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Early Islamic History Demystified | Part 5: Ali and Muawiyah

July 16, 2017

A New Khalifah Suddenly, Madinah was in chaos. There was no leader anymore. The people needed a new khalifah and Ali (ra) was clearly the best candidate. He was one of the six people whom Umar (ra) had nomin...

Early Islamic History Demystified | Part 4: Rebellion and the Murder of ‘Uthman

July 2, 2017

The Council of Six After Abu Bakr (ra)'s passing, 'Umar (ra) became khalifah without any controversy. His rule lasted 10 years and was a time of great expansion for Islam. There's little that people get co...

The Priest and the Paraclete: How a Franciscan Monk found Islam

April 23, 2017

Anselm Turmeda was an ordained Franciscan priest who was born in 1355 in the Spanish island of Majorca. He was very well educated. In addition to the normal primary education of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, he...

Early Islamic History Demystified | Part 3: The Apostasy Wars and Compilation of the Qur’an

March 12, 2017

Abu Bakr (ra) may have had the unanimous support of all the sahabah when he became khalifah, but the newly converted Arab tribes were a different story. Remember, within Madinah, the people who surrounded Abu B...

Early Islamic History Demystified | Part 2: Immediate Succession

February 26, 2017

Part 2: Immediate Succession After the death of the Prophet ﷺ, a discussion arose over who should be his successor. Key word here is discussion. Retrospectively, people pushing an agenda make out this discu...

Early Islamic History Demystified | Part 1: Historiography

February 18, 2017

Introduction One of the most confusing periods of Islamic history is early Islamic history. Those of us who grew up as Muslims almost certainly received a somewhat comprehensive education of the seerah. Week...

The Compilation of the Qur’an

September 14, 2015

Somewhere in the back of our minds, we vaguely know that the Qur'an has been preserved impeccably, to a level unparalleled by any other scripture. However, many Muslim men don't know the exact process by which ...

A Brief History of Hadith

September 13, 2015

Some people always love to claim that the Prophet ﷺ prohibited writing down hadith. This is absolutely and unequivocally true……..in the early stage of Islam. We have an authentic narration in Sahih Muslim where...

The Rise of Asharism

September 13, 2015

In the 3rd century AH, a man named Abul Hasan Ali ibn Ismail ibn al-Bishr, a descendant of the famous sahabi Abu Musa al-Ashari was born in Basra. This was an era when Mu’tazilism was gaining a strong foothold ...

The Rise of Mu’tazilism

September 13, 2015

The famous scholar of the tabi'een Al-Hasan al-Basri was teaching a halaqah when the topic came up of a Muslim who commits major sins. Al-Hasan said that such a person, although a sinner, is still undoubtedly a...