ADVICE: Seeking the Pleasure of Allah and His Messenger - Habib Umar
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Please benefit from and share the following Rabi’ al-Awwal advice recently delivered by Sayyidi Habib Umar and translated by Ustadh Amin Buxton (Allah preserve and increase him and his teachers).
May Allah Most High bless us with remembrance of Him and His [...]
February 2nd, 2012
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“Say to them: If you love God, follow (and love and honor) me, and God will love you” Surah Al Imran; ayah 31
“None of you believes until he loves me more than he loves his children, his parents, and all people.” Hadith (Bukhari and Muslim)
“None of you believes until he loves me more than he [...]
October 31st, 2011
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Mawlid with Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Samir al-Nass and Birmingham Munshids
“This is one of the most beautiful, passionate, and most deeply spiritual renditions of Imam Busiri’s Burda I have ever heard.” -Faraz Rabbani.
In rememberance of the Prophet, peace be upon him, his family and companions, with Shakyh Samir al-Nass, Imam Zaid Shakir, Munaqib Nasheed Group. Thursday [...]
August 18th, 2011
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An excellent detailed article from ilmgate on the appearance of the mujtahid imams. Visit ilmgate.org for more excellent articles on Islam and contemporary issues.
Physical Descriptions of the Four Imams
Collected from Imam Dhahabi’s Siyar A’lam an-Nubala
Abu Hanifah an-Nu’man bin Thabit:
Abu Yusuf said: “Abu Hanifah was well-formed, was from the best of people in appearance, the most [...]
July 14th, 2011
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A Blessed Beginning: The First SeekersHub Class
Special thanks to the blogger Shagufta Pasta for sharing this.
In the SeekersHub’s first class today, Shaykh Faraz reminded us that to seek something means to have “concern, care and respect”. And alhamidullah these three things were most certainly reflected today in this wonderful new learning [...]
July 9th, 2011
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BLISS - A Poem of Yearning - Shaykh Muhammad Adeyinka Mendes
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Inspired by Shaykh Abu Bakr as-Somali al-Haddad’s commentary on the Poem of Healing by Imam al-Busayri, God be pleased with him, during the Mawlid of March 26, 2009 at Masjid al-Mu’minin in Clarkston, GA
“No perfume compares to the earth that holds [...]
July 5th, 2011
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Benefits of Simplicity - Shaykh Hussain Abdul Sattar - SacredLearning
A detailed lecture on the simple lifestyle of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), its benefits and how one can practically bring it into their daily life. Shaykh Husain shares experiences and reflections from his own life in bringing this forgotten Prophetic example [...]
June 25th, 2011
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Where did the shaykhas go? Afterthoughts on Female Scholarship from the SG Retreat
Written by Sr. Whittni Brown Abdullah
I don’t know when I first heard the term “shaykha”. I think my friend was joking with me about how maybe one day I’d become one given the zeal I had as a new Muslim. [...]
June 18th, 2011
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Helpful Organizational Tools for Muslims
This brief post is intended to highlight organizational tools that may be helpful to Muslims on a practical level. These tools are simple aids but they can do a lot to keep track of one’s deeds (muhasaba) and in seeing one’s progress there is immense motivation to continue and to challenge [...]
June 15th, 2011
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This inspiring lecture begins with reflection from the poem written by Habib Umar bin Hafiz: “Billahi karrir dhikra wasfi Muhammadin, kayma tuziha ‘anil qulubir rana.” This can be translated as: “By God, repeat the qualities of Muhammad, so that the rust that is on hearts may be removed.” Shaykh Faraz Rabbani of SeekersGuidance (www.SeekersGuidance.org) then [...]
May 17th, 2011
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