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.
The Collapse of the Monetarist Society Part Two by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi The eroding of the coastlines is one of the effects of our analysed miasma. It is one of the indications of how the present world sickness is itself a defiance of the Divine Creator, may He be exalted, and the natural laws …
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THE NOBLE QUR’AN A New Rendering of its Meaning in English by Hajj Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley (1999 Madinah Press, pp. 664. Hardback. ISBN 1-874216-36-3) At last, here is a translation into English of the Qur’an which is easy to read and which gives easy access to the meanings of the original Arabic without compromising …
The Collapse of the Monetarist Society Part One by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi What, firstly, is the venous system of the present world society? The life-blood which activates every organ, limb and sinew of human life on our planet is of course, money. Not real-wealth, not commodities, not minerals and certainly not oil and gas. …
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The event of the Georgian Programme, or rather, its result, the situation, has proved to be one of the pivotal tremors which indicate a profound tectonic shift of the continental plates. The landscape is irrevocably altered. As a result of the incursion into Georgia and that tiny country’s political response, everything has changed. The very …
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…she wrote in a letter to the poet Thorkild Bjørnvig: “The smallest fragment of a gold coin, even dust scraped from it, is always gold. But a corner snipped off a hundred kroner note, even half of it – is nothing, of less value than a piece of white paper, which at least you can …
Nothing explains Islamic modernism, the whole rush to Islamic banks, the Islamic state and Islamic democracy, etc., more clearly than this passage by Ibn Khaldun. : 22. The vanquished always want to imitate the victor in his distinctive mark(s), his dress, his occupation, and all his other conditions and customs. The reason for this is …
Few realise that the other key element of Islam, its practice, is as well preserved and impregnable as is the Book of Allah. This has been confused in recent years by an understanding of hadith, the recorded oral transmissions from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that has created a great …
When people talk about the free market and how it operates, they take as a given the ‘law’ of supply and demand. This is one of their axioms, i.e. self-evident truths that need no proof. But the law of supply and demand is far from axiomatic, indeed many societies for great swathes of their history …
It is well said, in every sense, that a man’s religion is the chief fact with regard to him. A man’s, or a nation of men’s. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign and, in words or otherwise, assert; not this wholly, …
A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote. A journalist makes up his lies, And takes you by the throat. So stay at home and do your prayer, And let the neighbours vote. (With apologies to W. B. Yeats)