Chair, Fiqh Council of North America
Dean, The Islamic Seminary of America
BA, MA Islamic Univ. of Madinah | PhD Yale University
(Account Managed by Admin)
Announcement
Alḥmadulillah, for almost fifteen years, I have been directly managing my social media accounts, and its been a very useful learning experience. While of course there is much benefit online, it is time for me to move on.
As I come close to beginning my fifth…
1/ I can't help but feel a sense of sadness for Pakistan today.
Imran Khan seemed to be a genuine, sincere, religious president who wanted the best for his people. There's simply no other candidate like him.
But still, one person can't change an entire system, & no one is perfect
No, this isn't some alien monster out of a horror movie, this is an actual photograph of an ant using a magnifying lens. Nikon awarded it an 'Image of Distinction' this year.
Sleep well, my friends, and appreciate the blessings of size that your Lord has given you over this 😎!
Alḥamdulillah I was asked to lead Isha at Masjid al-Aqṣā.
I acknowledge Allah's blessings on me in granting me this privilege that I do not deserve. Allah forgive me for my faults and grant me sincerity in my deeds and make me thankful to Him. Ameen!
It's very sad to see what the authorities in Pakistan are doing to
@ImranKhanPTI
.
No one is perfect, but I feel his heart is with his people & he wants to see the betterment of his country, in contrast to those who want to get rich via politics.
I pray Allah protects the sincere!
The first ever photograph taken of the Ka'ba, in 1861, using a wet-plate collodion camera, by the Ottoman Egyptian engineer Muhammad Sadiq Bey (d. 1902), who had studied in France and bought a camera from there back to Egypt.
Photography was barely 20 years old at this time.
1/ This is a copy of an Andalucian Quran that was discovered between walls of an old house in Malaga. The local Imam had hidden it there over 500 years ago, along with other books, when he was forced to leave after the Spanish Reconquista.
Subhan Allah, the Ka'ba is empty, the tawaf has stopped as the authorities clean the Ḥaram because of the coronavirus scare.
May Allah protect all of us!
A Shaykh in Lebanon playing soccer with children in the masjid during off-time has become a major controversy w/ large groups of people criticizing him.
I wonder what these critics would have said to the Prophet ﷺ when he allowed the Ḥabasha to perform acrobatics in his majsid?
فيديو لإمام يلعب كرة القدم داخل مسجد يثير الجدل ما بين مؤيد وناقد.. ووزارة الأوقاف المصرية: الفيديو من لبنان..
هل أنت مع أم ضد ما قام به الإمام؟.. شاركنا برأيك
No nation that produces such brave women will ever be vanquished. And no nation whose 'men' are such thugs will flourish.
On the 27th of Ramaḍān, I make du'a that the people of Palestine are granted freedom from the yoke of 75 years of tyranny, oppression & Apartheid brutality.
O Allah! On this blessed day, as You saved Musa from the Pharaoh and saved Nuḥ and his followers in the ark on Mt. Judī, we beseech you to help the oppressed in Palestine and save them from their oppressors!
اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّا نجعلُكَ في نحورِهِمْ، ونعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شرُورِهمْ
Exactly 835 years ago, on the 4th of July in 1187 CE, Ṣālaḥ al-Dīn al-Ayyūbī freed Masjid al-Aqṣa from the hands of the crusaders.
This picture (taken now!) is the original miḥrāb and calligraphy commissioned by him, and commemorates the liberation.
May Allah free it again!
I am greatly saddened to hear of the arrest of
@ImranKhanPTI
, which took place inside the High Court.
May Allah protect the people of Pakistan from any civil unrest!
May Allah grant leadership to those who deserve it and deal with those who inflict injustice on others!
It is nice to see a country take pride in its Islamic heritage. No one is perfect, but we should appreciate the significant stances
#Qatar
has taken to show the world what our faith is, esp when so many have not!
Allah bless them with more, & allow other nations to follow suit!
Beautiful!
Qatar opens the World Cup 2022 with a Quran recitation. A great way to promote the amazing religion of peace to visiting fans.
#Qatar2022
#WorldCup
#Islam
Terrible news coming out of Jerusalem today - Israeli troops are inside the Compound and clashes are taking place.
O Allah! Protect al-Quds & Masjid al-Aqsa and our brothers and sisters from the attacks of the Apartheid Regime!
Inna lillahi wa inna illayhi raji'oon...almost 30 dead and dozens injured in a mass shooting on two mosques in New Zealand by a far-right Australian extremist.
May Allah forgive the dead and have mercy on all of us....
Both times I’ve met him, it’s been unplanned - this time I drove two hours to Leicester to spend some quality time with my brother in faith whom I respect and connect with.
May Allah bless you, your family, and your dawah
@MuftiMenk
😃!
The son of Nūḥ was raised in the best house in the world, yet he ended up rejecting the truth.
And the wife of the Pharaoh lived in the worst house in the world, and she ended up being the best woman in history.
Stop blaming others: Allah has allowed YOU decide your fate.
Sh. Abdullah Kamil, an iconic voice of the Quran of our era, suddenly passed away in New Jersey, after spending Ramaḍān in leading the people and reciting the whole Quran.
Allah tested him with being visually impaired since birth, but gifted him by allowing millions to see and…
During the Spanish Inquisition in the 1600's, over a million Muslims were expelled & forced to flee to Morocco.
Statistically, a few of the players of Morocco's team today must be the descendants of those expelled from Spain.
PS. Not really into sports, but this is history 😉!
{إِنَّا زَيَّنَّا السَّمَاء الدُّنْيَا بِزِينَةٍ الْكَوَاكِبِ}
"Truly, We have adorned the lowest heaven with stars for beauty" [Ṣāfāt: 6].
The images that NASA's space telescope are sending should humble us in awe and amazement at the beauty and majesty of Allah's creation.
URGENT PLEA:
I URGE ALL AMERICANS TO TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON, DC ON JAN 13TH, TO PROTEST THE ONGOING GENOCIDE IN GAZA!
Our taxes and our foreign policy are directly involved. We cannot remain silent!
#NotInOurName
#Gaza_Genocide
To Allah we belong to Him we shall return! Yusuf Deedat, s/o Ahmed Deedat, just succumbed to his gunshot wounds and passed away.
May Allah grant him the status of a martyr, forgive his sins and grant patience to his family!
I urge the SA authorities to find the perpetrator.
SubhanAllah... this picture really saddened me. On the eve of Ramaḍān, not a *single* soul in sight, in a Ḥaram that would otherwise have had close to a million people.
O Allah! To You alone we turn to, to lift this plague from us! O Allah! Allow us to return to Your House!!!
Do you want to know what real jihad is? It's what our Palestinian Br. Jihad Suwaiti did when his mother was in hospital with COVID & not allowed visitors. Before she passed, for weeks he would climb the hospital wall and sit outside her window every day until she fell asleep. 😢
1/ Significance of Arafah (thread)
- It is the Day that Allah chose to reveal one of the most blessed verses in the Quran, "Today, I have completed this religion for you, and perfected My favors upon you, and chosen Islam as you way of life" [Mā'idah; 3].
Tonight is the 25th night of Ramaḍān, and a Friday night.
Ibn Rajab wrote that if an odd night in the last ten of Ramaḍān coincides with a Friday, there is a greater chance of it being Laylat al-Qadr.
So do what you can tonight, and may Allah accept our efforts!
It was nice to meet Dr Zakir Naik after 5 years. He is in good spirits despite being targeted by the Indian government on bogus charges.
May Allah protect and bless him!
1/ Tomorrow is the Day of Arafah. It is the Day that Allah chose to reveal one of the most blessed verses in the Quran, "Today, I have completed this religion for you, and perfected My favors upon you, and chosen Islam as you way of life" [Mā'idah; 3].
2/Politics is a dirty business, with back-hand deals and corrupt forces involved.
Good men generally can't 'hack' the system, and are either burnt out or ousted.
Allah help the people of Pakistan.
Note: this is just my personal opinion, feel free to disagree 😃!
The Prophet ﷺ said "You won't be able to take care of all people financially; instead, let your cheerful face and good manners take care of all of them!" [Musnad Bazzār].
Generosity isn't just through money. You can do more by being nice and inspiring others with kindness.
Recently, a Yemeni-American sister, Fatima Mohammed, was chosen by her classmates of
@CUNYLaw
to represent them in their graduating ceremony. A small part of her speech mentioned the plight of the Palestinian peoples and their ongoing oppression. The reaction was swift, and…
The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law is criticism for removing a pro-Palestine commencement speech by Fatima Mohammed, a Muslim woman from Yemen, from its YouTube page.
Saudi Arabia has officially announced no foreigners coming for Hajj: only locals this year.
SubhanAllah, I’m sad but accepting of this fact 😢.
May Allah lift this plague and allow us next year!
I’m no political analyst, but two countries can only declare a ‘peace treaty’ if they were at war before. If they’ve already been secretly married and ‘in bed together’ for decades, then announcing a treaty is just making their long-term relationship public.
#JustSayin
😎.
To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return.
The Allāmah, Shaykh Dr. Yusuf al-Qardawi, has returned to his Lord.
May Allah forgive his sins, exalt his ranks, accept his good deeds, and preserve his legacy as a means of blessings for him and benefit for all of us!
It is highly likely if things persist that we might not have tarawīh prayers this Ramadan (not to mention iftars). I cannot even imagine Ramadan w/o tarawih😢
We will be tested in ways we didn’t even imagine. And Allah will help us overcome & pass each test, to come out stronger.
It is the Sunnah when salat cannot be prayed in the masjid that the muaddhin say 'Pray in your houses' instead of 'Come to prayer'.
This muadhin, while calling to the Friday Prayers in an empty masjid, broke down in tears...😢
Allah help us.
A photo that will become iconic in the next generation:
A policeman pleads with an elderly man to not come to the masjid because of the coronavirus scare. Confusion on his face, sadness on both.
May we live to appreciate the masjid and pray in its comforting environment... 😢
Today's random picture: schoolchildren in a village in Cameroon returning home from Quran class. They memorize the verses by writing and re-writing on the wooden board. Look at how proud and happy they are!
May Allah bless them and us through the Quran!!
The situation in India is one step away from all out genocide. This video sent chills down my spine: a young college lady (probably 19?) is surrounded by BJP thugs all shouting slogans against her because of her hijab, & she proudly stands up against them proclaiming takbīrs.
My respected Shaykh, Dr. Muḥammad al-Azamī, passed away a few hours ago & was buried just now in Baqī. From being born to a Hindu family to becoming the Dean of the College of Ḥadīth in Madinah, he exemplified a life of dedication and scholarship.
More:
Why is it that the thought of eating pork or bacon disgusts us, yet we regularly relish in ‘eating the flesh of our brother/sister’ by speaking ill about them in their absence?!
Guard your tongue, and ‘...speak of good, or else be silent’.
This young man just won the International Quran competition hosted in Riyadh, in which over 40 thousand reciters applied.
I love his voice and style - he is unique, melodious and absolutely stunning in his recitation.
Look at the reaction of the judges as well 😀!
Ramaḍān Series Announcement: This year, I plan to summarize the message of the entire Quran, in 30 lessons. The goal will be to help the reader then dive in & read a full translation (after reciting it) so that we are familiar with the message of the Quran from beginning to end.
Next time someone compliments you, thank Allah for having concealed your flaws! If people truly knew us, they wouldn’t praise us. It is Allah’s mercy on us that covers our faults; it is His blessings that make us look better than we are.
Ascribe your good to Allah, not yourself.
May this Ramaḍān be the best one of our lives (so far)! What a gift Allah has given us: when we most need something to uplift our spirits, He has opened up the doors to Jannah, and sent angels, and allowed every opportunity to be forgiven.
Let's rejoice & embrace this blessing!
1/Even if in some exceptional cases it is permissible to abort a fetus, for people to be so overjoyed as if their team has won a game, knowing that the vast majority of potential lives to be exterminated will be innocent embryos, is literally sickening.
Go ahead and cancel me...
Muslims are the last bastion of morality in the West.
I say this with a tinge of sadness, as we want people of all faiths and backgrounds to come together on this topic and protect our children. We CANNOT allow the teaching of immorality in schools.
VIDEO THREAD: "Protect our children!" Today a Muslim-led coalition rallied outside the Montgomery County Maryland School Board against the removal of an "opt-out" option from human sexuality related material.
Pro-LGBT activists counter-protested, chanting "secular schools!"
Official Eid Announcement:
FOLLOW YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY!!
Whichever masjid you typically pray in, go with them. If they say Saturday Eid, bismillah; if they say Sunday Eid, bismillah.
Unity over enforcing a fiqh opinion. All are good. 😊
Stay strong!
Ramadan is upon us. Let us minimize social media distractions, open up the book of Allah, increase our charity, and busy ourselves in ṣalat, dhikr and istighfār.
May Allah bless us this Ramadan and make it our best Ramadan ever!
Shurayḥ al-Qāḍī (d. 80 AH) remarked, "Every oppressor shall have to reckon with the rights of those whom he oppressed. The oppressor has nothing to look forward to except Divine punishment. As for the one oppressed, he can look forward to Allah's help, and His reward."
A Practical List of 7 Steps to Help Palestine:
1) Follow the news. Don't scroll past those difficult images and videos. Watching and listening and reading will bring those difficult realities home to us, and keep us even more motivated.
During these stressful times, all believers should memorize and find comfort in this verse:
قل لن يصيبنا إلا ما كتب الله لنا هو مولانا
“Say: Nothing will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us! And He is our protector; let the believers put their trust in Him!”
La ilaha illa Allah. How can one's heart not break? A child crying, pleading to her mother in fear, as her father and family protect w/ household items as weapons on roof waiting to see if mobs will come to kill them or not; the whole family praying in desperation😭
حسبنا الله
If you haven’t been following the latest out of India, this video tells you everything you need to know.
A pogrom against Muslims is underway in Delhi. Here’s a Muslim family hiding on a rooftop as Hindutva mobs terrorize their community.
Our brother Khabib Nurmagomedov (
@TeamKhabib
) has brought a lot of izzah to our community through his manners, humility and public commitment to Islam.
May Allah continue to bless him and use him to spread this dīn!
BREAKING:
China has moved towards carrying out the equivalent of a Final Solution on Uyghur Muslims, with plans to kill one-third, lockup one-third and covert one-third of Uyghur population.
My exclusive for
@BylineTimes
.
Although I am in Makkah preparing for Hajj, my prayers and thoughts are with the Muslims of Kashmir. Ominous news from the Hindutva regime that does not bode well for anyone. Allah help the people of Kashmir during these terrifying times.
#Kashmir
France, the same country that went berserk claiming they have the right to show cartoons mocking the Prophet ﷺ, couldn't tolerate a Russian cartoon that mocked France, and actually called the Russian ambassador to rebuke him & ask to remove the cartoon🤨.
Abu Hurayrah said, "When the Quran is recited in a household the angels surround it & its blessings increase. But in a house where the Quran is not recited, the Shayāṭīn will come & its blessings will diminish."
Recite the Quran in these blessed days, and increase in blessings.
Please everyone: make dua for the Muslims of India. Reports of mobs across so many cities, targeting Muslim people, businesses, & places of worship. The police are either outright abetting, or not stopping. Modi and his BJP party are directly instigating, like Hitler & Nazis did.
What a noble leader
@JacindaArdern
is! A true role model for our times.
I might not have known your name before, & I know my words will not be read by you, but for whatever it's worth, you have forever won our respect, & the respect of millions around the globe.
God bless you!
Ok, forget all the history lessons for now. Let's just celebrate 😉!
Well done
#Morocco
!
Keep it up, and allow us all to share your happiness today 😀!
#FIFAWorldCup
Verse of the Day:
Uthmān b. `Affān (r) said, "I read the Quran cover to cover, and no verse gave me more optimism than this one:
{نَبِّئْ عِبَادِي أَنِّي أَنَا الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ}
'Inform My servants that I am truly the All-Forgiving, Most Merciful' [Ḥijr: 49]."
May you all have a blessed Eid! May Allah accept our good deeds & cause this upcoming year to be a blessed one for all of us, and for the entire Ummah! May Allah always keep us upon faith & make us positive role models for all those around us!
May Allah accept all our good deeds!
A high-quality image of the moon (zoom in!).
"He it is who has placed the moon within the [Heavens] as a ˹reflected˺ light, and the sun as a ˹radiant˺ lamp? [Nūḥ; 16].
My first time ever experiencing rain on the Day of Arafat.
May Allah bless the Ummah with honor and glory, unite all of its divided factions, and ease the persecution and suffering of all!
Ameen.
Islam isn't complicated. The Prophet (SAW) was asked, "What is the most common factor that will cause people to enter Paradise?" He replied, "Being conscious of Allah, and being good to others."
Do your best to be dutiful in your rituals, and do your best to treat others well.
1/ Today the oldest prisoner of Guantanamo, Saifullah Paracha, was finally released after being imprisoned without trial for almost twenty years. He is 75 years old.
Rather than busy ourselves with the latest social media controversy, give a thought to those being persecuted...
The Prophet ﷺ said: Be gentle with others, people will be gentle with you [Aḥmad].
Gentleness includes being compassionate, overlooking mistakes, accepting excuses, and having good manners.
If you find someone always harsh and nasty, know that he is far from the Sunnah.
In al-Quds, they ask about performing ṣalāt without wudhū!
After they were tortured, detained and tied up, and put on their faces, some of those doing i'tikāf asked Shaykh Idrīs about performing prayers without wudhū, as the Fajr adhān was called and they were still tied up on…
Tonight it begins - the most blessed nights of the year. No matter how the first part of Ramadan went, now is the time to give it our utmost. Sacrifice as much as you can for worship in upcoming nights - for it's not a sacrifice, but the greatest investment you can possibly make.
The believer is always optimistic about the future. It's okay to feel relief and joy 😃!
But the believer is wise & learns from history: one person, no matter how powerful, can't change an entire nation or eliminate its evils. In the end, we continue in our faith and good deeds!
Can you imagine how much coverage this would have received had Muslims been chanting anti-Jewish slogans?
Sadly, this is the real face of Zionism.
We need to call it what it is: Zionism is of the worst forms of religio-nationalistic racist Apartheid ideologies still around.
The Aya Sofia has been standing for over 1500 years: the same dome that the Companions saw when they first attempted conquest remains today.
I’m happy to be able to pray in it for the first time in my life. Alhamdulillah!
One of my favorite ḥadīths:
“Whoever is pleased with his good deeds, and saddened by his evil deeds, is indeed a believer” (Tirmidhī).
No one is perfect. Try your best to continually do good, and feel guilty and repent for your shortcomings, until you meet your Lord.
Allah created angels with intelligence but no desire, & animals with desire but little intelligence. And He created man with both.
So when man acts wisely and conquers desire, he becomes superior to an angel. And when he succumbs to unwise desires, he is worse than a beast.
In a Hadith in the Musnad of Imam Ahmad, we read an amazing blessing for those in and around Bayt al-Maqdis:
They shall remain on the truth, and eventually prevail over their enemies.
#Palestine
#MasjidalAqsa
May Allah have mercy on the rightful President of Egypt who passed away. He might have had his flaws as all humans do, but he was a man who loved the religion of Islam and wanted to help the Muslims around the world.
I mean, of course, President Morsi.
Alḥamdulillah...Jum'ah prayers in al-Aqsā!
الله أكبر كبيراً ، والحمد لله كثيراً ، وسبحان الله بكرة وأصيلاً
لا اِلـهَ إِلاَّ اللهُ وَحْدَهُ
اَنْجَزَ وَعْدَهُ
وَنَصَرَ عَبْدَهُ
وَاَعَزَّ جُنْدَهُ
وَهَزَمَ الأحْزابَ وَحْدَهُ!
No power in Dallas and temperatures are freezing. Alhamdulillah for all the blessings we do have...may Allah make it easy for all!!
I did get a legit excuse to read under candlelight though 🕯 .
Genuine respect for scholars of the past who did this nightly!!
Alḥamdulillah I am so happy to announce that my "Lessons from Sūrah Yūsuf" is now available in the markets (right in time for Ramaḍān as well!).
It is a book I put a lot of work (and love) into; I pray that it be of benefit to all of you.
Available on Amazon too.
URGENT:
A humanitarian aid corridor will be allowed for people in Gaza soon, we need ANY and ALL aid you can give:
Please RETWEET this message as well!
Do you make regular du'a for what you want?
Not only does du'a bring Allah's blessings, it also serves to motivate you and remind you of your goals. "The most stingy person is the one who doesn't even make du'a!" [Hadith]
So don't be stingy...be generous with your du'as!
This year's series will be: 'The Parables of the Quran'. Every day, I will explain a Quranic parable (or a beautiful phrase) and explain the symbolism, imagery and benefits that can be extracted from it.
I ask Allah for acceptance and benefit.
The worst of people are those who never rememebr Allah, even at times of distress. And the best of people are those who always remember Allah, even at times of joy.
To remember Allah only at times of distress is a sign of weak faith.
Allah is worshipped in all conditions.
Alḥmadulillah - I am so humbled and grateful to announce that my sīrah book "The Sīrah of the Prophet (SAW): A Contemporary and Original Analysis" will soon be available from
@Kube_Publishing
.
May Allah accept this effort and reward all those who were involved in it!
@realDonaldTrump
Well,
@realDonaldTrump
, if you don't like our democratically elected American congresswomen, maybe you should consider returning to Bavaria where your grandfather Fred. Drumpf (see entry forms below, 20th line) immigrated from. I'm sure they would welcome one of their own back 😃
This is not just sad, it's downright sacrilegious.
Seems to be a direct & intentional attempt at provoking a reaction.
To the authorities in charge: if you don't fear your Creator, for the sake of civil society don't permit such atrocious acts in our holy places of worship.
Concentrate on your character, & don't worry as much about your reputation. Your character is who you really are; reputation is what people perceive of you. Perception changes: it can be true or false, biased or unbiased.
Ultimately, it is good character that will benefit you.