God states in the Qur’an:

‘And God has made for you . . . → Read More: The royal wedding, demonstrators, and a touch of Maqasid]]> http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2011/04/26/the-royal-wedding-demonstrators-and-a-touch-of-maqasid/feed/ 11 http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2011/04/11/maqasid-al-shari%e2%80%99ah-and-the-veil-ban/ http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2011/04/11/maqasid-al-shari%e2%80%99ah-and-the-veil-ban/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:00:45 +0000 Abdullah Hasan http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/?p=1200 ‘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]]> http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2011/04/11/maqasid-al-shari%e2%80%99ah-and-the-veil-ban/feed/ 5 http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/04/06/maqasid-al-shari%e2%80%99ah-and-fanaticism/ http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/04/06/maqasid-al-shari%e2%80%99ah-and-fanaticism/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:40:46 +0000 Abdullah Hasan http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/?p=1131 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 . . . → Read More: Maqasid al-Shari’ah and fanaticism]]> http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/04/06/maqasid-al-shari%e2%80%99ah-and-fanaticism/feed/ 2 http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/03/16/another-one-bites-the-dust/ http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/03/16/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:41:14 +0000 Abdullah Hasan http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/?p=1092 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 . . . → Read More: Another one bites the dust!]]> http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/03/16/another-one-bites-the-dust/feed/ 6 http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/03/07/watch-out-gilligan%e2%80%99s-about/ http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/03/07/watch-out-gilligan%e2%80%99s-about/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:00:35 +0000 Abdullah Hasan http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/?p=1031 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, . . . → Read More: Watch out Gilligan’s about!]]> http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/03/07/watch-out-gilligan%e2%80%99s-about/feed/ 12 http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/01/01/lessons-from-the-imam-the-laundryman/ http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/01/01/lessons-from-the-imam-the-laundryman/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:57:40 +0000 Abdullah Hasan http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/?p=970 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: . . . → Read More: Lessons from the Imam & the Laundryman]]> http://blog.islamicforumeurope.com/2010/01/01/lessons-from-the-imam-the-laundryman/feed/ 0