online rihla

The 77 Branches of Faith
by Imam Ashraf Ali al-Tahanawi
The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said “There are over 70 branches of faith. The highest is to bear witness that ‘There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’ (la ilaha illallahu muhammadur rasulullah). The lowest is […]

subhanAllah, did I not just post that I feel this calling to seek sacred knowedge?  Seriously, subhanAllah, look what launched today.  Reading through this, I feel more than a calling.  It’s almost as if Allah (swt) is pushing me down the path to seek sacred knowledge.  
I feel this would also be an opportunity for me […]

I have a one and a half hour commute in the morning and evening, giving me three hours of time to fill.  Usually I’ll be listening to NPR podcasts, but alas, I’ve misplaced my ipod cord.  Thus, I can’t update or charge my ipod.  So, I’ve started to read again.  It’s mainly been fluffy novels […]

…if only I had a more of it.  Then I’d sit and watch everything on the newly re-designed Radical Middle Way website.  I’m hoping that they’ll put up videos of all the Habib al Jifri events from earlier this month.  From what I’ve heard, they were awesome and increadibly beneficial to those who went.

To watch when I get home from work:
Clip from SunniPath Answers Live event. This answer addresses the issue of Ashari vs. the Maturidi tenets of belief. Answered by Shaykh Hamza Karamali.
 

Iqra!
The first word revealed to our beloved Prophet  was a command - iqra - to read, to recite.  As I’ve mentioned in the past, the Quran was what drew me to Islam.   I read it voraciously at first, and sought to own as many copies as I could afford.  I’m reluctant to admit, but now more […]

http://www.funci.org/en/
Definately a worthy place to wile away the hours online.  Their online exhibition of Iraq is particularly awesome.

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I never went to a new muslim class.  Come to think of it, I’ve been to very few real life based classes.   One of the reasons is because the teachers rarely state their biases outright.  One has to have a certain level of sophistication in order to detect the leaning of the materials.  At least […]

From Lampost Productions via islamica
by Dr. Abdul Hakim Jackson
They came in fact to Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal who used to say that if your nose bleeds then you have to renew your wudu. Imam Malik said that if your nose bleeds you do not have to renew your wudu. So they went to Imam Ahmad […]

Just when I thought I had exhausted the (decent portions) of the islam section at my local library, I turned the corner, and low and behold, there’s a whole bunch more on the other side of the shelves!  I grabbed as many as I could comfortably carry to the office, and now instead of mindlessly […]