Islam & Interest

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

It's unfortunate that even some well-known Islamic scholars have been of the opinion that the Qur'aanic word Ar-Riba has not been defined in the Holy Book.

But the said word is defined in the Qur'an!

I have tried to examine the details in the book, ISLAM & INTEREST. The link to it is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7whKwklZ1K3WHE3SlRRSlczSHc/view?usp=drivesdk

Now, my good friend, Janab Muhammad Aashiq, has kindly given us its Urdu translation. Link to PDF version of the same:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7whKwklZ1K3LUxxTWtvS20xWU5JVVVod2hzR3FXMFYydHJZ/view?usp=drivesdk

Mohammad Shafi

Musings of an old Man

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

A burn injury, even at the tip of a finger, hurts badly! Thanks to Allah, that hurt is not long-standing.

But what if the hurt - not only at the finger-tip, but on the entire body - were to be ever-lasting!? 

Thanks be to Allah again, such hurt is never ever-lasting in this finite world!

Now, were someone authoritatively to tell us that omission or commission of a certain act would certainly entail such an ever-lasting hurt, would we ever do it? Never! Unless we completely disbelieved that someone!!

The Qur'aan does repeatedly tell us about such ever-lasting punishment in Hell on omissions or commissions of specified acts.

But we, so-called Muslims, continue ignoring the Qur'aanic do's & dont's!!!

Need I then say, in so many words, that we Muslims disbelieve the Qur'aan, though we may loudly profess belief in it from our rooftops?

Mohammad Shafi

Dua

I'm presently away from home, and away from my laptop. So, the Sermon this Friday is bound to be different.

Let me then give it a rather personal colour.

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I'm in my mid-eighties. It's becoming increasingly difficult to carry on with life's normal routines. Death seems to be a welcome relief.

The mind then starts wondering whether I've passed the test of this worldly life.

Doubts come floating by.

It's only divine Mercy that could save me.

O Almighty! Grant me the wisdom of doing everything right till I die.


Mohammad Shafi

Abee Lahab

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES -A Modern Tafsir PART II:

1. Tabbat yada abee lahabin watabba

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111:1. Abee Lahab’s¹ hands are perished; and he too is!

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1. Abee Lahab was the Prophet’s own uncle; and he was his immediate neighbour at Makkah. But the man was deadly against the nephew for preaching the religion of Islam. His wife used to lay thorns at the Prophet’s door; the enmity they both felt against him was so intense! This Verse predicted Abee Lahab’s pathetic end some years later. He died of a disease considered malignant; and he was left by his own family to die alone. He was one of the richest in Makkah, but his wealth was of no avail to him at the time of his death. Although this was to happen some years later, the Verse is in the perfect tense; for Allah Almighty could see it happening in advance.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 9^th of November 2018.

The Right Path

In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful

Extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir PART I:

77. Qul ya ahla alkitabi la taghloo fee deenikum ghayra alhaqqi wala tattabiAAoo ahwaa qawmin qad dalloo min qablu waadalloo katheeran wadalloo AAan sawa-i alssabeeli

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5:77. Say, "O people of the Book! Commit no unjust excesses in your religion (way of life) and follow not the vain desires of people who went astray before, and who led many astray and (themselves) went astray from the Right Path."³²

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32. At the time of revelation of the Qur'aan, this divine directive was addressed to the Jews and the Christians. But now, it is equally applicable to the Muslims. They too are the people of the Book and they too are committing unjust excesses in their religion, as do the Christians and the Jews. Through the ahaadeeth and through the "learned" books of the fuqaha they have unjustly made additions to and subtractions from their Religion, and have thus polluted the pristine purity, clarity and beauty of Qur'aanic Islam.

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Mohammad Shafi

Friday, the 2^nd of November 2018.