Blog Closing … PLEASE READ!!

just wanted to let everyone know i am pretty much closing down this blog. i will be involved in a couple of other projects and won’t have time to dedicate to this anymore. please take a couple of minutes for my parting notes.

first and foremost i ask your forgiveness if i have posted anything on here that has hurt anyone in anyway.

secondly, please check out a couple of new projects, namely,

muslimmatters.org - a group blog that will inshallah be very successful and features guest writers like yasir qadhi and tawfique chawdry. inshallah i will be posting whatever i would normally post on this blog on muslimmatters.

saheefah.org - will inshallah be an academic resource and reference point set up by a student who will inshallah be going to umm ul quraa.

aqeedah blog - i have linked to this before, but i think this is a really important project. according to the about page, there will be a full reference for everything regarding aqeedah (specifically tawheed) on this blog. i have sent my light upon light notes to be posted there as well inshallah.

lastly, i’d like to highlight a few important/popular posts that have been made on this blog before just for reference:

• Reviving abandoned sunnahs, and details on how to perform Istikharah
• Light upon Light notes
• Transcripts from Texas Dawah lectures
• Racial profiling of Muslims is a bad idea
• ISNA’s slaughtering of the Sunnah
• Success of the AlMaghrib model
• Napoleon from Tupac’s Outlawz converts to Islam
• Cute Kids reciting Quran

i might still post an occasional note on here from time to time as i know a lot of ppl may still be subscribed to this site via an RSS reader, but inshallah please do check out those 3 sites i mentioned and try to keep up with them as well.

if you have any comments or anything please feel free to post them on here.

Please check out the Aqeedah Blog

It seems like the Aqeedah Blog has gotten more active lately, and they are working on making a full aqeedah cirriculum starting. It is split into aqeedah 100, 101, 102, 201, and 202. According to the about page they are planning on making it more comprehensive and linking to English resources like Audio and books.  It seems like the 202 page has a lot more advanced stuff, but I hope once the other sections are rounded out, it will be a good reference point for anyone to learn aqeedah.

Interview with Ibn Uthaymeen’s Wife

this is a great read. it gives a glimpse into the side of the ulemma that we often never hear about. i find it especially so since he is a contemporary scholar, so it gives us some additional benefit and advice about how we should live our lives.

Click here to read.

Related previous post - ibn Uthaymeen’s janazah - raheemahullahu Ta’ala.

Vote For Me!

my racial profiling post has been nominated for a Brass Crescent Award.

Please GO HERE and vote for me. jazakallahu khayr.

New Islamic Search Engine

Google powered! Check it out!
This is a google search engine focused specifically on authentic Islamic sites.  To get an idea of what I mean by that you can check the links in my blogroll on the right side. Please post comments here about how you like it. I hope that it will become a resource for people to be able to quickly google islamic information without having to sift through all the loads of garbage that also comes up. I have also started adding sites to the exclusion list (like Hisham Kabbani’s website) to further enhance the results.

Please pass the word, inshallah if people like it then I will try to buy a domain pointing to it so that it’s easier to use. Please post your comments on this new project idea.