Islamic Revival

by Hassan Choudhury I recently read a strange article arguing demonstrations were unIslamic [the link is ahlusunnahwaljamaah(dot)com/2011/02/10/islamic-ruling-on-protests-demonstrations/]. It even has 20 reasons why that is the case. This is dangerous.   Mujahid, on the authority of Ibn Al-’Abbas (RA) related that he had asked ‘Umar (RA) why he had been given the epithet of Al-Farouque (he who distinguishes truth from falsehood). He (RA) replied: After I had embraced Islam, I asked the Prophet (SAW): ‘Aren’t we on the right path here and Hereafter?’ The Prophet (SAW) answered: ‘Of course you are! I swear by Allâh in Whose Hand my soul is, that you are right in this world and in the hereafter.’ I, therefore, asked the Prophet (SAW) ‘Why we then had to conduct clandestine activism. I swear by Allâh Who has sent you with the Truth, that we will leave our concealment and proclaim our noble cause publicly.’ We then went out in two groups, Hamzah leading one and I the o...

This abridged tafsir based on the book  ‘tayseer ila usul it-tafsir’  by  Shaykh Ata bin Khalil Abu Rishta  describes the initial phase of Prophet Mohammed (saw) mission to convey the message of Islam to take humanity from darkness to light. The tafsir of the ayat vividly illustrates how Allah (swt) communicated in the Arabic language challenging the belief, customs and values of the Arabs. Their resistance turned to denial then to open hostility yet the Arabs could not refute the truthfulness of Allah (swt) speech delivered in a language in which the Arabs were masters. Bismillah irrahmaniraheem الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله ومن ولاه, وبعد: Allah sent Muhammad with the message of Islam to take the people from the darkness into the light with the permission of their Lord, to the path of  al-‘Azeez al-Hameed . “ Alif Lam Ra . [This is] a Book which We have revealed to you that you may bring forth men, by their Lord’s permission from utter dark...