tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86595602024-03-13T13:16:08.614-07:00Resident StrangerTurbulent world, behave yourself.Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-63530431740126556902016-10-13T15:53:00.003-07:002016-10-13T15:53:52.282-07:00Aqidah TahawiyyahThe beliefs of Islam elegantly summarized in 130 points explained in a dozen parts.
https://soundcloud.com/hmaqbul/sets/aqidah-tahawiyyah-igiGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-2658275076829484012016-08-15T21:07:00.005-07:002016-08-15T21:07:55.266-07:00Hajj WorkshopLearn the etiquette of presenting yourself in the court of the King of Kings and be rewarded richly:
https://soundcloud.com/hmaqbul/sets/hajj-workshop-m-lik-2015Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-2875515282077857632015-02-05T04:51:00.001-08:002015-02-05T04:51:02.763-08:00Sexual Abuse: An Islamic ResponseA video of a talk given recently at the Khalil Center regarding how to deal with sexual abuse in the Muslim community; pretending it doesn't exist will not make it go away...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb4joVkLuRk
For more information or to get help, please reach out to khalilcenter.com.
Such institutions are carrying the weight of the community on their shoulders and deserve our Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-83298686051294408312015-01-07T23:36:00.000-08:002015-01-12T05:08:28.155-08:00A Rejoinder to PR/Media Islam & MuslimsBEFORE READING THIS POST: KNOW THAT I DO NOT SANCTION OR ENDORSE, ENABLE, OR ENCOURAGE ANY VIOLENCE OR EXTRA-JUDICIAL ACT THAT HARMS ANYONE IN ANY JURISDICTION IN THE WORLD. THIS MUCH SHOULD BE CLEAR FROM THE FOLLOWING TRACT, BUT I'M WRITING IT IN HERE VERY CLEARLY BECAUSE READING COMPREHENSION LEVELS AREN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE...
As a rejoinder to our PR-oriented leadership and their Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-31755033994515206372014-11-06T14:57:00.002-08:002014-11-06T14:57:33.617-08:00A Brief Commentary on Crisis of Faith Amongst Muslim YouthGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-6428034656540803142014-10-20T03:07:00.001-07:002014-10-20T03:07:49.391-07:00The Deen Isn't Easy
The Deen isn't easy: A talk delivered in Masjid Hamza, Valley Stream, New York, this Ramadan.Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-56579198710495900762014-05-30T16:11:00.002-07:002014-05-30T16:12:44.848-07:00No Honor in "Honor Killings": Why We Should Care About People Like Farzana IqbalWhy Should We Care About Farzana Iqbal? (English)
Farzana Iqbal Ke Baray Mein Ham Ko Kyun Khayal Karna Hey? (Urdu)
I recently uploaded two version of essentially the same talk: one in English and one in my barely functional Urdu regarding my frustration at so many levels about the phenomenon of "Honor Killings" and its most recent Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-73026023551420814142013-09-04T21:29:00.002-07:002013-09-09T22:33:46.169-07:00A Woman Recites Qur'an to Open a Session at ISNA for the First TimeI was recently sent an inquiry by a pious student of knowledge regarding a buzz on the internet hailing the first time a sister had been given the opportunity to recite the Qur'an at an ISNA Convention, this year. I figure that many others have the same question, so I have reproduced the question and answer below I added a few comments to this post that were not included in my letter to the youngGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-32943430659970649372013-07-20T15:55:00.001-07:002013-07-20T15:55:18.135-07:00Worry About Allah. Don't Worry About the People.A great part of tasawwuf that seems to have been obscured from
the masses in the era of big conferences, YouTube videos, Facebook Friends and Twitter
Followers, is developing the capacity in one's self to be immune from
people's praise and scorn. In an age where being shamed online causes young people to take their own lives, do what is right, and don't worry
about what people think Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-19741759797489907832013-05-22T00:19:00.001-07:002013-05-22T07:38:06.220-07:00Transcontinental Boycotts and Other Perils of Contemporary IslamA response to how to reconcile the seeming angst between some scholars and activists of Islam in .pdf format.
Read Paper HereGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-20689499720844078612013-05-18T02:54:00.001-07:002013-05-18T10:02:06.912-07:00Can Supplications to the Divine Change One's Destiny?Having taught basic `aqidah courses several times over, through phone, internet, and the time honored medium of person to person contact, I can tell you that one of the trickiest subjects to tackle is always that of qadr or divine predestination: are we in control of our own lives, or are we living out a hard deterministic cosmic script in which we are bound without any choice of our own?
The Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-60245605210842233792013-01-22T20:22:00.001-08:002013-01-22T20:22:25.754-08:00This a very surreal and strange article I read recently...
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1245249Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-7208163782946999002012-09-23T19:18:00.000-07:002012-09-23T19:18:45.465-07:00Those Crazy Barbarian Muslims!About the Battle of Manzikert, a decisive battle in which the Muslim Seljuq commander Alp Arsalan decisively checked and thwarted the Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV and his army from having a foothold in eastern Anatolia we see the following tract in the Wikipedia entry (I know it is not a very classy citation, but you'll get the point)...
"When the Emperor Romanos IV was conducted into the Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-77717683174991277142012-08-01T17:44:00.001-07:002012-08-01T17:44:31.171-07:00Thomas Friedman on Mitt Romney's Recent Mideast Tourhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/opinion/friedman-why-not-in-vegas.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general
A very well worded, straight to the point, and genuine look at how republican utilitarian pandering helps no one...Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-14851378847696200272012-07-26T16:15:00.003-07:002012-07-26T16:15:28.935-07:00Buddhist Monks in Burma Call For Muslim Community to Be Shunnedhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burmas-monks-call-for-muslim-community-to-be-shunned-7973317.htmlGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-17795925951628986642012-05-07T15:35:00.003-07:002012-05-07T15:37:51.579-07:00
Ignoring the Messenger, Ignoring the Message... A Plea to the Ummah to Learn Arabic
It is not a sin to not know Arabic. Generations of righteous and pious
slaves of Allah and his Rasul, sallallau`alayhi wa sallam, came and left
from this world, century after century, and they didn't speak a lick of
Arabic. Heck, many of them didn't even know how to read.
However, if they learned anythingGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-59383394250447350682012-01-10T00:10:00.000-08:002012-01-10T13:22:01.169-08:00Halal Matters: Clarity Amidst ControversyHALAL MATTERS CLARITY AMIDST CONTROVERSYAn In-Depth Workshop on the Halal Industry by Hamzah wald MaqbulThis Saturday at ICOR From `Asr till `Isha' 3:15-8:00PM18080 NE 68th St, Suite D 140Redmond, WA 98052. For Further Details Contact: 425.829.2107 or 425.974.9322 or email info@thawr.orgWorkshop DetailsThis Saturday-evening workshop will help the seeker of knowledge goGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-58698997351971654422011-03-31T23:26:00.000-07:002011-03-31T23:32:14.935-07:00A Rare Look Into Israeli IntrospectionI just read this article from Ha'aretz (Hebrew for al-Ardh) in which there is an honest and introspective look at Israel's position in the tumultuous Middle East that is before our eyes. It is fascinating.It seems that the Israeli body politic has finally actually started believing much of its own propaganda, and some very few, if not ethical, then at least intelligent, observers from the inside Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-13153172390904257282011-01-02T18:58:00.001-08:002011-03-16T18:10:56.978-07:00Cricket: An Apocryphal Tale of the Abject Failure of a Game as a SportOnce upon a time, not so long ago, in a madrasah far far away, a Shaykhul-Hadith sat on the pulpit and exhorted his hundreds of students on the subject of sports."Islam encourages Muslims to be of sound mind and strong body," he began. "The break that you get which lasts from after`Asr until Maghrib is specifically intended to be an opportunity for you to go out and exercise, so that the mind canGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-75445894392237514792010-10-26T15:00:00.000-07:002010-10-26T15:04:31.053-07:00Education in Pre-Colonial Indiacourtesy of ilmgate.org
Some Aspects of the Muslim Educational System in Pre-Colonial India By Amer Bashir The aim of this paper is to bring to light some of the hitherto less known aspects of the Muslim Educational System in pre-colonial India. By pre-colonial India, we refer to the time from the advent of Islam in India in the beginning Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-9336898953458445102010-10-22T01:11:00.000-07:002010-10-22T07:14:21.215-07:00A Muslim Viewpoint on Why Juan Williams Should Have Been FiredJuan Williams, a long time NPR and Fox contributor was recently fired by NPR because of a comment he made on the O'Reilly Factor.He told O'Reilly, "When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."The whole ignoramus establishment of Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-15452824917697036372010-10-14T08:17:00.000-07:002010-10-14T08:18:52.557-07:00Days of Veneration and Sacrifice: Thawr Institute's Comprehensive Guide to Dhul HijjahGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-16128576289574962872010-08-20T02:59:00.000-07:002010-08-20T03:13:44.674-07:00Ramadan of the Saintly EldersFor those of us who have never had the rare opportunity to spend Ramadan in the company of the people of Allah, this article is a glimpse into a world that is different than ours...Such people as are described in the below article are real. Their students, students' students, and students' students' students are alive and carrying on the practices, exercises, mujahadat, and traditions of the Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-67190704424699654132010-07-22T13:41:00.000-07:002010-07-22T13:52:10.693-07:00Thawr Institute's Comprehensive Guide to Ramadan Thawr Institute Presents Thawr Institute’s Comprehensive Guide to Ramadan Saturday, July 31st Dhuhr - `Isha’ At Thawr’s New Full-Time Location: 4033 Aurora Ave, Seattle, WA 98103 A Day-Long Session Covering the Legal and SpiritualGharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659560.post-63098195115888615422010-07-12T20:38:00.000-07:002010-07-13T14:28:34.999-07:00The Companions of the Messenger of AllahThere are those whose sole purpose in their claims is to introduce doubt in the beliefs of the Muslims in order to draw them away from their iman toward a twisted heart and twisted mind, full of doubts, suspicions, and negative feelings. It is a quality of the Haqq that it has no likeness and is established on its own qualities and its own consistency. After much study and exposure to different Gharib!http://www.blogger.com/profile/13806745797342515636noreply@blogger.com0