Reflections on the Makkan Qur’ān – 4
ALTHOUGH THE VERSES symbolize Muḥammad as ‘the one enveloped in a cloak, which Muḥammad duly was on the first day that Jibrīl came…
Reflections on the Makkan Qur’ān – 3
The third sūra ‘revealed’ to Muḥammad was Sūrat al-Muzzammil. This sūra came while Muḥammad was still afraid of Jibrīl when he saw him in the…
Jurists: “We must perfect religion” – Qur’an: “We have done that” – 2
THESE WERE THE PREVAILING currencies of the time when the provisions of jurisprudential dealings such as zakāt, blood money, penance,…
“It is forbidden to show mercy to a non-Muslim”
THINGS ARE FIXED when minds and ideas remain fixed. This, of course, is not enough, for consciences and souls must…
The crisis of Islamic thought: Hadith science as an example – 2
BY CIRCULATING IN THE ORBIT of these narrators and their fallacies and errors, hadith scholars departed from the circle of…
The crisis of Islamic thought: Hadith science as an example – 1
THE SUFIS, for example, have their Shaykh Abdullah Al-Hararī, founder of the Al-Aḥbāsh group in Lebanon, then there is Shaykh…