ilmHub Facility Renovation and Upgrade

Personal Fundraising for ilmHub Facility Renovation and Upgrade Summer – 2023 Q.A.F.I.L.A [Quenching A Future Imam’s Learning Aspiration] invites you to join in covering a portion of the expenses for pleasure of Allah. These renovations which will assist ilmHub and Darul Iftaa work for the coming years and become a means for immense rewards for …

Annual Fundraiser for Madrasatun Nabawiyyah [South Africa]

Personal Fundraising for Madrasatun Nabawiyyah South Africa – 2023 Head: Maulana Zaheer Saheb The last year has seen some difficulties and trials.  The Madrasah lost its designated location, yet, Alhamdulillah my closes friend and brother, Maulana Zaheer Saheb has pushed through and set up a temporary location for Madrasah. I have witnessed the selflessness of …

An immense opportunity to invest for Akhirah

Here is an opportunity to pitch in with whatever ability Allah has afforded you to set up a Qur’an School. Every bit of recitation, practice and effort of the school will become your investment for Akhirah. If we maintain Sadaqah inflow only from the local community , international brothers and sisters who have means, and …

Does Imam Abu Haneefa rh mention that parents of Rasulullah ﷺ died on disbelief?

There is some confusion regarding the text of AI-Fiqh al-Akbar at this point. There are three separate statements found, some of which are mentioned in some editions but not in others. They are as follows:

(1) “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ died on faith,”
(2) “The Prophet’s uncle and ‘Ali’s father, Abu Talib, died an unbeliever,” and
(3) “The parents ofthe Messenger of Allah died on unbelief (al-kufr).”

Darul Qur’an Muslim Academy Aid Update & more…

Update from Previous Funding Alhamdulillah through Qafila, we raised $1000 in July to help do some renovations and expansion of the Madrasah. As the renovations started, and possibility of expansion came to horizon, Allah Ta’ala opened the doors for a lot of deeni work. The Madrasah has been flooded with enrollments from the nearby vicinity for …

[Hanafi Fiqh] Recommended Length for beard – lengthening vs trimming

Mufti Zameelur Rahman explains that when fuqahāʾ in ḥanafī fiqh talk about “al qadr al masnūn” (recommended length) for the beard, they do not mean that trimming less this length (one-fist) is merely contrary to a recommendation. Instead, quite the contrary, the wordings in the mutūn are discussing the recommendation of trimming a beard that is in access of one-fist down to one-fist. This excerpt from Mufti Zameel’s longer critic of Sheikh Ṣalāḥ is a prime example of how a matn text can be misconstrued without proper context.

The Maulavī Malāmatī Sect…

Muftī Shafīʿ raḥimahullāh used to jokingly say that there is a Maulavī Malāmatī Firqah (sect), in which whenever people see any issue, they will find a way to divert its blame to the Maulavī (scholars)… Whatever a Maulavī does, they will find a negative angle to it… If the poor Maulavī decides to seclude himself …