assalamu ‘alaykum,
Alhamdulillah, I was blessed to attend the mawlid at Zaytuna this past Friday. The evening started with a dinner of delicious Afghan cuisine. After Maghrib, the real fun began. The baraka-filled event started with a brother taking shahadah, followed by beautiful Quran recitation and selections from the Burda and Hamziyya of […]

From the SunniPath Answers (http://qa.sunnipath.com):
Explaining the Four Keys to Success
Shaykh al-Islam Shabbir Usmani said that if 4 matters are present, success is guaranteed:
1) one’s intention must be true;
2) one’s goal must be true;
3) the means one takes must be true; and
4) the way one takes the means must be true.
Explanation of these Four Keys…
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In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
Last week, in my Essentials of Islam class, we covered the inner dimensions of prayer from Muhtar Holland’s excellent book, The Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship. I prepared for my weekly live session with the students by reading what Imam Ghazali had to say about presence of […]

Can Citizens Take Law Into Their Own Hands When the Authorities Don’t Do Their Job?
This question has come up from a host of recent events, including the attention-grabbing attack on a brothel by female madrassa students in Islamabad.
Mufti Rafi Usmani talked about this in his Friday prayer sermon, lamenting that this is a manifestation of […]

The Proper Manners of Keeping Allah’s Company
Imam Ghazali states in his work, The Beginnings of Guidance:
The Proper Manners of Keeping Allah’s Company
Know that the companion who never leaves you whether you are resident or travelling, whether asleep or awake, both in your life and after your death is your Lord, Master, Protector, and Creator.
And whenever […]

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 […]

One of the scholars here at Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi who also fulfills some administrative functions relates that the President of the madrasa–Mufti Rafi Usmani–is so careful with the funds of the institution that he has separate pens at his office: one for administrative work; and another, which he is careful to purchase himself, for […]

This weekend, seeing the video of Shaykh Abdul-Kareem Yahya live from Yemen was truly breathtaking. There has been a lot of work done to improve the network there. Alhamdulillah, this meant that the semester started with not only very clear audio, but also amazing video with an arabesque background from Dar al Mustafa, which is […]