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If the sahada is the gateway to a path that opens us to a new dimension of the reality of all there is, paraphrasing Ortega; and the salat is the north and constancy on the road, we could say that Ramadan is the shattering life experience that reorders the inner and outer reality according to the Sharia clarifying our spirit, …

The horizon, they say, is that illusory line where heaven and earth meet, as many of us were taught when we were children. The horizon is, however, as I understand it today, a real line where the earthly and the divine meet. We can continue to think that all that exists is only what we are able to perceive through …

In every contract or transaction there are two parties, who are the ones who agree to this or that on one or the other terms. When one takes Shahada he is making a contract, a transaction, an agreement with Allah which is accounted for by the tongue and signed with the heart; that is why Islam is described as a …

Last year at this time, a conference was held at the Seville Mosque Foundation by Hajj Ibrahim Musa Isa Touriño that we would like to rescue. It was about the “Risala of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan”, or, as it is better known in the West, “The self-taught philosopher”, by the Andalusian author Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Tufayl. This conference took place …

What is a Wakf? The first wakf model recorded in Medina Al-Munawara was the one created by Abu Talha and known from the following hadith: “Anas related: Abu Talha had more properties in palm groves than any other Ansar of Medina. His favorite property was Bayruha which was situated next to the Mosque. The Messenger of Allah, s.a.w.s., used to …

When I first received the e-mail giving me the title of this conference, I was quite dismayed. Firstly, futuwwa was a subject I did not know too well and secondly, I was unable to see what relevance it might have for the young people of this era who are the focus of this meeting. As far as I was concerned, …

It has been related from Anas Ibn Malik, in Bukhari, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and give him peace, said: “Among the signs of the Hour (the end of this world), are the disappearance of knowledge, the establishment of ignorance, the drinking of wine and the appearance of fornication”. Abu Hurayra related from the Prophet, may …