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Hasbullah Shafi'iy

Merits of Rajab and Fasting in it

[A translation of a chapter on the month of Rajab in Nuzhat al-Majālis wa Muntakhabun Nafā-is by ash-Shaykh ‘Abdur Rahmān ibn ‘Abdissalām as-Saffūriy ash-Shafi’iy Translation by Ahmed Nibras and Hasbullah Shafi’iy] The Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Gaylānī, may Allah be pleased with him, said in al-Ghunyah: On the first

This is Israel's War in Gazza, Not Genocide

The year 2023 ended with bitter and turbulent emotions that erupted in early October when Israel announced her casus belli and commenced a war against an incomparably weak enemy and an innocent and unarmed civilian population. At the very beginning of this war, the world witnessed that Israel was ready

Greater Israel and the Muslim Governments

[This is a continuation of the previous article Israel's Old War] An Amīr al-Mu’minīn, a Sultān, a monarch, a military dictator, the Guardian of the Haramain, and the Rahbar jointly, together with all their armed forces and diplomatic capabilities could not stop tiny Israel from injuring more

HERZL AND THE SULTAN

BY DR. ALI AZZALI (Published In Italian by “EURASIA – RIVISTA DI STUDI GEOPOLITICI) "The difference between me and Shabbatai Sevi as I imagine him, apart from developments in technical resources due to the difference in periods, is that Shabbatai Sevi raised himself up to resemble the great ones of

Gaza - Building A Premise for Unity

By Ahmed Nibras The standard position of Islamic Scholarship about Gog & Magog is that they still remain behind the barrier built by Dhul Qarnain. In recent times, it is the emergence of Islamic Eschatology as a supremely important branch of knowledge which has created a legendary new trend, shifting

Palestine - It is not too late

In his book Engines of the Broken World, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi, rahimahullah, succinctly summarised the Palestinian problem: “Part of the new horror of our time is that today men, that is rulers and soldiers do not even know how to win a war, as if when gained, they were constricted

Israel's Old War

Thomas Carlyle wrote in his first letter to Emerson, “I am busy constantly studying with my whole might for a Book on the French Revolution. It is part of my creed that the only Poetry is History, could we tell it right.” Earlier in a letter (1833) Carlyle wrote the