Author: Khalid Saifullah Rahmani
Excerpt: Despite all his duties, Nabī ﷺ spent the time to observe one ummatī perform 12 raka‘āt in order to rectify his prayer.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders
Author: Denise Spellberg
Book length: 345 pages
Excerpt: Jefferson: “No historical fact is better established than that the doctrine of one God, pure and uncompounded, was that of the early ages of Christianity.”
Troubling Technology: The Deobandī Debate on the Loudspeaker and Ritual Prayer (Article)
Author: Ali Altaf Mian
Excerpt: In the Hanafī School, prayer becomes invalid if the imām follows the corrections of a non-muqtadī, while the muqtadī’s prayer becomes invalid if the audible instructions of someone other than the imām are followed, excluding mukabbirūn due to their mention in hadīth reports.
Abortion in Hanafī Law (Article)
Authors: Muhammed V. Stodolsky & Aasim I. Padela
Excerpt: Although there is consensus within the Hanafī School that abortion after istibānat al-khalq is a sin and is prohibited, there is disagreement whether it refers to the time of ensoulment or the appearance of human features.
Taste the Sweetness of Salah: How to Attain Khushū‘ & Enjoy Your Salāh
Author: Life With Allah
Book length: 200 pages
Excerpt: The Prophet ﷺ would tell people who prayed too fast to repeat their prayer.
The Place of Isnad in Islamic Education: Demystifying “Tradition” (Article)
Author: Abdullah bin Hamid Ali
Excerpt: People have confused the later adoption of the term ijazah as an indication of one’s worthiness to teach Islam, with its original use as one of the means to ensure that transmitted books were authentic copies of the originals.
The Significance of al-Ashbāh wa’l-Naẓā’ir of ibn Nujaym (Article)
Author: Khadiga Musa Latef
Excerpt: There are five principles that govern all or most juridical cases and are accepted by all the schools of law.
Chapter on Tarāwīḥ from I‘lā’ al-Sunan (Article)
Author: Zafar Ahmad Uthmani
Translator: Muntasir Zaman
Excerpt: The hadith that the Prophet ﷺ would not exceed eleven nightly raka‘āt in or out of Ramadan refers to the number of raka‘āt of Tahajjud, not the total number for the whole night.
Chess in the Light of the Jurist (Article)
Author: Hamza Yusuf
Excerpt: Abū al-Dardā’ RA: “I sometimes use purposeless things to reinvigorate myself for purposeful things.”
‘Urf: Custom (Article)
Author: Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Excerpt: ‘Urf is applied in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, such as paying a portion of the mahr upfront when custom dictates it.
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