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…
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
Dear Brothers in Islam, This issue of moonsighting in the mosque is a major issue facing our community, it comes up time and again. We need to come together and unite and stand up in the face of this confusion and say with one voice “it has to stop now!” Only last Juma’ I was unfortunate enough to be affected by this issue and had to run for cover. There I was, offering my Sunnahs and I got an eyeful…