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Trained Ulama, Muftis and Imams

Trained Ulama, Muftis and Imams

Posted by | Nov 1, 2016 | ,

One of the major needs for Muslim communities everywhere is trained Ulama, Muftis and Imams. Without proper training and especially versing them in Maqasid Al-Shariah, Imams and Muftis become victims of corrupt ideologies that claim falsely to be Islamic while they are the furthest from the principles of Islam, and the outcome is mischief in the mosques instead of good, complicating people’s problems instead of resolving them, and community destruction instead of community building. Honored to offer this training with Prof. Khalid Masud, a prominent scholar and judge from Pakistan, and our practical focus will be on Muslim family...

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Meeting with a group of Muslim students from different South African universities

Meeting with a group of Muslim students from different South African universities

Posted by | Oct 26, 2016 | , , ,

I met this morning with a brilliant group of Muslim students from different South African universities. I learnt from them about the aims and nuances of the student movement that is taking place these days in South Africa. I gave them my opinion: 1. Muslim students have to participate in the South African and global student movements that are calling for justice and equity. 2. Muslim students have to give an example of balance; they are part of the justice movement but they also do not condone injustices and aggression against innocent people. 3. Muslim students should not expect...

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Meeting in the Parliament Building in Cape Town with MP Mandla Mandela

Meeting in the Parliament Building in Cape Town with MP Mandla Mandela

Posted by | Oct 24, 2016 | , , , , ,

An amazing meeting in the Parliament Building in Cape Town with MP Mandla Mandela, grandson of the late Nelson Mandela and current Chief of the Mandela tribe, who recently embraced Islam by the way. The purpose of the meeting was to explain to him the new project of the Graduate School of Maqasid Studies at the International Peace College of South Africa, and to ask for his support. He related to us very interesting details about Nelson Mandela’s relationship with Muslims and Islam; how Nelson Mandela during the years of the Struggle escaped for 3 years with the help...

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