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Selections from The Introduction Tafsir Al Qurtubi |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
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-The General Virtues of the Qur'an and encouragement to study it .
-How to recite the Book of Allah and what is disliked and forbidden in it .
-Cautioning the people of the Qur'an and scholars against showing off .
-What the one who knows the Qur'an must do and not neglec... |
| Published: Thursday 22 April, 2010 |
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Eating Habits and Diet of the Prophet: Ibn al-Qayyim |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| In the name of Allah, the Most-Merciful, the All-Compassionate
"May the Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon You"
Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides will n... |
| Published: Thursday 25 March, 2010 |
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Advice of Shaykh Muhammad Said Burhani:Reliance of the Traveller |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| This is from Reliance of the Traveller. Shaykh Muhammad Sa`id Burhani was a major Damascene Hanafi faqih . Reliance of the Traveller, Arb-Eng,] Umdat al-Salik wa Uddat al-
t3.1 (Muhammad Sa`id Burhani:) Do not limit yourself to deep words and profound spiritual allusions but make provision for t... |
| Published: Monday 22 March, 2010 |
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Why Our Dua is not answered. (Qurtubi & Ibn Rajab al Hanbali) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| He said because you know Allaah but you do not obey Him, and you know the Messenger but you do not follow his Sunnah, and you know the Qur’aan but you do not act in accordance with it, and you eat from the blessings of Allaah but you do not give thanks for them, and you know Paradise but you do not ... |
| Published: Wednesday 17 March, 2010 |
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Merits and disadvantages of Marriage: Imam Al Ghazali |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The Proper Conduct of Marriage in Islam: Adab an-Nikah By Imam Ghazali
Excerpt
CHAPTER ONE
Merits and disadvantages of Marriage
The scholars hold differing views on the virtue of marriage: at one extreme are those who insist that it is superior in merit to devoting oneself solely... |
| Published: Thursday 04 February, 2010 |
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10 Ways of Protection from Shaytan: Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziy |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| 10 Ways of Protection from Shaytan
Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah Summarized from Bida’i` al-Fawa’id
Translated by www. islaam.com
· Seeking refuge with Allah from Shaytan. Allah the Most High said,
“And if there comes to you from Satan an evil suggestion, then seek refuge in A... |
| Published: Thursday 21 January, 2010 |
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Selection Translations of Asfahani's Hilyat-ul-Awliya Wa Tabaqat |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The Beauty of the Righteous & Ranks of the Elite: Asfahani
Imam Abu Nu'ain al Asfahani 's
Hilyat-ul-Awliya Wa Tabaqat al-Asifiya
The Beauty of the Righteous & Rank of the Elite
Translation from the Original Arabic & Edited By
Shaykh Muammad Al-Akili
Pearl Publishing House, Printed In India... |
| Published: Tuesday 13 October, 2009 |
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Introduction Of Imam Ghazali to Minhaj al Abidin,The Path of |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The Path of the Worshipful Servants to the Garden of the Lord of All the Worlds [Minhaj al-’Abidin ila Jannati Rabbi ’l-’Alamin]
by Imam Hujjat al-Islam Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. A.H. 505)
In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate [Bismi’llahi ’r-Rah... |
| Published: Wednesday 09 September, 2009 |
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The Advice Of Ibn Umar (radialahu anhu) From Jami al Ulum |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| If you survive to the evening, do not expect to be alive till the morning, If you survive to the morning, do not look forward to the evening. In a healthy condition, prepare yourself for illness and while you are alive prepare yourself for death.” (Al-Bukhari, kitaab Ar-Riqaq)
As for the advice o... |
| Published: Tuesday 09 June, 2009 |
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Maryam bint Imran Mother of Isa (Jesus) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| She is Maryam bint Imran the daughter of the priest Imran and his wife Hanna, who when pregnant with Maryam vowed to dedicate the child she bore to the service of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and at her birth accordingly named her Maryam, meaning “servant of her lord” Allah the Almighty said |
| Published: Saturday 09 May, 2009 |
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Correcting the two strengths of knowledge and action: Ibn Qayyim |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Correcting the two strengths of knowledge and action
Shaykh ul –Islaam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
Taken from `Miftah dar as-Sa'ada' (key to the land of happiness)Translated by Abbas Abu Yahya
The saying of Allaah Ta'ala :
((By Al-'Asr (the time). Verily! Man is in loss, except thos... |
| Published: Thursday 16 April, 2009 |
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From Diseases of the Hearts & their Cures”- Ibn Taymiyyah |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The Disease of Desires
By Shaykhul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah
"Extracted from “Diseases of the Hearts & their Cures”
Miserliness and jealousy are sicknesses that lead to the soul hating that which would benfit it, and its loving that which would haram it. This is why jealousy was mention alongsid... |
| Published: Tuesday 31 March, 2009 |
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On knowledge, the guidance of people of knowledge |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Ibn Salaah said, “When a student of hadeeth has finished learning the short-chained narrations and other important knowledge of his town, he should move to other towns.”
On knowledge, the guidance of people of knowledge and their courtesies, and some mention of fatwas
Alee, may Allaah be pleas... |
| Published: Sunday 29 March, 2009 |
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Understanding Healthy Diet & The Practical Rules of Eating and |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Understanding Healthy Diet & The Practical Rules of Eating and Drinking Natural Healing with the Medicine of the Prophet
By Imam Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya
Translation and Emendation by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Akili
© 1996-2008 Pearl Publishing House“
The human being has never filled a container wo... |
| Published: Thursday 26 March, 2009 |
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Time to Reflect: Signs of The Hour (END OF THE WORLD) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| "But we have heard the messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said " People who do not change something wrong when they see it are on the verge of a sweeping punishment from Allah"
(Repo... |
| Published: Wednesday 18 February, 2009 |
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Backbiting By Ibn Qudama Al Maqdisi From Mukhtasar Minhaj al.... |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| "Mukhtasar Minhaj al-Qasideen" (being Ibn Qudamah's abridgement of Ibn al-Jawzi's summary of al-Ghazzali's "Ihya' `Ulum al-Deen")
Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin,] Towards The Hereafter ,Ibn Qudama
[Al-Maqdisi).HB, 457pp, Dar Al Manarah, Ibn Jawzi's(Jauzi) Summary&Authentification of Ghazali's Ihy] £... |
| Published: Wednesday 04 February, 2009 |
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The slave girl shall give birth to her master (Signs of the Hour |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| “Then tell me about its signs.” He replied, “That the slave girl shall give birth to her master, and that you see barefoot, naked, poor shepherds building tall buildings.” [Muslim]
-The Son of Africa has today been inaugurated as the President of the United States of America to many the Master ... |
| Published: Wednesday 21 January, 2009 |
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The Hukm of the Sacrifices and the Persons Addressed - Ibn Rushd |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The jurists disagree about sacrifices whether they are obligatory or are a sunna. Malik and al-Shafi'i held that it is one of the sunna mu'akkada (emphatic sunna). Malik made an exemption in the case of the pilgrim for relinquishing it at Mina. Al-Shafi'i did not make distinction between pilgrims an... |
| Published: Monday 24 November, 2008 |
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The khilafah of Umar Umar ibn al-Khattab From: Suyuti's Tahrik |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| He took on the khilafah through the covenant of Abu Bakr in Jumada al-Akhirah in the year 13 A.H.
Az-Zuhri said, ''Umar was appointed khalifah on the day that Abu Bakr died which was Tuesday eight days before the end of Jumada al-Akhirah.' He undertook the command most fully, and there were very ... |
| Published: Tuesday 11 November, 2008 |
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The Station of Fear By Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From Madarij us Salikeen AlJumuah 12/1426H Translated by Uwaymir Anjum
Fear is one of the most important stations on the path and most beneficial for the heart. Fear is an obligation upon everyone, Allah said, "So fear them not, and fear Me alone, if you are believers." [3:175] (The actual word u... |
| Published: Thursday 30 October, 2008 |
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Al Ghazali On Harms of the science of polemics & evils of debate |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Imam Al-Ghazali's Ihya Ulum-id-din
The Book of Knowledge, Book 1 Section iv page 52
Translated by Maulana Fazlul Karim
Harms of the science of polemics and evils of debates and disputations
"Know, O dear readers, that after the Prophet (, the rightly-guided caliphs were the leaders of the learne... |
| Published: Monday 25 August, 2008 |
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Siyam (fasting) by: Ibn Qudamah Al-Maqdisi in Mukhtasar Minhaj |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| We call upon all Muslims to get involved in worship to attain the blessings of Ramadan instead of wasting their time and energies in futile arguments and disagreements. May Allah (T) enable us to follow the Sunnah in all our beliefs and deeds.
'Allah said all the deeds of Adams sons (human beings) ... |
| Published: Saturday 23 August, 2008 |
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4 Poisons Of The Heart From the Book 'Purification of the Soul |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Ibn ul Qayyum al Jawziyya, Imam Abul Hameed al Ghazali and Ibn Rajab al Hanbali.. Too Much Talk, Unrestrained Glances, Too Much Food, Keeping Bad Company |
| Published: Thursday 15 May, 2008 |
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Travelling For Sacred Knowledge (Imam Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| An Excerpt From:The Heirs of the Prophets- Warathatu'l -Anbiya By Imam Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali |
| Published: Thursday 08 May, 2008 |
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Imam al-Haddad on Giving Good Counsel to Fellow Muslims |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Imam al-Haddad on Giving Good Counsel to Fellow Muslims.
You must be of good counsel to all Muslims. The highest point of this is that you conceal nothing from them which if made known would result in good or preserve from something evil. The prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) has ... |
| Published: Thursday 17 April, 2008 |
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Ways of Satan to the Hearts of Men By Imam AL-Ghazali (D. 505 A |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Ways of Satan (Shaytan) to the Hearts of Men
BY ABU HAMID AL-GHAZALI (D. 505 AH)
The example of the heart is like that of a fortress, and Satan is an enemy who seeks to storm this fortress, to take control ofit, and to rule over it. Moreover, any fortress cannot be said to be secure from t... |
| Published: Saturday 12 April, 2008 |
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The signs of love of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) By Qadi Iyad |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From Ash-Shifa of Qadi 'Iyad: Muhammad Messanger of Allah Translated By Aisha Bewley
Section 4: The signs of love of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace
Know that someone who loves a person prefers them and prefers what they like. Otherwise, he is a pretender, insincere in his l... |
| Published: Friday 08 February, 2008 |
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Ash-shifa Qadi Iyad:(ALLAH'S PRAISE OF HIM AND HIS GREAT ESTEEM |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Chapter 1 Section 1
The Healing by the Rights of the Recognition of the Chosen One"
Chapter 1: ALLAH'S PRAISE OF HIM AND HIS GREAT ESTEEM FOR HIM
This chapter is an exposition of some of the clearest ayats in the Book, of Allah which speak well of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him... |
| Published: Tuesday 22 January, 2008 |
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Ten Points of Benefit By Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah (Al Fawaid) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| It was once to said to one devout worshipper of Allaah: "Until when will you continue to exhaust your soul?" So he responded: "It is its relaxation that I seek."
TEN: The women of this world were made beautiful to those who can see in order to test which of them prefers them over the women of the ... |
| Published: Sunday 20 January, 2008 |
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The Easiest Form of Worship By Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah - |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| 35. Remembrance is easy for the servant-whether he lies in bed or journeys, in health or in illness, in comfort and luxury, in his daily work, standing, sitting or lying down, on his way or at home. No [other] act can be performed so often and in so many situations. In fact, it is so easy that he co... |
| Published: Tuesday 02 October, 2007 |
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Ibn Qayyim :The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah. For the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from Allah is the heart which is hardened. If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry. |
| Published: Thursday 28 June, 2007 |
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Ibn Qayyim: Allah Grants Help and Victory to Followers of the Tr |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Allah Grants Help and Victory to Followers of the True Deen
Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah
Ighaathatul-Lahfaan min Masaa'id ish-Shaytaan [2/229]
Transl. islaam.com
A lot of people think that followers of the True Religion are humiliated, subdued and always defeated, unlike those who follow ot... |
| Published: Friday 01 June, 2007 |
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Dua's,Dhikr, Supplications and Prayers For the Day |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| I beg Mighty Allah that He grants benefoit to the Muslims through this Collection of Powerfull Supplications and He removes the difficulty of every Muslim though it.
O Allah, unite our hearts and set aright our mutual affairs, guide us to the path of peace, liberate us from darkness by Your Lig... |
| Published: Saturday 28 April, 2007 |
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Virtues of Knowledge abridged and edited from Ibn Qudama |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| 'Allah detests every harsh, arrogant, miserly, niggardly person, who is a prattler in the markets, a corpse by night and a donkey by day, knowledgeable about the world, ignorant of the Hereafter.' [al-Hakim] And `Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said,
'Two [types of] men are a mortal blow to m... |
| Published: Tuesday 24 April, 2007 |
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Al-Aqidah at-Tahawiah (ISlamic Belief) According to Sunni Stand |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| This is a presentation of the beliefs of ahl-al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah, according to the school of the jurists of this religion, Abu Hanifah an-Nu'man ibn Thabit al-Kufi, Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari and Abu `Abdullah Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, may Allah be pleased with them all, and... |
| Published: Sunday 11 March, 2007 |
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Al Baghdadee: The Disapproval of Acquiring Knowledge for other t |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| “When Allaah intends good for a servant, He opens for him the door of actions and closes for him the door of argumentation. And when Allaah intends evil for a servant, He opens for him the door of argumentation and closes for him the door of actions.” |
| Published: Thursday 08 March, 2007 |
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The Muhammadan Reality (In the Doctrine of Ibn Arabi ) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| For a saint, to be the heir of one of the prophets is always to be the heir of Muhammad. Indeed, ‘the prophets were his deputies in the created world when he [i.e. Muhammad] was pure spirit, aware of being so, prior to the appearance of his body or flesh. When he was asked, ‘When were you a prophet?... |
| Published: Sunday 25 February, 2007 |
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Sadaqah on Behalf of deceased Parents (From Imam Bukhari's Adab |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| 39. It is narrated by Sayyidina Ibn Abbas (RA) that someone said to the Prophet (SAW) “Messenger of Allah, indeed my mother
has died but had left behind no instructions (concerning charity). If I give charity on her behalf then will it profit her?” He said. “Yes! (Tirmizi) |
| Published: Friday 16 February, 2007 |
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Nawawi on Sincerity (ikhlas) and having a conscious intention in |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Bustan ul Arifeen:The Garden of the Gnostics (Nawawi)
'Indeed, actions only go by intentions. Everyone gets what they intend. Anyone, therefore, who emigrates for Allah and His Messenger, then his emigration is indeed for Allah and His Messenger. But anyone who emigrates to gain something of thi... |
| Published: Sunday 07 January, 2007 |
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A Refutation Of Astrology (From Muqaddimah By Ibn Khaldun) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Astrologers think that astrology, with the knowledge it gives of astral powers, individually or in combination, and of astral influences upon elemental creations, enables them to know the things that are going to be in the world of the elements, before they are created |
| Published: Friday 05 January, 2007 |
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From: Al-Ghazali Letter to a Disciple:Ayyuha’l-Walad |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Then one day he considered his situation, and it occurred to him, ‘I have studied various kinds of science, and I have spent my life learning and mastering them. I now ought to find out which kind will be of use to me on the morrow, to keep me company in my grave, and those which are not of use to m... |
| Published: Monday 20 November, 2006 |
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Imam Bukhari's Book of Muslim Morals & Manners |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Arabic - English
Translated by Yusuf Talal Delorenzo
564 pages Hardback
Published By Al-Saadawi Publications, Virginia
Includes an excellent introduction to the study of Hadith. |
| Published: Friday 03 November, 2006 |
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THE NATURE OF INTENTION compiled from the works |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The Prophet (saw) said: "Actions are only by intention,
and every man shall only have what he intended. Thus he
whose hijra was for Allah and was for Allah and His Messenger,
his hijra was for Allah and His Messenger, and he whose hijra
was to achieve some worldly benefit or to take some woman ... |
| Published: Wednesday 18 October, 2006 |
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Imam Al-Ghazali on Fanaticism From THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE |Kitab |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| But if fanaticism becomes rooted in their hearts their redemption becomes hopeless because fanaticism fastens beliefs deeply to the minds of men. It is one of the evils of the teachers of falsehood who go to excess in their fanaticism for the truth and regard with contempt and scorn all non-conformi... |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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Imam Ghazali On the Intellect, its Noble Nature, its Definition, |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE (Kitab al-‘Ilm)
Book 1 of Ihya' 'Uloom al-Din (Revival of Religious Sciences)
By Imam Al-Ghazali
Translation with Notes By NABIH AMIN FARIS |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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On knowledge, the guidance of people of knowledge and their cour |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The Madinan View:on the Sunnah, courtesy, battles and history
A translation of Kitab al-Jami' by Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (From The School of Imam Malik) |
| Published: Thursday 15 June, 2006 |
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Seek Help in Patience and Prayer (TMQ 2:153-154) By Ibn Kathir |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From "Tafsir Ibn Kathir", Part 2, Abridged by Shaikh Muhammad Nasib Ar-Rifa`I, © 1998 al-Firdous Ltd., London
“O you who believe! Seek help in patience and prayer..... |
| Published: Friday 28 April, 2006 |
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He Came to Teach you Your Religion: Islam, Imaan & Ihasan |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Hadith No. 2 From An-Nawawis Forty Hadith . The Hadith of Angel Jibra'il (Gabriel)
One day while we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah there appeared before us a man whose clothes were exceedingly white and whose hair was exceedingly black; no signs of journey were to be seen on him and none ... |
| Published: Thursday 16 March, 2006 |
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About Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Ibn al-Sabbagh gives the following biographical data about al-Shadhili He was born in the region of Ghumara, in today's Morocco, around A.H. 583 or A.D. 1187 .He embarked on a spiritual journey in search of a genuine Sufi shaykh or the qutb [pole]. As a result, he travelled to Baghdad which was stil... |
| Published: Sunday 22 January, 2006 |
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Al-Ghazali:Merit in Having Good Character, and a Condemnation o |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| An Exposition of the Merit which is in Having Good Character, and a Condemnation of Bad Character
From: Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul & on Breaking the Two Desires Books XXII and XXIII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’`Ulum al-Din) Translated by: T.J.Winter (Abdal Hakim Murad... |
| Published: Sunday 18 December, 2005 |
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Al-Ghazali On the Remembrance of Death,and an Encouragement to R |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From :Al Ghazali on The Remembrance of Death & the Afterlife From Ihya Ilum Ud Din Translated by Tim Winter
’Now, men may be either engrossed [in the world], penitent beginners, or arrived gnostics. The man engrossed does not remember death, or, if he does, it is with regret for his world, and he b... |
| Published: Thursday 08 December, 2005 |
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Patience and Gratitude Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah (691 AH) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Every person has to exercise patience in order to face difficulties, whether he does so willingly or unwillingly. The noble person exercises patience willingly, because he realizes the benefits of patience, and he knows that he will be rewarded for his patience and will be criticized if he panics. H... |
| Published: Saturday 26 November, 2005 |
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From the sayings of Ibn Taymiyyah & Ibn Qayyim about Truthfulnes |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From the sayings of the Salaf about Truthfulness and Sincerity
Collected by Abdul Wahhab bin Muhammad as-Salafi
Taken from www.sahab.net
Translated by Abbas Abu Yahya
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1- The slave of Allaah cannot ... |
| Published: Wednesday 02 November, 2005 |
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Degrees of Love From Al-Uboodiyyah By Ibn Taymiyyah |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is ‘alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the beloved: then comes sabahah (infatuation), when the heart is poured out: then gharam (passion), when love never leaves the heart: then ashaq (ardent love), and fi... |
| Published: Thursday 08 September, 2005 |
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Relief From Debt: Source: Al-Kalim at-Tayyib The Noble Words By |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| By Imam Ibn Taymiyah
Rememberance & Prayers of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) Published by the UK Islamic Academy
'0 Allah. grant me enough of what You make lawful that I may dispense with what You make unlawful, and make me independent, by Your bounty, of other than You.' (At-Tirmidhi narrated it... |
| Published: Thursday 01 September, 2005 |
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AL-GHAZALIS'S Introduction to Mishkat al-Anwar (The Niche of Li |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| You have asked me, dear brother--and may Allâh decree for you the quest of man's chiefest bliss, make you candidate for the Ascent to the highest height anoint your vision with the light of Reality, and purge your inward parts from all that is not the Real!--You have asked me, I say |
| Published: Friday 26 August, 2005 |
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Hadith 9.41 91 - 96 From Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik Translated by |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| A time will come upon people when their fuqaha' are few but their Qur'an reciters are many, when the letters of the Qur'an are guarded carefully but its hudud are neglected, when many ask but few give, when they make the khutba long but the prayer short, and put their desires before their actions.'
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| Published: Friday 12 August, 2005 |
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Avoid Doubtful Matters and Excessive Questioning |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Hadith An-Nawawi's Forty Hadith |
| Published: Saturday 30 July, 2005 |
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Imam Ghazali on Sin : From Minhajul Abideen |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| One who takes to Repentance is facilitated to worship Exalted Allah. When a man is addicted to sins, he is deprived of the virtue and facility of worship because of the curse of his sins. sins stand in the way of service and obedience to Allah. The burden of sins retards the prayers and activities o... |
| Published: Thursday 21 July, 2005 |
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Conflict of Rights; Principles for Reference By Ibn Taymiyyah |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Excerpt from:Public Duties in Islam: The Institution of the Hisba By Ibn Taymiya , translated by Muhtar Holland, Islamic Foundation UK
In equivocal cases the believer must seek clarification until the truth becomes clear to him. For he may not embark upon an act of obedience without knowledge and... |
| Published: Wednesday 13 July, 2005 |
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THE CAREER OF ABU MADYAN (The Way of Abu Madyan ) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The man who was to become the most influential figure of the developmental period of North African Sufism, Abu Madyan Shu’ayb ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari, who was called by later biographers the ‘Shaykh of Shaykhs, Imam of the Ascetics and the Pious, Lord of the Gnostics, and Exemplar of the Seekers’, a... |
| Published: Tuesday 21 June, 2005 |
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Preparing for the Day of Judgement Imam Asqalani |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| [1] It has been reported that the Prophet (s) said,
"The one who wakes up in the morning and complains about the scarcity of livelihood, it is as though he is complaining against his Lord. The one who wakes up and is sad over the affairs of the dunya, is as though he has woken up angry with Allah... |
| Published: Tuesday 21 June, 2005 |
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Listening to recitation is the perfume of the souls |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| ...so give good news to My slaves, those who listen to the word and then follow the best of it...(Qur'an: 39.17-18)
Source:
The Medicine of the Prophet
Translation from Tibb an-Nabbi By Jalalu'd-Din 'Abdur-Rahman as-Suyuti -Edited by Ahmad Thomson |
| Published: Monday 11 April, 2005 |
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An Exposition of the Way in which Young Children should be Disci |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| An Exposition of the Way in which Young Children should be Disciplined, and the Manner of their Upbringing and the Improvement of their characters
From: Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul & on Breaking the Two Desires
Books XXII and XXIII of the Revival of the Religious Sciences
(Ihya’`Ulum ... |
| Published: Tuesday 05 April, 2005 |
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Counsel 3. Knowledge. Excerpt from Dear Beloved Son Imam al-Gh |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
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| Published: Tuesday 05 April, 2005 |
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Selections from Ibn Ishaq's The Life of Muhammad |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The Life of Muhammad , A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's, Sirat Rasul ALLAH
Translation by A Guillaume, Published by Oxford University Press
It is alleged in popular stories (and only God knows the truth) that Amina b. Wahb, the mother of God's apostle, used to say when she was pregnant with God's apos... |
| Published: Friday 11 March, 2005 |
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The Essentials. Hadith From An-Nawawis Forty Hadith: Translatio |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Hadith from: An-Nawawis Forty Hadith, Arabic-English, Translated by Ezzedin Ibrahim and Denys Johnson-Davies
Also on the authority of Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:One day while we were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) there app... |
| Published: Wednesday 09 March, 2005 |
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Purification of the Soul: the Types of Hearts |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Compiled from the works of
Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah and Abu Hamid al-Ghazaali
Just as the heart may be described in terms of being alive or dead, it may also be regarded as belonging to one of three types; these are the healthy heart, the dead heart, and the sick heart. |
| Published: Thursday 03 March, 2005 |
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SINCERITY: From Ibn Rajab, Ibn Qayyim & Al-Ghazali |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| SINCERITY (Chapter One) from:The Purification of the Soul compiled from the works of Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Ibn Al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Sincerity is the freeing of one's intentions from all impurities in order to come nearer to Allah. It is to ensure that the intentions behi... |
| Published: Thursday 03 March, 2005 |
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On the Paths to Happiness by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (From The In |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| excerpt from: THE INVOCATION OF GOD (Al-Wabil al-Sayyib min al-Kalim al Tayyib) by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge)
[This is a treatise written by our teacher, the learned Imam Shams al-Din Abu ‘Abd Allah, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr ibn Ayyub ibn Sa’id, better known as Ibn al-Qa... |
| Published: Tuesday 01 March, 2005 |
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Contents of Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik Ibn Anas Translated by Aish |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Introduction
1 The Times of Prayer 2 Purity 3 Prayer 4 Forgetfulness in the Prayer
5. Jumu'a 6 Prayer in Ramadan 7 Tahajjud 8 Prayer in Congregation
9 Shortening the Prayer in a Journey 10. The Two 'Ids 11 The Fear Prayer 12 The Eclipse Prayer 13 Asking for Rain 14. The Qibla |
| Published: Thursday 24 February, 2005 |
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Imam Shafi on On Legal Knowledge |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Al-Shafi'i's Risala Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence TRANSLATED BY MAJID KHADDURI
On Legal Knowledge29. Someone asked me: What is [legal] knowledge and how much should men know of it?
30. Shafi’i replied: Legal knowledge is of two kinds: one is for the general public, and no so... |
| Published: Wednesday 09 February, 2005 |
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Major sins Al Kaba'er By Imam Adh-Dhahabi |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Those who avoid the greatest of sins and indecencies, and forgive when they are angry (al-Shra 42:37) Those who avoid the greatest sins and indecencies, except for oversights, (will find that) surely your Lord is ample in forgiveness. (Al-Najm 53:32) |
| Published: Friday 14 January, 2005 |
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THE TRAVELS OF IBN JUBAYR, 1184 |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| We camped at the foot of this fortress [Tibnin]. The fullest tax was not, exacted from us, the payment being a Tyrian dinar and a qirat [ one-twentieth part] of a dinar for each head. No toll was laid upon the merchants, since they were, bound for the place of the accursed King [ Acre ], where the t... |
| Published: Saturday 01 January, 2005 |
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Preparation for Returning to Allah by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Translated by Shaykh Zaid Shakir
Ibn Abbas, radiyallahu anh - may Allah be well pleased with him, said that the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam - peace and blessings upon his noble soul, said one day to Iblees from whom we seek refuge to Allah: "How many of your beloved are from my Ummah?"
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| Published: Thursday 30 December, 2004 |
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LET YOUR ENJOINING OF GOOD BE ITSELF GOOD By Imam Ibn Taymiyyah |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
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ENJOINING RIGHT AND FORBIDDING WRONG BY: IBN TAIMIYA Translated by: Salim Morgan
Friendliness and sympathy are the correct way in enjoining right and forbidding wrong. For this reason, it has been said:
"Let your enjoining of good be good, and let not your forbidding of bad be bad."
BE... |
| Published: Friday 10 December, 2004 |
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Medicine of the Prophet (Ibn Qayyim)- Introduction and General C |
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| Medicine of the Prophet by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Translated by: PENELOPE JOHNSTONE
We begin by declaring that sickness is of two kinds: sickness of the heart, and sickness of the body, both mentioned in the Qur’an. |
| Published: Thursday 14 October, 2004 |
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70 Major Sins - By Imam Adh-Dhahabi |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| 01. Associating anything with Allah, 02. Murder 03. Practising magic, 04. Not Praying, 05. Not paying Zakat, 06. Not fasting on a Day of Ramadan without excuse, 07. Not performing Hajj, while being able to do so, 08. Disrespect to parents, 09. Abandoning relatives, 10. Fornication and Adultery, 11.... |
| Published: Saturday 09 October, 2004 |
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The fruits that were eaten by Sayyidina Rasoolullah sallallahu a |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Shamaa-il - Tirmidhi
With Commentary Kasaail-e-Nabawi Sallalahu A'layhi Wasallam
by: Shaykhul Hadith Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhelwi
Seven ahaadith are mentioned in this chapter. |
| Published: Friday 17 September, 2004 |
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Book of Sales in trading and deferred sales - Imam Ash-Shaybani |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| "The Muwatta of Muhammad" by Imam Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ash-Shaybani, the Hanafi (Hanfi) Imam, a close student of Imam Abu Hanifa and a companion of Imam Abu Yusuf |
| Published: Friday 20 August, 2004 |
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SHAMAA-IL TIRMIDHI Chapter on the kuhl of Sayyidina Rasulullah |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Shamaa-il - Tirmidhi With Commentary Kasaail-e-Nabawi Sallalahu A'layhi Wasallam by: Shaykhul Hadith Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhelwi
(48) Hadith Number 1
Ibn 'Abbaas Radiyallahu 'Anhu says:
"Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam said: 'Use kuhl made of ithmid on the eye; ...... |
| Published: Thursday 29 July, 2004 |
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Two Kinds of Intelligence |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From This Longing
Poetry, Teaching Stories, and Selected Letters of Rumi.
Mathnawi IV:1960-1968 |
| Published: Wednesday 14 July, 2004 |
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The Mysterion Discourses of Jalâluddîn Rumi |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Excerpt from: Signs of the Unseen Discourses of Jalâluddîn Rumi's Fihi ma Fihi .Translated by W.M. Thackston, Jr. |
| Published: Saturday 10 July, 2004 |
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Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, 'Umar ibn 'Abdu'l-'Aziz Sa'id ibn al-Musa |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From : The Men of Medina - Volume II Muhammad ibn Sa'd, Translated by Aisha Bewley, Published by Taha Publishers |
| Published: Tuesday 22 June, 2004 |
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Chapter One Al-Ghazali on the Manners Relating to Eating |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Al-Ghazali on the Manners Relating to Eating
Book XI of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
Translated by: DENYS JOHNSON-DAVIES
What is Necessary for the Person Eating Alone Being three Sections: Before the Food is Served; When One is Eating; When the Meal is Over.On the ma... |
| Published: Saturday 12 June, 2004 |
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Aim of The Book: Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names o |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Now, a brother in God—great and glorious—to answer whom is a religious duty, has asked me to elucidate the meanings of the most beautiful names of God. His questions were incessant, and made me take one step forward and another backward, hesitating between heeding his inquiry and so satisfying the d... |
| Published: Friday 11 June, 2004 |
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Sincerity (ikhlas) and having a conscious intention in all actio |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From: Bustan al-'Arifin The Garden of the Gnostics
Abu Zakariyya Muhy'd-din ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi Translated by Aisha Bewley
Allah says, "They were only ordered to worship Allah, making their din sincerely His as people of pure natural pure belief (hunafa'),1 and to establish the prayer and pay z... |
| Published: Monday 07 June, 2004 |
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Sayings of Al-Hasan Al-Basree |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Excerpted from :The Men of Madina - Volume 1 Muhammad Ibn Sa'd
-translated by Aisha Abdarrahman at-Tarjumana Bewly Translation of vol. V of Ibn Sa’d’s Kitab at-Tabaqat al-Kabir
Abu Hilal said, "When al-Hasan finished his hadith, he would say, 'O Allah, you see our hearts full of idolatry, pride, h... |
| Published: Monday 07 June, 2004 |
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The Story of Jesus (‘Isa) (Peace be upon him) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Excerpt from: Stories of the Prophets by: Imam Ibn Kathir Translated by: Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Gemiah Office of the Grand imam Sheikh Al-Azhar Edited by Aelfwine Acelas Mischler Published In India Section One - The Story of Mary Daughter of ‘Imran
In many verses of the Glorious Qur’an Allah the E... |
| Published: Friday 04 June, 2004 |
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The Story of Abraham, Ishmael , Isaac and Jacob (Peace be upon t |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From: Stories of the Prophets by: Imam Ibn Kathir Translated by: Sheikh Muhammad Mustafa Gemiah
Section One The Story of Abraham (Peace be upon him)
Some of the People of the Book stated that his name was Abraham Ibn Tarikh, Ibn Nahur, Ibn Sarough, Ibn Raghu, Ibn Phaligh, Ibn ‘Aher, Ibn Shalih, ... |
| Published: Saturday 29 May, 2004 |
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THE APPEARANCE OF GOG AND MAGOG |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From "The Signs Before the Day of Judgement" Based on IBN KATHEER's "Al-Bidaayah wa'l-Nihaayah" (The Beginning and the End).
Chapter 21 Page 77 THE APPEARANCE OF GOG AND MAGOG
They (two tribes or peoples) will appear at the time of Jesus son of Mary, after the Dajjaal. Allah will destroy them a... |
| Published: Saturday 29 May, 2004 |
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Ghazali On the General Merit and Profit of Invocation and Suppli |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From:
Al-Ghazali on Invocations and Supplications
Book IX of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din)
On the General Merit and Profit of Invocation, with an Illustration from the Qur’an, the Traditions and the Narratives
From the Qur’an:The general merit of invocation is test... |
| Published: Monday 24 May, 2004 |
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Seeking Refuge with Allah from Shaytan and The Basmallah |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Tasfir Al-Qurtubi
Classical Commentary of the Holy Qur'an (Volume 1)
Translated by Aisha Bewley
Selections from the Introduction
In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, Most Merciful
Seeking Refuge with Allah from Shaytan
Allah orders people to seek refuge at the beginning of every recita... |
| Published: Saturday 22 May, 2004 |
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Seek Help in Patience and Prayer (Explanation of 2:153-154) |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Imam Ibn Kathir
From "Tafsir Ibn Kathir", Part 2
Abridged by Shaikh Muhammad Nasib Ar-Rifa`I
© 1998 al-Firdous Ltd., London
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“O you who believe! Seek help in patience and prayer. Truly! Allah is with the pat... |
| Published: Friday 21 May, 2004 |
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The Duties of Brotherhood in Islam |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The Duties of Brotherhood in Islam
Translated from the Ihya' of Imam al-Ghazali
by Muhtar Hollannd Paper Back 95 pages
Published by The Islamic Foundation UK
From Chapter 2 - Page 30
The second Duty is to render personal aid in the satisfaction of needs, attending to them without wa... |
| Published: Friday 21 May, 2004 |
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The Story of Abraham- Ibn Kathir |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Some of the People of the Book stated that his name was Abraham Ibn Tarikh, Ibn Nahur, Ibn Sarough, Ibn Raghu, Ibn Phaligh, Ibn ‘Aher, Ibn Shalih, Ibn Arfghshand, Ibn Sam, Ibn Noah.
They said that when Tarikh was seventy five years old, he had Abraham, Nahor (Nohour) and Haran. Haran had a son na... |
| Published: Sunday 18 April, 2004 |
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Some History on Ihya ulum id deen -by Imam Al-Ghazali |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| A generation after al-Ghazzali’s death, the Ihya’ was burnt in Andalus upon the recommendation of the qadi Ibn Hamdayn who was named Commander of the Believers in Qurtuba in 539 then fled to Malaga where he died in 548. Shortly thereafter, the Moroccans rehabilitated the book as stated by Shaykh al-... |
| Published: Friday 09 April, 2004 |
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Hadith 36 from Nawawis forty Hadith |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| "Whosoever removes a worldly grief from a believer, Allah will remove from him one of the grief's of the Day of Judgment. Whosoever alleviates [the lot of] a needy person, Allah will alleviate [his lot] in this world and the next. Whosoever shields a Muslim, Allah will shield him in this world and t... |
| Published: Friday 09 April, 2004 |
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Nawawi's Forty Hadith Introduction |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Eternal Guardian of the heavens and the earths, Disposer of all created beings, Dispatcher of Messengers (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon them all) who were sent to those they have been entrusted to guide and to reveal the religious laws to, with ... |
| Published: Friday 09 April, 2004 |
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Fundamentals of Faith- Imam Nawawi |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The first obligation of all who are morally responsible (Ar. mukallaf someone who has reached puberty and is of sound mind) is to know God, meaning to know that He is existent and not nonexistent; beginninglessly eternal, not originating in or subject to time or space; everlastingly abiding, not sub... |
| Published: Friday 09 April, 2004 |
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The Hukm of the Sacrifices and the Persons Addressed - Ibn Rushd |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| The jurists disagree about sacrifices whether they are obligatory or are a sunna. Malik and al-Shafi'i held that it is one of the sunna mu'akkada (emphatic sunna). Malik made an exemption in the case of the pilgrim for relinquishing it at Mina. Al-Shafi'i did not make distinction between pilgrims an... |
| Published: Friday 09 April, 2004 |
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Preface of Bidayat al Mujtahid By Qadi Ibn Rushd (The Distinguis |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| My purpose in this treatise is to lay down in it for myself, by way of remembrance, the issues (Masa'il) of the Ahkam that are agreed upon and those that are disputed, along with their evidences, and to indicate those bases of the disputes that resemble general rules and principles, for the Faqih (j... |
| Published: Friday 09 April, 2004 |
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Contents of Bidayat al-Mujtahid wa Nihayat al-Muqtasid |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| Volume 1
[Kitab Taharah] [Kitab al-Wudhu'] [Kitab al-Ghusl] [Kitab at-Tayammum]
[Kitab Taharah min Najasah] [Kitab as-Solah] [Kitab al-Jana'iz] [Kitab Zakah] [Kitab Zakat al-Fitr]
[Kitab as-Siyam] [Kitab al-I'tikaf]
[Kitab al-Hajj] [Kitab al-Jihad] [Kitab al-Ayman] [Kitab Nadzar] [Kitab... |
| Published: Friday 09 April, 2004 |
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ABOUT AL-JAMIUS-SAHIH known as as Sahih Bukhari |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| There were many books written on hadith but there were mixtures of Sahih and Daeef ahadith. Imam Bukhari felt that there should be a compilation of only Sahih ahadith. Once while sitting in the gathering of Ishaaq ibn Raahwai he (Ishaq) expressed his wish that a book of Sahih ahadith be compiled, wh... |
| Published: Friday 09 April, 2004 |
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Contract of Imamate by Abu'l-Hasan al-Mawardi ( Al-Ahkam as-Sult |
Topic: Classical - Excerpts |
| From: Al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah:The Laws of Islamic Governance. Abu'l-Hasan al-Mawardi --translated by Dr. Asadullah Yate.
No Pressure is to be applied, and no sense of negligence is to be ascribed, to anyone else outside of these two parties regarding choosing the Imam. |
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