November 5, 2018
On the Life of the Prophets in their Blessed Graves Haddab ibn Khalid and Shayban ibn Farrukh narrated to us: they said: Hammad ibn Salamah narrated […]
November 4, 2018
Wahdat al-Wujud, Wahdat al-Shuhud and the Safest Position. Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah and ‘Ali ibn Hujr al-Sa’di narrated to me: both from Sharik. Ibn Hujr […]
November 3, 2018
Sports and Entertainment in Islam Zuhayr ibn Harb narrated to me: ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us: from Sufyan: from ‘Alqamah ibn Marthad: from Sulayman […]
November 2, 2018
The Prohibition of Prostrating to Other than Allah Hadiths (1) Qays ibn Sa‘d (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated: I came to al-Hirah and I […]
November 2, 2018
Slavery in Islam. It behooves us, before commencing on the commentary of the hadiths on the emancipation of slaves, to produce here a short essay in […]
November 1, 2018
The Meaning of Jama‘ah. The sixteenth issue[1] is that the narration of those who narrated, “and that is the Jama‘ah (Group),”[2] as the meaning of the saved sect, […]
October 31, 2018
Qur’anic Eloquence. Since the issue of rhetorical grandeur in the Qur’an has in recent times captivated the intrigue of many a critic, it seems appropriate to […]
October 30, 2018
What Is Halloween? Every year, on the evening of October 31st, millions of children across North America paint their faces, dress up in costumes, and go […]
October 30, 2018
Abrogation in the Qur’an. One of the difficulties in the science of Qur’anic commentary is to know which are the abrogating verses (nasikh) and which are […]
October 30, 2018
The Dhikr of the Name of Allah. Question To my sayyid, my mawla (may Allah increase your piety), Al-Salam ‘alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh, Your dear letter arrived […]