If there is a fundamental falsity in the scientific worldview, which few address, that the human is conceived of as an observing mind gazing upon the world and making theories about it, a view that goes some way to explaining the paradoxical dangers for the human being in science and technology, how much danger lurks in …
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Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore – may Allah have mercy on him
The authentic poet – and have no doubt about it, Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore is that fabulous creature – works with the secret of language, which lies at the very core of what it is to be human, to be one of the sons of Adam. In this role, he has restored voices to what our …
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This Age of Freedom – Abdassamad Clarke and Uthman Ibrahim-Morrison
The dictionary definition of an idol: an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship, from Latin idolum ‘image, form’, from Greek eidolon, from eidos ‘form, shape.’ The colossal form of a female deity towers above New York harbour; it is a gigantic idol. There! We have named it without a …
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The Muwatta, a blueprint for an illuminated city
Under the auspices of Living Madinah in Manchester on the 7th March 2015
The Prophetic Economy – Singapore 14/3/15
LSE IFS (Islamic Finance and Ethics Society): Earning a living
Abdassamad Clarke speaking about Imam Ghazali’s work on ‘Right Livelihood and the Common Good’, the 13th book from his collection ‘The Revival of the Islamic Sciences’. The talk is based on Dr. Adi Setia’s (student of Sh. Naquib al-Attas) paper that is a translation of the text and will work to develop understanding of traditional …
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The Sciences of Tafsir
From the Tafsir of Ibn Juzayy Kitab at-tashil li ‘ulum at-tanzil “The Sciences of Tafsir” is translated from Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi’s Kitab at-Tashil li ‘Ulum at-Tanzil”. “The author was born in 693 AH. His name was Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad, called al-Qasim, ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi, i.e. from the Arab tribe of Kalb, …
Gazan Reflections
In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful, and may Allah bless and grant peace to our Messenger Muhammad and his family and companions. In trying to make sense of the appalling and utterly unacceptable Israeli slaughter of the defenceless Palestinians of Gaza, we must nevertheless look for causes and not surrender our …
Ya Ayyuha’sh-Shabaab
There is an apparently coherent narrative that posits a mythic ‘salafi’ Islam at war in defence of the Muslims against ‘Zionist Jews’ and ‘Crusader Christians’ in a triangular religious configuration. Since it is self-evident that there is slaughter of the Muslims in many lands on earth and their denigration in many other lands, what heroic …
Community and Caliphate
The jihad of the age is to invite and welcome people into Islam. This is quite different from the dialectical arguing that people do today and quite wrongly call da’wa. We repudiate utterly the ‘body count’ mentality of those preachers who go from city to city reaping ‘shahadas’ and leave in their wake a trail …