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A New Perspective on the Hanafi Madhhab

A New Perspective on the Hanafi Madhhab

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نظرة جديدة في المذهب الحنفي بقلم: محمد أكرم الندوي أوكسفورد   قالوا: ما معنى الدين والمذهب؟ قلت: الدين إطاعة الله ورسوله، وهو صراط الله المستقيم الذي أوحاه إلى نبيه صلى الله عليه وسلم، والمذهب في الأصل هو المنهج التطبيقي للدين، ثم تطوَّر...
From the Sirah of the Prophet ﷺ – The Messenger as a Teacher

From the Sirah of the Prophet ﷺ – The Messenger as a Teacher

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم من سيرة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: رسولاً معلِّمًا بقلم: محمد أكرم الندوي قالوا: حدِّثنا عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم معلِّما قلت: قد حالفكم التوفيق في سؤالكم هذا نامًّا عن صفاء طبائعكم وطهارة سرائركم، فما أجهل الناس به صلى الله عليه وسلم...
The Length and Number of Units of Prayer

The Length and Number of Units of Prayer

The Length and Number of Units of Prayer By Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, Oxford Translated by Dr. Abu Zayd Edited by Tariq Pandor   They asked: What are the obligatory and sunnah prayers (ṣalāh), and what is the number of their units (rakʿahs)? I replied: I have...
Tarawīḥ Prayer is not Obligatory

Tarawīḥ Prayer is not Obligatory

Tarawīḥ Prayer is not Obligatory By Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, Oxford Translated by Dr. Abu Zayd   They said: Some people before us have condemned in very severe terms those who don’t perform the Tarawīḥ prayer. I replied: This condemnation is extremism in the...
The Role of Reason

The Role of Reason

The Role of Reason By Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, Oxford Translated by Dr Abu Zayd   They asked: The philosophers are the people of intellect and worth, and of sense and reason, and so on what basis do you clash with their statements and depart from their views?...
The True Meaning of Study

The True Meaning of Study

The True Meaning of Study By Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, Oxford Translated by Tariq Pandor   They said: Something has confounded us and as you are our teacher, can you please remove for us the confusion and clarify for us the correct way to look at it? I said: I...
What do you have?

What do you have?

What do you have? By Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, Oxford Translated by Shameq Sayeed   An Indian cinema star once said to a little boy “I have a luxury vehicle, a towering mansion, and millions of rupees – what do you have?” The boy responded “I have my...
Mixing Between Madhabs

Mixing Between Madhabs

They said: It displeases us that you leave the madhab of Abu Hanifah in some things for the opinions of Malik, Al Shafi’i and Ahmad ibn Hanbal. This is “talfiq” (blameworthy mixing between madhabs). I said: If we mix well water with other types of pure water, does it...
Tell us: “What are you?”

Tell us: “What are you?”

They said: You have authored “Al Fiqh Al Islami” according to the madhab of Abu Hanifah Nu’man ibn Thabit, may Allah have mercy on him, collating the school’s evidences therein, and you have written a biography on him; so you are a Hanafi. Then...
The Best Madrassa

The Best Madrassa

They said: You have worked in Oxford for twenty years on an academic project looking at the history of the Islamic sciences in India and its Madrassas and centres of learning. So what is the best madrassa in the long history of India, given the multitude of its...