The Qur’an should not be valued as merely a sacred object
1. The Qur’an as Self-Consistent and Coherent Guidance (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...
Muqaddimah of ibn al-Salah
Kitab Ma’rifat anwa’ Ilm al-Hadith, better known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn al-Salah, is a well-known intermediate level text on the science of Usul al-hadith. For students familiar with the Arabic language and have covered beginners texts in hadith methodology, this...
Modern science seeks power, not wisdom
Narrow Focus on Causes and Effects Modern science is dedicated to explaining events and processes in the natural world, most of the time by means of some degree of mastery of the chain of the causes and effects that lead to specific events and processes. The problem...
Beautiful Names
The Beautiful Names of Allah are indicators of the vast and limitless nature of God. Found in both the Quran and Hadith literature, they enumerate attributes of The One who tells us that, ‘There is nothing like unto Him’ (Q42:11).
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...
Practices on the Days of Dhu al-Hijjah
It is recommended that one give special attention to the day of `Id al-Fitr and the ten days of Dhu al-Hijjah by remembering Allah and glorifying Him. `Abdullah ibn `Abbas reports that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said: “No good deeds done on other days are superior to those done on these days.”