In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful and may Allah bless His slave and messenger Muhammad and his family and companions and grant perfect peace.
This is from a page produced by the Majlis of South Africa: In a recent 14 page article, the venerable Mufti has unambiguously exposed the riba of the ‘Islamic’ banks. Mufti Taqi Uthmaani of Pakistan had spearheaded the ‘Islamic’ bank movement. He was the prime supporter of ‘Islamic’ banks. Just recently, in a lengthy article …
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When Paris of Troy abducted Helen (or did they elope? depends on who you believe), her husband Menelaus demanded of his brother Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, and all the other Greeks, help in retrieving her. Agamemnon agreed because if he had not done so then no Greek woman would have been secure since the …
It is a commonplace among the Muslims that Allah has declared war on usury, but the reality is much more serious than that: Allah, exalted is He, has declared war on believers who will not give up usury. He says in His Noble Book: 277 You who have iman! have taqwa of Allah and forgo …
Listen to the proceeds of The 11th International Fiqh Conference in Cape Town, and in particular to Dr Habib Dahinden’s utterly lucid exposition of exactly why we are experiencing the crisis that we are. Audio only at present. I believe that the transcripts are going up soon. But it is well worth listening to. http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/content/conference2008.html
Being at present in South Africa, I have had the chance to visit one of the townships springing up around Cape Town and to pass the enormous areas of ‘informal settlements’ (doublespeak for shanty towns). My companion on the journey told me that surprisingly the people who live in these corrugated iron dwellings in what …
Those who insist that there can be no amirate but there has to be caliphate, and that thus the zakat cannot be collected until there is a caliph are like someone who being told to build a palace to live in refuses to build himself a hut to shelter in while he builds the palace …
(Irene O’Donoghue’s Essay on the Period) The Crash has almost inevitably become over the years the stuff of legend. Such a massive dislocation of ordinary existence must, perhaps unavoidably, grow in dimensions with the passage of time. Primitive peoples had the natural phenomena of lightning, wind and rain, of earthquake and pestilence which they clothed …
Last week the Church of England rolled out its big guns, in the form of the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, and trained both barrels on the perceived culprits behind the current world financial crisis in a ‘good cop-bad cop’ duo where the ‘bad’ cop (Canterbury) is so good that the ‘good’ cop (York) is …
Usury. The monetarist society is one based on usury. It is a society of usurers. That means, alas, all of us within the financial system now globally established. Recently, we were shown on TV a remote Amazon tribe previously unknown to the Brazilian government. When they saw the small ‘plane fly over them, they rushed …
Why is Georgia so important? Let us follow the trail to its conclusion. When the self-styled ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of the USA denounced the Russian Rescue operation in Georgia he stammered out that breaching Georgia’s territorial integrity was against ‘International Law’, and rabbited on about the rights of the sovereign State. Of course, this, coming from the …
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