Lectures

Maqasid with Dr. Jasser Auda on Deen TV Episode 5

Yusuf Patel is a medical doctor and one of my “A” students of Maqasid al-Shariah in South Africa’s International Peace College South Africa – IPSA Graduate Program. I interview him here for the MAQASID program on Deen TV, and I asked him: What is “Islamic medicine”? What is Islamic bioethics?…
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The Quran: The Mentor for Mankind

The Islamic Institute of Toronto (IIT) is one of those model mosques that truly apply the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) in men and women’s rows, without going to either extreme. I was happy to give the Khutba there last week (video link here) on the Quran as Allah’s guidance…
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Aisha married Mohammad at age 16, not 9

Jasser Auda, a Visiting Professor of Islamic Law at Carleton University in Ottawa and a Founding and Board Member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, claims that there is no basis in Islam for legalizing early marriage. In his recent lecture on the book of the medieval Andalusian Muslim…
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