Making sense of Woolwich…
Fighting a war on a battlefield is one thing, face to face with a well prepared opponent, but to run down an unsuspecting innocent person in the street and then butcher him is a psychopathic and cold blooded murder.
Learn your tradition first!
When some young people rediscover their faith they end up rejecting their default religious practices as inherited by them through their parents. Whilst many non-Islamic cultural practices may have crept in, the foundations of what they were already upon are solid and established and rooted in the Quran and Sunnah and should not be dismissed out of hand without serious study and contemplation.
Self-learning?
I was looking through the recently published E-book by Shaykh Musa Furber called The Ultimate Conspectus a translation of an introductory text for Shafi’i fiqh and there were some passages that didn’t make sense and so I asked Shaykh Musa about them. I can’t recall which passages they were, but I remember thinking that a person reading this book is not going to be able to make sense of them. His response was simple: “Books don’t teach themselves” and suddenly…