FILED UNDER: ANS Hanafi Fiqh, ANS Transactions
TAGGED WITH:: media
/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadh Salman Younas Question: Assalam aleykum Is the income earned through media activities permissible? Answer: assalamu alaykum Working in a media related field is permissible as long as the actual work that one is performing is not interdicted. For example, being a broadcast journalist is in general a permissible line of work. Similar […]
FILED UNDER: Featured Articles, Social Issues, Video
TAGGED WITH:: Attack, attacks, believers, california, compassionate, dark times, despair, gun crime, hopelessness, Islamophobic, media, prophetic example, prophetic guidance, protect, Protection, racism, refuge, reliance, reliance on Allah, safety, shooting, solace, Suffering, sunnah, supplication, terrorism, tests, trials, tribulation, trust, Ustadha Anse Tamara Gray
/by Content TeamEach time a high profile act of violence is committed by a Muslim or in the name of Islam, the fear of reprisal attacks rises acutely in Muslim communities. It has become almost par for the course, and the statistics prove the threat is real. Often, women who are visibly Muslim find themselves the primary soft target. […]
FILED UNDER: Featured Articles, News, Prophetic Guidance, Social Issues
TAGGED WITH:: extremism, Human Rights. New York Times, Imam Zaid Shakir, ISIL, isis, khawarij, media, Middle East, slavery, SLAVES, terror, terrorism
/by Content TeamAs-Salaamu Alaikum, Today’s New York Times’ (NYT) article highlighting ISIS’ sexual enslavement of Yazidi women has cast a critical light on the issue of slavery and Islam. The ensuing implications should concern all Muslims. This is so owing to the fact that ISIS presents its practices as normative Islam and accuses the masses of Muslims […]
FILED UNDER: Video
TAGGED WITH:: advice, Chapel Hill, hatred, Imam Zaid Shakir, ISLAMOPHOBIA, jummah, khutbah, media
/by Content TeamImam Zaid Shakir addresses the Chapel Hill shooting in his Friday khutbah in Michigan. See also, his comments shortly after the tragedy unfolded, “May the deaths of these beautiful young people, and all others who have perished as a result of senseless, inexcusable violence, anywhere, not be in vain. May they motivate us all to […]
FILED UNDER: Article-General
TAGGED WITH:: Chapel Hill, hatred, Imam Zaid Shakir, ISLAMOPHOBIA, media
/by Content TeamAs-Salaam Alaikum, Our condolences to the families of Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu Salha and her sister Razan, the three young Muslims who were murdered yesterday in North Carolina. May their entrance into Paradise be swift and sure, as is the case for the martyr (a martyr is an innocent victim of violence, not a suicide […]
FILED UNDER: Article-General
TAGGED WITH:: Habib Ali al-Jifri, islam, leaders, media, scholars
/0 Comments/by ErinOriginal post can be found here. The solutions to the setbacks facing Islam’s religious discourse require a unification of efforts and and an assumption of responsibility by all stakeholders involved. They, the stakeholders, are: (1) the scholars/ulama (who have the largest share of the responsibility since every area has it own expertise and this is […]
FILED UNDER: Featured Articles, News, Social Issues
TAGGED WITH:: headlines, hyperconnectivity, mass media, media, Nazim Baksh, social media, tabloid, teaching
/by Content TeamWe are constantly bombarded with news from the media related to Islam and Muslims, especially given the post-9/11 context in which we live. This highlights the need for students in Islamic schools to be media literate. As an Islamic school teacher, you have a social responsibility to open up the eyes of your students […]
FILED UNDER: Article-General
TAGGED WITH:: engagement, islam, ISLAMOPHOBIA, media, Nazim Baksh, society
/0 Comments/by Shaykh FarazBeyond 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 […]
FILED UNDER: ANS General Counsel, ANS Hanafi Fiqh
TAGGED WITH:: chain of transmission, difference of opinion, following a school of thought (madhab), isnad, lawful, media, movies, music, scholarship, unlawful
/by sufyanAnswered by Ustadha Zaynab Ansari Abdul-Razacq Question: If we do whatever Allah asks us to do without questioning, why do different scholars have different opinions about different aspects of our religion? The permissible and impermissible is not clear and there are many different ways of interpreting something. Some scholars say watching Hollywood movies is impermissible, […]
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