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Aqīdah, Mālikī Fiqh, Politics, Philosophy & Other Matters of Interest.
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī ibn Abī Jamrah: Consistency is the Prophetic Way
The messenger of Allāh ﷺ was obliged by the Lord to be consistent in his deeds to the point that one of us would have found impossibly difficult.
However, in his superlatively sublime Sunnah, the path to Allāh becomes illuminated for those of us who wish to traverse the path to Allāh.
This Ḥadīth is a case study in why Fiqh is more complicated than just quoting a Ḥadīth and assuming the ruling. It is also a testament to how completely thoroughly the record of the life of the messenger Allāh ﷺ was documented and preserved.
https://youtu.be/NYhJ8ztY-p0
For anyone who has responsibility regarding the Friday sermon:
Please do not ignore the fact that next Friday and the Friday afterward you will have a number of school students that may not attend Friday prayers in the mosque until next spring break.
Please make sure that you bring eloquent speakers to speak about relevant topics that will impact them for the better.
It's enough of a crime that we, as a community, trust our kids with public schools to the point that we abscond on the moral responsibility to attend Friday prayers; to poison the well by making the few opportunities to connect with them mindlessly irrelevant, or worse, offensive, will be a great crime.
I forgot to take my phone with me while travelling and could only get into my Telegram without it. I'm not able to access my Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok or Whatsapp until I get home. In case someone not able to access this platform is wondering whether or not we will have dars tonight, I'm at my gate in New Jersey waiting to go home.
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If anyone is wondering what the relationship between the last two posts are, then know we have so much to be thankful for.
Even though my heart shatters into a thousand pieces because of the loss of the land, buildings, and material prosperity, we praise the Lord a million times, that the Dīn & ʿilm of those people lives on through our lessons.
If I died 10 deaths of consecutive grief for the tragedy of Andalus, Sicily, & Rumelia it would not be unreasonable.
Allāh Ta'ālā bless one who brings the offspring of a believing people can back to faith & brings back the Masājid from being squatted on as failed cathedral-museums to the life of worship.
There is no force that can repel evil, nor power to establish goodness, save with Allāh...
https://youtu.be/m4cKY5aN91s?si=7Qy5zSxzd7LRx9KD
إنّا لله وإنّا إليه راجعون
Masjid Hamza in Prior Lake Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis post a number really amazing programs for youth, converts, and caters really well to families.
I've been attending their annual programs, built around constructing a strong Sunnī identity, not as a sectarian matter, but as a principled approach to Islam, with the retreats focusing on connecting people with the messenger of Allāh ﷺ, his companions, his family, the great imams of Fiqh and Ḥadīth; one of my favorite parts of attending those programs, the honor of translating for Shaykh Walīd Idrīs Manīsī, one of the most beautiful learned people we have in North America.
Yesterday, Masjid Hamza burned to the ground. I
As investigators are still looking into the cause, people are encouraged to not comment or jump to conclusions.
Regardless the kids have nowhere to go to school and there will be a lot of people who have to go somewhere else to pray for a while.
My heartfelt request after having spoken to a brokenhearted Shaykh Farāz, is that everybody take the opportunity to support the rebuilding project with whatever they can.
This entails two things. Firstly, that you make sincere du'ā that the amount of service they are able to do in the future increase manifold.
Secondly, give whatever you can at their launch good and share it with others:
https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/respond_masjid_hamza_school_fire
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī ibn Abī Jamrah: Eid, Witr & Drought Prayers
The first step in the removal of blessings from this world occurs with the removal of knowledge.
The most powerful reversal of loss of blessings occurs when knowledge is proliferated amongst the people.
When people gather for good, goodness multiplies in them.
When they seek forgiveness, provisions flow like rain and rivers. Illness is replaced with health and poverty is replaced with wealth.
Learn about the prayers of Eid, Witr & the drought prayer for rain, interdispersed with mention of Khwāja-yī-Buzurg Niẓām al-Mulk, Juwaynī, Ghazālī and many others.
https://youtube.com/live/nGlL9W5OA6k?feature=share
Ibn Abī Zayd al-Risālah Mālikī Fiqh: Paradise, Hellfire, the Ṣirāṭ & the Ḥawḍ
God created Paradise as an eternal abode for those who chose His friendship, and in it He bestowed them with the greatest blessing, to be able to see Him.
He created the Hellfire as an eternal abode for those who disbelieved in Him, His signs, revelation and messengers عليهم السلام, and in it He punished them with the greatest curse, being forsaken from connection with Him.
The Ṣirāṭ is a bridge that connects the place of judgment to Paradise. No one will be able to cross it except for a believer, they will cross in a manner befitting how they live their life, some of them like lightning, some of them flying like the wind, some of them running, some of them walking, and some of them struggling to barely crawl across, and some of them being dragged into the fire because of their evil deeds.
The Ḥawḍ is the watering place of the prophet ﷺ between the place of resurrection and the place of judgment. It will be in a land in which no blood was ever spilled, nor was any transgression committed. It will be fed from to spouts from Paradise, it's a drink will be whiter than milk, sweeter than honey, cooler than ice, and more fragrant than musk; whoever drinks from it will never thirst again, and those who try to alter Islam, and those who abused its blessing in gross proportion, will be driven away by the angels from ever drinking from it.
https://youtu.be/k1tJRVWtsHw
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī of ibn Abī Jamrah
Dars + Dhikr
Tonight at 6PM
342 E Irving Park Rd
Wood Dale, IL, 60191
For those who weren't yet able to watch yesterday's Dars, here is an excised clip on honor of the Marḥūm Imām Jamīl al-Amīn H Rap Brown.
His memory is suppressed by the $7k/post media, despite being one of the most important figures in the African American community, and unlike the freak show of degenerate entertainers pushed on our brothers, he was an actual leader.
It is our duty to preserve & propagate his memory and struggle.
Allāh Ta'ālā envelope him in His mercy the like of which cannot exist amongst the creation.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UMSc25/
Cointelpro did its best to destroy all of the most decent and upright of the leadership of the African American community in the United States. This includes the real Black Panthers like Imām Jamīl.
The death doesn't destroy a martyr, rather it gives him eternal life.
These are our forefathers, so bring their likes, if you can.
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī of ibn Abī Jamrah
Dars + Dhikr
Tonight at 6PM
342 E Irving Park Rd
Wood Dale, IL, 60191
How People (& Progenies) Change
As I was reading Sīrah Ibn Hishām, I came across something interesting on 2:63, wherein Ibn Hishām speaks of the Battle of Uḥud.
One of the individuals who attacked the Prophet ṣallallahu ʿalayhi wasallam such that he struck the blessed forehead of the Prophet ṣallallahu ʿalayhi wasallam was ʿAbdullah ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī.
However, SubḥānAllah, he later accepted his Islām. Who was his great great grandson? Muḥammad ibn Muslim ibn ʿUbaydillah ibn ʿAbdillah ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī raḥimahullah (d.124 AH).
Arguably the greatest and most influential early muḥaddith to have every lived and considered one of the most common narrators of the aḥādīth.
How Allah the Almighty’s mercy can fall upon a person and change not just his own life, but the life of his entire progeny! And — Allah forbid — vice versa…
ربنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد إذ هديتنا
Madāris in Texas are under attack.
We need to stand up and defend our own. No one else will.
Please consider amplifying this message.
https://x.com/hwmaqbul/status/1991988255160770905?t=Jn_ipI0crkrnb7gjJEZcRw&s=19
If one were to stop after the word “أَذِلَّةٌ (humbled)” then it implies that
وَكَذٰلِكَ يَفْعَلُونَ
(And so they do)
is not from Bilqees’s speech but from Allah’s. Allah is validating her statement and teaches us 3 things:
1. Wisdom can be found in non-Muslims.
2. Wisdom can be found in women.
3. Wisdom can be found in studying historical patterns (because Bilqīs derived her statement from historical patterns).
[Al-Waqf Ḥibtī & At-Tas'hīl li ʿUlūm at-Tanzīl]
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī of ibn Abī Jamrah
Dars + Dhikr
Tonight at 6PM
342 E Irving Park Rd
Wood Dale, IL, 60191
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī ibn Abī Jamrah Night Prayers
Istikhārah is a sunnah that teaches us to seek guidance from Allāh in all of our decisions.
We unpeel the many layers of misunderstanding and misconception regarding it.
We also discuss the sunnah of not hoarding excess wealth and what that means for a person living today.
https://youtube.com/live/Pa9kEPV2eiw?feature=share
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī of ibn Abī Jamrah
Dars + Dhikr
Tonight at 6PM
342 E Irving Park Rd
Wood Dale, IL, 60191
Ibn Abī Zayd al-Risālah Mālikī Fiqh: The Reality of Faith
The valid conviction of faith, or Īmān, is a composite of the speech of faith on the tongue, sincerity of intention in the heart, and righteous works on the limbs.
The speech of faith is not perfected, except through righteous works.
The speech of faith & righteous works are not perfected, except by sincerity in intention.
The speech of faith, righteous works, and sincerity of intention are not perfected except for through conformance to the Sunnah.
There are guardian angels appointed above all men, that record their deeds, which doesn't mean that any part of that knowledge is absent from the Lord.
The martyrs are alive and with their Lord receiving provision.
The spirits of the righteous are kept in a state of blessing until the Day of Reckoning.
The spirits of the wretched are tormented until the Day of Resurrection.
The angel of death is deputed to take the spirits of people at the time of their passing by the Lord and only works through His permission.
https://youtube.com/live/n4cFOWuEDOE?feature=share
For those in the area this weekend, I will be conducting this workshop in the Masjid in Parsippany.
Come through.
My first journey to the Muslim world as a 19 year old wishing to build upon my 2 years of college Arabic, and find scholars from whom I could seek knowledge, would be directed towards Syria.
Those were relatively less stressful days for the country. In 2000, the people were on the heels of the death of Ḥāfiẓ Asad, the bloodthirsty in maniacal dictator who destroyed his country and spilled the blood of his people in order to cement unquestioning control.
Sadly, even though his dad didn't mean the unseating of his system, there was hope that perhaps his son, Bashshār might be able to switch gears and move on from the nightmarish police state that was paralyzed in the talons of various apparatuses of the intelligence services.
It was during that hopeful period that I visited Damascus, took Arabic lessons from a private tutor, saw the historic Masjid Umawī, the surrounding markets in which the jewelers would give you a better exchange rate if you told them you were student of knowledge, visited the places of rest of companions, scholars, and heroes of Islam, and experience such love from the common people of Syria for being a student of knowledge, that it left the heart in a softened state.
That summer I visited a number of other Arab countries, and only realized after having come back to Syria at the end of my journeys for a second time, the Syria was a place unlike others, and it's people were likewise one of a kind.
We were taken in by a family descended from Circasian refugees, and stayed as family members in the house. We met not only Arabs but also Kurds, Circasians, Turks, and many other nations that make up the backbone of Syrian civilization.
You can imagine, in subsequent years, how devastating the heartbreak was, seeing not only that country ripped apart, but in fact those very neighborhoods and very families that hosted us, being rent asunder and turned into something that one might think only is a scene from Gaza, with those pious souls being scattered through the world as refugees, if they were able to indeed survive.
This is why my heart was so overwhelmed with gratitude and hope when a year ago to this day, the official liberation of Syria from the previous regime, which traded peace for war, traded justice for, and traded Islam for deviance, finally came down in response to the prayers of so many.
This is why it feels me with so much happiness to announce that in partnership with Imām Ghazālī and Muslim Legacy Tours, this coming April, we plan to take a group to visit those historical and sacred places that comprise the manifestation of the prophetic prayer for blessings and barakah in Shām.
It has been a year, and society has made leaps and bounds in its healing process.
Furthermore, the State Department has recently ended sanctions against the Syrian State. With flights come in going daily from major hubs all around the world to both Damascus and Aleppo, there is no time better than now to go and see, and benefit from the land and its people, and show your solidarity and support.
We will visit such historical and sacred sites, as to remind us that no matter how much devils and small-minded and small-hearted men may squawk that the Ummah is an illusion, but in reality we are one people, and we have One Lord Who we worship.
https://muslimlegacy.tours/
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī of ibn Abī Jamrah
Dars + Dhikr
Tonight at 6PM
342 E Irving Park Rd
Wood Dale, IL, 60191
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī ibn Abī Jamrah: Prayer in Fear
The first mention of Jihād in every book of Fiqh isn't in the chapter of Jihād; it's in the description of the Prayer of Fear, or perhaps more accurately described as prayer in fear.
From unique attributes of our civilization, is the ability to remember and praise God in all circumstances. The legal consequences of being dyed in this color include a waving of several integral components of how the prayer is prayed when in safety and security. Ehat is not waived, however, is the obligation to pray even in the most dire of circumstances.
This is undoubtedly one of the main reasons that, despite having much conquest, you see very little in the way of war crimes being attributed to the Muslims, especially the pious generations of devout warriors who fought for the sake of God.
A man cannot call on the name of God through blood and adrenaline, and then turn around and betray security granted to prisoners, rape women, kill children for sport, or participate in any of the other depravities that have become the hallmark of war in all other people.
One of the loudest objections our Christian friends and neighbors level against our prophet ﷺ, is that he was a warlord, and participated in too much fighting to be a man of God.
I say, that he didn't leave any essential part of life without leaving guidance for us and how to acquit ourselves through those necessary difficulties.
This is why those who preach turn the other cheek, are the most violent and bloodthirsty civilization that the world has ever seen. The earliest example of how to fight a war amongst them, is not from Christ عليه السلام, but from the Emperor Constantine, which is probably why they follow the Sunnah of Rome better than that of Christ.
https://youtube.com/live/ID-9rJnT_ao?feature=share
People should understand that many of the most bigoted anti Muslim voices on the ground right now are actually quite sincere people.
Problem is that they are gullible and for that reason they are used by zionists as pawns.
I'm literally friends on social media with a brother who accepted Islam on his way to bomb a Masjid.
Now is the time to engage them, talk to them, dish it out to them with as much conviction as they are able to take it, and ultimately show them the right path.
Don't be such a soft, conflict averse, Mughal court culture courtesan: sometimes when the truth hits somebody, they deny that the arrow has hit its mark.
Any good hunter knows that sometimes you hit the prey, and it will run for hours. You must patiently stalk through that process, until finally the prize is yours.
In this case, we are not chasing prey to devour them, but in order to give them something better than what they have. To confirm for them the best of what they have, and give them increase in that goodness.
Mukhtaṣar Bukhārī ibn Abī Jamrah: Worship & Service
Seek Forgiveness Indeed He Was Always Forgiving
The messenger of Allāh ﷺ showed us how to worship Allāh, but not to the exclusion of helping others.
In fact, he showed us how to combine both.
Anyone who sees Islām as one or the other is closer to the way of the Yahūd or Naṣārā than they are to Islām.
https://youtube.com/live/Z1_kyEZeQpA?feature=share
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un
Imam Jamil Al-Amin formerly known as H. Rap Brown passed away today. He was a political prisoner bassd upon a bogus conviction since 2001.
May Allah grant him high rank in Jannah.
An Urdu talk by the son of Mawlānā Sayyid Ḥusayn Aḥmad Madanī, Ml. Arshad, about Muftī Kifāyat-Allāh Dahlawī, his father's classmate, as well as their common teacher Shaykh al-Hind, Mawlānā Maḥmūd Ḥasan, their time and returns from British mandated exile in the crusader fortress Island of Malta, and how he prepared men who can be leaders of the Ummah, and how they can yet be prepared.
For being as short of a talk as it is, it is very dense with beneficial spiritual, political, and inspirational material.
For those who don't know, Muftī Kifāyat-Allāh form the basis of the Islamic studies curriculum for normal school kids across the Subcontinent, amongst his numerous other far-reaching and impactful services to the Muslims of the world.
Despite his intellectual and scholarly services, he was still the first leader of the anticolonial movement of scholars in subcontinent, the Jam'iyyat al-'Ulamā, and a custodian of the sacred trust of resistance against the Farangī usurper.
From his insistence on eating from the craft of his own hand, to his uncanny ability to use language with precision and conciseness, to his trustworthiness, this is worth a listen.
As a side note, I first met Ml. Arshad in my graduation in Lahore nearly two decades ago. From that time until now it is endearing to note the increasing intensity of love in his mode of speech.
If anyone wishes to get reward they can rip the video, and append subtitles to it.
https://youtu.be/AC_oTM2Mr5k?si=KEvPlyY0KxjeC8P7
Sorry previously I amended the wrong link.
Now it has a corrected link.
More benefits from this story of Bilqīs from Mawlana Hamzah Maqbul:
Contrary to a common historical opinion that Bilqīs did istishārah (consultation) because she was a feeble-minded woman, she consulted out of her wisdom before finalizing a decision.
This is corroborated from multiple angles including the wisdom of the Prophet ﷺ doing istishārah when he ﷺ had no need for it and by what Imām Al-Rāzī (Al-Razi) mentions in his tafsīr:
By seeking their counsel and consulting their opinion, she intended to reassure their hearts (to please them or make them feel valued), [which is implied by the next verse] "I would not decide a matter" (Quran 27:32, part of Bilqīs's speech), meaning: "I will not settle any matter except in your presence."
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Heraa Hashmi traces the historical and political engineering of Rohingya Muslims’ statelessness and examines the role of Buddhist nationalist ideology in legitimating mass violence in Myanmar, contextualising it within wider patterns of global politics and violence.
https://traversingtradition.com/2025/11/19/the-stateless-rohingya-and-buddhist-nationalism/