Seattle, USA: This is a video of the Friday Khutba I delivered today at the Plymouth Church in downtown Seattle. The Khutba was on how to survive times of trial by deepening our faith, self-reflecting, defending ourselves and cooperating with others without compromising our Islamic...
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My presentation to the latest European Council for Fatwa and Research meeting, which was held last week and of which I am a member, focused on Islamic education in Europe and the west in general. The main point, which I wanted to share here, is that students of Islamic knowledge in the west should NOT go to the east to learn about Islam, except for a very limited time. Traditional Islamic educational institutes, except for a few exceptions, teach their students ideas and ideologies that have quite a negative impact on Muslims in the west and in Muslim-minority countries....
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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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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...
Read MoreSpeaking about “How maqasid al-shariah could contribute a new and much needed approach to Islamic questions of the time” 29 MAY 10 AM Baltimore Convention...
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