BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Mar 02, 2010 at 3:04 pm
The theme of the recently concluded (December 25-26, 2009) Reviving the Islamic Spirit Conference in Toronto, Canada, was Saving the Ship of Humanity. In the words of the program’s brochure: When a ship is lost at sea, is in imminent danger of sinking, or if it has been hijacked, the…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Feb 03, 2010 at 7:52 am
The autopsy report on Imam Luqman Abdullah, who was gunned down in a Dearborn, Michigan warehouse, Wednesday, October 28, 2009, was finally released Monday, February 1, 2010. The details revealed by the report show why law enforcement authorities would try to suppress it. The Imam’s body was riddled with twenty-one…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Dec 18, 2009 at 12:21 pm
This is our final translation from Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali’s, Lata’if al-Ma’arif, this year. It deals with some of the virtues and duties associated with the winter seas, which is rapidly descending upon us. This excerpt is taken from pages 557-560 Imam Ahmad relates from the narrations of Abu Sa’id al-Khudri,…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Nov 26, 2009 at 2:27 pm
The following excerpt is from Lata’if al-Ma’arif by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali concerning the virtue and some of the actions to be undertaken on the Day of Arafa (pp. 487-495) I wanted to get this out today for the benefit of the believers so I have not taken the time to…
Nov 25, 2009 at 11:32 am
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Nov 24, 2009 at 6:29 am
Is Treachery Against Ones Fellow Citizens Sanctioned by Islam? One of the questions forwarded to me in the aftermath of the article I wrote on the Fort Hood tragedy [2], is the following, “What proof from the Islamic Law can you give that a person who is an American citizen,…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Nov 11, 2009 at 8:47 am
Note: This essay was started before the tragic shootings at Fort Hood, TX. I have much to say on that issue, but I felt I should finish this essay first. The poor people, including poor Muslims, are oftentimes denied a voice. The meaning of their lives and their legacy is…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 27, 2009 at 4:26 pm
We will now continue our translation from Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali’s work, Lata’if al-Ma’arif. In this section, he begins a discussion of the Hajj and some of its virtues, pp. 400-402. It is related in the two sound books (Bukhari and Muslim) on the authority of Abu Hurayra, from the Prophet,…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 21, 2009 at 12:48 am
Today was a beautiful day. After a period of days that brought howling winds and driving rain, the California autumn yielded to a bright, blue cloudless sky. The rain has transformed the vacant space to the side of our front yard into a lush carpet of soothing green grass. The…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 05, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Today (October 5, 2009), I was in Scotland for the Launch of Shaykh Abdul Aziz Ahmed’s Book, Living with Blindness: Lessons from the Life of Imran Sabir, who passed away this past March after struggling his entire life with the devastating effects of LOGIC Syndrome, a rare genetic disease. I…
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