I have started up a new blog where I will post the contentions one by one and open them up to discussion. If you want to join in and offer your thoughts on the contentions go to http://masud.co.uk/contentions. I have posted the first five contentions from the very first Contentions. Here’s the blurb I wrote for the site: WELCOME – as-salamu ‘alaykum Contentions is a series of modern day aphorisms penned by Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad that are officially hosted…
Shaykh AHM’s journey to Islam…. This memoir is offered, at the persistent request of some Turkish friends, by a monotheist whose formative life was shaped by Anglican Christianity, but who has made his home in Islam. Like the kilis?-camii metaphor in the old Ottoman poetry, which describes a church which has been made into a mosque, such a man is architecturally distinctive, but a symbol of undeserved improvement: he is the m?hted?, the object of guidance, at once a spiritual…
Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad has just released the next installment of his Contentions series. Contentions 13! They are all good but here are a few choice quotes: 2.?Riyadh is the garden of Takfir. 13.?Falah is harvesting what God has done for you, not what you have done for God. 21. The world is most damaged by those who have the highest opinion of themselves. 75.?A pir is like a pier. Admire the sideshows; but remember: his end is His ocean?s…