To The Land of Baraka… Continued

(Part 2)
Friday, April 14th was the day Shaykh Faraz decided to hold the mawlid. The previous day, Thursday, was Shaykh Faraz's dars at the University of Toronto. Unfortunately, I could not make it due to transportation problems and I am thus unable to write about it. However, the Shaykh did send me a recording of [...]

To The Land Of Baraka… With Shaykh Faraz

Part 1
(will be updated and corrections made)
Ever since I came in contact with my Ustaadh wa Habibi Faraz Rabbani, my heart always yearned to meet him in person in order to benefit more from his ‘ilm and taqwa. Thus, when he informed me that he was coming to Canada I rushed to make arrangements to [...]

To The Land Of Baraka…

No, I am not going to Mecca or Madina or Syria. I am going to … Canada. Why Canada though?! Mainly because my beloved teacher and master Shaykh Faraz Rabbani is there. I will thus have the honor of gazing upon his nurani face, although I may just lower my eyes out of reverance and [...]

An Interesting Dialogue: Lunch With Maulana Kashif

Salamu ‘Alaykum
Every Saturday I have a one and a half our class with Maulana Kashif, a truly excellent and solid Deobandi scholar who studied in Karachi, wherein we cover the ‘Ila al Sunan of Maulana Zafar Ahmad ‘Uthmani (Allah have mercy on him). The ‘Ila is a two volume book covering the various topics of [...]

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf: Allah And His Messenger In Our Lives

See: Alexandalus

Poem In Praise Of The Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace)

By Shaykh Yusuf Nabhani (Allah have mercy on him)
I am the slave of the Master of Prophets
And my fealty to him has no beginning.
I am a slave of his slave, and of his slave’s slave,
And so forth endlessly,
For I do not cease to approach the door
Of his good pleasure among the beginners.
I proclaim among people [...]

The Adab of Salawat: From Ibn Salah’s Muqaddimah

The Prophet of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, “The miser is he in whose presence I am mentioned and he does not send blessings on me.”

The ninth point in the chapter of the writing of hadith
[The student] should observe writing the prayer and blessings on the Messenger of Allah upon his [...]

The Birth of the Messenger of Allah: Milad Al Nabi

Salamu 'Alaykum
As Rabi' Al Awwal draws closer we are ever so reminded of the Noble Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace). I cannot even begin to write about him (Allah bless him and grant him peace) for everything I say, all the praises that I lavish, all the tears that I [...]