Category: العلماء
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم I briefly met one of my former students today, and he began by asking about my car. It’s funny how the student-teacher relationship evolves into mutual friendship outside the class setting, yet amazing in a way too. It’s got quite a lot to do with the way the teacher treats his/her…
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Allāh’s sustaining of His creation is of two types: (Paraphrased from the tafsīr of Shaykh ‘Abdur Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir As-Saʿdī رحمه الله)
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم In many classes I have taken, I found myself probing the students, trying to determine whether they fully understand the importance and meanings of the Kalimahs. Unfortunately, I have come to face the reality that despite the students having been taught the Kalimahs from the very beginning right up until the…
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The Imām of Al-Ḥaram, Shaykh Sālih Āl-At-Tālib حفظه الله made some sterling points in yesterday’s khutbah. He mentioned that one of the biggest doors to fitnah in this era is following upon the remote, aberrant & unconventional stances of the ‘Ulamā & Jurists in matters of Sharī‘ah. He also pointed out that there are now…
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Full Name Mālik ibn Anas Birth 93AH Demise 179AH His Teachers Include The great Muḥaddith, Ibn Shihāb Az-Zuhrī رحمه الله Nāfi‘ the freed slave of ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar رضي الله عنهم Rabī‘ah Ar-Rāy رحمه الله Appearance He was tall, well-built and fair skinned. He was handsome in appearance, impeccably well-dressed – often in white –,…
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Imām Ibn Al-Jawzī رحمه الله writes in his Ṣifat-Aṣ-Ṣafwah: Abū ‘Amr ibn Maṭar رحمه الله narrates: I attended the gathering of Abū ‘Uthmān Al-Ḥiyarī. He arrived and sat on the usual place he would sit on when imparting advice, and remained silent for a lengthy period. A man called out to him, “Are you going…
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Many people – those with an educational background stemming from the subcontinent and others alike – are unaware of what exactly is meant by being affiliated to Deoband, or what being a Deobandi actually means. In light of a concise chapter penned by Qārī Muḥammad Ṭayyib رحمه الله in his book Tārīkh ‘Ulamāe Deoband, I…
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A common question that arises in the minds of many students of Sīrah is that when Jibra’īl first came with revelation to the Prophet ﷺ, and commanded him to read, the Prophet ﷺ replied with: ما أنا بِقارِئ, which literally means, ‘I am not a reader’. It is common knowledge that the Prophet ﷺ could…
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A question that lingers in the minds of many is, ‘Why the repeated phrases of ‘Our ‘Ulamā’, ‘the ‘Ulamā of Deoband’, and ‘our akābir (pious predecessors) of Deoband’’? Why not mention the ‘Ulamā that are serving and have served the Dīn in other parts of the world? In order to understand the reasoning behind the…
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Shaykh Ashraf ʿAlī At-Thānwī رحمه الله writes: ‘Some people are very extreme in their belief that a ta‘wīdh is in itself effective. This contravenes the very essence of tawḥīd.’[1] [1] Husnul Azīz, Aghlātul ʿAwām