Dr. Jasser Auda
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“A lecture about what we are seeing unfolding in America is a typical story of “tyranny

“A lecture about what we are seeing unfolding in America is a typical story of “tyranny

Posted by | Nov 19, 2016 | , ,

Seattle, MAPS: Dealing with times of “fear”: My lecture  at the Muslim Association of Puget Sound, MAPS, last Friday. The main point of my lecture was that what we are seeing unfolding in America is a typical story of “tyranny”, in its political, economic and religious forms. The best way to deal with “fear” of the people is to fear none but Allah, to hold on to the faith and its ethics, to defend oneself, and to form alliances with like-minded Muslims and non-Muslims in order to resist...

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The Quran: The Mentor for Mankind

The Quran: The Mentor for Mankind

Posted by | Nov 1, 2016 | , ,

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 and protection from “idol worshipping” in all of its forms, and delivered a couple other lectures in the same mosque. I was happy to see “normal” dealing between our brothers and sisters there, which reminded me of the hadith of Asma’ Bint AbuBaker (may Allah be pleased with them...

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Amb. Ebrahim Rasool – Maqasid Al- Shariah as a Philosophy

Amb. Ebrahim Rasool – Maqasid Al- Shariah as a Philosophy

Posted by | Nov 1, 2016 | ,

Dr. Ebrahim Rasool is the former Ambassador of South Africa to the US. He has a legacy of going to prison with Nelson Mandela and eventually being a minister in the first elected South African government after the fall of the Apartheid, and then an elected Premier of the Western Cape, the largest province in South Africa. I cherish our friendship and partnership on a number of educational projects, alhamduillah, and I am honoured with this review that he gave on my book, Maqasid al Shariah : As Philosophy of Islamic Law – Jasser Auda (video link above). He...

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Aisha married Mohammad at age 16, not 9

Aisha married Mohammad at age 16, not 9

Posted by | Nov 1, 2016 |

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 polymath Averroes (Ibn Rushd) “Distinguished Jurist Primer (Bidayat Al-Mujtahid)”, Auda opined that Aisha married Mohammad, the Prophet of Islam, when she was 16 or 17 years old, and not 9 years old. The following is an excerpt from Auda’s lecture at the Islamic Institute of Toronto (Published on September...

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