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I got this commentary from the Jami'at al-Ulama newsletter from Transvaal in South Africa, which I had the good fortune to visit recentl...

This recent op-ed piece penned by Nihad Awad gives a dirty glimpse into the nasty side of Islamophobia operating with indigence in the corri...

We picked up the theme of marriage in a previous post. I thought that this important article sent to me, again, by Mawlana Tamim Ahmadi of F...

How much does guidance mean to you? How much should a person revere one who is a means for them finding a treasure no less than Allah, Himse...

Assalamu'alaykum For those of you whose marriages are new or old or old and feel new or vice versa... Wonderful advice from Mawlana Sale...

Look at Nicolas Sarkozy, and his genuine concern for the freedom of Muslim Women. For God's sake, the man divorced his wife of years as ...

Taken from deoband.org Advices by Hakim al-Umma Mawlana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanawi Translated by Shaykh Yusuf Laher [Advice 75] Life after death Ge...

Imām Ibn Aābidīn ash-Shāmī (ra) [Note: This is a biographical note about Ibn `Abidin, the author of the canonical collection of fatwas of th...

[Taken from Mawlana Zakariyya's History of the Shaykhs of Chisht, translated by the Majlis al-Ulama of South Africa, may Allah reward th...

A horrific story in the BBC on how female soldiers in the US Military have been faring in Iraq... We should reflect on how our often times h...

[See News Article Below] Let me get this straight. The Federal Reserve Bank, which is a privately owned, held, and run bank, and to quote De...

The following like was forwarded to me by a young man. It is an analysis of Star Wars, which claims that within the movie, there is no such ...

Hafidh al-Maghrib al-Imam al-Qadhi Abu Umar Yusuf bin `Abd il-Barr relates in his al-Isti'ab fi Ma'rifat al-Ashab: وروى ابن أبي ال...

Ghayrah is an Arabic word that has many simultaneous meanings; at once it is honor, courage, fierceness and loyalty. It is that human qualit...

Assalamu'alaykum A shining star from the constellation of the 'ulama` and `awliya`. Our sanads connect us to such people, despite ou...