying to explain to you the difference between desire (hawa) and love (mahabba). Desire is something that happens to you; you are passive before it; it arises; it gets you; it seems strong and you seem weak. It is aroused by…
Reflections on Education
The importance of religion to Muslims means, an emphasis on Arabic and Qur’anic studies; and the importance of earning their livelihood, means they have instead, to learn English, which is the only medium Western learning could be studied.
Advice to women travelling for `umrah
Women, generally, have always been easy targets of abuse and harassment by misguided, predatory men and hence it has rarely been safe for them to travel alone. That is why the Prophet advised that women when travelling in a potentially unsafe…
Notes on Surah al-Shu’ara’
This surah addresses the intense anxiety that God’s Messenger, salla l-lahu `alayhiwa-sallam, suffered on account of the negative responses he got when he conveyed to the people the message God had commanded him to convey. It seems that he blamed…