Shaykh Muhammad Hasan Hitu (Allah preserve him) is a contemporary scholar of legal methodology with a number of published works on the subject. I’m currently working on translating one of his short works. Here’s an excerpt from the beginning of the book that explains how the discipline of usul al-fiqh developed. Enjoy!
The discipline of legal […]

Change the Way You Change the World: A Model for Wide-Scale Social Change (a pdf from ChangeThis.com).

Using Habitat for Humanity as a dynamic example, authors of Forces for Good, Crutchfield and Grant, present this manifesto on what high-impact nonprofits do to achieve wide-scale social change. These methods are insightful for all organizations, including for-profits and […]

Salam,
In our discussion of death during Sheikh Abdul Kareem’s classes, we came across the following:
“…And it has been said that whenever someone escorts the funeral of his brother Muslim, God orders the angels to escort his own funeral and pray over him when he dies.”
~Imam Haddad’s “The Lives of Man”

Salam,
Quote taught in “The Lives of Man” SunniPath course:
“(One) must not forget his dead ones when he prays, asks forgiveness, or gives alms, lest he in turn be forgotten after his death, for the one who remembers is remembered. and the one who forgets is forgotten. Benevolence goes ahead of you, and God allows not […]

Imam Zaid Shakir in the Eid Event “Islam and the Global Future: Community and Chaos”, discusses how Islam is the solution to the chaos and an answer to a bright Global Future. Below are some highlights from the lecture:
Islam: The basis of a Moral Vision predicted on Peace and Brotherhood: Islam presents a vision […]

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
This morning, in preparation for the Hadith or Fiqh course that begins this weekend, I was flipping through Shaykh Muhammad `Awwamah’s (Allah preserve him) priceless book, Athar al-Hadith al-Sharif Fi Ikhtilaf al-A’imma al-Fuqaha, and came across the following quote,
Ibn Wahb said, “Had Allah not rescued me through […]

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf: Creed Of Imam Al Tahawi
This is an excellent interview with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf his recent book, a translation of the Creed of Imam al-Tahawi:
Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lJlZeb_td…elated&search=
Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6SE4_f7Fy…elated&search=
Part 3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=h8xm9ndF_…elated&search=
Part 4: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bWnV0XVoM…elated&search=
Part 5: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gBQhrxYeN…elated&search=
Part 6: http://youtube.com/watch?v=y3kyRCwYy…elated&search=

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In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
Imam Ghazali’s diagnosis of the problem of heedlessness during prayer has an interesting consequence: anything that distracts us from Allah Most High during our prayer is, in reality, dunya, even if it outwardly appears to be religious. This is a powerful tool that we can use to […]

A very useful resource, if you want to learn about interaction design or if you want to implement best practices in your work:
http://www.id-book.com/
Available at Amazon: Interaction Design - Beyond Human-Computer Interaction.

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
I recently finished reading Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development and Special Features, by Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi, the Late Professor of Islamic Culture at Calcutta University (may Allah have mercy on him). I loved this book so much that my wife got bored of hearing me sing its […]