Last month Shaykh Yasir Qadhi participated in a debate tackling the controversial topic of evolution. This video features Shaykh Yasir Qadhi's complete Presentation, Rebuttal & Conclusion. This is from the Deen Institute's “Have Muslims Misunderstood Evolution?” conference. The full debate can be watched here: Read More »
This discussion about the true spirit of Islam is not irrelevant or superficial. I truly understand that we have many pressing social issues that need to be addressed. Education, spousal relations, parenting, personal and community finances, all of these are immensely important. But this issue is one that defines Islam, it is at the heart of what it means to be a servant of God. This is what opens or closes the gates of Heaven and Hell. It is the first building block of a personal relationship with the Creator; the first step towards true love and loyalty, or the first step towards infidelity and ingratitude. Even at the community level, this is relevant because unity is only achieved through a common sense of purpose. Read More »
In this beneficial lecture, brother Anas reminds us about how we can grow in our love for Allah. What is the linguistic significance of the word love in the Arabic language? What are the different types of love that exist in our lives? And what actions can we take to increase our love of the Creator. Brother Anas discusses the answers to these questions as a timely advice to those seeking to grow in their spirituality. Read More »
In college, I began to question and re-examine my religious-cultural background. Where did I stand as an individual? What kind of person would I choose to be? Would I follow that which I had always been taught, settle close to home and live the same life I had always lived? Would I become an atheist or an agnostic like my family feared I would? But why does being a rational, scientific, intellectually honest person mean I have to be an atheist or an agnostic? Who can use science to “debunk†God? “I want to be smart,†I said to myself, “and I also want to believe. So how is it that one can be too smart to believe?†The answer, I found, ten thousand questions and answers later, was: you cannot. This January, I embraced Islam, a decision that was informed in equal measure by my mind and my personal religious sensibilities. It was the culmination of a great emotional and intellectual battle to secure not just my faith in God but also my integrity as a thinking person, beleaguered as I was by the false fear that true faith may come only at the expense of intellect. Read More »
It is through a proper understanding of the Sunni principles when it comes to aqidah, as opposed to a mere list of examples of how they were applied to resolve controversial issues of the past, that we can begin to address those issues that are relevant today. It is through understanding that our job is to defend the concept of fitrah and wahy (left to speak for itself) against the claim that we must accept the rules and premises of the naturalistic philosophers that we can develop the right way to respond to today's pressing intellectual challenges without compromising the correct understanding of the texts of Qur'an and Sunnah. Read More »
The following is a hexalogue (a dialogue between 6, and yes it's not in the dictionary!!!). In total, there was 4 sessions on 4 different days, but I only participated in 2. The following session about Jesus was one of them! Read More »
Most scholars of kalām used the story of Ibrahim and how he argued with his people about God as the solitary Qurʾānic evidence for the proof of the existence of God through the proof of the createdness of accidents. The Ahl al-Ḥadīth, on the other hand, never accepted this proof in the first place, much less ascribe it to the great patriarch Ibrahīm, the ‘Friend of God’, led by Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah. In this article, the different theological implications of this story as understood by these two groups will be discussed. Read More »
We posted a lecture earlier on Knowing God: Reason, Revelation, and Intuition. You can download the notes to the talk here: And if you missed the video: Read More »
Knowing God: Reason, Revelation, and Intuition. A talk delivered by Yasir Qadhi at the School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London. Read More »
In our previous two articles, we had discussed the date of the birth of the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, and demonstrated that there are over half a dozen opinions, the strongest being that he was born on the 8th of Rabīʻ al-Awwal, in the Year of the Elephant. We also mentioned that the first recorded instance of a public celebration of the mawlid occurred in Shi'ite Fatimid Egypt, around the turn of the sixth century of the hijra. In this article, we shall mention the earliest references in Sunni lands to the mawlid. Read More »
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