Maktabah Al-Imām Al-Ghazālī

1. Ansar-ullah, also known as 'The Houthis', is a political-military faction. They claim to be Zaydi (a branch of the Shia), but are deeply involved with Iran and are a key member of the 'Axis of Resistance'.   2. This organisation was founded in the 1980s to fight corruption and foreign influence.  3. This group began launching attacks against Yemen's government in 2004 and against Saudi Arabia in 2009. 4. After the instability caused by the Arab Spring, the Houthis took control of Northern Yemen. They seized the presidential palace, causing the president to flee in 2015.  History & Formation Important Note: The Zaydi Imamate was toppled in 1962 in Yemen 1. In the 1980s, Badr-ud-Deen Houthi claimed absolute authority based on his Sayyed lineage. 2. He joined the Union of the Believing Youth, formed by Zaydi scholars focused on the Iranian Revolution.  3. He and his son Husayn took full control of the organisation and radicalised it in 2000.  The Houthi...

*Published 50 years ago* By: Shaikh Mustufaa Hamami rahimahullah of Egypt The Messenger of Allah sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam said: “The Angels do not enter a home in which there is a dog or a picture.” Imam Nawawi rahimahullah writes in his Sharhul Muslim regarding the above-quoted Hadith: “The Ulama have said that the reason for the non-entry of the Angels in a house wherein there is a picture is the fact that it (picture) is an open sin and in it is the imitation of Allah Ta'ala's creation. Some pictures are images of objects which are being worshipped. The reason Angels do not enter a house where there is a dog is that a dog eats much najaasat (impure things). The Hadith has referred to some dogs as Shaitaan. And Shaitaan is the antithesis of Angels. Dogs have in them a very bad odour as well, and Angels detest bad odours. Keeping dogs is forbidden under Shariah. Therefore, the punishment for keeping dogs is that such a person is deprived of the visits of the Angels, th...

  Title: Before Setting Sail - Prolegomena to the Muqaddimah of Al-Imam ibn Ajurrum rahimahullah Author: Mawlana Muhammad Ashraf Moola First Edition: Rabi'-ul-Awwal 1448 ISBN: 978-1-0492-7734-9 Summary: For over seven centuries, the Muqaddimah of al-Imam ibn Ajurrum rahimahullah has stood as the recognised gateway to Nahw, guiding generations of tullab across the world. This treatise sets out to prepare the talib to inherit that noble tradition - outlining the historical development of the science, clarifying its foundational principles, and introducing al-Imam ibn Ajurrum rahimahullah and his timeless Muqaddimah - so that he approaches it not merely with enthusiasm, but with insight, discipline, and the clarity of one who knows where he is headed; not merely striving, but, in sha' Allah, truly arriving. Review: Scholars and tullab of the noble sciences know the great importance that a firm grounding in the science of Nahw holds. Without it, it is impossible to make headw...

  Ḥujjatul Islām ‘Allamah Khalid Mahmud (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "A major error in the present era regarding ḍa’īf (weak) ḥadīth, which almost everyone is guilty of, is that as soon as they hear a ḍa’īf (weak) ḥadīth, a kind of hatred arises in them, and they begin talking about abandoning it.” While warning about this, he explained with two examples that this behavior is not correct. 1. He said, “I am a weak man, are you listening to me with attention, enthusiasm and love or not?” Students: “Yes.” He replied,  “The first lesson learnt from this point is that do not hate the ḍa’īf (weak), as soon as it comes to the question of a ḥadīth that it is weak, an emotion arises that says leave it, abandon it.  Therefore, spread the word among people that one should not hate the ḍa’īf (weak).” 2. “There is a healthy man, a weak man and a dead man, now tell me, is the weak one closer to the dead or the healthy one?” Students: “He is closer to the healthy one.” 'A...

In Congo, the Muslim population is about 10%; most of them are new converts who have embraced Islam through dreams. Sometimes jamaats go through villages, and a whole village embraces Islam.  Since there are no teachers to teach them the proper Deen after becoming Muslims, they still maintain their old customs. Some Muslims have never seen a copy of the Noble Qur'an in their lives. Many couples live without Nikah.  Such situations can only be experienced when people go in fisabilillah, i.e., in the path of Allah Ta'ala, from village to village.  Recently, a local jamaat from Kinshasa went to a village called Mongala in the equatorial region of Congo, 1100 km from the capital Kinshasa, to tashkeel them to participate in the Ijtima which was held in Kalemie, east of Congo, on 17th, 18th and 19th December 21.  One brother of the village gave the following report: "Thanks to the path of the jamaat, we learned that pork is haraam. Before, we used to think only dead p...

  A woman from an Arab country sent a message to Dr Ahmed Abdullah Al-Omari, the Imam and Khatib of Miqat Masjid. She wrote: 'Doctor, you keep talking about feminism. By Allah, neither you nor those with you really know what feminism is! I have been involved with them for years. I am a university graduate, a teacher, 42 years old, and a mother of 3 boys and 2 girls. So, I am not an ignorant woman.  I was drawn into this movement after I became addicted to Twitter and Instagram. May Allah not forgive the person who brought this into our lives. I was living peacefully. My husband was a good man - kind, generous, and respectable. But he was firm with me and our daughters. I got to know some women through Twitter and Instagram. Their discussions were very strong, and most of them were focused on hating everything related to men: husbands, fathers, and brothers. I saw them looking happy. They seemed to have no restrictions at all - not in the way they dressed, not in going out, or ...

1. He gets angry over nothing 2. He gives to the one who should not be given to. 3. He says things that are of no benefit. 4. He trusts everyone he comes across. 5. He spreads people's secrets and does not differentiate between friends and enemies. 6. He talks about anything that comes up in his heart while he believes that he is the smartest of people. [Akhbaar al-Hamqa wal Mughaffileen]

In the modern era, a new meaning of moderation, i.e., i'tidaal, has emerged: ▪️Make innovations, i.e., bid'aat, permissible. ▪️Accept even the misguided. ▪️Confuse the forbidden, i.e., haraam, and the permissible, i.e., halaal. ▪️Erase the difference between guidance and misguidance. ▪️Abandon the prohibition of evil. ▪️Create loopholes in the rulings that are hard on the temperament or at least hide them. ▪️Do not use words like 'haraam'. ▪️Accept the people of falsehood as correct in their place. ▪️Keep a soft corner for all false religions and declare them as the truth in their own right. ▪️Erase the identity of the Sunni Muslim and become colored by the innovations of the people of innovation. In short, moderation, i.e., i'tidaal, and wisdom, i.e., hikmat, have now become the name of the aforementioned misleading ideas and wrong thoughts! ✍️... Mubin-ur-Rahman Mohalla Bilal Masjid New Haji Camp Sultanabad Karachi

Category 1 The ‘Aq ā ’id covered in the Isl ā mic books are of 3 types:    1.     That which has been established from the apparent text of the Noble Qur’ān.     2 .     Those matters – the subject matter of which has been established from Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam with tawātur, whether the words of the ḥadīth are mutawātir or not. 3.     That which the Ummah has reached ijmā’, i.e., consensus upon, whether the proof used by the Ummah to reached ijmā’ is qaṭ’ī, i.e., definitive and decisive, or not, or whether we know of this or not. This is because it is impossible for the Ummah, especially the Ṣaḥābah raḍiyallāhu ‘anhum and Tābi’īn, to agree upon something that contradicts the meaning and purport of Allāh Ta’ālā and Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.  Category 2 Those beliefs that are established through rational proofs. The Sharī’ah revolves around them being established and proven. ...