This is a loose abridged translation of one of the biographies from the book Prominent People in the Contemporary Islamic Movement and Call. Previously I put up posts on Dr. Mohammad Natsir, Sh. Muhammad al-Khidr Hussein, and Ustadh Mohamed Abdelhamid Ahmed.
Sheikh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghudda, rahimahullah, has been described by those that met him as […]
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Sheikh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghudda
Published June 22nd, 2008 in Hadith, History, Islamic Movement and Quotes. 2 CommentsA Tradition of Humor
Published May 28th, 2007 in History, Humor, Islam, Muslims and the Arts and Quotes. 7 CommentsNote: This is the third part of an ongoing series on humor in classical Islamic texts. Here are links to part 1 and part 2. For those new to my blog or to this series, it arose out of discussion about specifically some of the racy humor in the TV show Little Mosque on the […]
The questions not asked
Published April 5th, 2007 in Hadith, History, Inspirational, Islam, Quotes and Talk Notes. 7 CommentsA couple of weeks ago I was blessed with the opportunity to be a speaker along sheikh Talal, one of the teachers that has had a great influence on me al-hamdulillah. The session was titled “Know Your Prophet” and was at the Halton Islamic Association (now on the blogroll :) ). I spoke on the […]
Mohamed Abdelhamid Ahmed
Published March 15th, 2007 in History, Islamic Movement, Politics and Quotes. 1 CommentThis is the third abridged translation of a bio of one of the figures of the modern Islamic movement as told in the book by sh. Abdullah al-Uqail.
They called him “father of the collegians” because he was one of the first group of university students to work with Imam Hasan al-Banna to establish the Muslim […]
Lives in the balance
Published March 15th, 2007 in History, Politics, Reminiscing, U.S. and music. 6 Comments“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” This was today’s quote: the words of Abraham Lincoln. Fitting given today’s world.
One Friday halaqa early in my days at Stanford the main segment was a PBS Frontline documentary about various aspects of American foreign policy. As the end credits rolled music was playing […]
Classic Humor — Step Two
Published February 26th, 2007 in History, Humor, Islam, Muslims and the Arts, Quotes and Reminiscing. 21 CommentsWhen I referred to humor in classic texts in my first review of LM (seems so long ago now) I was thinking specifically of humor literature and humor in literature written by credible (in terms of scholarship and/or piety) authors in pre-modern times. When I started to think more carefully about what a piece on […]
Classic Humor - A Start (Finally)
Published February 25th, 2007 in Hadith, History, Humor, Islam, Muslims and the Arts and Quotes. 5 CommentsJazaakumullahu khayran to everyone that expressed interest in this subject and jazaakumullahu khayran for waiting (assuming you did :) ).
One disclaimer to begin with: this is a blog entry not a scholarly research paper :) . I will quote a given hadeeth if it was quoted in a credible source without myself attempting to check […]
Thursday we had Norman Finkelstein speaking at McMaster. A little bird tells me there were serious efforts to intervene with the powers that be, both on and off campus, to prevent the talk from actually happening. Al-hamdulillah those efforts were unsuccessful and the audience was edified by a compelling talk from a very articulate man […]
Sh. Muhammad al-Khidr Hussain
Published February 14th, 2007 in History and Islamic Movement. 3 CommentsAl-hamdulillah several people seemed to enjoy reading about to Dr. Mohammad Natsir. One comment lamented the absence of North American Muslim figures of a similar caliber. I think this is a sentiment most of us would share. Having said that, I believe that we unfortunately underestimate the great men and women that contributed so much […]
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