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Aqīdah, Mālikī Fiqh, Politics, Philosophy & Other Matters of Interest.
السّلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
If you want to get some early Eid shopping out of the way, there are a couple of things that I accumulated excess of in my travels over the last 2 years or so, that I wanted to put up for sale.
I'll post the pictures, descriptions, and prices below.
If you'd like me to ship it to you it will add $5 (it actually costs more than that), or if you're local you can have it picked up over here. I'll absorb the cost of shipping for orders over $100.
Payment can be made via
Zelle: 3609610097
Venmo/Cashapp: hmaqbul
Write what you're buying in the memo.
4 Ramaḍān Late Night Majlis The Day of Distinction Maghāzī
https://youtube.com/live/ePsvkcwY_ZA?feature=share
Two groups clashed with one another over Allāh and His dīn; but they couldn't have been more different.
One was goaded by arrogance and ignorance, and their companion was Satan himself.
The other was led by faith and sacrifice, in the company of the messenger of Allāh ﷺ.
The day didn't end before Allāh Ta'ālā showed everyone who was who...
2 Ramaḍān Late Night Majlis Maghāzī: A Prescient Vision 03012025
We don't believe in a world in which possibilities come true merely because of arithmetic statistical derivations: rather everything happens for a reason, even when that reason is extremely subtle.
What is the reason in one word?
Allāh.
https://youtube.com/live/JfXzAyszvkA?feature=share
السّلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
As I did in years past, I will offer the brothers and sisters on this list to disburse their zakāt on their behalf in Ramadān.
I have a list of eligible recipients all of whom, except a very few, are in the United States or North America.
Most, if not all of them are either converts, students of knowledge or scholars who struggle with basic necessities.
If you have other means of disbursing your zakāt, please follow them. This is merely an act of assistance for those for either don't know who to give to, or we'll find it onerous to look into the matter.
Unless you want my bank account to get trashed, DO NOT write the words ZAKAT, SADAQAH, OR ANYTHING ELSE IN ARABIC in the transaction comments. Just write Trust and I'll know what it is for.
*I will not give any of the money to my dependants, immediate relatives, or anyone through whom I can trace common lineage
Zelle: +13609610097
Venmo: hmaqbul
CashApp: $hmaqbul
Welcome Ramaḍān
Some no nonsense advice shared with regards to the blessed month, from a well wisher who will do you a favor by not mincing words, so you can get the most out of this magnificent blessing...
https://www.youtube.com/live/yIz8dPro-p8?feature=shared
Making appeals to the sympathy of others when in a pitiful state only humiliates you further.
The only One Who cares is Allāh Ta'ālā, so you'd best make friends with him & give up hope in all others.
Making appeals to the sympathies of others when in a state of blessings cements one's status as a complete loser who is internally impoverished. The only urchins who will respond to such appeals are doing so out of love of your stuff, not you.
There are few ways of alienating the Only One Friend that counts more.
Why not turn one's hopes and sensitivities away from the frail and weak beings like one's self and towards the Generous & Merciful One, who says ask, that I may give?
السّلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
With Ramaḍān around the corner, all of us will be hit with the inevitable blitzkrieg of fundraisermageddon while trying to pray our Tarāwīḥ.
Being a person who has taken responsibility in a number of institutions over my lifetime, understand the need for funding, but what really seems more and more unexcusable over the years as the laxidasical approach people take with regards to Zakāt, knowing that it will be an almost instant augmentation and funds.
Please watch this informative session I recorded synthesizing the classical conception of the law of Zakāt with very practical modern applications to our context.
TLDR? Almost no national organization has any sort of Zakāt oversight, or standards.
Those that do, have standards that are written so poorly as to mean nothing.
Those that do have well articulated standards, mostly are not in compliance with the sacred law.
Those that do have written standards that are in compliance of the sacred law have no oversight.
The exceptions to this are anemic both in number and in size.
Conclusion? Distribute your Zakāt, preferably locally, to poor people, unless you want to show up on the Day of Judgment with finger pointing and regrets.
https://youtu.be/iqhF25zyPro
My flight in from Madīnah Munawwarah was delayed and despite sprinting all the way across the massive Istanbul airport, it was God's decree that the gate was shut just a couple of minutes before I got there.
There will be no Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn class tonight. Our next get together Inshā'Allāh will be Tarāwīḥ.
https://youtube.com/shorts/xRTYKoMSpEU?feature=share
The messenger of Allāh ﷺ said that 120 mercies descend upon the sacred house, 60 of which are for those who are making Ṭawāf, 40 for those who are praying & 20 for those gazing at it.
Allāh Ta'ālā include us in them. I ask Allāh to accept your prayers, so call upon Him and I'm standing here saying āmīn.
سري لديها تبـدى*فقلت كوني أمينـة
ياناقة الشوق إنـا*نسير نحو المدينـة
وأبحرت في خطاها*والقلب ذكر لطـه
والعين أجرت جمانا*يروي جمال المدينة
وفاح عطر الجنان*فما ملكتُ جَنانـي
كأنما طـار منـي*قد شم ريح المدينة
ألفيتُ فيها الحنانـا*وذقت فيها الأمـان
بلغت أسمى جـوار*لما دخلت المدينـة
كانت لروحي مآبـا*فراق عيشي وطابا
صلاة ربي على من*أقام صرح المدينة
السّلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
I've boarded my flight for Madīnah Munawwarah.
Allāh Ta'ālā take me in Īmān, safety and health.
If you would like me to say salām on your behalf, you may sign up for the Q & A list (I'll include the link below) and like the post there. Liking it here will do not do anything as likes are anonymous on this list.
Link to sign up for the Q&A list:
/channel/+SF1ymBiSoS8aouD8
Anyone who will be in Madīnah Munawwarah from Sunday through Thursday is welcome to reach out to me directly.
Likewise, anyone in Makkah Mukarramah on Friday can reach out.
Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn: Suspicious Imāms & Providential Blessings in Disguise
From the most serious imperatives of Islām is to get together & form a public reforming solidarity that remakes the public sphere in its righteous image.
Listen to some interesting & less mentioned perspectives regarding how this takes shape.
This discussion is indispensable for serious believers who are committed to their Islām.
Dars + Dhikr
Tonight at 6PM
342 E Irving Park Rd
Wood Dale, IL, 60191
If anyone wants to show support for Jennah, they can show up tomorrow at 13:00 for the arraignment.
It'll be at the Justice Center downtown.
https://shorturl.at/pbVcQ
War Treasure, Slain Polytheists, Captives, Ransom, Hypocrites and Traitors: the Aftermath of Badr
https://youtube.com/live/Z982m55wRN0?feature=share
3 Ramaḍān Late Night Majlis Companions Mobilize Maghāzī
The messenger of Allāh ﷺ, despite having been promised victory, moved with very deliberate decisions every step of the way. He was sure to meticulously gather and glean information, not just listening for what was being said, but how it was being gathered.
He was sure to keep his companions on the same page with him, and what the spectacular companions they were, may Allāh be pleased with them.
https://youtube.com/live/xNwKIgbh8Yo?feature=share
Tarāwīḥ
One of the bizarre experiences in North America, and it seems, in many places in the Muslim world as well, is the festivalization of Tarāwīḥ.
The proper recitation of the Qur'ān has a mesmerizing and rapturous effect on the heart, mind and body. It is literally a Shifā, or a cure for every disease.
So the reason I find Tarāwīḥ to be bizarre in so many places, is that people do anything and everything except for post up and listen to the Qur'ān.
Don't get me wrong, I'm about impious and spiritually distracted as anyone else. However, when I old school force myself to stand still, even if I have to drag myself to the place of prayer, it doesn't take but a few minutes until the thoughts cross my mind that the words being read are so eloquent and righteous that they could not have come from anyone but Allāh. Believing that the Qur'ān is the Eternal and Uncreated Speech of the Lord in a creedal declaration is one thing: bearing witness to its effect again and again, in a world in which novelty triggers dopamine and repetition triggers boredom, and that as well, when enjoying a person to do precisely all those things that the ego loathes, is nothing short of a miracle.
Alḥamdulillāh, for the blessings of Ramaḍān, the Qur'ān, fasting, prayer & grace. Allāh Ta'ālā Himself is the treasure of treasures, may He be our gift this Ramaḍān and may he accept us as His...
(Some images of Tarāwīḥ at Ribāṭ this year.)
https://youtube.com/live/V3pCyZW_K1c?feature=share
Struggle is part of life.
Struggle is inseparable from Islām.
Learn how to struggle from those who mastered struggle.
1 Ramaḍān 1446 Late Night Majlis Maghāzī Qiblah & Prelude to Conflagration
When I went to the Turkish Airlines "Care Desk" to get my new flight, when I asked the comatose woman if I could get a flight for 2 days later, almost rolling her eyes at me, with an air of that's not what the neo-Ottoman Empire can do for you but what you can do for the neo-Ottoman Empire because I don't want to break a nail typing five extra keys, she said it's difficult (it wasn't).
She said I can give you a hotel but they will kick you out for hours before your flight. The flight was in 6 hours. What I didn't understand at the time was that you had to go through passport control, buy a Visa to go into Turkey, and then take a bus to the hotel, so effectively would have been half an hour of hotel.
So I went to another "Care Desk," this time greeted by slightly more energetic gentleman, who indeed confirm that I could fly out after a few days if I liked. Given that Ramaḍān starts in a few days, I had to tap down my urge to pass a few mornings in secondhand smoke filled folksy coffee shops, dropping my sorrow in Qizilay and murky caffeine.
I went to the hotel pod to see if I couldn't find something to go to sleep in for a couple of hours. I had been traveling continuously the whole night from Makkah Mukarramah to Madīnah Munawwarah train station, and from there to the airport, where the scene was utter chaos. Filled with barakah because everyone was going to Jannah, by Allāh's Faḍl, but still, utter chaos. I suspect that's part of the reason why the flight was so late.
$100 for 4 hours for hotel pod that has no bathroom in it? No thank you. I'm a father and a husband with a house to run.
I thought maybe I could get a lounge pass for cheaper, but even those were underwhelming options for a similar amount of money.
I decided I was going to take the premium option: I just went to sleep in the muṣallā.
There I met a handsome brother. He looked like an angel. Tall and dressed in white, it turned out he was a Malian Tablīghī, who when asked his name, like clockwork, he answered "Yūsuf."
I had resolved to buy him coffee after Ṣalāt.
I gave the Adhān and Iqāmah and pushed him to lead. After two Rak'ahs, I asked him to lead ʿAṣr but the look on his face made it clear that he was Kūfah-pilled by the Tablīghīs. He demured and stepped back and asked me to lead.
By the time the prayer was over, he was gone.
While we were talking, he knew Arabic, but seem to very clearly enjoy flexing his Urdu so after a few exchanges I just let him have it and we spoke in the Muslimano-Indic tongue.
I love this Ummah, Allāh Ta'ālā keep it in His protection and make me worthy of a place in it.
I'm waiting to board my flight to Istanbul then home.
I'll probably be in the air when it is my customary time to post it, but we will have Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn and Dhikr at the usual time at 6 PM tomorrow.
It may be a good opportunity to meet me before the rigmarole of normal life wears off the light of the two sacred sanctuaries...
Sunnahs of Ḥajj and ʿUmrah
One of the most overwhelming parts of studying the sacred rites of pilgrimage is facing the reality on the ground, that nobody is able to perform them perfectly after the messenger of Allāh ﷺ.
Putting the inward perfections of his states aside ﷺ, even the outward observances are often overwhelming.
One of the benefits I experienced by being blessed to visit the house of Allāh multiple times, from no worldly or otherworldly virtue of my own and only by Allāh's grace and mercy, is the following: each time I try to practice a sunnah which I have hitherto been unable to achieve and attain, while trying my best to perform the rest of the rites with due reverence and magnification in my heart.
It is a sunnah for every Ṭawāf which brings a pilgrim into the Ḥarām from outside of its sacred boundaries, to make the first three circuits of circumambulation with raml. Raml is to hasten one's gait less than a run but faster than walking.
In the past because I always wish to make Ṭawāf from as close to the Sacred House as possible, it's always been far too crowded to even attempt.
Yesterday by Allāh's grace and mercy, I was able to take the first three circuits from the outer sectors of the Maṭāf, at a slow jog, taking great care not to hurt anybody, only circling in closer to the Kaʿbah Muʿaẓẓamah on the fourth circuit.
If Allāh Ta'ālā should accept even one step it will be a great victory. Not just for me, but for all of you too, as you were not absent from my prayers and love.
Allāh Ta'ālā accept it. Say āmīn.
The brothers will meet for our weekly Dhikr and tea at 6.
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With all respect to good intentions, since the raising of Christ عليه السلام from the earth, the earthly form of Christianity has been dominated by one scam after another.
Even from the frame of reference of this tweet, evangelicals are a scam emerging from protestantism.
Protestantism is a scam emerging out of Catholicism.
Catholicism, a complete train wreck, including a Pope who had an affair with his daughter, not to be out done, is a scam, according to the Orthodox, that emerges out of Orthodoxy.
Of course if you ask the Catholics, they will tell you that Orthodoxy was a scam that emerged out of Catholicism.
Which Orthodoxy do you ask? Well the Greek version, holds the Egyptian version, practiced in Egypt, Ethiopia & Eritrea, to be a scam, while the latter returns the favor to the former.
All of this was built on the platform of the scam of the Trinity foisted on to the believers by the hitherto pagan Emperor Konstantin at the Council of Nicea.
That scam of course, rested on the foundational scam of the "Son of God" formula championed by Paul, a man who, despite never having met Christ, seemed to have wrestled away authority from Christ's actual disciples during their lifetimes, to the point that the Christian scriptures that would be canonized at Nicea (another scam) seem to be a lot more about Paul's teachings than about Christ's.
I will give the Schofield Bible this much credit: in as much as the two primary political antagonists of Christ's message were the Jews and Romans, the latter had co-opted Christianity through their scams for so long, it was only a matter of time that the former moved in and got their share.
One of the errors that Muslims make when thinking about Christianity and Christians is that they don't understand that the relationship between the two is not like the relationship between Islām and a Muslim.
Anyone with a functioning intellect understands the highly dysfunctional and multi-layered scammy nature of these institutions. For that reason, most of them only take Christianity as a cultural and national identity marker. They don't take it seriously as a creed, and they have a severe allergic reaction to any critical or rational analysis of anything, because to take a critical approach in anything in life, will necessarily require understanding and coming face-to-face with the scam.
Those who are serious about religion, take a more esoteric and almost Hindu approach to creed, in which there is no such thing as Absolute Truth, but only feelings.
The thing that makes it frustrating for everybody, is that Christ's mission was the embodiment of truth. Therefore, just like the total accepting of multi-level scamming is rationally impossible, it is also spiritually impossible to completely reject his teachings.
What I don't understand, is why is so much more difficult to accept the fairly common sense message of Muḥammad ﷺ, and thereby have a complete and rationally intact connection with the mission of Christ ﷺ? It's not a far-fetched conclusion to come to, and many converts I know have verbalized exactly this reasoning for why they chose Islām.
All I can see in many people is their inability to connect themselves with the poor, dark, swarthy, colonized and wretched masses.
I guess it is irony of ironies that if one cannot see good in the downtrodden, maybe they were closer to the creed of the Pharisees & Romans, than they were to that of Christ in the first place.
So much has changed in the last year.
I used to prefer patronizing Muslim establishments before, but now it has taking a high priority for so long that it's become established habit.
One of the places that I enjoy and appreciate is Jerusalem Cafe-Lombard .
They were an early adopter of the HFSAA certification, and always actively tried to go above and beyond in order to proactively make sure that everything they were serving is clean and pure.
Many a time their catered trays have come through in the jam, and the sign of their excellence is that at any given time, there are an equal number of Muslim and non-Muslim patrons enjoying their food.
It has become a Ḥalāl landmark on Roosevelt, and even if I'm not going to stop in for some kabob, I'm always filled with happiness and pride when I drive by it, as it is a collaborative achievement between the scholars and businessmen that helped open the door for others.
Roosevelt is now a Ḥalāl hub that has, in my opinion, surpassed Devon in the quality, type, and relevance of its options.
Jerusalem Cafe, far from being the only establishment, definitely takes a place in my heart as one of the anchors of this effort.
May Allāh Ta'ālā accept it from us all.
*I am not ever paid by anyone for this endorsement, neither Jerusalem Cafe, nor paid anything at all by HFSAA. This includes never taking even a discount, much less free food, which, as a policy I never take from any of our certified establishments. I am also not the inspector that inspects any of our locations, rather our team works under the general supervision of the scholars and oversight of the scholars. All good organizations have a separation between vision and oversight on one hand, and the day-to-day execution of policy on the other. Micromanagement is what destroys organizations.
Matn Ibn ʿĀshir Mālikī Fiqh: All About Tayammum
https://youtu.be/FESKHpw10dM
What do you do when you need to purify yourself and you can either not find water or not use it?
This lesson, we discuss the etymology of the word Tayammum,
when is it valid to use us an alternative to water-based purification,
how long it lasts,
what are its integrals, Sunnahs, recommendations, and nullifiers,
from what substances can it be performed,
and a walkthrough of how to perform it.
All this, taught according to the Mālikī Madhhab.