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PhD student | Oscillating between Firangi Mahal and Mahall-e Firang | Experienced misanthrope | Collecting ḥasanāt | نيم عالم

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@ZaadFather

Tulaib

5 years

I need an excuse to procrastinate, so I’m starting a series of threads on the letter ض. You may remember @phdnix ‘s fantastic thread from several months back demonstrating how the pronunciation of the classical ض was distinct from the modern pronunciation

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6 years

Arabic is often called Luġat al-Ḍād "the language of the Ḍād". Clearly indicating that this language was considered unique specifically for its pronunciation of this letter. But how was it actually pronounced?

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insane etymology

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5 months

How to tell when Arabs have never read the Qur’an

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Selma Eissa

5 months

When they call Marriage “Nikah” it literally sends me 😭💀💀 A guy once wrote “we did Nikah with our parents present” and I fell off the bed from laughing because Nikah literally means sex in Egyptian Arabic 😂😂😂😂😂

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3 years

You can’t really improve at a language without making yourself look like an idiot on a regular basis. And that’s why Urdu is dying among diaspora kids because desi uncles and aunties roast you so hard when you try to speak

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1 year

I want a neuroscientist to analyze the brain activity of a hafiz while they lead taraweeh

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3 years

I met the Prophet ﷺ in a dream, he sat under his dome. He smiled and he said to me, “Beloved, welcome home.” He beckoned me to sit with him, my knees joined with his knees. He saw my eyes had filled with tears and asked me, “What caused these?”

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3 years

A madrasa with a sorting hat that sorts you into one of the four madhabs

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4 years

The term for seeking your father’s approval is “walidation”

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2 years

Thread of recordings of Qurrā’ reciting with the classical ض 🧵

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3 years

We are not materialists nor empiricists. We believe that the metaphysical weapons and tools that Allah provides us influence the material world better than anything we can do with our bodies. What good are our protests without tahajjud? And what good is our tahajjud without fajr?

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3 years

never forget

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3 years

A tough reality I’ve had to come to terms with is that a person can hurt me, betray me, wrong me, etc. and still be an inherently good person afterwards. I am the protagonist of my own story, and they are the protagonist of theirs. Not everyone who’s wronged me is an antagonist.

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4 years

Arabs: *literally give Turks, Persians, etc. the pronunciation “Ramaẓan”* Arabs centuries later: You’re pronouncing it wrong

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2 years

a nightmare on ELM street

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1 year

Salafism makes you feel great inside. Unfounded confidence, no nuance. You feel like you have everything figured out because it’s so simple, and subsequently you feel intelligent and blessed bc everyone else seems like a stupid deviant. It feels very reassuring. I almost miss it

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@romantic_nomad Salafism is a phase for most people

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*studies Arabic for 10+ years* “my Arabic is okay”

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2 years

My dad is not a hafiz and also a staunch Hanafi, so he holds it to be sunnah mu’akkadah to recite/listen to a full khatm in taraweeh. So if he ever happens to miss a night for some reason, he gets me or my brother to do a private taraweeh for him later to make up what he missed

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3 years

someone to me: are you a hafiz? me: alhamdulillah surah jathiya: lol u sure about that?

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3 years

I have a qira’at joke, but I don’t know which version to tell

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Sohaib Saeed د. صهيب

4 years

I have a Razi joke, but it’s everything but a joke.

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3 years

“If you want to understand the mind of the Prophet ﷺ, then you must understand his du’aas...There is no match to the intellectual genius of the Prophet ﷺ.” Shaykh Amin Kholwadia

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3 years

How are you gonna ban the niqab after this whole pandemic are you dumb

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1 year

Do UK Muslims realize how dumb they sound when they paint “American Muslims” with one brush? California is bigger in size than England in its entirety. The population of just California+Texas is more than the entire UK. Each state has its own culture. Muslims vary by region here

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5 months

@nabulsiyathinks I’m all for linguistic diversity. I’m not a fan of doubling down on straight up false information, which she did several times

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3 years

The criminals, the negligent, the broken-hearted too, Regardless of their years of sins or whether just a few. His Mercy and Forgiveness both extend to all of those, He will forgive! He will forgive despite Abū Dharr’s nose!”

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@uth_wizardofoz The Qur’an’s usage is fairly clear إذا نكحتم المؤمنات ثم طلقتموهن من قبل أن تمسوهن

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3 years

English: “Aisha, give it.” Urdu: eyeshadow

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3 years

The Ijāza of Shaykh Mahmoud Khalil al-Husary in the ten qirā’āt

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4 years

The way my mom pronounces Shea butter implies the existence of a Sunni butter

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2 years

When completing the Qur’an, proper etiquette according to the tradition of the Qurrā’ is not to stop at the end of al-Nās, but to restart with al-Fātiḥa and recite until the word al-mufliḥūn in al-Baqara. This practice is known among the Qurrā’ as al-ḥāll al-murtaḥil.

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4 years

Saw a toddler at the masjid who kept waiting for his dad to bend down into ruku so he could get on his tiptoes and kiss him on the cheek 😭

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3 years

He said to me quite lovingly, “But are you not aware? A sinful servant of Allah must never feel despair. Despite the sin, no matter which, Allah exonerates. With tawbah, ḥasanāt increase, the scale of sins abates.

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2 years

Went to local masjid for taraweeh and Imam sahb asked me on the spot to lead a short 20 rakaʿāt in different qirā’āt. These were my rakaʿāt: 1-2: Bayyina - Warsh 3: Zilzāl - Khalaf (Ḥamza) 4: ʿĀdiyāt - Sūsī 5: Qāriʿa - Sūsī 6: Takāthur - Dūrī (Kisā’ī) 7: ʿAṣr - Warsh

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3 years

Khatm is like Eid for the hafiz.

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4 years

@ahsanirfan1985 These are not signs of a healthy relationship. Please take this down

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4 months

If Imam Abu Hanifa was on Muslim Twitter he’d absolutely be getting takfired every single day

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3 years

@txff_ @in_jail53 @Tyreeck_112 Y’all really missed the point. The reply in Arabic sounds really unnatural. The dude probably typed all of that in English on google translate and then copy/pasted the Arabic for the reply

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1 year

Noor Tagouri interviewed for Playboy back in 2016 when she was still marketing herself to be the first hijabi news anchor. To my recollection, most American Muslims, including myself and my peers, found the decision incredibly distasteful and problematic.

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4 years

It’s rare to see a mushaf with so much going on. Beautiful script. Two sets of marginalia, the inner one for seven variant readings, and the outer one for Farsi tafsīr. And then to top it off, a Farsi word-by-word translation for the interlinear gloss.

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مخطوطات تركية

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4 years

مصحف شريف من مجموعة آيا صوفيا #قرأن #مخطوط #تركيا #مصحف #فن_إسلامي

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3 years

But in my sorrow, in my awe, I could not say a word. And though my lips did fail to speak, the Prophet ﷺ my heart heard. He heard the cries of anguish there, he heard the grief therein. He heard my utter self-contempt for living life in sin.

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4 years

Reciting the verses about Makkah in the reading of the people of Makkah in the noble city of Makkah.

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Mohamed Ibrahim

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4 years

Surat Ali Imran Sheikh Abdul Rashid Ali Sufi Riwayit Al Bazzi 'an Ibn Kathir

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6 months

An issue that early Qur’an readers encountered was لا تأمنا (lā ta’mannā) in Q12:11: They (the brothers of Joseph) said, “O father! What’s with you that you don’t trust us with Joseph…?” The problem is that lā ta’mannā doesn’t mean “you don’t trust us.” It means “don’t trust us”

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5 years

Your mcm can learn Japanese and kanji for anime but can’t learn basic Arabic for Quran

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1 year

The moment Hanafis express some sort of confidence in their madhab and its methodology, all the suppressed anti-Hanafi rhetoric comes out into the open. Why are people so offended that we have conviction in our scholarly tradition?

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3 years

Dars-e Nizami (the original curriculum, not the diluted one that remains today in most madrasas) was designed to be the ideal curriculum for primary and secondary school education. What most call an ʿālim today was supposed to be a high school graduate level in Islamic utopia.

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3 years

He saw my life had gotten tight, he saw I even knew the remedies to all my pain, and what I had to do. He saw that ‘twas my lack of will that held me back thus far, that people had condemned me to the fate of the fujjār.

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3 years

n̵e̵w̵ ̵y̵e̵a̵r̵ ̵n̵e̵w̵ ̵m̵e̵ ̵ new sanah new ana

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3 years

My Nana (maternal grandfather) breathed his last today in Islamabad after a two week battle with Covid, just a year after my Nani passed. Their home has always been my safe haven whenever I visit Pakistan.

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5 months

@SelmaEissa_ Sure, but you clearly don’t know etymology. You just claimed نيك comes from نكح which is blatantly untrue and you clearly just made it up

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3 years

Tell me again how this isn’t a Muslim issue

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5 months

@SelmaEissa_ The word ne*k literally does NOT come from nikaah. It’s two completely different roots نيك vs. نكح. Embarrassing

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3 years

Actually the worst type of pain is when your 4 year old cousin laughs at you because you confused a feminine noun for a masculine one

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2 years

Tarāwīḥ in the riwāya of Shuʿba. I will try to update this thread nightly with a snippet of Shuʿba that differs from Hafs. Night 1: Jibrīl and Mīkāl become Jabra’il and Mīkā’īl in the reading of Shuʿba. Out of all the canonical reciters, Shuʿba is alone in reading Jabra’il.

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4 months

The most bizarre khutba I’ve ever heard to date was about 420. The khatib said that the reason people smoke weed on 4/20 is because people have this fitri inclination to celebrate the mawlid and inadvertently do so by lighting up

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Healing Of The Hearts -شفاء القلوب

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The 20th April 571CE marks the Gregorian birth date of the best of all creation, Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

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5 years

Fiqh of skinny-dipping: A man reportedly came to Abu Hanifa (ra) and asked, “When I go to bathe in the river, should I face the qiblah or away from it?” Imam-e-Aʿzam responded, “You should probably face your clothes so they don’t get stolen.” 🏊

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2 years

Imam al-Ghazali says: Beware of the company of most people, for they do not excuse mistakes, nor forgive errors, nor conceal faults. They judge people on the most minute things, and they become envious over minor and major matters. They demand justice without being just.

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قال الامام الغزالي: "واحذر صحبة أكثر الناس، فإنهم لا يقيلون عثرة، ولا يغفرون زلة، ولا يسترون عورة. ويحاسبون على النقير والقطمير ويحسدون على القليل والكثير. ينتصفون ولا ينصفون ويأخذون على الخطأ والنسيان، ولا يعفون، يعيرون الاخوان بالنميمة والبهتان، فصحبة أكثرهم خسران"

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3 years

Heavy is the heart that holds onto hate

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4 months

and thats 15 straight years of taraweeh alhamdulillah

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3 years

Do you hear it?

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4 years

Reciting Yaseen in taraweeh just isn’t the same when you don’t have the pressure of a hundred uncles behind you waiting for their moment to shine

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5 years

The Prophet ﷺ said: Whenever Allah intends good for a person, He afflicts them. Hang in there. من يرد الله به خيرا يصب منه

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3 years

them: “wait sorry you’re breaking up” me: *does absolutely nothing* “.....okay can you hear me now?” them: “okay yeah that’s much better”

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1 year

I am pleased to announce that I will be translating al-Ṭabari’s lost book on over 20 qirā’āt as soon as someone finds it

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5 months

أخرج ابن أبي شيبة في ( المصنف ) ( 2 / 222) : حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ ، قَالَ : حدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، قَالَ : جَعَلَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابَ لِلنَّاسِ قَارِئِينَ فِي رَمَضَانَ ، فَكَانَ أُبِيِّ يُصَلِّي بِالنَّاسِ ، وَابْنُ أَبِي حَثْمَةَ يُصَلِّي بِالنِّسَاءِ

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آل معلم

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In Qatar they made a mosque specifically for women and have a man leading them. Arab MT have gone crazy about it. If women can have a mosque specifically catered for them, this will open a can of worms. Can I have a mosque specifically for my tribe?

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4 years

Muslims are quick to forget that the certain knowledge of the date of Laylat-ul-Qadr was literally taken away from the Prophet ﷺ due to two Muslims quarreling, and here y’all are beefing with each other on an odd night

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3 years

comments under qawwali vids got me weak

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4 months

@akbereo I don’t think you even understand lol

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2 years

me: investigates asanid and researches the ض issue for over 7 years them: yeah but I’m not convinced because he’s desi

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5 years

How ww3 will go if trump drafts muslim twitter

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3 years

It’s really not a good look for our community when Muslim scholars disparage and condescend to every academic (Muslim or otherwise) that talks about Islam. If they agree it’s always “so what?” and if they disagree it’s pure antagonization. It just screams fragile ego.

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2 years

Yesterday I met a very elderly mufti who is a strong advocate for the fricative ض which resembles ظ in sound. He insisted that the modern plosive ض renders ṣalāh invalid because it is a laḥn jaliyy (a major mistake) due to changing one letter into another.

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4 years

A few verses at Fajr are the source of much ajr.

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2 years

My cousin is at Umrah right now and sent me this message. The brother of Abdul Rahman Sudais (Imam of Masjid al-Haram) recites the ض as a fricative. The first one is on point. The second one not so much. I’ll explain why below. (1/3)

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2 years

Losing total respect for someone who did not practice husn al-ẓann with you is a pretty fair transaction. Defend your honor zealously.

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3 years

Imagine a tajwīd class in which you actually learn phonetics and phonology

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3 years

If people have a problem with the word “Khuda,” wait till they find out where the word “namaaz” comes from

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2 years

I’ll never forget when last year, a local Azhari imam asked me to lead taraweeh with him one night. He heard my ض and never called me back

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@SelmaEissa_ Dictionaries are free btw

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3 years

It’s very easy to forget the journey when you’re at the destination. Sometimes I read a page in Arabic and stop to wonder “how do I even know how to do this?” Today I found some of my old notebooks from almost 10 years ago which made me go “oh yeah that’s how.”

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2 years

Tajwīd thread: A frustratingly fallacious video. I’m in love with the science of tajwīd, which is why seeing obfuscations like this that completely butcher the beautiful, meticulous science makes my blood boil. It deserves a response🧵

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2 years

The phrase ما أدراك only appears in Makki surahs

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4 years

A few thoughts on the subject of “Hafsonormativity” among Muslims: Some very esteemed scholars I know who graduated from Indian madāris decades ago told me that in their time, the reading of the Shāṭibiyyah and Durrah was required for ALL students, not just qirā’āt students.

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5 years

The word همز in Arabic means to put a hamza ء on a word. It can also mean to prod/poke. Imam Kisā’ī ( #7 of 10 canonical reciters) was once asked: Why don’t you [tahmuz] the wolf? (i.e. the word الذئب mentioned in Surah Yusuf). He responded: I’m afraid it’ll eat me. ba dum tss

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3 years

Baghdad Sing Se

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Afroze AL Fuad ✊🏿✊🏻

3 years

A 3D model of what Baghdad looked like in the 8th century.

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3 years

Good people can still make terrible mistakes, and that can lead to a falling-out. It doesn’t have to end with one person being the villain, even if that’s the easiest route to closure. All relationships, including familial, romantic, and platonic, are tests of patience and faith.

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exploring bookstores together is my love language

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How we spend our taraweeh breaks

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*Literally anyone recites* MT: here are 6302 tajwid mistakes you committed, your salah has never been valid, go learn how to count mudud and recite your shahada again

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4 years

Whatchu know about that ض 👀

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Yã$îf یَاسِفْ

4 years

Touches my soul ❤ Erdogan recites holy Quran at #HagiaSophia just before the Friday prayers #AyasofyaCamii

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1 year

People dip their fries in shakes and no one blinks an eye. I dip my donut in nihari and everyone loses their mind

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3 years

You just gotta take the abuse there’s no other way

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1 year

So no, condemning Daniel’s mob behavior is not an approval of Sh Suhaib’s opinion. The difference between us and Daniel is that we know how to disagree with civility and respect. Daniel doesn’t know either of those things.

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2 years

Constantly dumbing down things for the community eventually creates dumb communities

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5 years

Abū Zurʿah al-Rāzī (d. 264 AH) was a great scholar of Hadith of his time. It is narrated that when he was on his deathbed, his contemporaries who were also renowned scholars of Hadith, Abū Ḥātim and Ibn Wārah among them, came to visit him. One of them said...

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5 years

One can only hope for a death as blessed as that of the muhaddith Abū Zurʿah

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2 years

Authors today: All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares. Muslim authors in the past: If one were to swear an oath “By God, I will never draw a rectangle,” and he draws a square, then indeed he has broken his oath and must offer expiation.

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“you can’t do that! there’s ijma” me: actually, these scholars have said it’s okay “no! so-and-so has related ijma!” me: yes but as we can see there isn’t ijma because other scholars differed… “how dare you oppose ijma!!!!! 😡”

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Hurts my soul when MT discusses linguistics

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Then you realize everything is actually exponentially more complex than 14 year old you initially thought, and the existential dread sets up camp forever

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Due to personal and academic responsibilities, I won’t be able to work on my ض treatise for a few months, so I thought I’d post this excerpt from my work in progress for now.

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Understanding the ظ / ض Issue in the Statements of the Fuqahā’

From my forthcoming treatise on the issue of the pronunciation of the letter ض

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