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A Blessed Life and a Continuous Impact

In his well-known book, Al-Hikam (Words of Wisdom), sheikh Ahmad ibn `Ataa’illah as-Sakandari says:  How often has a long life brought about so little, and how often has a short life brought about so much. If someone’s life is blessed, he will reach, in a short time, bounties from Allah that cannot…
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Read the Quran

The Quran is not only for scholars. The Quran is for everybody. And when we ignored the Quran, we created a deformed picture of Islam in our minds and ended up in a lot of trouble Khutba: Read the Quran. Masjid Toronto. Jan 29 2016
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What is the Land of Islam?

  This booklet is a re-examination of the concept of ‘land of Islam’ in the fiqh (understanding) of the classic schools of the Islamic jurisprudence. The objective is to understand the criteria that jurists use for rendering a certain land to be a ‘Land of Islam’. A careful study in…
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The Fiqh of the heart

The Fiqh of the heart There are 2 kinds of fiqh: the fiqh of the body and more importantly, the fiqh of the heart We lost Islam when we lost the fiqh of the heart from the Shariah. The Fiqh of the heart – Friday Khutba – Ottawa Mosque –…
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The Sunnah – Lecture 3: Series on Jurisprudence

There is a difference between hadith and fiqh. The shift from an "authenticity" of a hadith to the "correctness" of a rule is not straightforward. It is knowledge that requires some explanation …. Lecture 3 – The Sunnah – Series: Introduction to the Fundamentals of Islamic Jurisprudence Usul al-Fiqh –…
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