At Juma’ [Friday prayers] today I sat/stood behind a bearded young chap wearing a thauwb with a hoodie on top. On the back of the hoodie was emblazoned the slogan “Only Allah to Fear”, if that wasn’t bad enough the typography [font] used was a “horror” font more associated with evil, heavy metal and horror movies than religion. OK so, masha’Allah, this kid is deen focussed and “fears” Allah and that is good and to display that slogan in a…
An excellent lecture (what else could it be other than excellent?) from Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad on the Radical Middle Way website: Globalised Before Globalisation
Deobandi Controversy on Celebrating the Mawlid: A Study & Critique to Controversial Deobandi Stances on Celebrating the Mawlid in light of classical Mawlid works The blog Scholars’ Pen has an excellently?researched piece on the celebration of Mawlid and the objections that the Ulama of Deoband have towards it. It dispels many of the objections with good grace and in the spirit of scholarship that is so often lacking in Barelwi and Deobandi debates. Here is the article in full: http://scholarspen.blogspot.com/2006/02/deobandi-controversy-on-celebrating_05.html