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Be Inspired by this Jerusalem Prophecy

“One of the sacred places on earth is Syria; the most sacred part of Syria is Palestine; the most sacred part of Palestine is Jerusalem; the most sacred part of Jerusalem is the noble sanctuary; the most sacred part of the noble sanctuary is Masjid al-Aqsa.” [1] The advent of Islām and the Messenger of Allāh (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) was one that ushered light into a world filled with darkness, and hope to a people filled with dejection. He (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) was indeed the bearer of glad tidings. The Messenger of Allāh (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) informed us of events which will befall this Ummah (i.e. the Muslim community). Some of these narrations speak of the evil that will occur, that which would distance us from Allāh – the Most High – and make us weak in front of the nations. We are, today, actual witnesses to many of these events. In such periods it is sometimes easy to forget and overlook the good that is also due to transpire of a future, power a

Muslim Apologists and Intellectual Depth

Many young Muslims, with well-placed and sincere intentions to defend Islam against feminism, or the ‘Left’, can actually end up doing more harm than good. This is even more present among many Muslim lecturers and the emerging body of Muslim apologists who have become very much akin — and unfortunately so — to conservative pundits. How? Let us take feminism as an example. We can go about criticizing feminism two ways. The first, overlooks just how saturated, nuanced and multifaceted the debates on feminism actually are and thus — these critiques — end up making tabloid like generalizations, false equivocations, and an array of other fallacies. In turn, young Muslims who have even a cursory experience in, let’s say, academia, are immediately turned off from end up associating our superficial critiques with ‘normative Islam’. We fail to acknowledge that many of these ideas, like feminism, are complicated thought-structures that cannot be reduced or equivocated with punch-line assumpti

Q&A: Division of land between sons to the exclusion daughters before death?

The following is a  translation of a Q&A from the time of Sheikh Abdul Qadeem Zalloom (raheemullah): Question: Is it allowed for my father to divide his land between his sons to the exclusion of his daughters before his death? Answer:  The one who divided his wealth (land) between his sons before his death and he is of sound mind and did not give anything to his daughters he has sinned twice: First: when he divided his wealth before his death to deprive his daughters from inheritance after his death.. The reality one can see from the question indicates this. Second: during his life he gave his wealth to some of his children to the exclusion of others. Both are Haraam. As for the inheritance Allah (swt) has defined and divided it for boys and girls the ayahs pertaining to this are clear. As for giving the wealth to some children and not to others this also contradicts the hadith of the Messenger of Allah which stipulates the following: Nu’man b. al-Basheer nar