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Aqīdah, Mālikī Fiqh, Politics, Philosophy & Other Matters of Interest.
18+ but don't care about politics?
Vote tomorrow for every anti-war candidate.
Don't let the outdated racism & hatred of senile retirees put in motion your conscription to die in a forsaken foreign land.
Don't pay for their insanity with your life, limb or economic future.
The detestability of gossip, excessive and pointless questioning, and the wasting of wealth.
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By Allāh's grace & mercy, we were able to deliver, stream and record our seminal lecture & worship entitled Ballots, Bans and Bloodbaths: Baffled Believers at the Ballot Box.
The first module, which was slightly under 2 hours, talked about a theoretical discussion about politics and its application in our sacred creed, sacred law, as well as its history in the Ummah, and how its philosophical conception differs from popular notions, as well as the approaches of other civilizations and religious traditions.
The second module which is a panel discussion, features very real and specific discussions of what's going on in this election and what the legal and political landscape of American politics is right now. It's very rare that scholars engage and such direct analysis of politics in the USA, especially in the Masjid space. This is rare opportunity to get a unique look into current politics from this perspective.
An invitation to this Saturday's Ballots Bans and Bloodbaths Baffled Believers at the Ballot Box event.
Listen. Register. Support.
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The ṣalāt is no less than the slave's communion with the Divine. That being said, there is an art to managing one's humanity when it becomes an impediment to the purity of that communion and its light to being imbied by the heart.
Much of the genius of the sunnah is in teaching a flawed animal like a human being how to maintain adab when entreating and beseeching the Lord.
This lesson includes description of the inner dimensions of the prayer as well as an introduction to what to do when a person forgets different parts of the prayer, or adds extraneous things to it.
In general, living a happy and successful life conditioned on necessary dependence by narcotics, alcohol, psychedelics or what are euphemistically referred to as "mind altering substances," IS NEITHER HAPPY NOR SUCCESSFUL.
Just like steroids will yield results, at the expense of causing your testicles to shrivel up because they no longer can produce testosterone, trying to augment your mind by undermining it is a spiritually a suicidal fail.
People talk about seeing demons in psychedelic trips.
My friends from school told me about seeing the devil himself when drunk, or feeling his presence.
It's all evil, and any attempt to justify it is just a cope.
I thank the Lord, that for all of the stresses and difficulties of my life, I never had to nuke my brain in order to deal with it.
And neither should you...
What did the messenger of Allāh ﷺ mean when he prohibited a woman from "spilling out what was in her sister's vessel?"
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Allāh Ta'ālā asks in His book, has not time come for the believers for their hearts to be humbled in front of the remembrance of God and that which came down from the Truth?
Later in the same verse of Sūrat Ḥadīd He asks has so much time passed? That now you're hearts have become hard?
Are you bored with Him?
Are you bored with His prophet ﷺ?
Are you bored with the Qur'ān?
Are you bored with the Sunnah?
We do not need to reform, but renew. That obligation exists in every believer, in their life, in their year, in months, days, hours, and in their every breath.
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A discussion about how to use things of general societal import without causing others to resent you, how to, as a father, deal with your family in a way that keeps them together rather than drive them apart with resentment.
Finally, a heart-rending recounting of the love of martyrdom from the best of this Ummah, the companions of the Messenger Allāh Ta'ālā ﷺ, may Allāh Ta'ālā be pleased with them all.
We represent Islam to non-muslims primarily through our creed, not sacred law.
That being said, many antagonists try to bait people into fear by portraying the legally mandated exemplary physical punishments of the sacred law, or Ḥudūd, as some kind of maximalist stateist interventional nightmare; but far from being the spectacle of barbarism and cruelty, it actually is much more effective as a deterrent, and a lighter punishment on the criminal in both worlds.
Put blessings into your time while walking or doing chores and have a listen.
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Dars + Dhikr
Tonight at 6PM
342 E Irving Park Rd
Wood Dale, IL, 60191
For anyone who lives to 7th congressional district of Ohio, including Westlake, North Olmsted, Strongsville, Parma, Brookpark, Middleburg Heights, Medina and all the way down to Wooster, I would like to share an important endorsement:
Vote tomorrow for Dennis Kucinich not just because he is a consistently belligerent anti-war politician for decades, but because the incumbent Max Miller expressed desire to see Gaza turned into a parking lot.
I was Imām in what is now that district for 2 years, and have connection with that community.
If not anything else, your vote counts a great deal for this particular race. Hustle out and make it to the polling stations, and drag your friends, family, relatives, neighbors, and whoever else you can to vote against genocide.
If you know anyone in Ohio, please share it and forward it to them.
This is just one of the many very important practical discussions we mentioned in our program on Sunday in Akron.
The second module discussing specifics with regards to the American political system and this election is timestamp linked below.
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The election is tomorrow, and the different modules of the talk are time stamped.
Make time to listen and vote tomorrow.
Dars + Dhikr
Tonight at 6PM
342 E Irving Park Rd
Wood Dale, IL, 60191
The program is tomorrow. If you're able to come in person, come in person. If not, register and we will email you the link to the live stream. It's an important event so don't miss out.
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One who can't see the connect between imperial military aggression & imperial economy, is daft, either by birth or by convenient ignorance.
Likewise daft is anyone who can't see the latter drives the former.
Take money out of banks/corporations; make it work in the real world.
There are many knots that can be much more easily untied by our non-participation & mitigated participation in the satanic economy.
From the broken system of Ḥalāl to Islamic Finance & contracts, not driven by corporations and banks, but by scholars who draft direct contracts between parties, there's perhaps nobody more primely positioned to bypass the usury and blood-driven economic freak show urinating on the people of the world.
Sad it is, that despite this blessing we were given, still we have children who think they are smart, and daydream about living a preppie life that culminates in a corporate a slave job, consultancy, or financial corpseplay.
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Coming at you next weekend, on the last Saturday before election day from the Great Swing State of Ohio:
Bans, Borders & Bloodbaths:
Baffled Believers at the Ballot Box
Shaykhs Mūsā Sugapong & Ḥamzah wald Maqbūl and Brother Ziad Tayeh, Esquire.
Topics covered:
1- Dirty Dealing or Prophetic Propriety: What Are Politics to a Pious Believer?
2- Shut Up and Dribble: Should the People of Knowledge Stay Away from Politics?
3- Truth, Falsehood, Mutual Consultation & Compromise: Which Matters Are Negotiable & Which Aren't.
4- Farḍ or Ḥarām? What is the Ruling of Voting & Participating in the System?
5- Tough Decisions Under the Shadow of Genocide: A Muslim's Guide to Election 2024
6- Tomorrow Belongs to Those Who Plan Today: Thinking Beyond This November
Come attend this unique and acutely relevant program in person, or register to receive the livestream link.
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We are commended to enter into submission completely.
This means waking up for the dawn prayer, and fasting in Ramaḍan.
But there are many things that also means, that people miss out on because of their heedlessness or stark ignorance.
If you want to make it to your destination in your journey to your Lord you have to make sure that you're transactions are clean.
You don't, the only wonderful thing is yourself.
Dars + Dhikr
Tonight at 6PM
342 E Irving Park Rd
Wood Dale, IL, 60191
I was never given platform on MSNBC, DNC, RNC or FOX.
I had a friend who was on a planning committee for an ISNA convention who said (unbeknownst to me) that he suggested my name one year as a speaker, to be told by the HQ guys that they didn't want "too many Desis."
Even MSAs seem to be reluctant to call me, even though, unlike many of their speakers, I'm an MSA4LIFEer, due to a type of fear of anything that doesn't have a certain æsthetic.
It was very difficult to find anyone who would rent a space for Ribāṭ to me, with particular antagonism from Muslim landlords. Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn is currently being taught in what is now nearly its tenth & Inshā'Allāh final location before Khatm.
I am not a good public speaker (my umm/ah count is astronomical), nor the most learned or pious of my colleagues.
But guess what? Allāh Ta'ālā opened a door for me & I hustle around despite it all.
My message reaches where it needs to reach & it has toppled idols & will overturn thrones, by Allāh Ta'ālā 's permission.
May my Lord accept it from all who listen & may His grace envelope us all.
Matn al-Akhḍārī
Virtues and Detestable Acts of the Prayer
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We often pray for upright men of integrity to take the reins of this affair on our behalf.
But when they come, we seem to turn our backs on them like the children of Israel, opting instead to save our hearts for the most wretched of misers, narcissists, psychopaths, and fluffy entertainers.
It's time to take another look at what our hearts connect to...
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Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn: Ḥadd Punishments & Runaway Slaves
In addition to the Creed workshop in Parsippany announced on this list before (see above), check out these additional programs this weekend that I have New Jersey.
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