Islamic Revival

The following is the translation of a chapter from the Arabic book 'Al-Fikr al-Islami' (The Islamic Thought) by Sheikh Mohammad Mohammad Ismael Abduh, an Assistant Professor at the Egyptian University (now known as Cairo University) in the past. The instinct is different from the organic need, though each of them is  natural life energy. The organic need requires inevitable satisfaction, and man dies if it is not satisfied. This is different to the instinct, which only requires satisfaction; and if it was not satisfied; man becomes worried, but he does not die, he rather remains alive. So, if man did not eat or answer his natural call he dies, but if he did not satisfy his instinct he does not die. If he did not have a sexual communication with a woman or did not pray he does not die, because the instinct does not need inevitable satisfaction. Moreover, the organic need is agitated for satisfaction from inside by itself, and it is stirred for satisfaction from outside. This

A Circle delivered by The Late Sheikh Imam Ali Syed Abul Hassan (May Allah rest his soul), former Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Sudan and Imam of Masjid as Sahabah in Khartoum, Sudan.

من المؤمنين رجالٌ صدقوا ما عاهدوا الله عليه، فمنهم من قضى نحبه، ومنهم من ينتظر، وما بدّلوا تبديلاً "And from among the believing men there are those who have been true to their covenant of them some have fulfilled their obligations; and some of them are still waiting, but they have never changed in the least." (Al-Ahzaab, 23) Hizb-ut-Tahrir Jordan makes an obituary for one of its active and persevering Shabab Al-Ustaadh 'Muhammad Khair' Ahmad Mahmood Al-Asmar (Abu Hishaam) who passed away at the time of Zuhr today after 75 years of life which he spent in the obedience of Allah, carrying the Islaamic Da'wah, working to resume the Islaamic way of life via the establishment of the Islaamic Khilaafah and preferring the next life to the temporary life of this world. We ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to place our lost one among those whom He has said about: وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَشْرِي نَفْسَهُ ابْتِغَاءَ مَرْضَاتِ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ رَءُوفٌ بِالْعِبَادِيقاً "And of mankin