The Sunnah: a source of law
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat is the legal status of the Prophetic Sunnah? In the modern age, many both within and outside the Muslim world have sought to question the nature of the Prophetic Sunnah. Whether that has been...
Scholarship
Law of the previous Prophets
Whether it be amongst scholarly circles, students of knowledge, or even amongst the laity, there is a view that seeks to maintain: ‘the law of the previous Prophets is also our law too.’ Perhaps it...
Ruling of Basic Permissibility
Three chapters are presented here in translation from Volume 1 of Kitāb ut-Tawḥeed (The Book of Monotheism) by Professor Muḥammad ibn Abdullah al-Mas’ari. The chapters are titled as follows: The Prohibition relating to excessive questioning In...
There is no king but Allah
Presented here is a short translated excerpt entitled ‘There is no king but Allah’. This is taken from chapter six (Significant issues concerning Ruling in Islam) from the book entitled Ḥakimiyah & the Sovereignty of...
‘Liberty’ afforded by the Shari’ah?
Executive Summary [dropcap]A[/dropcap]ssociating the word Liberty with that of the ‘Sharī’ah’ doesn’t always readily spring to mind. On the contrary, the very notion that the Sharī’ah could in any way be associated with a conception or idea of...