BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 27, 2009 at 4:26 pm
We will now continue our translation from Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali’s work, Lata’if al-Ma’arif. In this section, he begins a discussion of the Hajj and some of its virtues, pp. 400-402. It is related in the two sound books (Bukhari and Muslim) on the authority of Abu Hurayra, from the Prophet,…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 24, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Imam Zaid’s translation and commentary on Imam al-Muhasibi’s, Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance, has been awarded as a finalist in the category of general spirituality by USA Book News Purchase: http://astore.amazon.com/nidpublishers-20/
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 21, 2009 at 12:48 am
Today was a beautiful day. After a period of days that brought howling winds and driving rain, the California autumn yielded to a bright, blue cloudless sky. The rain has transformed the vacant space to the side of our front yard into a lush carpet of soothing green grass. The…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 10, 2009 at 9:49 am
This is the fouth and final installment of our translations concerning issues associated with fasting voluntarily in Shawwal from Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali’s book, Lata’if al-Ma’arif. This selection is from pages 397-400. We will continue with the virtues of Hajj from the same text, Insha Allah. The devotional acts of the…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 07, 2009 at 5:27 am
This is the third part of our translation of excerpts from Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali’s section dealing with fasting in Shawwal from his book, Lata’if al-Ma’arif (pp. 394-396) “[Among the benefits of fasting six days in Shawwal] is that continuing to fast after Ramadan is a sign that the fast of…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 05, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Today (October 5, 2009), I was in Scotland for the Launch of Shaykh Abdul Aziz Ahmed’s Book, Living with Blindness: Lessons from the Life of Imran Sabir, who passed away this past March after struggling his entire life with the devastating effects of LOGIC Syndrome, a rare genetic disease. I…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 01, 2009 at 8:08 am
Abu Ya’la al-Mawsili relates a Hadith with an unbroken chain from Usama bin Zaid, that he said: “I used to randomly fast months during the year. The Prophet, peace upon him, said to me, ‘What about Shawwal?!’” Thereafter, as soon as Usama celebrated ‘Id al-Fitr, he began fasting Shawwal until…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Sep 29, 2009 at 1:03 am
The following passage is exerpted from the chapter on Shawwal in Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali’s work, Lata’if al-Ma’arif. It gives us insight into a number of issues related to fasting six days of Shawwal, the lunar month that follows Ramadan, pp. 389-392. Imam Muslim relates from the narrations of Abu…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Sep 25, 2009 at 11:01 am
Imam Zaid talks about the fast of Ramadan in EMEL Magazine. http://emel.com/article?id=61&a_id=1404
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Sep 24, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Zaytuna College discussed in Euro-Islam. http://www.euro-islam.info/2009/09/21/islamic-scholars-plan-for-americas-first-muslim-college/
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