21 Shawwaal 1431 – 1 October 2010 On 15 August 2010, Mufti Afzal Elias, in a radio programme lambasted and thoroughly exposed the HARAAM chicken carrion which SANHA, the Maitah-Purveyor is…
SO-CALLED ‘TAKAFOL’ IS BLATANT HARAAM INSURANCE A new financial venture is being marketed in South Africa for Muslim consumption. The product being offered to the Muslim community has been…
US GENERAL’S MALICE AND INSULT- THEIR VERBAL MALICE IS ‘MILD’ “O PEOPLE OF IMAAN! Do not take as a bosom friend those (the kuffaar) besides yourselves (i.e. the Mu’mineen). They (the…
INDEPENDENCE OF THE judiciary from the executive is largely an empty slogan of the votaries of western democracy. In the annals of history there is no example to compare with the episode…
THE CONCEPT OF the independence of the judiciary is as old as Islam. Many, many centuries before the west began to theorize this concept, the courts of Islam acted independently of the…
The Qur’aan Shareef declares: “Beware of such a calamity (Divine Punishment which will not befall only the transgressors).” This Qur’aanic aayat as well as many Ahadith of Rasulullah…
“And if you decide to change one wife for another wife (i.e. divorce a wife to marry another woman), and you had already given one of them abundant wealth (by way of gifts), then do not take…
Sometime ago we were informed that a senior Aalim had opined that a public company could be regarded as a valid shirkat (partnership) undertaking. The grounds for this opinion of the…
Allah Ta’ala says in the Qur’aan Shareef: “They purchase with the aayaat of Allah a cheap (miserable) price. Thus they prevented from the Path of Allah….” “And they prevent you from the…
QUR’AAN A new fad called ‘Colour Coded Qur’aan’ has been introduced in some quarters. Looking at a copy of such a colour-Qur’aan, one is appalled at the degree of defilement of the sacred…
The Qur’aan Majeed says: “O People of Imaan! Do not take as friends your fathers and your brothers if they love kufr over Imaan.” In another aayat, the Qur’aan states: “We have created you.…
Taqleed in the Shariah, as opposed to Admut Taqleed, means to follow the Qur’an and the Sunnah as understood, interpreted, practised and transmitted to the Ummah by the Sahabah (Companions)…
A Muslim professor made the astonishing claim that to donate blood is Fardh-e-Kifaayah. It is clear that the brother has no understanding of the principles of the Shariah or the meaning of…
Recently there has been intense comment on the Islamic injunction of Rajm or stoning to death the adulterers. If adultery -zina– committed by married persons is proven on the basis of…
R a s u l u l l a h (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “Whoever holds on firmly to my Sunnah at the time of the corruptiono f my Ummah, for him there is the reward of a hundred shuhadaa…