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If you prefer to read easily digestible and memorisable paragraphs instead of bullet points for your daily Maliki fiqh inquiries and if you have already completed Ashmawiyah and Akhdari, I suggest this book. Another advantage this book has is that it
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“It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make it in punishing.”
—Prophet Muhammad
from Joel Hayward, The Leadership of Muhammad”
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—Prophet Muhammad
from Joel Hayward, The Leadership of Muhammad”
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“"The indictment [the Western/modern question, 'Why be moral?'] also issued from a gross underrating of the 'moral' force that was regarded within the Islamic tradition as an essential and integral part of the 'law.' At the foundation of this underrating stood the observer's ideological judgement about religion (at least the Islamic religion), a judgment of repugnance, especially when religion as a moral and theological force is seen to be fused with law. The judgement, in other words, undercuts a proper apprehension of the role of modernity as a legal form, of its power and force. Historical evidence [in modernity/Enlightenment thought and its intellectual progeny] was thus made to fit into what makes sense to us, not what made sense to a culture that defined itself -- systematically, teleologically, and existentially -- in different terms. This entrenched repugnance for the religious -- at least in this case to the 'Islamic' in Muslim societies -- amounted, in legal terms, to the foreclosure of the possibility of considering the force of the moral within the realm of the legal, and vice versa. Theistic teleology, eschatology, and socially grounded moral gain, status, honor, shame, and much else of a similar type were reduced in importance, if not totally set aside, in favor of other explanations that 'fit better' within our preferred, but distinctively modern, countermoral systems of value. History was brought down to us, to the epistemological here and now, according to our own terms, when in theory no one denies that it was our historiographical set of terms that ought to have been subordinated to the imperatives of historical writing.”
― The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
― The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
“There is something about the universality of Islam that is unique and truly universal. It is a universality that transcends the concept of universality that is limited to the world of sense and sensible experience.”
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“If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.”
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“Do not be deceived! The world in its entirety cannot replace a lost day of your youth.”
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