A class for a 12 hour course over 3 days on Introduction to Usul-ul-Fiqh and Maqasid, at IIIT (International Institute Of Islamic Thought)‘s The Fairfax Institute. Here are some of the slides on Fiqh, Usul and Maqasid that we discussed at...
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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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Questions and answers on Ramadan, fasting and the wider...
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Reflections on Al-Baqara (177-183): True virtue is not in turning your faces towards the east or the west – but truly virtue is he who believes in God, and the Last Day; and the angels, and revelation, and the prophets; and spends his substance – however much he himself may love it – upon his near of kin, and the orphans, and the needy, and the wayfarer, and those who ask, and for the freeing of human beings; and is constant in prayer, and renders the purifying dues; and they who keep their promises whenever they promise, and...
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