(Let Me Call) My Lord On Thee
This song, sung by Nader Khan, is the English translation of a poem written by Yunus Emre (1240-1320), one of the most famous Sufi poets who has made a great impact on the Turkish-Muslim culture. This poem is at essence an entreaty to God, by means of the intercession of those things and people that are deemed to be close to God Almighty, such as the rocks and the mountains,  and the Prophets of ...

The Last Days of the Prophet
Friday sermon - Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad - Cambridge - 11th March 2011 - 25mins 23secs  [audioplayer mp3="/images/upload/media/last-days-of-the-prophet2295343280.mp3" ogg="/images/upload/media/last-days-of-the-prophet2295343280.mp3.ogg" width="634"][/audioplayer]   Martin Luther King Junior once said that "the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,...

On Seeking the Night of Destiny (Laylatul Qadr)
Rather than mechanistically looking at the last ten nights as a gambling of a limited supply of worshiping energy, scarcely interspersed here and there, and wrestling with ourselves on whether tonight is an odd night or an even night depending on which moon-sighting system was used, we can save ourselves some stress by considering Laylatul Qadr and what it means to be a sincere worshiper. At the h...

The Virtues of the Last Ten Days
Aisha noted that "Allah's Messenger used to exert himself in devotion during the last ten nights to a greater extent than at any other time." (Muslim) and that with the start of the last ten days of Ramadan, the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) used to tighten his waist belt (i.e. work harder) and used to pray the whole night, & used to keep his family awake for the prayers. (Bukhari)  Ibn `...

Learn About His Words
  LastProphet WebPortal for children, SeerahForKids, now has a book of Hadith in English.  The narrations are specially prepared for children to understand with illustrations. Asim dede, a friendly grandfather, welcomes children to gather around to hear stories about the Prophet Muhammad, sal Allahu alayhi wa Salaam, and learn lessons from his blessed life and doings....

Omar Qureshi at Rihla
Omar Qureishi  -- taught Shafi’i fiqh and aqeedah classes at Rihla 2013, lives in Chicago.  On the Blessings of Sirah and Hadith Studies Studying the Sirah is incredibly important because living in the modern world, in the West where all types of narratives and stories are put into question, human beings are living in communities where there is no narrative at all. They’re not able to make sense ...

Imam Afroz Ali at the Rihla 2013
Imam Afroz Ali is the managing director for Seeker’s Hub Global, which is a partnership between Seeker’s Hub of Toronto, Canada (under the leadership of Shaykh Faraz Rabbani) and al-Ghazali Centre based in Sydney, Australia. Sirah and Hadith The lifestory of the Prophet is incredibly important, and is the basis on which we should understand our own lives. Today, this is a dying science – Sirah ha...

Humza Maqbul Chaudhry at Rihla 2013
Humza Chaudhry was born in Whittier, California. He pursued a program of traditional Islamic studies. His educational tour took him to several countries, including Syria and Egypt, where he studied the Arabic language; Morocco, Mauritania, and UAE, where he studied the ethical and legal school (madhhab) of Imam Malik, grammar, transmissional criticism (usul al-hadith), and the Qur'anic recitation...

Imam Jamal Zahabi at Rihla 2013
While in Konya for the Rihla 2013, your LastProphet editor met with several scholars and interviewed them.  First in a series of transcripted interviews is one with Imam Jamal Zahabi, a scholar who was born in Lebanon and currently lives in Canada, who taught a course on Innovation in Islamic Law: On the Study of Sirah and Hadith Definitely, overall, as Muslims we are lacking our teachings a gre...

Abdul-Hakim Murad at Rihla
LastProphet continues this series of transcripts of interviews with scholars who taught in Konya during Rihla 2013. Ustadh (an Arabic respectful term for teacher) abdul-Hakim Murad needs little introduction - Professor T.J. Winters, better known as abdul-Hakim Murad, teaches Islamic studies at Cambridge University, and studied both at al-Azhar and with traditional scholars from the Yemen while li...

Kelam Publishing: Prophet's Last Sermon in 9 Languages
Kelam Yayinlari (Kelam Publishing House) has just republished the Prophet's Farewell Sermon in nine languages. The cover page describes the book as "All Humanity's Prophet: Hz Mohammed's Farewell Khutbe - Human Rights Declared Fifteen Centuries Ago: Hz. Mohammad Adresses All Humanity"

The translations are handled by numerous professors and scholars, and the English translation by Professor Dr Bule...

Rihla 2013: Konya
Last weekend, LastProphet editor Dawud Helleman was in Konya for the Rihla. Some early reflections (interviews and thoughts to be posted later): Konya is an ancient city, a history stretching back to the Byzantine city of Iconium and perhaps before to the nearby site of Catalhoyuk, an ancient human construction. Our teacher, professor Tim Winters (best known as Abdul-Hakim Murad) spoke of the ...