Uncategorized 07 Oct, 2013 3 min read

Weeping over the Syrian Limb when the Arabian Head has been chopped

عن النعمان بن بشير رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: « مثل المؤمنين في توادهم وتراحمهم وتعاطفهم مثل الجسد إذا اشتكى منه عضو تداعى له سائر الجسد بالسهر والحمى » .

Uncategorized 16 Sep, 2013 1 min read

Back soon inshaallah

as salaamu alaykum For whatever reason, I get more responses when I do not write ("why are you not writing?") than contructive comments when I do actually write. I had an operation

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Uncategorized 07 Jul, 2013 5 min read

Status of Maẓāhib

Question sent via text message: Salaam, what is the hadeeth regarding the different imams. I got 1 cake idiot arguing that theys [sic] no sects like hanafi shafi… n nabi saw neva [

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Uncategorized 07 Jul, 2013 4 min read

Tamarrud – Satanic Rebellion

English speakers understand, “fury,” and “rage,” to be synonyms – the same general meaning. Similar are “Nā rāz,” and “Ghuṣṣah,” in the subcontinent. Not so Arabic. Each Arabic wor

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Uncategorized 27 May, 2013 5 min read

Did Hadith inspire Benjamin Franklin?

I once send an American correspondent a Ḥadīth (sayings of Muḥammad Rasūlullāh صلى الله عليه و سلم – 570-632). He countered with a quote from the American statesman, Benjamin Frank

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