Great Challenges Facing Every Muslim by Abdullah Hakim Quick
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We must look at ourselves internally because of the great fitnah we are going through today. Quoting the famous Qur'anic verse, "Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change that which is in themselves", Abdullah Hakim Quick suggests that we all have to do "house-cleaning" amongst ourselves, which is known as tajdid (the revival of Islam). A good starting point for this is a text dealing with this matter by a balanced 20th Century scholar by the name of Muhammad Al-Ameen Ash-Shanqeeti, which Sheikh Quick uses as an outline for this presentation. This respected West-African scholar provides ten great issues upon which the entire world revolves and which Muslims should be aware of if they are to begin this ambitious task of revival.
Other topics discussed: native Indian/African history in America, the movie "The Siege", social issues and peer pressure, Western influences on the Muslim world, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Sheikh Quick's acceptance of Islam, movements in prayer, Allah ordaining 500 prayers a day and then reducing it to five, signs of the last day, are shi'ite considered Muslims?, being proactive before the fitnah comes, Muslims stereotyping other people, telepathic communication, how the colonizers succeeded in conquering the native Indians, and stereotyping in the media.
Lecture Excerpts
"Part of being a Muslim and having a Muslim society is that we need to take care of the problems of the believers. If we leave these problems, we will not solve our greater issues."
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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