Development of Literacy in Arabia
The Qur’an united oral and written preservation. The Prophet ﷺ established practices of teaching, review, and scribal recordkeeping; the Sahaba extended them through compilation, administration,...
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Destruction of Human Consensus
By Motiur Rahman Introduction On the one extreme, freedom of thought has led one to assume that there are no universal or absolutist principles; that...
Chain of Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiya Aaliya Silsila-e-Bishkuti
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ All praise is due to Allah ﷻ, the Lord of all that is, the one who creates, guides and sustains; the...
Muraqaba – Sufi meditation in Islam
Muraqaba – Sufi meditation in Islam What is the meaning of muraqaba? The implicative meaning of muraqaba is to take care of something or to...
Qur’anic Hermeneutics: Al Ghazali and Ibn Rushd
Qur’anic Hermeneutics: Al Ghazali and Ibn Rushd By Motiur Rahman “From Ibn ‘Abbas concerning the words of God ‘In a (clear) Arabic tongue’ [i.e. Q.16:...
Sirri ’al-Qadr
Bismillah-ir-Rahmani-Raheem, wa salamum ‘ala Rasulihi-l-Kareem wa-l hamdu lil-Allahi rabbil ‘alameen. Unity of BeingShaykh al-akbar Muhiuddin Ibn al-‘ArabiProclaimed it to be wahdat al-wujudFor Mujaddid of the...
The Nation of Peace
The Nation of Peace “He has ordained for you as a religion that which He commanded unto Noah, and that which we had inspired in...
Urs Mubarak – Silsila-e-Bishkuti
Urs Mubarak – Silsila-e-Bishkuti Naqshbandiya Mujaddidiya Aliyya Hazrat Shah Sufi Mawlana Muhammad Abdullah Rahmatullahi Alayhi by Motiur Rahman Hazraz Shah Sufi Abdullah Bishkuti (rah), died...