‘Just as someone once said that a nation can wage perpetual war for perpetual peace, some supposedly progressive people like to ban things just so as to make people free.

The latest example of such idiocy is the French ban on face veils, which takes effect today. Apparently legislating for what people wear, and invoking the coercive power of law to impose such legislation, is just the thing for a modern and secular society.

Of course, to use the criminal law in such a way is illiberal and inappropriate. It may well be that, at the extremes; the law . . . → Read More: Maqasid al-Shari’ah and the Veil ban

The attitude of some people now  is ‘my way or the high way’. I have the most correct or the most authentic view and therefore I am upon the Sunnah! You know what I’m talking about, right? We’ve all been there. The reason why people have this attitude is perhaps due to their incorrect knowledge (or the lack of it) in regards to the Shari’ah or more specifically fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) – fiqh is not a monolithic system which one group or individual has monopoly over, but it is as spacious as the oceans of the earth.

It’s surprising that people who previously criticised ‘certain groups’ and ‘individuals’ for carrying and promoting certain views such as voting or political participation, hijrah (migration), establishing groups or organisations, engaging with non-Muslims and a host of other issues - have now, not only adopted the same opinions they used to criticise. Not only that, in some respects they condemned others for espousing it, but they these same people are now promoting and advocating them Continue reading Maqasid al-Shari’ah and fanaticism

Our stalker Andrew Gilligan is keeping his word to the ‘concerned’ public (although procrastination is creeping in) to ‘expose’ the authors of Btl. He is still trying to misguide the readers with lies and innuendos. I’m telling you people – I’m on cloud nine as they say! I have never received such attention from a ‘respected’ journalist working for a national newspaper before. Well, not like this anyway.

In his blogpost Mr Andrew Gilligan quotes from a short blog I posted on my personal blog from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee’s website (www.mpacuk.org) in which the author poses a question: When is joining a mainstream political party regarded as ‘infiltration’? This is in reference to the allegations of ‘entryism’ made by Jim Fitzpatrick a few weeks back against the Muslims of Tower Hamlets.  He then concludes his blog by stating: ‘’So how should Muslims respond? Simply by getting rid of Fitzpatrick and any other MP that makes such allegations at the forthcoming General Election. Fitzpatrick has a surmountable majority of just over 7,000 votes. If Muslims in the constituency organise against him, they can either sweep him out of power or at least erode his majority into marginal territory. Muslims should demonstrate that they can vote tactically in the Election and show malcontents such as Fitzpatrick the door.’’ Continue reading Another one bites the dust!

Over at the Psychologist today web-site I came across an alarming post. Dr Satoshi Kanazawa an evolutionary psychologist, who is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology at University College London and Birbeck, suggests that most if not all newspapers in Britain make up news stories as they go along irrespective of their authenticity. He cites findings of the Reporters Sans Frontieres’s annual index of press freedom, the United Kingdom currently ranks 24th in the world in terms of press freedom, with the 2007 index of 8.25. In comparison, the United States ranks 48th in the world, with the 2007 index of 14.50. (The smaller the index, the freer the press.) Continue reading Watch out Gilligan’s about!

Imam Khatib al-Baghdadi narrates from Muhammad Ibn Salimah and Abu Abdullah Saymari narrates from Fadl Ibn Ghanim that when Imam Abu Yusuf fell ill, Imam Abu Hanifah went to visit him a number of times. On one occasion, he found him looking very frail and weak. Imam Abu Hanifah recited ‘Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un and remarked: “I hope you will remain after me for the benefit of the Mu’minin and if they are afflicted with your death, then a great treasure of knowledge will be exterminated with your death.”

According to another report, Imam Abu Hanifah said: “If this young man dies, nobody on the entire face of the earth will be able to fill his place.” Continue reading Lessons from the Imam & the Laundryman