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Beyond Flak Attack: A New Engagement with the Newsroom - Tabah Research - Tabah Foundation
This essay, by Ustadh Nazim Baksh, is written for Muslim activists and scholars who are alarmed at today’s headlines and would like to engage the mass media in the hope of balancing its predominantly negative reporting with positive stories pertaining to [...]
What is the Shariah?
A Path to God, a Path to Good
by Faraz Rabbani
“For each We have appointed a divine law and a traced-out way. Had God willed, He could have made you one community. But that He may try you by that which He has given you. So vie one with another in good [...]
“Our interaction with nature is clearly constrained and directed by such foundational ethical precepts as mercy, moderation, and gratitude, which, when systematically understood and applied, result in ecological health. But ethical precepts refer ultimately to human nature, and therefore ecological health is rooted in psychological health. From this deep-level perspective, environmental degradation is less a resource-problem than an attitude-problem. This psycho-ecological [...]
“The intellect is the instrument of determining the soundness of transmission; of understanding its content; of reaching understanding of the meanings being indicates. The intellect is, thus, like a lamp that illuminates the milestones of the path for the traveller.” [Shaykh Bouti .. الدكتور البوطي :
http://www.fikr.com/bouti/ftwa.php]
إن العقل أداة للوثوق بصحة ورود النقل، ثم هو أداة [...]
Love Of The Prophet
1. The Obligation to Increase the Love and Honor of the Prophet
Allah asks the Prophet to remind his Nation that it is essential for those who claim to love God, to love His Prophet :
“Say to them: If you love God, follow (and love and honor) me, and God will love you” [...]
Abu’l Hasan al-Shadhili relates from his spiritual guide, Ibn Mashish:
The best of spiritual actions are four after four.
[The four actions are:]
(1) loving Allah;
(2) contentment with Allah’s destiny;
(3) non-attachment to worldly matters; and
(4) relying upon Allah.
[These come after four:]
(1) fulfilling Allah’s commands;
(2) leaving Allah’s prohibitions;
(3) steadfastly leaving all that doesn’t concern one; and
(4) scrupulousness in leaving [...]
Complete Excellence: The Adab of Each Limb - Faraz Rabbani - Sulami’s Adab al-Suhba on Vimeo
In this lesson, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani of SeekersGuidance.org explains Imam Sulami’s chapter on “The Proper Manners of Each Limb, Outward and Inward” from his work on the proper manners of companionship (Adab al-Suhba). He covers the adab related to the [...]
Prophetic Guidance on the excellence of walking to the mosque
(Chapter 189 of Imam Nawawi’s Gardens of the Righteous)
1053. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Allah will prepare a residence in the Garden for anyone who goes to the mosque morning and evening each morning and evening [...]
Adventurer’s photos capture a bygone Mecca - CNN.com
(CNN) – He was an adventurer, a scholar, and possibly a spy — but as Dutchman Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje proved with his rare 1885 photographs and sound recordings of Mecca, he was also a pioneering multimedia journalist.
Snouck’s extraordinary collection of sepia-tinted images of Mecca in a bygone age [...]