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Remember what really happened on 9/11 2001:
The three! WTC buildings came down in controlled demolition!
Over 2000 architects & engineers confirm it.
It is not difficult to trace the confrontation between traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world to the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance. link
Imam Shafi`i: Knowledge is what benefits, knowledge is not what one has memorized. [+]
- New Texts:
- Extremism In The Modern World, Quotes fr. Sh. S H Nasr
- This is Not the Path to Paradise! Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah
- Open Letter To Al-Baghdádí - (Not Islamic State!)
- Differences between - Hamas - ’ISIS / IS’
- Al-Azhar Sufism in Modern Egypt: The Sufi Thought; pt.1 I. M. Abu-Rabi'
- Re: [Fitnah In The Article On] The Naqshbandi Chain of Narrators; GFHaddad
- Modernized Muslims And Architecture, S H Nasr
- Islamic Economics, Omar KN
- Islamic Tradition Not Equal 'Fundamentalism'
- Characteristics of Extremism, by Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi
- About The Pure Heart - And What It Keeps Alive, OKN
- A Survey Of Decisive Arguments & Proof For Tasawwuf - Sufism in Islam, OKN
- Regarding Erecting Tombs, GFH
- Misquoting Qur'an To Misinterpret Islam, Sh. G F Haddad
- 'True' dreams 1/46 of prophecy, Sh. G F Haddad
- Anger Management in Islam, OKN
- Knowledge Versus Ignorance, Aftab Ahmad Malik
- Ibn Arabi On True Knowledge, OKN
- Six Examples of Early Muslim Treaties w/ Conquered Lands & Cities, D Dakake
- Kalam & Islam, Sh. Nuh Ha Mim Keller
- Islamic perspective on going green, Adi Setia
- Signs And Virtues, And Living By The Book, HGE (Audio)
- The Miracles Of The Saints
- Omar's conduct towards the Dhimmis
- Purifying And Striving Against The Ego, Shaykh `Abd al-Qadir `Isa
- Advice to the Ulama of the Najd, Sayyid Yusuf ibn Al-Sayyid Hashim al-Rifa`i
- [all islamic texts in English]
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About This Site ... (more than 750 pages.) Traditional Islam is fully aware of the nature of the (post-)modern world and capable of explaining that world as well as expounding in a contemporary language the teachings of Islam in both its exoteric and esoteric aspects to both the West and the Islamic world itself. SHN وكان الله إذا بعث النبيّ جعله شهيداً على قومه |
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Featured Article
Shaykh Gibril F Haddad wrote this introduction to the following elaborate fatwa: The Shaykh authored it in a few days, after I asked him to offer some guidance on the issue of targeting civilians and civilian centers by suicide bombing in response to a pseudo-fatwa by a deviant UK-based group which advocates such crimes ... [more]
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Prophet Muhammad 
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The BEST OF CREATION
The Prophet and Prophetic Tradition
From the Life of the Prophet
On Loving the Prophet
On Following And Loving the Prophet
Love Of The Prophet & Following
The Hand of the Prophet
From his Sermon in the First Jum`a
Advice by the Messenger of Allah
Study the Qur'an ...
From his last Sermon ...
Advice in one word by the Prophet
Selected Sayings: on fighting, the Hour, the poor
Hadith: on the cure of hearts, love, strength
Take benefit of five before five, and other advice
Abu Dharr Asked The Messenger of Allah For Advice
Allah's peace and blessings upon Sayyiduna Muhammad.
Contemporary Issues The idea of a nation-state is a modernist idea, not an islamic concept. "The islamic state is essentially a universal state, a state without borders." The muslims do live of course in de-facto nation-states, but they should not accept in principle the division of the world into nations and states. And if "in power their main concern would be more the preservation of the integrity of the borders than the integrity of Islam." [The Illusions Of Fundamentalism] WARNING! Do not join Daesh (”IS”) HARAM! They accuse every other Muslim (who does not follow their bigoted, anti-traditional interpretations) to be an apostate ( takfír ). It is anti-Islamic now to establish an islamic khalifate & laws in this way. And it is against Islam to misinterpret Quran and hadith! |
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Imam Shafi`i said: 3 things in this world have been made lovely to me: avoiding affectation, treating people kindly, and following the way of tasawwuf.* He also said: I accompanied the Sufis and received from them but three words: their statement that time is a sword: if you do not cut it, it cuts you; their statement that if you do not keep your ego busy with truth it will keep you busy with falsehood; their statement that deprivation is immunity. |
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On Extremism, Terrorism
There is no legal precedent in the history of Sunni Islam for the tactic of attacking civilians and overtly non-military targets. |
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The reasons why we deem suicide or 'martyrdom'-operations and the killing of civilians as unlawful and cursed, constituting without exception a reprehensible innovation (bid`ah) in Islam and a crime in general, will be shown below, with proofs and various texts presented, but also diverging opinions for references. [more]
The war on and occupation of Iraq was wrong, illegal; against Islamic law as well as against international law, as lawless an endevour as were the attacks on Afghanistan with the subsequent occupation and negative for international relations between the US and the Muslim World. [more] |
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Comment by Dr Gibril Fouad Haddad, 2013
”As we have said time and again shaytan and its followers always want Muslims to make less Dhikr of Allah Most High, less Salawat on His Prophet (upon him blessings and peace), less Tarawih in Ramadan, less respect of Awliya, less Tawassul through the Prophet and Salihin, and less pursuit of all the blessings and spiritual knowledge and practice that Allah has made available to this Umma.
Even when the Umma is being physically attacked and slaughtered East and West, these enemies have no shame in continuously trying to divide Muslims, eviscerate the Deen from its spiritual content and weaken Da`wa as much as they can.”
”They wish to extinguish Allah's light by formalizing His religion, encouraging secularism, and dissociating Muslims from their emotional attachment to Allah and His Prophet and Awliya which is the basis of strong faith.
They are trying instead to produce automatons who force themselves and others to follow rules without understanding. This is the exact recipe of extremism that is now devastating the world.
Whenever we see someone trying to push such an agenda we should recognize them for what they are - Wahhabi ”Salafis”, modern offshoots of Kharijism - and send them packing, just as each generation of Sunni teachers did in their time and just as the true scholars of Ahl al-Sunna have always done and will continue to do. Wa-min Allah al-Tawfiq wal-Hidaya.”
La illaha ill-Allah - There is no divinity except Allah (swt) The Meaning of Peace |
Advice by Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq -
For Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq meditation is of the concious part of the soul which is prepared to go through the Way of the Truth. When a man investigates himself and discovers his vices and tries to get rid of them, he must not neglect meditation lest he lose his contact with existing objects and become like an animal deprived of the delight of thinking and discovering what is behind the appearances of Existence. 177
A deeper look inside ourselves and at phenomenal existence will make clear our entire dependance upon God, not only in existence but also in the continuation of this existence. God created us and He preserves our existence, and it is up to His absolute will to do whatever He wishes for us and all creation. 150
Organise your time, in a matter appropriate to the times specific needs using gentleness and toleration and be very wary of either harshness or laxity. This is so because too much laxity concerning permissible matters pulls the heart backwards in its journey; until even a man of resolve ends up like a foolish boy.
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Muhammad - When They Insult Our Prophet (pbuh) by Nouman Ali Khan |
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About Us: This is a Sunni site. We believe tasawwuf is part of the Islamic sciences including fiqh and aqidah. We also accept and believe that those who adhere to the Salafi ideological and theological view are part of Ahlu-Sunna wal Jamá`a. Although they hold different views they are our brothers and sisters in Islam. Regarding the Shia, we accept them as Muslims and no comment after that. When it comes to people of Al-Qaeda, ”IS” and other extremist Muslims, we do not agree with them on their views on Jihad nor do we condone their actions. On this site we have rectified various misconceptions and aberrations which are often propagated by those who should know better. May Allah guide them! And Allah (may His Majesty be Exalted) knows most and best. |
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Islam has authentic traditions with chains of transmissions, thoroughly examined by Muslim scholars preserved and taught to the present day.
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Two centuries ago, if Westerners or others were to study Islam,
they would have encountered but a single Islamic tradition.
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The name Salaf has been usurped by a movement which seeks to impose its narrow interpretation of religion towards a re-fashioning of the teachings of Islam.
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The ISIS or IS project is nothing but a pretext to upset, destroy and control the Middle East. link
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It is established that the Prophet 
used to exhort his Community
to hold on to his Sunna and warn them not to contravene it.
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"They (Khawarij = those outside) transferred the Qur'anic verses meant to refer to unbelievers and made them refer to believers."
Said the Prophet (saws). link
One charactersitic of modern thought is the loss of the sense of the sacred.
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The reduction of intellect to reason has made sacred knowledge inaccessible and to some even meaningless.
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It is not difficult to trace the confrontation betw. traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world to the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance. link
Daesh (not ’IS’): You have misinterpreted Islam into a religion of harshness, brutality, torture and murder. This is a great wrong and an offence to Islam, to Muslims and to the entire world. Cease it! link
For fundamentalism to match its aim, it would need its supporters not being themselves corrupted by the anti-traditional mentality of the modern world. link
WARNING! HARAM to join Daesh (Not: ”IS”)!
They accuse every other Muslim (who does not follow their interpretation) to be an apostate ( takfír ). It is anti-Islamic now to establish islamic laws in that way. And it is against Islam to misinterpret Quran in a literalist way!
[This is Not the Path to Paradise - Response to ”IS”]