The Fever That Was

Hazrat Shaikh Damatbarkatuhum has become very weak after Haj. Most of the time was spent in fever. He did not inform about it during the Haj time over the phone calls. Only now he has told it when people saw the bony appearance.

May Lord Most High grant him a good, sustained and endurable health. Ameen. May He provide us his shade for a long time to come. Ameen.

He should be here in for or five days, Lord Almighty willing.

Big Beautiful Buildings

Huge constructions are not part of Islam. This activity started in the times of Umayyad Caliphs.

(An earlier sitting (majlis))

Orientalism

The extent to which the participation of orientalists and their work and assertion in establishing Islamic Studies as a separate and serious intellectual discipline is important , in the Muslim World, the terminology orientalist has been disliked to a similar extent. A significant cause for this disliking can be seen in that object and movement that was the reason behind the descent of orientalists into this field. There is no doubt in it that most of the westerners turned to Islamic Studies for the sole purpose of establishing their bias against Islam on the intellectual basis. In the back of this inspiration those anti Islam sentiments were in action whose fortification after clashes of  Islamic and Christian world in crusades required, in 19th century,  not arms but pen. In other words it can be said that in those times orientalists performed the task in the intellectual field that their governments were doing in the political or battle field. This was the same time when the west was out on its neocolonialist mission for subjugating the rest of the uncivilized world and a large part of the people who became its target was based on the people associated with  Islam. According to the famous point of view of Edward Said (S'aeed) neocolonialist mission was not limited to political and economic take over but establishment of intellectual subjugation too was amongst its most important objectives. A large portions of orientalists proved to be an important instrument for practical implementation of this neo-colonial project of intellectual subjugation.

Akhtar-ul-Wasey, Islam and Modern Era (Islam Aur Asr-i-Jadid), Vol. XXXV, No.1&2, Jan-Apr, 2003, p.5

Dancing and Entertainment in a Night Club

The Tiding (An-Naba)

Syed Qutb (see here for a caveat), in  In The Shade of the Qur'an (Fi Zilal il Qur'an) begins the commentary of the thirtieth part of the Holy Qur'an as follows.

This thirtieth part of the Qur'an has a special, distinctive colour. All the Surahs it includes are Makkan, except two, namely, "The Clear Proof" and "Victory". Although they vary in length, they are all short. More significant, however, is the fact that they form a single group with more or less the same theme. They have the same characteristics of rhythm, images, connotations and overall style. They are, indeed, like a persistent and strong knocking on a door, or loud shouts seeking to awaken some people who are fast asleep, or some drunken men who have lost consciousness, or are in a night club, completely absorbed with their dancing or entertainment. The knocks and the shouts come one after the other: Wake up! Look around you! Think! Reflect! There is a God! There is planning, trial, liability, reckoning, reward, severe punishment and lasting bliss.

So forceful! And how subtle to end the argument  with bliss! He continues:

The same warning is repeated time after time. A strong hand shakes them violently. They seem to open their eyes, look around for a second and return to unconsciousness. The strong hand shakes them again, the shouts and knocks are repeated even more loudly. They may wake up once or twice to say obstinately, "No!" They may stone the person warning them or insult him and then resume their position of inattention. He shakes them anew.

Such a nice consideration of human indifference and obstinacy!

Islamic Tasweer Mahal : Algeria

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Algeria  

Islamic Tasweer Mahal : Afghanistan

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Afghanistan  

Islamic Tasweer Mahal : Pishtak

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Pishtak  

Islamic Tasweer Mahal : Muqarnas

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Muqarnas  

Islamic Tasweer Mahal : Mashrabiya

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Mashrabiya  

Islamic Tasweer Mahal : Mimbar

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Mimbar