On Seeing and Being Seen: A Discourse on the Two Clauses of Iḥsān
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ A man in the circle said: “Mawlana, I have heard our…
Shādhulī in the Bāṭin: On the Inward Lineage of the BāʿAlawī Way
Being the written reply of a shaykh to a seeker’s letter concerning the BāʿAlawī way’s…
Gecko Questions and Reflections
A student asked me recently about the hadith on killing geckos. My first answer was…
السيدة ليلى والقادرية — Sayyida Laila, Umm Hisham – and the Qadiriyya
English follows السيدة ليلى، أمّ هشام، والقادرية القرافة الصغرى — القاهرة وُلدت السيدة ليلى محمد…
al-allama al-marhum Shaykh Seraj Hassan Hendricks
Obituary and short biography Shaykh Dr Hisham, a noted scholar and academic of politics &…
Counsel For Students of Knowledge Regarding COVID-19
First published on SeekersGuidance on 19 Mar, 2020 Divine Wisdom Verily, in every situation, there…
The Etiquette (Adab) of the Visitation (Ziyara) of the Prophet ﷺ
First published on SeekersGuidance on the 19th November 2019 The Sacred Signs of God The…
Clarifying the issue of talfiq in Islamic law
In their personal lives, are Muslims required to perform taqlid [practice by way of imitation]…
Responding to the New Zealand Massacre
First published on SeekersGuidance on 18 March 2019 How Muslims should respond to the New…
Shaykh Emad Effat – Shaykh of the Revolution, Martyr of al-Azhar
First published on SeekersGuidance on 16 Dec, 2018 Seven years ago today, Shaykh Emad Effat…