This is a scholar from Gaza.
One of the finest scholars of Arabic Grammar, who decided to not leave his hometown, despite given several offers to leave.
In the below tweet, he writes, “most of the residents of Gaza saw the war a month before in their dreams… (cont.)
معظم أهل غزة رأوا الحرب قبل شهر في منامهم، كل مَن حدثتُه أخبرني بهذا، كثير من تفاصيل هذه الأحداث رأيتُها في منامي، حتى إن أمي حينما أبلغتُها أن بيتها قد قُصف قالت لي: رأيت هذا في منامي قبل شهر، وحمدَتِ الله على ما أصابها
Every person I’ve spoken with has told me this. I’ve seen many details of this conflict in my dream; even my mother, when I informed her that her house has been bombed & reduced to rubble, she said, “I saw this in my dream a month ago” and praised Allah for all that has happened.
I can only think of one person who thought killing innocent children was good policy and somehow going to save his rule: Pharaoh.
We all know how that turned out.
How ironic to see who is playing this role currently and under what guise.
The fact that you require an App to work out the direction of the Qiblah (and prayer time) speaks volumes of the lack of general Muslim literacy imo, and the crisis of the modern world. God gave us the sky, sun, moon, stars and shade — these are things He swears by in the Quran.
Reading updates from some scholars in Gaza. Heartbreaking stories. Sharing two here:
A woman was knocking on every door of the neighbourhood asking if her husband and children were with them. Upon asking, the scholar was told her entire family was wiped out in a blast.
The Prophet’s companions were a diverse bunch. They came from different backgrounds, social strata, had varying fortes & temperaments. The Prophet recognised this. Their skills were put to use for the cause, you didn’t see one group criticising the other or belittling their work.
Subhanallah, the amount of nonsense on my timeline re the Hanafi position re the Companion Abu Hurayrah is astounding.
Folks interested on this topic are requested to pick up Bazdawi’s Usul, and poss. Ala’uddin Bukhari’s gloss on it.
The claim that Islamic law is and has been elitist is a patent lie. I don’t know of another legal system so well studied, taught and accessible to lay peoples. When was the last time a Mufti charged you consultation fees or sent you an invoice?
Remember when pundits ran stories of ISIS and Boko Haram being so anti-civilisation for burning down libraries and museums?
Beacon of civilisation here bombing Gaza back to the Stone Ages. Schools, hospitals, places of worship, bakeries, homes, you name it.
No idea who this person is, however, amidst certain truths in this thread are a number of patently a-contextual and false claims.
It’d help if we started by differentiating between Deoband the Seminary vs. Deoband the movement.
Visited Taste of Lahore in
#Harrow
(West London) today, asked the waiter if there was some place to pray. He took me to their prayer space round the back, found these books on the shelf of a restaurant prayer-space, ppl! Workers haven’t given up on their pursuit of knowledge, mA.
Man is illiterate and ignorant. He is no longer fascinated with Nature and God’s creation; his marvel is at the creation of fellow humans like the latest gadgets. He takes Nature for granted and is happy to plunder and destroy her resources to his end.
Pharaoh also accused Moses of being a terrorist, threat to civilisation, to their values & way of life.
The charge of terrorism is particularly relevant because it’s worth looking at Pharaoh’s armies & might, & compare with what Moses actually had, & yet Moses was the terrorist
Muslim X is so toxic. To mawlid or not to mawlid maybe debated, however, there’s zero excuse for disrespect, insults and incendiary remarks. This is not up for debate.
Did not the Prophet (SAW) state a Muslim does not harm other Muslims via his hands and tongue?
Mol Rabi’ Nadwi, Rector of the prestigious seat of learning in India, the Nadwat al-Ulama in Lucknow passed away about 30mins ago. ILWIR.
He was nephew of Sh Abu al-Hasan al-Nadwi & succeeded him as Rector of the Nadwa, as well as a dozen other positions.
It takes a particular type of hysteria & insecurity with one’s gender to get triggered by a Mufti knitting & make claims like a) knitting is effeminate, b) such acts reduce libido & ability to please a woman, c) it runs against propriety, enough to make you an unreliable scholar!
@khanaskhumus
Although I appreciate the attempt, his Fusha still needs polishing up. It should be بنطالا أسودَ and not أسودًا. There’s a bunch of these.
SMH. This tweet itself is a lie.
They didn’t accuse Abu Hurayrah of lying in the English sense. Cf my previous set of tweets.
If we take meaning of lying, then there are Companions who have accused other Companions of “lying”. This is far graver problem for Sunnis than Hanafis
It is past time for strictly traditionalist Muslims to realize that skepticism about
#hadith
is not an Orientalist plot or a modernist invention, but is quite old and authentic.
The fact that early Hanafis called Abu Hurayrah, the very top hadith narrator, a "liar" tells a lot:
It’s important to read the Quran, especially in times like these, as it offers so much clarity; it captures the spirit and essence of various characters, behaviours, individuals and groups bent on wrecking humanity.
It’s funny when terrorists misquote verses from the Quran, the media is happy to run with it.
Here, as before, scripture has been quoted and it’s gone unnoticed.
Kudos for pointing this out. Now compare with Quran and Hadith.
Netanyahu declaring invasion: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible"
1 Samuel 15:3
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass"
Mental health is real, and whilst I totally believe in the healing effects and power of religion, it should not preclude seeking professional help. Heck, this is what the scripture demands.
Islam & God’s law are universal, they transcend Time and Space, account for all possible scenarios, inc. what to do when direction is unknown and observation of natural phenomena is not possible. The objections and flak I’m receiving only prove my initial post re literacy.
Browsing through transcripts of a number of Friday sermons from Saudi Arabia on
#TablighiJamaat
and I’m shocked at the factually incorrect claims. I expected better. This isn’t 1920s, there’s no excuse for misinformation.
If this is true, it is next level trolling by Egypt.
Aid that has crossed into Gaza consists only of outdated biscuits and funeral shrouds.
Some are suggesting members of Egyptian army have taken the rest to be sold in black markets, as is often the case in such events.
#Rajab
is like wind,
#Shaban
is like cloud and
#Ramadhan
is like rain.
How can anyone who does not sow seeds in Rajab, nor water crops in Shaban, expect produce and harvest from Ramadhan?
Till the land, folks.
May we have a profitable Ramadhan.
An example of the extent to which communalism & ideology is being pursued in India. Here’s an oxygen tanker donated by Saudi Arabia, plastered over with Reliance India because, you know, God forbid patients find out they’re breathing Halal Muslim-donated oxygen.
#india
#covid
Excellent interview on
@TOLOnews
with Taliban Spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid. Spoke well and his responses were on point. IA, it gives critics moment to pause and reflect, reconsider their perception and position towards them. It changed mine. 1/2
More evidence straight from the horse’s mouth telling you this is a religious war, and how scripture is being used to justify it.
Not that our media wants to pick up on this. Remember religious extremism is only a Muslim problem. Other forms of extremism are okay.
Israel's Minister of Communications calls on the IDF to cut off the foreskins of Hamas fighters as revenge, as David did with the Philistines in the Tanakh.
I am not joking.
This is a real post by a verified account of an Israeli cabinet minister.
I shared the above stories to bring these people to life, they were and are ordinary human beings, and in the hope you’ll remember them and the rest of our family in your prayers, show support and assist in whatever way possible.
And in your first book of Fiqh like Panipatti’s Ma-La-Buddha-Minhu (see pics) you were taught how to make a sun-dial and make sense of it and other matters related to prayer times. I won’t even bother talking about the Astrolabe!
Every year we end up squabbling over the moon and some folks can’t differentiate the ‘birth of the crescent’ and its visibility. Not forgetting the Prophet said, “fast Ramadan upon *seeing* the crescent and break (the month) upon seeing it.” — and not when the crescent is born.
You don’t think the juristic method can answer scenarios like what to do when underground or in space or far away on another planet? Alhamdulillah for our jurists who answered such questions and the juristic method which they developed and bequeathed to us.
He was on the floor, screaming whilst the doctor was stitching the wounds to his head without any anaesthetic. He was screaming in so much pain, and yet he doesn’t even know Taym is no more.”
“I sat with Imad on the corner of the street. He told me once the war ends he is going to make a passport for his only son Taym, so he can travel and forget about the war. Imad’s house was bombed. I went to the hospital and recognised him by his voice.
To reiterate: Apps, clocks & calendars are fine, but they’ve taken away our connection with Nature; the very code in which the Quran spoke and our elder experienced.
One of the first books you studied in the traditional Dars e Nizami was Sharh Chigmani (شرح چغمني) in the science of علم الهيئة, which looks at working out time, space and distance. One of my elders would often lament how moderns don’t even know the name, let alone the science.
Look at the reductionism here. It may have started with the poor, enslaved and ignorant, with an “illiterate” Prophet as leader, but they certainly were not illiterate nor ignorant by the end of it! And prayer times really requires that much intelligence, huh?
Islam started with the poor and enslaved, delivered by an illiterate Prophet. Islam was meant to be easy and accessible and not just for people that were “literate.” I’d add maybe at the time/place everyone knew how, but this is some weird academic fiqhi superiority take.
This whole Muslim no-go zones narrative needs to stop. Seriously. When was the last time you read about White no-go zones, areas where brown/Muslim people are unwelcome and not sold houses? Clearly something the Daily Fail will not talk about.
Just finished reading this. Too much to write about and discuss. In fact it’s so good I’m going to start reading it again and collate all of the notes I’ve scribbled on the margins. Strongly recommended, esp. to British Asians like myself, to get a sense of what’s at stake, esp.
From last night’s book launch at Royal Holloway university, mA.
A wonderful and blessed evening in the company of scholars and wrestlers, inc. some exemplary individuals who have somehow managed to combine both.
Despite the conflation of Wahhabis with the Tariqah Muhammadiyyah (proto-Deobandis) who have been wrongly termed Indian Wahhabis first by polemicists, then by Colonialists, IMO there is one fundamental difference which hasn’t been emphasised enough: the issue of Takfir.
So I ordered two books from
@KubePublishing
yesterday afternoon and received my order first thing this morning. Dead impressed because this is a faster service than the juggernaut which is Amazon, and a lot cheaper too. 5* service, highly recommended.
There’s a video doing the rounds on social media of what is being described as a Muslim grave/shrine being destroyed by a mob in Northern India and Muslim-Arab Twitter approves of this because graves should be levelled. Completely missing the point. 🤦🏽🤦🏽😡😡
In light of the current controversy provoked on Twitter surrounding the Andalusian Sufi Ibn al-Arabi, I think it’s worth sharing this from him,
“Every reality or mystical truth (Haqiqah) which contradicts the Shari’ah is vain disbelief.”
كل حقيقة على خلاف الشريعة زندقة باطلة
The pro-Israeli Zionist voices coming out of Saudi Arabia remind me of this verse:
“The bedouin Arabs surpass all in unbelief & hypocrisy and are most likely to be unaware of the limits prescribed by Allah in what He has revealed to His Messenger. And Allāh is Knowing and Wise.”
Hot take of the day: theology and Quranic exegesis (kalam arguments & Tafsir commentary) cannot be taken seriously from folks who are not well versed in the Arabic language.
Twitter is not a neutral space, in fact it’s quite the opposite. It’s also a place where lots of misinformation and fallacious arguments are being thrown about, often in provocative ways, with the hopes of trying to attract, win people over, influence and indoctrinate.
@khanaskhumus
But that’s the point. If he’s planning to speak Fusha in a genuine way, then it should be welcomed and he should make an effort, and not just speak it in a fake way to troll folk.
If he approached me, you can bet I’d be responding in kind, and correcting him as well :)
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the hardliners simply shrug their shoulders at the current suffering of Indian Muslims and go as far as justifying it because they “lack proper Tawhid.”
So don’t be surprised if your Nashid artist turns out to be an Atheist; your Hijabi model ends up taking her Hijab off or your Ertugrul actor turns out to be a Republican. It’s this that prompted my tweet in the first place. Peace out.
This is from a shop in
#Batley
“Shareef”, the home of Fox’s Biscuits, and I obviously approve. Hats off to these people and I pray Allah bring them barakah in the wealth and success in their business.👏🏽👌🏽
3. For those of you saying why don’t I get off Twitter and teach, educate fellow Muslims: I’ve been teaching as early as 2006, formally teaching since 2010.
Ever since we have become accustomed to taps when making wudhu we’ve traded in two things (and poss. more): ii) wastage of water and ii) standing up after wudhu and drinking the remaining water in your vessel. This water is considered as holy as ZamZam.
The amount of anti-Talib propaganda being spread by predominantly Afghan diaspora living in the West reminds me of Iraqi diaspora which goaded/cheered Bush to invade Iraq, what Dabashi eloquently wrote about in “Brown Skin, White Masks”.
The Taliban confirms that reports last week that 8 kids died of starvation in Kabul are fake/propaganda. Why is this important? 👇🏽
Twitter was bombarded by Journalists and activists retweeting those reports. Except not one of them checked to see if it was true.
It is worth asking why and how so many Arabs abandoned the Palestinian cause and embraced Zionism, like turkeys for Xmas.
Apart from the naturalisation & brazen self-interested realpolitik, I’d say education is a major factor worth highlighting.
Some clarifications since this has started to blow up!
1. I was born and have lived pretty much all of my life in a non-Muslim country (UK).
2. My observation was two fold, one had to do with religious literacy, the second re the modern world, esp consumer culture.
Ok, since Google has done a doodle for his birthday today and some ppl are wondering who he is, gather around children, it is storytime. A story that starts with a secret. Superheroes do exist in real life. Well one did.
Meet Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt AKA The Great Gama.
It’s because these modern militant Islamist groups, despite the language and facade, have more in common with modern Western political ideologies than pre-modern Islamic ones.
The Taliban's ministry of vice and virtue sounds like something out of Plato's Republic and yet is effectively anti-Platonic, trying to enforce the good through bureaucratic force rather than pedagogy or actually nourishing the soul
The best way to tackle any of this is to firstly get an understanding of what is an innovation (bid’ah) in Islam, and then understand what type of innovation is a sin and what type isn’t.
Innovations that you must stop doing:
• Kissing thumbs when hearing prophet pbuh name
• The Quran over a girl's head on her wedding
• Wiping neck during wudhu
• Celebrating 40 day anniversary for dead
• Celebrating Prophet's birthday (milaad)
• Reciting fatiha for dead
Something I learnt today: the Arabic for Fez is tarboosh (طربوش). It comes from Persian ‘sar-posh’ (سرپوش), which literally means “head cover.” While it is fairly common for the پ to be converted as ب I have no idea how the س became ط!
مفید الطالبین اور ہدایت النحو جیسی کتابیں کا رٹ لگا کر دیکھئے ان دو طلبہ کی کرشمہ سازیاں 🤣
طلبہ آخر طلبہ ہوتے ہیں، چاہے دنیا کے کسی بھی خطے میں ہوں۔
Absolute legends!
Absolutely bonkers.
The Policing Minister
@kitmalthouse
says a 10-year sentence for damaging a statue reflects their 'emotional value' but he's fine with 5-year sentences for rape.
This government is failing women.
Your Tasbihs are made in China, as are your prayer mats and thawbs. Your Ghutra is made in the North of England. The bottled water you’re drinking is probably stolen; those delectable dates your mosque is feeding you or your grocer is selling are from “the only democracy in ME.”
When Afghans complained about this, few people actually listened. Not sure why the BBC is reporting this now, but folks back in Afghanistan have been saying soldiers were killing civilians at night “for fun and sport.”
As Allamah Khalid Mahmoud once said, “whatever ill you say about the Companions is precisely what you’ll hear said back to you from the Heavens.”
You accuse Abu Hurayrah of being a liar, you’re a liar.
قال تعالى: ألا إنهم هم السفهاء ولكن لا يعلمون. صدق الله العظيم
Sth. worth reiterating: the issue of someone’s Islam, lack or absence thereof should & must remain the preserve of theologians, not social media influencers, cultural commentators, political activists etc. — in all other scenarios it is just that: social commentary, politics etc.
Extremely grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to having fun & productive times ahead iA. I can only pray this move is profitable to everyone involved, esp students. Prayers for success. Elated, and perhaps an occasion to raise a glass of your best Kūfan Nabīdh 🍺 🍻
Plenty of hot takes like these on my feed today, reminded me of this verse:
“If you were to obey most of those on earth, they would lead you away from Allah’s Way. They follow nothing but assumptions and do nothing but blabber.” (6:116)
I need to mention the silence of Muslims and muslim world toward what’s happening in afg, if T-ban settles in this region and advertise their type of Islam, islamophobia will peak just like post 9/11, this will affect your daily lives in future in every corner of the world.
Imam Suyuti said anyone who ascends the pulpit is an Imam acc. to the public :)
Alas, the congregation wants entertainment; in “the customer is always right” climate, that’s precisely what’s gonna happen. Consumer demands need to be met.
Recommending Bombay Islam by Nile Green.
Many Muslims in the West have been giving a platform to a group of unlearned and undisciplined—and sometimes even bigoted—people to influence the community at large for years and then consequentially reach celebrity status and power.
Some unlearned guys are always sad and
I read the monologue, and appreciate the concerns. A few thoughts.
Structures which existed for the preservation and dare I say proliferation of Urdu — Mosques, Tabligh-Jama’at, Desi Imams & Homes, have very much withered and disappeared.
New Publication
Introducing a new category of writing on our website entitled Essays.
Language is a Grandmother: The Long and Torturous Death of Urdu in America
By Mullā Saaleh Baseer
Imam Muhammad in his critique, al-Radd Ala Amal Ahl al-Madinah, quotes Abu Hanifah stating, “were it not for the Hadith of Abu Huraryah, we would have sufficed with (what) the Qiyas (dictates)” then goes on to prefer his Hadith over Qiyas.
Without naming any names, folks on social media would do well to remind themselves influencers who have fashioned themselves as self-appointed guides without proper expertise & qualifications should not be conflated with real experts. Not every expert has a social media account!
Unlike what we’re seeing on social media. I can almost see Bilal being criticised for being a Mu’azzin (only), AR Ibn Awf being a businessman, Khalid Ibn Waleed a man of battle, Amr Ibn al-As a statesman, Hassan Ibn Thabit for doing “pointless” poetry etc.