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*ImaanCentral Network Presents: The Night of Glory*

“…whoever stood for the prayers in the night of Qadr out of sincere Faith and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all their previous sins will be forgiven.” (Sahih al-Bukhāri)

You must have come across this Hadith every Ramzan and decided to spend the last 10 nights in more ibadat but couldn’t. Would you like to take part in an exercise before the last 10 nights of Ramzan this time that can motivate and support you in your goal of doing more ibadat?

ImaanCentral prints and distributes text material on the virtues of seeking Laylatul Qadr every Ramzan but this time we are also organising a support group event for young Muslims who struggle to make the most of Ramzan especially the last 10 nights. In this event we won’t just learn about the importance of searching for Laylatul Qadr but will also have space to share our personal challenges that become barriers in doing more ibadat and learn ways to overcome them in sha Allah. Resource person for the event is a competent individual, who is deeply rooted in the Islamic tradition while also being a full time working professional in areas associated to behavioural sciences!

*Details:*
*Resource Person:* Ustadh Saif ul Hadi
*Date:* 31st March 2024
*Time:* 11 am until Zuhr
*Venue:* SIO Headquarters, Markaz Jamat-e-Islami Hind, Thokar No 3, Abul Fazal Enclave, Near Hotel River View, New Delhi
*Seats:* This cohort is going to be limited to 40 people (20 males, 20 females). Seats will be reserved for the first 20 males and first 20 females respectively.
*Registration Fee: FREE*
*Registration Link:* https://forms.gle/CFCqwAATvupZ4nc78

Learn more about ICN's Project Shab-e-Qadr: imaancentral.org/shab-e-qadr

For Queries, Contact:
Nauman Khalid, +91-9811590676

|| Sunan Abu Dawūd Class ||

In the field of Hadith, among the first texts to be canonised was the Sunan of Imām Abu Dawūd (rah). After looking at his Sunan scholars remarked that studying the Quran and the Sunan was enough for a Muslim!

Sunan Abu Dawūd is an excellent synthesis between Hadith and Fiqh because Imām Abu Dawūd was one of those few Hadith scholars who had an independent take on Fiqh matters. In fact according to Imām ibn Taymiyya out of the six hadith scholars only two were equally competent in Fiqh: Imām Bukhāri and Imām Abu Dawūd.

The School of Hadith at ICN Academy is organising a 4-day class on the Sunan Abu Dawūd where we will study a comprehensive introduction to the Sunan along with a contrast between classical Hadīth approach and its modern counterpart.

*The major themes of the class include:*
- Meaning of various Hadith genres (Jāmi’, Sunan, Musannaf, Musnad, Mu’jam etc) and the differences between them;
- Difference between Sunnat and culture;
- History behind the formation of six canonical Hadīth works (Sahih Bukhāri, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawūd, Sunan Nasai, Sunan al-Tirmidhī and Sunan ibn Mājah);
- Research methodology in the field of Hadith;
- Imām Abu Dawūd’s criteria for selecting Hadith in his Sunan;
- Important commentaries on the Sunan;
- Three critical case studies from the Sunan;
- Fiqh of Imām Abu Dawūd;
- Issues with modern Hadith scholarship.

WHEN: 24th & 25th September and 1st & 2nd October 2021.

TIME: 7:30 PM IST

DURATION: 1.5 hours

CONTRIBUTION: ₹500/-

PhonePe and Gpay: +917503724669

Registration link in bio.

For any queries please DM.

_Note: Class recordings will be available for a limited time._

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Fiqh in Islam stands for depth and gaining depth in Islam is supposed to be an important lifelong journey of every Muslim. Today Fiqh has been reduced to legal opinions that are mainly related to the external aspects of our life but that’s not how the companions and early Muslims understood it to be.

Imām Shāfi’s Risāla is a work that captures brilliantly the early understanding of Fiqh and gives us a way to re-orient and ground ourselves in the Quran and Sunnat which seems to be our need of the hour in a world where more and more unqualified individuals comment on what the Shariat is and is not.

The Risāla is worth studying for anyone who wants to understand the principles of Muslim thought because it was authored for teaching us how to:
-ground our thinking in what Allah has revealed;
-save ourselves from the errors of free-style indisciplined reasoning;
-purify our knowledge from biases and prejudices;
-give Fiqh opinions with responsibility;
-practice intellectual humility in the true sense.

That’s why Imām Ahmad ibn Hanbal used to say, “Anyone who uses the ink and the pen (to write about Islam) is indebted to Imām Shāfi’.”

The 4-day class is going to be based on classical case studies in Fiqh to explain all the major themes (Qur’ān, Sunnat, Ijma’ and Qiyās) of Imām Shafi’s Risāla such as understanding:
-the centrality of Arabic in Islam;
-abrogation in the Quran;
-Sunnat and it’s types;
-contradictory ahādith on a subject;
-ahādith that go against reason;
-legal reasoning that saves us from gender discrimination;
-prerequisites for giving a fatwa in any matter of Islam.

Added features of the class:
-we will cover the story of the printing of the Risāla in the modern world from manuscript form;
-studying Maulana Ashraf ‘Alī Thānwi’s (d. 1943) fatwa on women leadership as a case of brilliant legal understanding.

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Note: Access to the class recordings will be available for one week after each class.

Last day to register!!!

“It was al-Shāfi’ who, having become disillusioned with what he saw as the arbitrariness and even dangerousness of the sacralisation of communal tradition, developed the first explicit theorisation of revelation as divine communication encapsulated in the textual form of the Quran and its auxiliary, prophetic Hadith.” - Ahmed El Shamsy (University of Chicago) in _The Canonisation of Islamic Law._

Imām Shāfi developed a legal theory to teach Muslims how to escape freestyle thinking in matters of Allah’s Deen. He was able to do it by internalising in depth and synthesising both the Hanafi principles through Imām Muhammad (Imām Abu Hanīfa’s student) as well as Māliki principles through Imām Mālik directly. It was his work Risāla that universalised and ordered the principles of thinking as a Muslim otherwise the Sharia would have been reduced to regional versions of Hejāz and Irāq! Join this class to learn more about the history of Muslim thought so that we learn to navigate our way through modern freestyle thinking.

Register here if you are interested and share the information:
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Text covered: Risāla of Imām Shāfi’
Method: Case studies
Dates: 12th, 13th, 19th and 20th February, 2021.
Time: 7:30-9:30 PM (each day)
Contribution: 300/-
Platform: Zoom

For any query or assistance contact:
[email protected] or
+917503724669

Note: Access to the class recordings will be available for one week after each class.

Tashaddud or extremism in any matter of Islam has been prohibited by the Quran and the Sunnat but still a large number of Muslims fall into this sin either because they prioritise something that Allah and His Rasool have not prioritised or because they like to make great conclusions from very little knowledge.

The cure for both things is studying the Deen the way it has been studied since the companions of the Prophet which has been the source of moderation for the entire Ummat and has been preserved by the righteous scholars in every generation.

Choosing random sources for learning about Islam has:
- made us blind followers of certain famous personalities;
- given us half baked information about our Deen;
- created a false confidence among us that we can represent Islam on social media platforms;
- made us more sectarian and intolerant than ever.

In this class on the Foundations of Sharia we will learn from a scholar’s work who taught us how to acquire good thinking skills as Muslims and save ourselves from all kinds of extremism.

Some more themes we will explore in sha Allah:

• Should a Muslim do Amr bil Ma’rūf and Nahy an al-Munkar without studying the Deen?

• Is declaring things haram without knowledge as bad as declaring things halal without knowledge?

• Is being strict in matters of Deen more rewarded than being lenient?

Register here if you are interested and do share the information with those who might find this useful:
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Text covered: Risāla of Imām Shāfi’
Method: Case studies
Dates: 12th, 13th, 19th and 20th February, 2021.
Time: 7:30-9:30 PM (each day)
Contribution: 300/-
Platform: Zoom

For any query or assistance contact:
[email protected] or
+917503724669

Note: Access to the class recordings will be available for one week after each class.

https://buff.ly/3roM3wJ

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The Risāla is worth studying for anyone who wants to understand the principles of Muslim thought because it was authored for teaching us how to:
-ground our thinking in what Allah has revealed;
-save ourselves from the errors of free-style indisciplined reasoning;
-purify our knowledge from biases and prejudices;
-give Fiqh opinions with responsibility;
-practice intellectual humility in the true sense.

That’s why Imām Ahmad ibn Hanbal used to say, “Anyone who uses the ink and the pen (to write about Islam) is indebted to Imām Shāfi’.”

The 4-day class is going to be based on classical case studies in Fiqh to explain all the major themes (Qur’ān, Sunnat, Ijma’ and Qiyās) of Imām Shafi’s Risāla such as understanding:
-the centrality of Arabic in Islam;
-abrogation in the Quran;
-Sunnat and it’s types;
-contradictory ahādith on a subject;
-ahādith that go against reason;
-legal reasoning that saves us from gender discrimination;
-prerequisites for giving a fatwa in any matter of Islam.

Note: Access to the class recordings will be available for one week after each class.

Oaths occupy an extremely important place in the Makki Quran but are least understood by most readers. Muslims rarely are able to see the connection between the oaths that occur at the beginning of a Sura and its main themes.

Be a part of this class on The Principles of Understanding the Quran where we will take Sura al-Fajr as a case study and try to understand the meaning of its oaths so that the Sura becomes a source of comfort for us just as it was for the earlier generations.

Register here:
https://buff.ly/2M4VEJJ

For any queries or assistance write to us [email protected] or contact +917503724669

The Quran declares itself as both true (Haqq) and clear (Mubeen) in several places but most Muslims only believe it to be true not clear which is why they try to find explanations of ayaat of the Quran from fields like science, politics, mathematics, psychology and so on, in the process of which they distort the message of the book of Allah knowingly or otherwise.

This makes the contribution of scholars like Imām Ibn Taymiyya and Maulana Farāhi extremely important because they showed through their works how the Quran is very clear to those who know the principles of understanding it.

But doesn’t the Quran itself calls some of it ayaat as “unclear” (mutashābih)?

Join this class to learn some of the most crucial principles of understanding the Quran where we will also try to understand the meaning of the famous Ayat 7 of Sura Ale-Imrān which has been a source of a lot commentary and contradictions among the Muslims.

*2 days left for registration!*

Register here:
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When the Orientalists first encountered the Quran they didn’t just believe it to be a book of heresy but also a book that is poorly structured and incomprehensible due to its lack of coherence. What they completely missed was that the Quran has its own structure that makes it not just coherent but extremely eloquent to move the hearts and minds of even its most adverse readers provided they paid attention!

Maulana Farāhi lived at a time when Orientalist critique of the Quran was at its peak. He encountered many Orientalists and their works in the newly established Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College later known as Aligarh Muslim University. His work on the structure of Quran is even now considered a solid counter to the objections raised against the book of Allah.
Learn more about his work, Nizām al-Qurān, to appreciate the Quran’s truth and beauty together.

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In the modern world an average reader of the Quran considers science (and sometimes mathematics) as the utmost standard testifying to the truth of the Quran. But the fallacy in this popular assumption becomes clear when one learns that the 7th century Arabs were not brilliant scientists but great poets! To understand the Quran well we surely need to know the 7th century Arabic and Arabic poetry but we also have to be rooted in the science of language before the science of matter. Many commentators misinterpret various passages from the Quran because of their obsession with the latter and utter ignorance with the former.

Imām Ibn Taymiyya was not just an expert of Hadith and Fiqh but an ingenious linguist as well whose theory of language clarifies the misconceptions about major themes of the Quran related to Tawhīd, Risālat and Ākhirat. Be a part of this class on The Principles of Understanding the Quran where we learn his theory of language and apply it to passages of the Quran through his work Muqaddima fī Usūl al-Tafsīr.

Who should attend:
- People interested in Quran and Tafsīr studies;
- People who are part of various Muslim organisations calling people to Quran;
- People seeking to connect with the book of Allah on a deeper level.

Time: 7:30 PM onwards on each of the days mentioned.
Duration: 2.5 hours.
Class type: interactive and discussion based.
Contribution: 400/-

Having less or absolutely no exposure to classical education most Muslims today utterly depend on very recent commentaries of the Quran that fail to trace back their understanding to earlier generations of Muslims. Thus our broken understanding leads to various reductionist perspectives and brutally subjects the book of Allah to man-made ideologies where some call the Quran a book of legal codes or philosophy while others a book of revolution; some consider it a book of mysticism while others try to find scientific, political and economic theories in it. A major reason for this in our age is treating the works of ideologues as primary and deliberately sidelining the works of past and present scholars on the Quran.

In this class we seek to learn the very principles of approaching the Quran and also attempt to understand its structure and coherence by focusing on certain passages as case studies from the Quran itself. The aim is to make the book of Allah a living source of guidance for us, meant for any time and place rather than a book that is only claimed, through slogans not scholarship, to solve all our “modern” problems but will become out of place once modernity ends!

Note: We will also study sections from M. A. S. Abdel Haleem’s works whose Oxford translation of the Quran is considered one of the best translations today.

Some major themes we plan to understand:

•Fitrat as a prerequisite to extract guidance from the Quran;
•Asbaab al-Nuzool (causes of revelation);
•Muhkam and mutashābih (clear and unclear ayāt of the Quran);
•Meaning of and difference between Tafsīr and Ta’wīl;
•Pitfalls of NOT understanding the Quran according to the rules of all three: language, context and cotext.

Who should attend:
- People interested in Quran and Tafsīr studies;
- People who are part of various Muslim organisations calling people to Quran;
- People seeking to connect with the book of Allah on a deeper level.

Time: 7:30 PM onwards on each of the days mentioned.
Duration: 2.5 hours.
Class type: interactive and discussion based.
Contribution: 400/-

The modern world came with its own pressures and anxieties of intellectual, political, social and economic nature, all of which were European in origin. The Muslims continue to understand their faith and books through these pressures and in the process misunderstand their most important text, the Quran.

Having less or absolutely no exposure to classical education most Muslims today utterly depend on very recent commentaries of the Quran that fail to trace back their understanding to earlier generations of Muslims. Thus our broken understanding leads to various reductionist perspectives and brutally subjects the book of Allah to man-made ideologies where some call the Quran a book of legal codes or philosophy while others a book of revolution; some consider it a book of mysticism while others try to find scientific, political and economic theories in it. A major reason for this in our age is treating the works of ideologues as primary and deliberately sidelining the works of past and present scholars on the Quran.

In this class we seek to learn the very principles of approaching the Quran and also attempt to understand its structure and coherence by focusing on certain passages as case studies from the Quran itself. The aim is to make the book of Allah a living source of guidance for us, meant for any time and place rather than a book that is only claimed, through slogans not scholarship, to solve all our “modern” problems but will become out of place once modernity ends!

The 4-day class has been divided into two parts:
Part 1- Quran as speech (8th and 9th January, 2021)
Text covered: Muqaddima fi Usūl al-Tafsīr by Imām Ibn Taymiyya (a classic manual on approaching the Quran).

Part 2- Quran as text (15th and 16th January, 2021)
Text covered: Nizām al-Quran by Maulana Hamīd al-Dīn Farāhī (one of the major works on the beauty of the Quran’s order).

Note: We will also study sections from M. A. S. Abdel Haleem’s works whose Oxford translation of the Quran is considered one of the best translations today.

Some major themes we plan to understand:

•Fitrat as a prerequisite to extract guidance from the Quran;
•Asbaab al-Nuzool (causes of revelation);
•Muhkam and mutashābih (clear and unclear ayāt of the Quran);
•Meaning of and difference between Tafsīr and Ta’wīl;
•Pitfalls of NOT understanding the Quran according to the rules of all three: language, context and cotext.

Who should attend:
- People interested in Quran and Tafsīr studies;
- People who are part of various Muslim organisations calling people to Quran;
- People seeking to connect with the book of Allah on a deeper level.

Time: 7:30 PM onwards on each of the days mentioned.
Duration: 2.5 hours.
Class type: interactive and discussion based.
Contribution: 400/-

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The Kul Sharif Mosque located in Kazan Kremlin. Clicked by Sasha Yudaev.

Golden hour view of the magnificent Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii) in Istanbul Turkey.

Clicked by Adli Wahid.

In Picture: Hubbul Wathan Islamic Centre, Grand Mosque, Mataram, West Nusatenggara, Indonesia

Photo by Nizar Kauzar

In Picture: Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, is an Ottoman-era mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A functioning mosque, it also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice.⠀
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In the Background:
Masjid An Nurumi Candi Sari, Indonesia
Photo by Bangkit Ristant

, Dont forget to recite Surah Al Kahf today.

, Don't forget to recite Surah Al-Kahf today.

Jumu'ah Mubarak :)