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Modern Western Civilisation and Pax Judaica

Zionism was born out of a Judeo-Christian alliance. The origins of the Judeo-Christian alliance can be traced all the way back to Augustine of Hippo. His contributions to Christian theology and creed made such an impact in the Christian world that it eventually divided the Christians into two main bodies.

The River Euphrates in the Qur’an & The Impending Rise of Pax Judaica

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد الذي هو أبهى من القمر التام وأكرم من السحاب المرسلة والبحر الخضم “Oh Allah, I seek you to please gift blessings on my behalf to our Master Muhammad, who is more splendid than the full moon and vividly overtakes the pouring

Islam, the fiqh of Jihad and the war in Gaza

Eight months have passed since the brutal invasion of Gaza commenced. The death toll has surpassed 36,000 innocent people according to one source and greater numbers according to other sources, the majority of whom were women and children. Israel claims that 14,000 of them were terrorists. Even if

Tafseer

Lest people get about in groups and start picking up the Qur'ān to recite Alif-Laam-Meem, or lest people get about in groups and start picking up the Qur'ān more dangerously so to act upon its verses, they started a fire to get people to do literary

Green

Green stands against la société technicienne that abandoned all colours and chose to rather take up the shine of the steel, its machines and of efficiency. Or we could say Green is against the colourless prism of Newton that Technicists placed in the centre of Science, Technology and most importantly

Kampung

A spring of a lamb eager to grow, two days old Her mother refused to milk her I was told We fed her in baby bottles and called her Kekepo,    in our village called Kekabu. Large frogs keep you awake Lovely kittens tempt you to laugh    Especially during the postures

To Hell With Your Aid

Ahamad Sukarno, the late president of Indonesia, walked out of the United Nations and for the next eight months, the Indonesian seat at the UN General Assembly remained empty. When warned that Indonesia will not anymore receive the important aid it needs, he replied, “To hell with your aid!” That

Merits of Sha’bān and the Prayer of at-Tasābeeh

[Translated from the chapter on Sha'bān in the book Nuzhat al-Majālis wa Muntakhab an-Nafā'is by the Shaykh 'Abdur Rahmān as-Saffūriy. Translation by Ahmed Nibras and Hasbullah Shafi'iy] The Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم is reported to have said that whoever performs twelve

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

The Week

There is a growing trend nowadays amongst Muslims, who in their earnestness to follow the lunar calendar, deny the existence of the seven-day week. Some happen to agree on the seven-day week, but they add that it resets with the new moon. They all argue that the week, as we

The New Moon

According to astronomical definition, the new moon is born when it is right in between the earth and the sun so the three planets form a conjunction, that is, aligned in a syzygy, or in simpler terms, form a straight line. According to astronomical definition, the new moon cannot be

The Great Journey

As-Sab’ut Tiwāl has three doors Locked with Alif Lām Mīm The third screened with a shining sād Where the Taurāh ends There begins the Zabūr With six doors secured With Alif Lām Rā The fourth with a concealed Mīm The inspired Bee takes us through its homes in the

Usury Part 1

There is a reason why usury is forbidden in Islam as it used to be forbidden in other religions. There is record of usury being forbidden in the religious scriptures. The Quran is the clearest and strongest in that regard, but it is man who refuses to obey what is

Hymn on the Qur'ān

The following song on the Qur'ān and its excellence is a du'ā that is found in Shaykh Dr. Thayka Shu'ayb Alim's book al-Munjiyāt. He mentions that it is sung, according to the customs of South India, at Qur'ān gatherings where

The Excellent Qualities of the Sūrahs of the Qur'ān (Part 2)

Translation from al-Itqān of Imam as-Suyūtī - Part 2 following from the previous post. Parantheses my own. The second part that follows is of narrations concerning the (virtues of) specific sūrahs. What has been narrated about the Fātihah Ubayy ibn Ka’b (r.a.) related that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

The Excellent Qualities of the Qur'ān

Translated from Imam Jalāluddīn as-Suyūtī’s book on the Sciences of the Quran called al-Itqān fī Ulūmil Qur’ān. Especially known to have written on the subject (of the excellent qualities of the Qur’ān) are Abu Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, an-Nasā-ī, Abū ‘Ubayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, Ibn ad-Darees (ابن

Poetry

Poetry is a glass shattering drink too hot to be contained. It is a technique, that sets words to glass shattering music. In the words of T.S.E: Between emotion and imagination. I say, glass-shattering emotion That spills out in patterned rhymes Like dreams, omitted at other times Scattered,

The Russian Heart

Whenever I get the opportunity to visit Russia, I would, God willing, do two things–not necessarily in order–before anything else. I would visit Leo Tolstoy’s grave at Yasnaya Polyana and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s grave at the Donskoy Monastery. My journey through Russia can only properly begin after

Social Media

Clothes worn Not to cover But to reveal What is covered Where only windows are open   for the community But the door, only for society When the community enters,   it is ignored at best      if not visited with hostility But society, always welcome, Is treated with hospitality The Counsellor presiding

Through Science and Philosophy to Religion

By the end of 2020, in case there was a man on Earth gullible enough not to know anything about a direct existing relationship between science and law, it became clear as crystal that it was the court of law that was in charge of every nation’s affairs and

Zuhr

There is a stillness that hovers over zuhr No wonder the salāt is read silently It is like keeping the vigil Under bright daylight There must be a part of Jannah That must be perpetually encompassed With the light and stillness of zuhr He who finds himself busy in the

Introduction to Time

In a well-known hadith qudsi, narrated by Abu Hurayra, radiyallahu anhu, recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that Allāh Most High, declared:  يُؤْذِينِي ابْنُ آدَمَ يَسُبُّ الدَّهْرَ وَأَنَا الدّ