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Announcement from the Islamic Community in Spain – ‘Eid al Adha 2016

  BEGINNING OF DHUL HIJJAH MONTH AND THE ‘EID AL ADHA 1437/2016 The Emir of the Islamic Community in Spain announced that the new moon had been seen on Friday evening, September the 2nd, on the outskirts of Granada, indicating the beginning of the month of Dhul Hijjah. Therefore it is confirmed that next Saturday September the 3rd, will be the …

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Khutba: Brotherhood and friendship.

Allah has created the human being and made him a creature who seeks life in community. Moreover, without community life, the human being cannot be complete. It is only through interaction with others that human beings can become perfect and know themselves. Allah says in the Qur’an: Men! We created you from a male and a female, and We made …

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The role of the ‘tasawwuf’ as a protector of society against extremism.

The title of today’s talk, of today’s conference, is the function of tasawwuf, of Sufism, as the protector of society against extremism. I’ll start by talking about what extremism is, which means ‘pushing something to its limit, to its extreme, or the fact that something is extreme, or advocating for measures or having opinions that are extreme’. Today, the word …

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Islam: The Middle Way

We find in Allah’s book at the beginning of ayat 43 of Surat al-Baqara a phrase which means: “In this way we have made you a middlemost community…” an “ummatan wasata”. The great commentator of the Qur’an, al-Qurtubi, along with many others, says that the word wasata, “middlemost”, means just and balanced, taking the middle way between two extremes, neither …

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Khutba: The Intellect.

Praise be to Allah, who created and taught man what he did not know. Who gave him the kalam and the intellect to reflect. Who guides him in the misdirection. His are the praises in heaven and on earth, His is power and knowledge. He knows the manifest and the hidden. I testify that there is no god but Allah, …

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