“If the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make; when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day, and cry all ‘We died at such a place;’ some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives [...]

Ordinary eye of mine prying into deepening sky
Alas, you cannot see an end to the sprawling ether,
Like you cannot see an end to the Lord’s mercy
Lo, His mercy is beyond human meter
And peer as you do closely at the sprawling galaxies manifest
How you overlook the evident - as these lines attest!

The Day Innocence Died
by Michael Weinreb
It’s true, what she says about the graves. I went to see them not long after I heard Lonise Bias tell an incredible story to a group of South Carolina high school students: While witnessing the burial of her son Jay, she looked down and realized she was standing on [...]

le chemin confus
by Omar Moqeet*
holier than thou response
the imperfect doesn’t require a hand to save it
from falling off the cliff
the true journey
le chemin confus
of the two roads that diverged in the yellow wood
it is the one most traveled
imagine frost’s surprise

Islam in the West
By Andrew Booso

I have an aversion to prefixing Islam with an adjective, such as Western or European. Like so many of my positions, this personal distaste is perhaps due to the words of Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi in his From the Depth of the Heart in America, where he warned an [...]

So `Abdullah ibn Rawahah (RAA), whenever he met one of the Companions of the Prophet (PBUH), used to say, “Come, let us believe in our Lord for a while.” When the Prophet (PBUH) heard about this, he said, “May Allah have mercy on Ibn Rawahah, for he loves the gatherings that the angels feel proud [...]

During Hajj, both the noble Companions Abu Bakr and Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) used to pray Two Rakah in Mina. However Uthman (R), when he was the Caliph, said he will pray 4 Raka’ah. Ibn Mas’ud (R) disagreed and stated that two people better than Uthman prayed 2 [...]

Asalamu alaykum,
It is with great happiness, thankfulness and humility that we announce Sheikh Muhammad al-Hassan Walid al-Dido’s permission to translate his fatwa, writings and lectures! We ask Allah to make us in the service of the scholars.
Staff

Cultivating A Historical Consciousness Of The Matter
Maqasid ash-Shar’iah, has been a subject of debate for sometime among scholars, the debate is not birthed of late, (in the contemporary post colonial modern world ) but was born in the very heart Islamic scholarly tradition. The discourse lost intensity with the onslaught of the colonial imperative [...]