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Islamica Magazine – The Loss of Mercy — And Where To Find It

Faraz Rabbani, Former SunniPath Instructor

Islamica Magazine – The Loss of Mercy — And Where To Find It Through the Prophet’s character and behavior true gentleness and mercy can be seen manifest in action Sectarian bloodbaths in Iraq …

Dr. Ilyas Ba-Yunus – Pioneer MSA and ISNA Activist & Leader Passes Away

Faraz Rabbani, Former SunniPath Instructor

Ilyas Ba-Yunus – Pioneer MSA and ISNA Activist & Leader Passes Away – ISNA.net From one early orbituary note: For those who do not know him, Dr Ba-yunus was one of the early pioneers of MSA in the 60’s.

Habib Umar Bin Hafiz on Hajj and the New Islamic Year

AbdulKarim Yahya, SunniPath Instructor

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate What follows is a transcription of the translation of al-Habib Umar’s (Allah preserve him) first speech after he returned from Hajj this year.

Habib Umar’s Last Mawlid of 1428

abdulkarim

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate As-salamu alaykum, What follows is Habib Umar’s (Allah preserve him) talk from the mawlid last Thursday.

To housewife or not to housewife, that is the question

Khadija, SunniPath Course Assistant

Asslamu alikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu. Bissmillah. There is unrest in the SunniPath office. Or rather, there was when I promised to write this entry a while back.

2 Free Live Events this Weekend

Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager

Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatu Llahi This Saturday, SunniPath outreach will be hosting 2 free live events.

SP Monthly Oct 2008

Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager

Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatu Llahi Read below for the latest edition of the SP monthly, in which you will find the latest news about the staff and happenings at SunniPath. The SP Monthly Latest news…..from our desks to you…

SP Monthly Nov 2008

Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager

Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatu Llahi Read below for the latest edition of the SP monthly, in which you will find the latest news about the staff and happenings at SunniPath. The SP Monthly Latest news…..from our desks to you…

Don’t let Fall Pass You By

Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager

Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatu Llahi We have some short courses starting soon. One upcoming course is already full so hurry and register for those courses still open for registration.

SP Monthly Dec 2008

Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager

Assalamu Alaykum Read below for the latest edition of the SunniPath monthly. In this edition we have news on our Associates Degree, New Courses for Spring 2009…. If you can’t read this email properly, viewit in your brow…

Common Sense Has Died

Hedaya Hartford, SunniPath Instructor

assalam alaikum wa rahmatuLlah In the course the Successful Islamic Marriage, we spend a number of lessons discussing common marriage problems.

Showing off SunniPath

Zaheer Razack

I remember a few years ago I was trying to show off SunniPath to my father. I let him watch one of the live sessions with Shaykh Hamza Karamali on Shafi fiqh. It was the first class of the semester and he was teaching th…

The Patience of My Son

Zaheer Razack

Some time back I was showing my three-year-old son a short video on Youtube. I don’t often do this, so needless to say he was excited. The internet connection was slow so the video paused and the white circle in the midd…

Be with people as you want God to be with you

Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “There was once a merchant who would sell on credit.

Subway Station and Beliefs

Hammad Din, SunniPath TA & Student

At the beginning of SunniPath’s highly recommended Tahawi course, Shaykh Hamza used this analogy to make us understand the need to understand our beliefs.: “You woke up suddenly in a crowd of people at a subway station (…

The Hero of Andalus

Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate My son learned an initial version of this rhyme at an Islamic children’s story group in Kharabsheh. The heroic story of the great Muslim general, Tariq b.

A Rabi’ al-Awwal Gift

Abdul-Karim Yahya, SunniPath Instructor

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته وبعد فهذه صيغة صلاة على النبي محمد صلى الله عليه وآله وصحبه وسلم للحبيب عمر بن حفيظ وأوصى بالإكثار منها في شهر مولده صلى الله عليه وسلم As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh This …

Johannesburg Reflections

AbdulKarim Yahya, SunniPath Instructor

“The beauty of knowledge appears on the face when the heart is adorned with adab towards the Real (alHaqq).” - Habib Umar in a meeting with a group of South African scholars this morning.

Humiliation

Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate Humiliation Toil to glory, ambitions raise, dream your story, chase their praise, win, succeed, defeat, amaze, speed on in heady, hazy daze. “Witty!”, “Smart!”, “Stro…

Shifa’s End

Qays

Allah’s is the praise! This year’s Shifa program has come to it’s conclusion. It was truly an honour to serve so many believers from so many different backgrounds and places. The people who travel to seek knowledge reall…

CNN Interview with Shaykh Abdul-Karim Yahya

Raidah Shah Idil, Outreach

Assalamualaykum wa rahmatullah! Take a look at this CNN interview of Shaykh Abdul-Karim Yahya.