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SITE CONTENT
>>THE PROPHET
articles about and in honour of the Prophet
Muhammad.
>> Shaykh Nuh Keller
translator, scholar and spiritual guide on
the sufi path of the Shadhili tariqa.
>> Shaykh Abdal-Hakim
Murad
translator, scholar, historian, broadcaster,
lecturer & expert on British Islam; writer of articles on a
diverse range of subjects.
>> 9/11
various articles on this tragic event.
>> Other Misc. &
Interesting Articles
collection of articles on law, beliefs,
spirituality & comment on other subjects by various contributors.
>> British Muslim Heritage
articles from various sources about
the Islamic history of the indigenous peoples of the British Isles.
>> Discussion Forum
al-Zawiya
- my discussion group on Yahoo!Groups [moderated].
>> Audio/Video
a collection Quranic recitation,
qasida, naats, lectures and off-site links to excellent audio and
video material.
>> Links
my recommended and favourite links
to sites that you should have bookmarked.
NEW ARTICLES
Plovdiv: Granada of the East
by Sh. Abdal Hakim Murad
When the Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi passed through the Balkan city of Plovdiv in 1650, he pulled out all the organ stops of Ottoman panegyric to describe this ‘mighty city.’ He counted fifty-three mosques, seventy Qur’anic schools, nine madrasas, seven colleges for advanced Qur’anic recitation, eight public baths, and eleven Sufi lodges. Of the city’s neighbourhoods, thirty-three were Muslim, five were Christian, and one was Jewish. Nine caravansarays serviced the abundant trade which Muslim rule had brought to the city; in fact, it offered a picture of Islamic prosperity, a formerly insignificant town which had flowered under the aegis of the Sultan and the Islamic economic system. [read more]
Jesus and Muhammad (upon them be peace) - Brothers in Faith and the challenge of of walking in their footsteps in a secular world
by Shaykh Naeem Abdul Wali
�If you would trust in God as is His right to be trusted He would give you your provision as He gives it to the birds, they leave their roosts hungry and return satiated�, said the final universal Messenger, Muhammad.�Similarly the author of the Gospel of Mathew has his closest brother, Jesus saying to the crowds around him, �Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.�Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?�Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.�Are you not much more valuable than they?��A little later he addressed them as, �O you of little faith?�
The word faith originally meant something akin to placing one�s trust in someone as when we say we have �faith� in a friend or in an ideal.�As Karen Armstrong said, �Faith�was not an intellectual position but a virtue:�it was the careful cultivation, by means of rituals and myths of religion, of the conviction that despite all the dispiriting evidence to the contrary, life had some ultimate meaning and value� [read more] |
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Dalail al Khayrat books for Fes
as-salamu 'alaykum,
A friend has set up a website in aid of a special request after a recent trip to Morocco. He is to supply the many blessed gatherings of Dalail al Khayrat in Fes (Morocco) with copies of a particular high quality, more durable version of this great book.
He was very fortunate enough to attend gatherings where the blessed Dalail al Khayrat is recited from cover to cover (taking around two and half hours each time), by the pious elderly and the pious young people of Fes. The Dalail al Khayrat is recited every Friday after ‘Asr at the Maqaam and Masjid of the founder of Fes, Mouley Idris II, who is also one of the grandsons of the Prophet sallalaa hu 'alaihi wasallam (with only a five generation gap between him and our Prophet, sallalaa hu 'alaihi wasallam).
As you may already know Dalail al Khayrat is composed of Iyahs from the Quranand famous darood sharifs, such as the one we recite in our daily prayers. It is a tradition that has existed for centuries from the Morocco to Malaysia and beyond and is famous for the benefits it brings to those connected to it in this life and, more importantly, in the life to come, inshallah. All the info about the initiative is on the Dalail Fund website.
Please visit the Dalail Fund website and share in this blessed initiative. Insha'Allah you and anyone whose name in which you sponsor a book in will benefit every time it is used in the gatherings.
http://www.dalailfund.org.uk/
We have already gathered enough donations for almost half of the books needed and would like to offer this once in a life time opportunity to you. Please don't let it escape you! Become part of this blessed tradition by investing in it and reap the rewards of it as it is practiced for decades and centuries to come, Insha'Allah.
wa'as-salam
Mas'ud
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