Who Is Free from Disbelief (Kufr)?
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The Educational Institution Where the Questioner Is Hunted
The relationship between education and questioning is much like that between a lamp and its light. If a lamp exists but gives no light,…
Guidance for Muslims living as minorities
An academic recently asked me to reflect on the situation of Muslims who live as minorities and are exposed to systemic injustices, marginalization, and,…
Faith, Family & the Future: Navigating Chaos with Purpose
The religion of Islam is not merely a set of rituals but a comprehensive way of life that prepares the believer for the Last…
Women’s Travel: a balanced perspective on freedom and safety
The faculty of discerning between what is righteous and what is reprehensible has been bestowed equally upon both men and women. This moral faculty…
How to benefit from the Qur’an
Today I will be talking about different aspects of how we, as believers, can get from the Qur’an the benefit that, by the grace…
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Some Verses of Akhtal
The poetry of Akhtal stands as a monument to that golden treasury of the Arabic language in which the depths of the human heart,…
Eulogy
Oxford, Britain بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم All praise and glorification are due to that Sacred Being whose eternal light has pierced through the darkness…
Bustān al-Muḥaddithīn
Bustān al-Muḥaddithīn occupies a distinguished and enduring position within the intellectual tradition of ḥadīth sciences in the Indian subcontinent. This celebrated anthology, composed in…
The Book of Sībawayh
Our brilliant teacher, the historian of Islamic sciences, the eminent ʿAllāmah Abū al-ʿIrfān al-Nadwī, may Allah have mercy on him, used to say: “In…
From Quantity to Quality
A memory from childhood, still preserved with freshness and sweetness in the depths of my heart, is that moment when I visited Bhiwandi. At…
Shari’ah and Its Contemporary Challenges: Maqasid al-Shari’ah, Din and Dunya, and the Boundaries of Religious Authority
This essay explores the contemporary challenges facing Islamic law (Shari’ah), particularly focusing on the concepts of Maqasid al-Shari’ah (the objectives of Islamic law), the…
The Literary Language
To consider language merely as a tool for conveying thoughts is a shallow injustice to its true essence. Language is a subtle, veiled reality—custodian…
I Am Migrating to My Lord
Migration is not merely a scene from the past that we re-enact in our consciousness each year, nor is it a religious occasion to…
The Deluge of Wazīfahs
This dīn is the name of īmān and islām. Success in it is promised upon righteous action, and the goal it teaches is to…
Mawlānā Mustaqīm Bistawī (May Allah Have Mercy on Him)
Do not ask about the equipment of the caravan of the self-effaced, Our caravan’s bell tolls without a cry. The News of His Passing…
The Book al-Muqtasid in Commentary of al-Īḍāḥ
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Some of my excellent students—those committed to knowledge, eager to grasp deeper meanings, and drawn to what lies beyond the…
Alas for the Letters!
I am not among those who glorify the past in mourning, nor among those who curse the present out of discontent. Rather, I am…