Fiqh
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد الله رب العلمين، والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين، وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين، أما بعد The Beginner's Gift: A Classical Primer in Hanafi Fiqh from Saudi Arabia "This is a clear translation of an excellent primer in the fiqh of prayer, with very useful commentary. Highly recommended."Faraz Rabbani; SeekersGuidance (www.SeekersGuidance.org) It gives the Karima al-Marwaziyya Foundation great pleasure to be involved in the publication of the following contribution to the growing corpus of classical Islamic literature, the details of which are as follows:About the BookAuthored by the renowned 11th Century Ḥanafī scholar, Ibrāhīm bin Ḥasan al-Mullā, The Beginner's Gift is a concise primer on Islamic Law…
Monday, 12 September 2011 06:38
Building Bridges and Facilitating Dialogue on the Moonsighting Issue
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In the name of Allah, all praise is due to Allah (Most High); salutations and blessings be upon the Messenger, his family and companions.Building Bridges and Facilitating Dialogue in the Moonsighting Issue ***Context Another Ramadan has passed, and as expected has brought with it the disputes arising from the following of the Saudi moonsighting reports. This year's Ramadan started off relatively peacefully but was concluded with much anger and finger pointing; not least due to the false reports circulated regarding a Saudi government retraction over the sighting of the moon. A cause of concern was the absence of an attempt to verify these now debunked reports on the part of…
Fatwa on the Mawlid By Mawlana Abd al-Hayy al-Luknawi in his Majmua al-Fatawa (2/160-163) The following is a clear legal verdict regarding the mawlid from a scholar who is respected across the different schools prevalent in the Indian Subcontinent as well as the Arab world. In the course of an answer to a detailed question regarding the legal verdict of the Mawlid gatherings, Mawlana Abd al-Hayy al-Luknawi after discussing the issue of innovation proceeded to say the following: “After these introductory points I say the mention of the Milad in of itself is not an innovation of misguidance due to two reasons: First: The dhikr-e-milad is that in which a recitor…
The notes below were compiled these from the very useful ‘Mawsuah al-Fiqhiyyah’ volume 44 published in Kuwait. As always those who are firmly grounded in Hanafi fiqh please send in any corrections. Note: Please read carefully, the article is not saying it is ok to break promises, as some might misunderstand due to not fully reading it. We ask Allah (Most High) to help us in keeping all of our promises. Wassalam***-A promise can be for something which is unlawful, compulsory, permissible or recommended.If the promise relates to that which is unlawful there is agreement amongst the scholars that it is not permitted to fulfill this promise. [Al-Adhkar of al-Nawawi…
Salam Every so often in our community I hear of their collecting together and burying copies of the Quran which have aged and are no longer useable. When looking through the Mawsuah al-Fiqhiyyah (38/23) I came across a mention of this practice along with a referencing to the major works in the Hanafi school. The details are as follows:
