📣 Contentions: Analysing Afghanistan and the Islamic Justice System 📣

Recent major events across the globe have sent shockwaves to the international community, causing much angst, confusion and heated debate amongst political thought leaders. 💭

Afghanistan is facing one of the largest humanitarian crises in the World - how did this happen? What led to the US-invasion of Afghanistan, and what were the surrounding factors? 🪖

Further, the concept of 'Huduud' has come under scrutiny once again - Is this practice really something founded under Islamic law? Are there various interpretations of the Islamic Justice System that can allow multiple enactments at a public level? How just is the Islamic Justice System? ⚖️

MUMSA and Ihya Institute have joined forces for an insightful and ground-breaking discussion unveiling the context of the 22 year long Afghan war as well as shedding light on the widely-debated Islamic Justice System.

We will be joined by political analyst and commentator Uthman Badar, a current phD candidate completing his thesis on secularism, as well as Shaykh Hassan al-Kettani, an accomplished Jurist and classically trained scholar from Morocco. 💡

🗓️: 26th of August
🕰️: 7pm
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📲: Streamed on FB live (@macmuslims & @ihyasydney)

Renowned Islamic Scholar in #Bangladesh Passes Away

إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

The Amir of Hefazat-e-Islam, Maulana Junaid Babunagari, has passed away today at the age of 68.

He suffered a stroke at the Hathazari Madrasa in Chattogram in the morning and later died in a hospital in Chattogram.

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#Libya's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadiq al-Gharyani, has congratulated Afghans on "expelling the invaders from their land." He called on Afghans to unite "to build a strong state that supports Muslims everywhere in the world." #Afghanistan

https://youtu.be/jJXGXI16XtY

I had the honor of interviewing one of the foremost scholars of Morocco, Sh Hassan Kettani.

Sh Hassan's story is absolutely UNBELIEVABLE. He was jailed in prison for 8 years. The government accused him of inspiring a series of suicide bombings that rocked the country.

Sh Hassan discusses his ordeal and the twisted political games involving Western agencies that sent him to a prison cell.

Must watch!

Also Sh Hassan discusses the Taliban and Muslim support or lack thereof for the end to the occupation of Afghanistan.

In this podcast, shaykh Dr. Hassan al Kettani answers questions by brother Daniel Haqiqatjou.

Some of the topics discussed:

- Shaykh Hassan's arrest as a result of a fatwa against the US invasion of Afghanistan and his unjust sentencing to 20 years in prison.

- Writing a fatwa on hunger strike in prison and other prison stories

- Life and dawah after prison

- The significance of the Taliban victory in Afghanistan

- Traditional and emerging deviances

- A final advice


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https://youtu.be/37VcjYVfFgA

https://muslimskeptic.com/2021/09/15/advice-to-sisters-in-the-west-who-wear-niqab/
Advice to Sisters in the West Who Wear Niqab

أخيراً والحمد لله: ترجمة بإلقاء كامل بالإنجليزية لحلقة "ماذا خسر الأفغان بخروج الاحتلال؟" مع وضع الصور بالإنجليزية أيضاً.
من بين آلاف التعليقات على الحلقة وتوابعها، كان هناك ما لا يقل عن ألف تعليق مطالب بالترجمة !
قام أخ فاضل، هو دانيال حقيقتجو، خريج الفيزياء والفلسفة من جامعة هارفارد، وصاحب قناة The Muslim Skeptic بإلقائها. إليكم الحلقة:
https://youtu.be/JKQF-Iic3kI

*📣BREAKING*📣 *Major scholarly unions representing over 200 ulama in the Muslim world demand the end to the "War on Terror" in a statement issued to Western leaders*

https://islam21c.com/news-views/major-scholarly-unions-demand-end-to-war-on-terror/

The Sunna Scholars Association and the Arab Maghreb Scholars League have called for "leaders in the West to leave their policy animosity against Muslims, the end to military and political interventions in Muslim countries, the end of arbitrary imprisonment, torture, fair media, the right for Muslims minorities to live their faith.

"We stand in solidarity with all oppressed people who fight for liberation from tyranny and
welcome the victory of the Afghan people against their occupiers (...) We offer our condolences to all those that have died as a result of these wars."

"We extend our sympathy to the citizens of western countries who have had to suffer the
social, economic and legal consequences of the disastrous decisions made by their leaders."

"We affirm our conviction in the justice that will be established in the hereafter. The sacrifices of the oppressed will not be wasted nor will the criminals escape from the consequences of
their crimes."

Read full statement > https://islam21c.com/wp-content/uploads/Statement-by-Scholars.pdf

Al-shaykh Dr. Al-Hassan b. 'Ali al-Kettani,

"Any scholar, anybody gets influenced by his environment. But, we are people who search and seek the truth. Never condemn other beliefs but always search for the truth. Ibn Taymiyyah said a beautiful statement which I would all of you to wear as a necklace or an earring. What is it?

"He says, "اهل السنة اعرف الناس بالحق و ارحهم بالخلق"

The people of the Sunnah are the most knowledgeable of the people in the Truth and yet the most merciful to the creation.

"You have to know the truth, not to go and condemn people. You have to know the truth to be merciful towards everybody. I do not like when I hear that brothers and sisters are fighting, having a lot of battles against other Islamic schools. Salafis against the Ash'aris; Ash'aris and Maturidis against the Salafis; Salafis between each other; the people who follow the madhahib (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali) against the ones that say, 'We are only Athari, we do not follow any madh'hab.'

Why should we fight about these things? We have a lot of work to do. We have millions of people who are still astray to call them to follow the truth. So, let us show the people the truth, believe in the truth, act according to what our great scholars asked us to, let us be merciful even when we preach and call our brothers to the truth.

"If an Ash'ari, or a Maturidi, or a Deobandi, or even a Salafi has a mistake - you do not go condemning him. You try to be merciful towards him. You try, in a polite way, to show him that it was a mistake and this is the truth. Your group did a lot of great things, but this was a mistake. Not to say: 'Ash'aris, all of them are astray and in the Hellfire! Maturidis, all of them are in the Hellfire! Hanafis are fanatical towards Abu Hanifa, are all of them are going to Hell!

This is not a proper way to deal with your brothers."

[Taken from his lectures on Al-Nasiha al-Kafiyya, Commentary on Imam Zarruq's Advice]