History 1-on-1 Imam Zaid’s About to Regulate

The poet said, “Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.
Let’s take a closer look at this insanity.
Watch the TV, play the tape,
The latest chapter in the great escape,
Look at Spock out trekking stars,
Forget the Earth and her petty wars.
A country of R2s, D2s, a world of Darth Vaders,
The Senate makes less money than the Oakland Raiders,
The [...]

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Imam Zaid, Dr. King, and Obama

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more [...]

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Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad – Food For Thought

So, while embarrassed by the large number of large people in conservative places of worship, people of faith need to raise their voices here. There is a national obesity epidemic, now affecting one in five British adults – and counting. Only yesterday, a new study showed that obesity is socially contagious, in that friends [...]

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Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad – Contentions 12

Kufr: to see the sun setting, and to do nothing about it.
The beginner feels gratitude for the rukhsa in his mind. The advanced seeker feels gratitude for the rukhsa in his heart. The saint never takes the rukhsa at all.
  Your nafs will never receive exactly what it wants.

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