Ahl al Bayt: Knoweldge, Love & Obedience - Shaykh Yahya Rhodus
Shaykh Yahya’s dars on the Family of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) - Ahl al Bayt: Knowledge, Love & Obedience delivered in the month of Muharram 1431 AH organised by our brothers at Ghausia Masjid in Huddersfield.

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HABIB AL-`AJAMI

His conversion (tawbat) was begun by Hasan of Basra. At first he was a usurer and committed all sorts of wickedness, but God gave him a sincere repentance, and he learned from Hasan something of the theory and practice of religion. His native tongue was Persian (`ajami) and he could not speak Arabic correctly. [...]

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Dealing With Difference | Ikhutbah | The Radical Middle WayIt seems like a such a simple question: how do we deal with difference? In this pithy, direct and honest submission, Habib Kazim al-Saqqaf answers the question with generosity and clarity drawing on spiritual wisdom and a keen sense of the human condition. One of Yemen’s [...]

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Alhamdulillah, SeekersGuidance attended the 8th Annual Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention this past weekend in Toronto,  Canada. This year’s convention featured Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, Shaykh Habib ‘Ali al-Jifri,  Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Mokhtar Magroui, Shaykh Abdallah Idris Ali, Imam Tahir Anwar, Shaykh Suleiman Mulla, Ustadha Zainab Alwani, Dr. Sherman Jackson, Dr. [...]

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 Imam Ghazali writes:
“You should not neglect your time or use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account, structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night, and assign to each period a fixed and specific function. This is how to bring out the spiritual blessing (barakah) in each period. [...]

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DAWN.COM | Metropolitan | Suicide attack on Ashura procession kills 30 in Karachi
A suicide bomber on Monday targeted Pakistan’s largest procession of Shiite Muslims on their holiest day, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more in defiance of a major security crackdown. [Read more]

May Allah grant all those unjustly and wrongly killed in [...]

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PROPHETS CRY TOO - Lastprophet.info
Ibrahim, the son of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and Maria, died in the tenth year of the Hijrah. He was sixteen months old (eighteen months old in another account) and under the care of a nurse when he died. Upon hearing what had happened to his son, Prophet Muhammad immediately went to the house [...]

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Habib Ali al-Jifri said: “The implication of our slavehood to Allah is that the universe around us is read just as the pages of a book are read, through it Allah speaks to us.
Every creature is then a manifestation of Allah’s wisdom, will, knowledge and power, and this in turn should cause [...]

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cambridge khutbas etc.: Poverty & Riches
The Prophet Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) famously prayed to be resurrected among the masakin (poor, downtrodden, oppressed), but what does it mean to be miskin and what was the prophetic attitude to poverty or hardship? In this sermon, Sheikh Abdal Hakim outlines the Qur’anic and [...]

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YouTube - Mark Bittman Argues Against Vegetarianism
New York Times columnist Mark Bittman talks to WNYC’s Leonard Lopate about a plan for responsible eating that is good for the consumer and the planet.

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