Burda with Malayalam Translation

(A friend has translated whole Burdah to Malayalam langauge, you can read it with Arabic text from here )

AL-BUSIRI’S POEM IN PRAISE OF THE PROPHET ENTITLED QASIDAT AL-BURDA

Excerpted from Encyclopedia of Islamic Doctrine, by Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, 1998

What is the position of Ahl al-Sunna regarding Qasida al-Burda, which is read in full by millions of people and Islamic scholars from the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and North Africa? Can we continue reading and reciting it

Does Imams/relegious teachers deserve more salary?

Muslim scholors working in mosques (Imam) and Madrassa teachers are getting low salary. They forced to leave their job and think of another profile. This pathetic situation in some countires caused to spread ignorance. Special reference is made to Kerala. In fact Ulema of Kerala decided to initiate Dawa college before ten years in the hope of making professional Dawa team, but things now made bad reflection. Once the student get B.A/M.A or other certificate he think of his own career rather than society, and begin in the search of a new career in any company.
Here I want to put some questions that needs serious re-thinking
1. Really, Imams and Mu’allims getting low salary ?
2. If Imam/Muallim is leaving his job because of low salary, is it justificable?
3. Is there any clause in Islamic Fiqh regarding this?

India’s biggest Ramzan gathering by Ma’dinu Ssaqafathil Islamiyya

Malappuram (Kerala), Sep 11 (IANS) Islamic charity organisation Ma’dinu Ssaqafathil Islamiyya is gearing up to host the country’s biggest Muslim prayer congregation Sep 16 at Swalatha Nagar near here.

The organisation’s chairman, Sayyid Ibrahimul Khaleelul Bukhari, said that they expect about 600,000 people from various parts of the country and abroad to attend the congregation, which will fall on the eve of the 27th day of the Muslim holy month of Ramzan.

Markaz Student of Calicut wins Dubai Quran International award

Indian Wins Dh250,000 Quran Prize

Ahmed Shaaban 11 September 2009, DUBAI — Ibrahim Hafez Syed Ahmed from India clinched the top place and the Dh250,000 prize money in the 13th Dubai International Holy Quran Award (DIHQA), pushing Sudan’s Ismail Hagai and Nigerian AbdulMalik AbuBakar Ibrahim to second and third spots. Hagai won Dh200,000 for his efforts in the memorised recitals and Ibrahim bagged Dh150,000. The closing ceremony took place at the Dubai Chamber of Commerce. During the ceremony, Islamic Personality of the Year Dr Murad Wilfried Hofmann and the top 10 of the 77 contestants (selected from an original list 85) Quran Awards competition were honoured. Certificates and cash prizes were given away to the other participants as well.

SUFISM IN A NUTSHELL

When it is said that Islam is the religion of ‘nature’, or is a natural religion, it means that Islam suits human nature and can meet all its requirements. But what is human nature and how can the tenets of Islam satisfy it? We all know that man is a combination of body and soul (or spirit). The existence of man’s soul has now been scientifically proven, with evidences taken from experiences of telepathy, levitation, clairvoyance, and other ‘extra sensory perception’.

Sufism (Tasawuff) is the Heart of Islam

The following quotations of the scholars of Shariah regarding the precedence of the knowledge and science of Tasawwuf, (Purification of the Self)

Imam Abu Hanifa (85 H. – 150 H) “If it were not for two years, I would have perished.” He said, “for two years I accompanied Sayyidina Ja’far as-Sadiq and I acquired the spiritual knowledge that made me a gnostic in the Way.” [Ad-Durr al-Mukhtar, vol 1. p. 43]

Imam Malik (95 H. – 179 H.) “whoever studies Jurisprudence (tafaqaha) and didn’t study Sufism [tasawwafa] will be corrupted; and whoever studied Sufism and didn’t study Jurisprudence will become a heretic; and whoever combined both will be reach the Truth.” [the scholar’Ali al-Adawi , vol. 2, p 195.)

World Muslim Scholars’ contribution to environment

The two-day conference on Islam and the environment that was held in Istanbul, Turkey, between 6 and 7 July, 2009, concluded by declaring a Muslim seven-year-action plan on climate change. The plan was culminated by the establishment of MACCA, the Muslim Associations for Climate Change Action, which will act as an umbrella organization to monitoring the action plan and following up with its implementation.

The conference was attended by around 200 Muslim scholars, experts, and representatives of Islamic civil society organizations, as well as representatives of ministries of environment and Awqaf endowment of many Islamic countries, such as Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco, Indonesia, Senegal, Turkey…etc..

Scientists Grow Human Sperm in Lab

UK scientists say they have created the world’s first human sperm in the laboratory using stem cells derived from human embryos. The scientists used male embryos donated following IVF treatment. They will need at least five years to perfect the technique.

The researchers say that the aim behind their work is not procreation but rather to help men who are suffering from infertility problems to parent a child. However, they do not deny that using the science for such a purpose is within the bounds of possibility.

Some critics are calling the technique “immoral” and “madness” saying there is no excuse to take one life in order to possibly create another. Others ponder over the possibility that such a technique could possibly be used to replace men if scientists successfully create the sperm using female embryos. On the other hand, there are those who think this will eventually be beneficial to mankind and will be used to solve the problem of male infertility.

Abdullah Bukhari, the legend of Jama Masjid, is dead

New Delhi : Syed Abdullah Bukhari, the grand old Shahi Imam of Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid and for long one of India’s most outspoken Muslim leaders, died here Wednesday after a long illness. He was 87. The elderly Bukhari, who anointed his son Syed Ahmed Bukhari as the Shahi Imam in 2000 but continued to retain the title, breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where he had been admitted

PM Manmohan on Ajmer Urs

Promote peace to live up to high ideals of Sufi saints: Manmohan

JAIPUR: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday called for promoting peace, tolerance and harmony in a world rife with conflict and discord, to live up to the high ideals of Sufi saints.

A velvet ‘chadar’ was offered on behalf of Dr. Singh at the historic dargah of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer to mark the ongoing 797th Urs. Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Prithviraj Chavan laid the ‘chadar’ at the shrine along with wreaths and prayed for the welfare of people in the country.