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Tag: brotherhood


30
Jul 2022
Brotherhood in action

The manual for building a harmonious society as per the Sunnah Summarising compassion and brotherhood in Islam is a mammoth task, but this booklet will give a brief overview of the topic. The Quran says: Believers are but a single Brotherhood: So make peace and reconciliation between your two (contending) brothers; and fear Allah, that you may receive Mercy. (49:10) This is one of the major verses on this topic as well as the hadith from the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him), as narrated by An Nu’man ibn Basheer:......

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13
Aug 2021
Brotherhood, friendship and wilayah

Brotherhood – To take a friend as a brother for Allah’s sake. Al-Okhuwwah is ‘taking brothers’ for Allah’s sake. This is a very interesting topic and scholars talk about it a great deal. In Imam Ghazali’s Kitaab Al-Arba’in Fi Usul ad-Din, The Forty Principles of the Religion, his last section on how to deal with people ends with beautiful concept of brotherhood and friendship.  He covered this in even greater deails in his Ihya ulum al Deen. The first Islamic community established the first brotherhood The principle of taking brothers for Allah’s......

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20
Jul 2021
Eid al Adha: a time for unity and brotherhood

And when you have performed your holy rites remember God, as you remember your fathers or yet more devoutly. Now some men there are who say, ‘Our Lord, give to us in this world’; such men shall have no part in the world to come. (2:200) Celebrate Allah’s name and glorify Him Allah Almighty made it compulsory for those who perform hajj to praise Him through tasbih (subhanallah – glory to be to Allah), tahmid (alhamdulillah– all praise is due to Allah), takbir (Allahu akbar – Allah is the Greatest) and istighfar......

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