Today marks 52 years since Syed Qutb, the great Egyptian Muslim thinker, was hanged by the regime of Jamal Abdel Nasser. He preferred death and torture to renouncing what he had declared. It is to him that the powerful and profound statement is attributed: “The finger that testifies that there is no God but Allāh refuses to testify to other than Him.”
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Innā lillāhi wa innā ilayhī rājiʿūn... Islam21c would like to express condolences to the family, students and community of the renowned scholar and leader, Muḥaddith al-ʿAṣr Shaykh al-Ḥadīth Mawlānā Muḥammad Yūnus Jownpūrī.
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This article is not a fiqhi article, nor will any fatwas be issued. What this article is designed to do is make us think. Scholar 1: Lasers. The word lasers is taken for granted. In reality, Laser is an acronym. It ...
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