His Lineage Taj al-Din al-Subki, the author of the Mu`id al-Ni`am wa Mubid al-Niqam, belongs to a large…
Muhammad Zahid ibn Hasan al-Kawthari al-Hanafi al-Ash‘ari (1296-1371), the adjunct to the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman…
“Truly, hadith pleases the virile among men, while the effeminate among them hate it.” Al-Zuhri. Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Abu…
‘Ali ibn Isma‘il ibn Abi Bishr Ishaq ibn Salim, Abu al-Hasan al-Ash‘ari al-Yamani al-Basri al-Baghdadi (260-324), a descendent…
As Muslims we have a lot to be proud of with the noble marial art of boxing. First…
In the Name of Allah Most Merciful and Compassionate. Praise be to Allah for my lowliness. O Lord,…
“Tradition” in academic circles has come to signify old fashioned customs, archaic cultural practices, ossified ideas handed down…
[Source: Dr. `Inayatullah Iblagh al-Afghanistani, Doctorate thesis: al-Imam al-A`zam Abu Hanifa al-Mutakallim (The Greatest Imam: Abu Hanifa, The…
It is not easy to mutilate Islam. In other religions, “reformists” have only to infiltrate the hierarchy to…
Now, the tongue of the Spiritual State (lisan al-hal) is even more eloquent in communicating with the dead…
taken from the book ‘Ihya al-Maqbur‘ pages 59-60. by the late Muhaddith of the Age, Imam Abu’l-Fayd Ahmad…
An ‘Eid Message From Imam Zaid Shakir To Beloved Friends and Supporters In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent,…
If we are to intelligently discuss issues related to secularism it is imperative that we first define the…
We praise Allah and we seek His aid, we seek forgiveness from Him and we affirm faith in…
Bism Illah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem For two years, my most dominant thought was traveling to and being with the…