Archive for November, 2007

Asalamu alaykum,
Dr. Munir Farid Wasil was the former Mufti of Egypt and happens to live less than a block from my house. He prays Jum’ah near my home and I try to pray there so I can, at least, ask him one question a week or hear him answer someone other person’s question. Today, after [...]


By Faisal JustaMuslim
Dear Hajj 2007 Pilgrims…
Dear Hajj travelers of 2007…
Kaba
As I stepped into the sphere of the Masjid-Al-Haram under a desert night sky in the city of Mecca; I hurried closer and closer, closer towards the magnetic pulse of the house of the one true God on earth, and finally as my eyes set upon [...]



Visiting The Graves


Brief Notes On The Fundamentals Of Islamic Revival
Brief Introduction To The Matter At Hand
In the struggle for interpretative dominance and the debate regarding how to proceed in the process and activity of da’wah and education (both core aspecs of Islamic Revival) many issues present themselves and often in a quite unsystematic, frenzied matter. At this [...]



by WAJAHAT ALI
Wajahat Ali speaks to American political scientist and writer Dr. Norman Finkelstein about the denial of his tenure at DePaul University, anti-Semitism, and challenging the academic status quo on the Palestine-Israel conflict.
WAJAHAT ALI: In the recent DePaul University tenure controversy, you and a vocal community of supporters suggested coexternal pressures forced the University [...]


A Call For Integrity And Introspection: Revival, Responsibility And Education
Dr. Abdul Hakim Murad (h) said:
“In the twentieth century, however, the traditional pragmatism of Sunnism seemed to generate an ulema ethos that was certainly not quietist, but had nothing in common with Qutbian Islamism either.
Hence the Deobandi movement in India, and its Tablighi offshoot, supported the [...]


1. Rabbaniya [The law is based on a connection with the Creator]
The evidence:
The statement of Allah, “And be rabbaniyin [men of God].”
2. Comprehensive
The evidence:
The large number of verse of Qu’ran and Hadith that illustrate the comprehensive nature of Shari’ah. In addition, most books of fiqh are not regulated to acts of worship but the greater [...]


City of Angeles
(Muslim American Veteranos)
By: River Redclay
Colorful Angels grace us with their presence along the downtown city streets of Los Angeles where these full-blown painted and winged statutes stand as a metaphor of light and hope in the City of Angels. “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula” (The Village [...]