Without a doubt, Muslims throughout the world today are in a crisis. Yet, at the same time there is a revival occurring amongst us. Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick addresses both of these very important issues by first reviewing some of the great revival movements of the past and then discussing the way in which we as an ummah can have similar success. He warns that the Shaitan takes certain steps to capitalize on the weakness of the Muslim by utilizing ten inroads to the heart. These inroads - envy, greed, and haste among them - are presented as a way for the Audiencebeliever to prevent the Shaitan from causing division and confusion between us, which will hinder the revival of Islam. Then the sheikh concludes by briefly prescribing the remedies for an already diseased heart.
Other topics discussed: the mulazima system (studying under a sheikh), making pledges, why the ummah is in such a fitnah today, the medhabs (schools of thought), and making hijrah (migration) today
Lecture Excerpts
"The leaders that were installed after the colonial period are people who defend the colonial system. They look like us, they have our languages, but they defend other laws than the laws of Allah; that's the reality."
Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick Ph.D. has travelled to more than 34 countries on lecture and educational tours. He embraced Islam in 1970 and thereafter pursued his studies at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed a BA from the College of Da'wah and Usul al-Din. He later read for his Masters degree and completed his PhD on the History of Islam in Africa at the University of Toronto, Canada. The focus of his thesis was the life of the great mujaddid of the 18th century, Shaykh Uthman Ibn Fudi (Usman dan Fodio), the Amir of the Sokoto Caliphate. Shaykh Ibn Fudi succeeded in combining the best of fiqh, theology and spirituality, and successfully developed an Islamic State.
Shaykh Abdullah Hakim has served as Imam, teacher and counselor in the USA, Canada and the West Indies. For three years he contributed to the religious page of Canada's leading newspaper. He is presently a Senior Lecturer at the Dar-ul-Arqam Islamic Institute and Director of the Da'wah Department of the Muslim Judicial Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
As the new millennium dawns, Islam is in need of innovative rethinking based on original, authentic Islamic sources. Shaykh Abdullah Hakim provides an example of this new, progressive Islamic thinking.
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