Islamic Revival

These are two important questions related to zakah and they have been translated from the book "Selected Fiqh Issues" , It is authored by the Mujtahid  Sheikh Abu Iyas Mahmoud Abdul Latif al-Uweida (May Allah protect him). The book contains 321 issues in the form of questions and answers related to Salah (prayer), fasting, Zakah, Hajj, Umrah, economics, ruling, social relations and Jihad. The Sheikh has selected from the questions which he responded to between 1993 and 2007. The Sheikh has also given express permission to all those wishing to print, publish and distribute the book. The book can be downloaded from: He has also authored a book on the fiqh of fasting entitled, "Al-Jami’ Ahkam as-Siyam" and a book about the way to carry the da’wah, its obligations and characteristics. He has spent long years in the da’wah, he is an activist in the work for Khilafah and a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir. The Sheikh has spent time in prison in Jordan for his da'wah activi

Wall Street’s daylight robbery Roughly a year after accepting unprecedented financial aid to shore up its operations, Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc. posted yet another impressive quarter that further distances itself from rivals, many of which are still struggling to overcome the credit crisis. The strong results -- a profit of $3.19 billion, or $5.25 a share, for the three months ended Sept. 25, up from $845 million, or $1.81 a share, a year earlier -- were greeted with a barrage of questions about Goldman's decision to set aside compensation at a breathtaking pace; its 31,700 employees are on track to earn an average of about $700,000 apiece in 2009, a record for the 140-year-old firm. Goldman is not alone in this daylight robbery of US tax payers’ money. Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and other US banks have also posted huge profits. The profits are a result of Obama’s administration handing over US tax payer’s money disguised as bail out packages to the banks. The

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم { هَذَا بَلَاغٌ لِلنَّاسِ وَلِيُنْذَرُوا بِهِ} Al-Quds cannot be liberated by resorting to protests and sit-ins… it can only be restored by mobilizing armed forces to eliminate the Jewish entity! The Jews have been provoking Muslims over the al-Aqsa mosque issue day and night, sometimes by digging beneath al-Aqsa or by storming over it; sometimes they harass the worshippers, sometimes allowing them and at other times preventing them from entering the mosque, all at their own will and whim. Sometimes they send in their men for their rituals, and if the Muslims protest at this, they are confronted either with gunfire thereby killing the Muslims or with detention. And whilst this is the norm, the rulers in the Muslim lands simply count the death toll and compile a list of the injured and arrested persons. Or they merely sympathize with people, allowing them to protest and shout against the Jews and their allies without the threat of arrest or prosecution! Of