Women’s Intimate Rights in Marriage
Question: What Can a Woman Do If Her Husband Cannot Fulfil Her Intimate Rights? Many women today, especially young and healthy ones, find themselves in marriages where their husbands are unable to meet their sexual needs, sometimes due to low testosterone,...
Assessing Single-Chain Narrations: A Study of Khabar al-Wahid
Question: In a compelling thought experiment, Qur’anic scholar Nouman Ali Khan poses the following scenario: Suppose I had a private conversation with Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq (ra), and he told me something he heard directly from the Prophet ﷺ. Now only he and I know it. Am...
Memorisation of the Qur’an: Is That All Hifz Means?
Hifz, in its original and most profound sense, denotes preservation. Over time, however, this noble concept has been narrowly reduced, in popular understanding, to the memorisation of the Qur’ān’s words alone. While the memorisation of the Qur’ānic text remains a...
ASI Graduation 2024
Al-Salam Institute (ASI) celebrated its esteemed graduation ceremony for the academic year 2023-24. Held at the Islamic Foundation in Leicestershire during the ASI Winter Retreat, the event was a momentous occasion, bringing together students, faculty, and honoured guests.
The Hereafter
Published on: Nov 28, 2024 Human life is inherently complex and difficult to sustain without a sense of intrinsic value. Mere survival—marked by the acts of eating, sleeping, accumulating wealth, and reproducing—is insufficient to fulfill the deeper needs of human...
Visit to the Shrine of Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi in Konya
Among the most significant artifacts is a handwritten manuscript of the Masnavi, an experience that evoked a sense of profound reverence. While I possess a facsimile of this manuscript in Oxford, witnessing the original illuminated its historical and spiritual significance.
Men don’t own women
Shared Responsibilities of Men and Women “The believing men and believing women are supporters of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, establish prayer, give zakat, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Those – Allah will have mercy upon them....
Maqasid al-Shari`ah
Introduction to the Maqasid al-Shari`ah The maqasid al-shari`ah are intellectual abstractions of general principles derived from particular, historical rulings in Islamic jurisprudence. The mental operation involved in such abstraction consists of extracting an...