This is the most important book written by man. Until this edition only one copy of the book was in existence. For two hundred years the author’s copy was kept at the place where he taught and during that time, regularly, every Thursday night, a small group of the intellectual elite of the city of …
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The Muslims are imperfect but Islam is perfect: discuss!
People say: Don’t look at the Muslims because they are imperfect but look at Islam because it is a perfect system. If we accept this, we will merely have another ‘ism’, another type of idealism whose inevitable result is nihilism. Rather, Islam is a means giving a person direct unequivocal access to his Lord, speaking …
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2. The Rise of Science
Author: Abdassamad Clarke Publication date: 9/2/2013 Assalamu alaykum. Welcome to the Civilisation and Society Programme of the MFAS. This is the second of 12 sessions which make up the Technique and Science module. The lecture will last approximately 40 minutes during which time you should make a written note of any questions that may occur to you …
1. Introduction to Technique and Science
Author: Abdassamad Clarke Publication date: 2/2/2013 Assalamu alaykum. Welcome to the Civilisation and Society Programme of the MFAS. This is the first of 12 sessions which make up the Technique and Science module. The lecture will last approximately 50 minutes during which time you should make a written note of any questions that may occur …
Discourses of the Secular
Thinking about language and law in the modern age Abdalhakim Andersson – Director of Studies MFAS The purpose of the following lecture – entitled Discourses of the Secular – is not to cover the full spectrum of secular ideas and realities in the modern age. Nor is it to make pronouncements about the virtues or …
The Translation of Identity
New Approaches to European Thinking through Arabic Abdassamad Clarke – Dean MFAS The identity of the Muslim and of the Ummah could not be clearer. Indeed, the issue before us is in some sense behind us: the translation of that identity into a British, European and Western setting. The fact of our meeting and the …
Khutba on Commanding the Right and Forbidding the Wrong – Abdassamad Clarke
Khutbah – Ihsan Mosque, Norwich – 7/5/10 Those commands to do with the tongue are recitation of the Qur’an, dhikr and du‘a, and today we want to talk about the fourth matter: commanding the right and forbidding the wrong. Allah, exalted is He, said, that whose meaning is: Let there be a community among you …
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The Fatimi – Ibn Khaldun
This excerpt is an incomplete translation of the section which Ibn Khaldun devotes to the subject of the Mahdi, and comprises in full his study of the ahadith on him. If we examine first the ‘aqidahs which are acknowledged, such as those of at-Tahawi, an-Nasafi, or Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (in his Risalah and the Kitab al-Jami‘) …
Qur’an and Science: The Expansion of the Universe – Abdassamad Clarke
The following examination of the ayah of Qur’an which is taken to refer to the expansion of the universe is a single example of what is becoming a burgeoning literature claiming that science proves the Qur’an to be true. This literature can be said to date from the book of Maurice Bucaille: The Bible, the …
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Preface to “Illuminating the Darkness” by Habeeb Akande
This is a timely work. With black people in the US beginning finally to emerge from the centuries of degrading slavery and the false start of the Civil Rights movement, and with Africa itself increasingly looking to be the continent of the future for Islam, nothing written in this area is without politics. Thus, it …
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