The Great Hanafi Scholar Zay Ad Din ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad famously known as Ibn Nujaym, which was the name of one of his grandfathers in his Scholarly work “Al Asbah wan Nazaa’ir”, a book dedicated on the maxims (Qawaa’id) of Fiqh, mentions the second maxim in the book “Actions are judged [...]

Many times, we read the Quran and find ourselves in an ocean, unaware of where the current is taking us. One of the most important things to understand when one approaches it, is that it is not written according to the mandates of human logic or order - but rather it is according to the [...]

Within five minutes of class I began to feel angry. I had an exam to move onto the next level in Arabic within the hour and I had not spent enough time studying. I was angry at my lack of preparation, angry at the walk to the markaz, angry at ila akhirih [etc]… subhanAllah just [...]

Contextualization
[The following mentions of some of the proofs that justify  the convert to continue to reside in non-Muslim lands, which in fact,  become for the convert, under certain conditions,  Dar al Islam [the abode of Islam] for him/her.]
The Position Of The Scholars With Regard To Residing In Non Muslim Lands:
“The majority of scholars of [...]

As you know by now (especially if you’re living in the US), the Boston Celtics are the 2008 NBA Champions.  Even if you don’t follow the NBA, read on, I will inshaAllah give you enough background information that you need to know.  KG (Kevin Garnett), who was with the Minnesota Timberwolves for 12 years, got [...]

Scenario 1:
SubhanAllah, watching this scene literally broke my heart.
In my justice studies class last year we watched a clip of a movie which portrayed what we had been studying at the time (intimate partner violence).
The background of the scene was that a brother and a sister of an abusive father had heard their mother being [...]

In his dynamic lecture “How to work with the Prophetic Sunnah” which was aired on al Jazeera’s Shar’iah Wa’l Hayaat the Shaikh (h) mentioned a matter that deserves rumination, contemplation and implementation.
He mentioned that the student of knowledge and the researcher in pursuit of truth must have a judicial personality rather than an authoritarian personality. [...]