Mehmet Sokulu Pasha Masjid

  A beautiful autumny/spring day in Istanbul, taken in the Mehmet Sokulu Pasha Camii, housing fragments of the blackstone, we finally found this blessed masjid after several blank looks from locals who hadn’t heard of the place, all praise due…

The Books of Hadith and Madhabs

Salams apologies for the long delay, ill try to post regularly Inshallah, a lot has happened since I last posted alhumdulillah. Doubt: The founders of the madhabs may have missed many of the hadith that we know of today. This…

Give that pen back…!

Sheikh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah, talking about wara’ (scrupulousness) and following the Prophetic sunnah in his notes to Imam al-Muhasibis work, p156: “Meaning his knowledge is based upon acts of wara’ (scrupulousness), not dispensations and lenient rulings, this is the…