auwliya[ 2 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم وَابْتَغِ فِيمَا آتَاكَ اللَّهُ الدَّارَ الْآخِرَةَ وَلَا تَنسَ نَصِيبَكَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَأَحْسِن كَمَا أَحْسَنَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ وَلَا تَبْغِ الْفَسَادَ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُفْسِدِينَ But seek, through that which Allah has given you, the happiness of the Hereafter; and do not forget your share of the (joys of the)… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Basmala (Arabic: بَسْمَلَة, Lit: “In the name of Allah “) is the Islamic phrase bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm (بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ), “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.” It is one of the most important phrases in Islam and is used by Muslims in various… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Hanbali school (Arabic: ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي) is one of the four primary traditional Sunni schools (madhab) of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Iraqi scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal and was institutionalised by his students. The Hanbali madhab is the smallest of four primary Sunni schools, and the rest are Hanafi,… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Shafiʽi (Arabic: شَافِعِي) madhab is one of the four primary traditional schools of Islamic law in the branch of Sunni Islam. It was founded by the Arab scholar Muhammad ibn Idris Al-Shafiʽi, a pupil of Malik, in the early 9th century. The school rejected “provincial dependence on traditional community practice”… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Mālikī (Arabic: مَالِكِي) school is one of the four main madhabs of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) within Sunni Islam. Malik ibn Anas founded it in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Al-Quran and hadiths as primary sources. Unlike other Islamic fiqh, Maliki fiqh also considers the… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم The Hanafi school (Arabic: حَنَفِي) is one of the four traditional primary Sunni schools (madhabs) of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh). Its eponym is the 8th-century Kufan scholar, Abū Ḥanīfa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit, a tabi‘i of Persian origin whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم A madhab (Arabic: مذهب maḏhab, Lit: “way to act”) is a school of thought within fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). The major Sunni madhabs are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i and Hanbali. They emerged in the ninth and tenth centuries CE, and by the twelfth century, almost all jurists aligned themselves with a particular madhhab.… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم يا أَيُّهَا الَّذينَ آمَنوا قوا أَنفُسَكُم وَأَهليكُم نارًا وَقودُهَا النّاسُ وَالحِجارَةُ عَلَيها مَلائِكَةٌ غِلاظٌ شِدادٌ لا يَعصونَ اللَّهَ ما أَمَرَهُم وَيَفعَلونَ ما يُؤمَرونَ O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is people and stones, over which are [appointed] angels, harsh and severe; they… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Sharia (Arabic: شَرِيعَة), is religious law that forms part of the Islamic faith. It is from the religious precepts of Islam, particularly the Al-Quran and the hadith. In Arabic, the term sharīʿah refers to God’s immutable divine law and contrasts with fiqh, its human scholarly interpretations. The traditional theory of Islamic… Read More
[ < 1 min read ]بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيم Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam, followed by a large majority of the world’s Muslim population. Its name comes from the word Sunnah, referring to the behaviour of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagreement over the succession to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.… Read More