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Malcolm X or Al-Hajj Malik Ash-Shabazz, saw the light of true Islam through his pilgrimage in April 1964. As a member, until then, and spokesperson of the organization “The Nation of Islam”, a nationalist socio-political religious movement with racist tendencies. Malcolm firmly believed that the white man was diabolical and the black man should be his enemy. After leaving the …

This interview with Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi was part of the research carried out for a doctoral thesis whose title is: “Sufi epistemology meets modernity in the tariqa of the Sufi master Abdalqadir as-Sufi”. The interview is being released for the benefit of the Fuqara and all those who want to learn about Islam and Sufism. Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir has …

IBN ABBAD OF RONDA A light in the Islam of Morocco. (1330 -1390) “Ibn Abbad umma wahdahu”. His teacher, Ibn Ashir de Salé, also from Jimena de la Frontera, pronounced these words about him: Ibn Abbad is the community alone, and with this he anticipated the future meaning that his disciple would have. All of Fez was shocked. As the …

Zakat is the fallen pillar of Islam. Although a house can stand on four pillars, it can never reach the height for which it was conceived if its planning has not been carried out to its full extent. This is the real problem of our time. As it is a pillar that has long since fallen, and that none of …

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 …