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Archive for November, 2007
Map of Jannatul Baqi
Posted by Abd Al Mustafa on Friday 16th November, 2007
Posted in aqida, awliya allah, eid, events, hadith, hajj, islam, madina, ramadhan, religion, scholars, signs of allah, sufi, sufism, Tasawwuf, the prophet, umrah, wahabi | 1 Comment »
The Barelwi/Deobandi affair
Posted by Abd Al Mustafa on Thursday 15th November, 2007
….for a while now i hadn’t heard any discussions about this affair. And just when i thought that the sunnies were finally moving away from this issue by not repeating or commenting on the issue over and over again……..out popped a deo who started his usual rants (imam ahmad raza this, imam that etc etc), and then i received several emails cussing me and defending deo elders blah blah!!, and praising them in a way we never hear these brothers praise even our master sayyidina mustafa (s.a.w). I don’t really fancy typing up on this issue any further, so i have simply pasted a discussion between brother Rafiq Ahmed and a deo sympathizer, which i believe answers more or less the main objections for and against this debate.
As-salaamu `alaykum
Before starting, I would just like to thank our beloved, Shaykh Dr. GF Haddad for producing material on this topic so quickly. May Allah give him, me and all Muslims khayrât from the feet of our master, Tâjedâr-e-Kâ’inât Muhammad (Sallallâhu `alayhi wa âlihî wa sallam) – AMIN! I wrote the material below before Hajj Dr. Haddad’s posted his emails so some of it might be a repete.
Please do not reply to this unless you have got something useful to say.
There are various positions held by the Muslim `Ulamâ’ about certain individuals who held esteemed positions in the Dârul-`Ulûm in the village of Deoband, found a little over a hundred years ago. These differences are similar to those held by the `Ulamâ’ Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in aqida, awliya allah, deoband, deobandi, hadith, islam, masjid, mawlid, mosque, news, polemics, religion, scholars, sufi, sufism, tabligh, tablighi, Tasawwuf, the prophet, wahabi | 8 Comments »
Qadi Yusuf An-Nabahani (ra)
Posted by Abd Al Mustafa on Wednesday 14th November, 2007
“I am the faqîr Yûsuf ibn Ismâ`îl ibn Yûsuf ibn Ismâ`îl ibn Muh.ammad Nâs.ir al-Dîn al-Nabhânî. We go back to the Banû Nabhân, an Arab desert folk who settled of old in the town of Ijzim1 North of the Holy sites in the land of Palestine, presently part of the district (qad.â’) of H.aifa in `Akka, province of Beirut. I was born in Ijzim in 1265/1849 approximately……[read on]
Posted in awliya allah, islam, religion, scholars, sufi, sufism, Tasawwuf | 1 Comment »
Imam Ahmad Raza Khan (RA) of Barailley, UP
Posted by Abd Al Mustafa on Tuesday 13th November, 2007
No tribute to Imam Ahmad Raza Radi Allahu anhu could be complete without understanding the sustained restlessness of the Imam in providing true leadership throughout his life, when he was faced with leading the Muslims in a fragile moment in the history of Islam in the Indo-Pak sub-continent. The continued emergence of false sects like the Qadianis, Wahabis, and other sects which sought to prove that Almighty Allah indulges in falseness – Ma’aazallah, Summa Ma’aazallah – proved a genuine threat when these sects began imitating unsuspecting but uneducated Muslims into their fold. It was against such a background that Imam Ahmed Raza Radi Allahu anhu rose forth to defend the true Islamic principles as a scholarly giant, and in doing so, also succeeded in securing a place in the Urdu language as a literary giant in Na’athia Kalam.
As a devout Sufi, A’la Hadrat Imam Ahmad Raza Radi Allahu anhu was awarded the Ijaazah and Khilafat (Certificate of Spiritual Successorship) in the Qadiriya Silsila (Order), as well as in 13 other branches of Sufism. As an author, Imam Ahmad Raza Khan Radi Allahu anhu has left to his credit more than a 1,000 books on 50 different subjects ranging from Tafseer, Logic, Grammar, Literature, Islamic Jurisprudence, Education, Sociology, Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics, History, Science of History, Engineering, Biographies, Philosophy, Mysticism to Persian, Arabic, Urdu and Hindi Literature. more here and here.
Posted in aqida, awliya allah, bangla, bangladesh, bengali, deoband, deobandi, fiqh, hadith, hajj, islam, madina, masjid, mawlid, religion, scholars, signs of allah, sufi, sufism, sylhet, sylheti, Tasawwuf, the prophet, wahabi | 1 Comment »
Shaykh Abu Zahra (ra)
Posted by Abd Al Mustafa on Saturday 10th November, 2007
Sheikh Muhammad Abu Zahra (1898-1974) was a conservative Egyptian public intellectual, traditional scholar of Islamic law and author.
Abu Zahra was educated at the Ahmadi Madrasa, the Madrasa al-Qada al-Shari and the Dar al-Ulum. He taught at al-Azhar’s faculty of theology and later, as professor of Islamic law at Cairo University. He also served as a member of al-Azhar’s Academy of Islamic Research. His more than forty books include biographies of Abu Hanifah, Imam Malik, Shafi’i, Ibn Hanbal, Zayd ibn Ali, Jafar as-Sadiq, Ibn Hazm, and Ibn Taymiyyah, as well as works on personal status, pious endowments (waqf), property, and crime and punishment in Islamic law. [..source..] one of the shaykhs famous works here.
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