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A Man Hanged by Socialists and Accused of Socialism In the early hours of 29 August 1966, the Egyptian state hanged a sixty year old man who had memorised the Quran as a village boy, who had finished his tafsir of the Book of Allah inside a prison cell, whose death sentence was passed in…
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In every Muslim country today there is a building where a few hundred people vote on what citizens may do and what they must avoid, and once the votes are counted the result becomes law, enforced by police, courts and schools on everyone, whatever the Quran and the Sunnah say about the same matter. Most…
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Look at her. A little girl from Gaza sits wrapped in a blanket while fire swallows the walls around her, and in the next frame she lies in a hospital bed with burns across her face, staring into the camera with eyes that ask the whole Ummah one question. Where were you? Where were the…
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The Muslims today are great in number and light in weight. They are spread across more than fifty states, each with its own flag, its own border and its own loyalty, and every few years a new summit, a new alliance or a new slogan promises to bring them together before it falls apart like…
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1 Kasım 1928’de Meclis’te kabul edilen ve 3 Kasım’da Resmî Gazete’de yayımlanan 1353 sayılı kanun, Türkçeyi yazmak için yaklaşık bin yıldır kullanılan Arap harflerini kaldırıp yerine Latin esasından alınan yeni harfleri getirmiş, devlet dairelerinden gazetelere, ticaret defterlerinden okullara kadar herkesi bu harflere geçmeye mecbur kılmıştır [1]. Bu karara bugün sahip çıkanlar genellikle şunları söyler: Geçiş…
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For more than a hundred years the land of al Masjid al Aqsa has been bleeding in front of the eyes of almost two billion Muslims, and for more than a hundred years those Muslims have been taught to watch it like spectators watching a match in a foreign league. Children are pulled from under…
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To keep a bird in a cage you have two choices. You can catch it by force and shut the door behind it, and then it will beat its wings against the bars for as long as it lives. Or you can paint the cage in bright colours, fill it with the sweetest seed, write…
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Are political parties lawful in Islam? This article argues that forming and joining them is permissible in the Sharia, and in this age necessary. Building on Āl ʿImrān 3:104, the Pledge of ʿAqaba and the maxims of usūl, it answers seven objections in turn, including the verse “every party rejoicing in what it has” and…
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Boycott is obligatory. Bukhārī records a Companion cutting Makkah’s grain, no ruler’s command needed. Ibn Taymiyyah names trading with the enemy’s economy as aiding sin. Fifty Jordanian scholars, the IUMS, Indonesia’s MUI all ruled it wājib. But sincerity without structure isn’t a weapon. Quraysh’s siege of Banū Hāshim worked through organization, not conscience alone. This…
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Nine months in, Gaza faces seventy seven percent food insecurity and eighteen thousand patients denied treatment. The Muslim world responds with communiqués. Palestine has been reclassified from an obligation into a foreign policy file. Classical fiqh has no such category. Ibn Taymiyyah treated Muslim lands as one land. Al-Qurṭubī ruled that ransoming captives is obligatory…
