Tayyaba Masjid Jubilee Fundraiser – 24 June 2012
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Faith Forum – One Islam One Ummah (25.03.2012)
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Dr Talib Hussain Warsi and Paul Salahuddin Armstrong, Co-Director of The Association of British Muslims, discussing the topic “One Islam One Ummah” on Faith Forum; a wonderful discussion show on faith, religion, spirituality and current affairs on Hidayat TV, Sky 803 every Monday at 5:00 PM.
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Condolences on the passing of HRH Raja Ashman Shah
31/03/2012 3 Comments
By Paul Salahuddin Armstrong
Co-Director, The Association of British Muslims
Our deepest condolences to HM Sultan Azlan Shah and family on the sudden passing of HRH Raja Ashman Shah.
We ask Allah helps and supports the family of HRH Raja Ashman Shah, his wife and children, especially through what must at present be a difficult time for them.
A true prince, who dedicated his life enthusiastically, sincerely and devoutly to God and our Human Family, especially through his service within the Naqshbandi tariqat.
HRH Raja Ashman Shah died early on Friday of an asthma attack, shortly after offering his prayers and meditations to God.
May Allah bless his soul and raise him up in the congregation of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, on the Day of Reckoning, and grant him easy passage to the highest heavens.
We are very fortunate God blessed us with the presence and to be in the company of this wonderful prince and role model in our present age. May his memory live on and inspire others to the right path.
Video of HRH Raja Ashman Shah’s Funeral:
http://sufilive.com/HRH_Raja_Ashman_Shah_s_Funeral-4217.html
Memoriam of HRH the Late Raja Ashman Shah and His Legacy by Sheikh Hisham Kabbani:
http://www.sufilive.com/Memoriam_of_HRH_the_Late_Raja_Ashman_Shah_and_His_Legacy-4214.html
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Faith Forum – Human Family (19.03.2012)
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Dr Talib Hussain Warsi discussing our Human Family and Islam with Paul Salahuddin Armstrong, Co-Director of The Association of British Muslims on Faith Forum.
A wonderful discussion show on faith, religion, spirituality and current affairs on Hidayat TV, Sky 803 every Monday at 5:00 PM, UK time.
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Faith Forum – The Grave Matter (12.03.2012)
21/03/2012 1 Comment
Last week’s Faith Forum, the Grave Matter, with Dr Talib Hussain Warsi and Paul Salahuddin Armstrong, Co-Director of The Association of British Muslims. A wonderful discussion show on faith, religion, spirituality and current affairs on Hidayat TV, Sky 803 every Monday at 5:00 PM, UK time.
Valentine’s Day in Islam?
13/02/2012 8 Comments
By Paul Salahuddin Armstrong
Co-Director, AOBM
I was asked to share my views on Valentine’s Day. Personally, I really don’t see what’s the problem that some people seem to have with this celebration. The fact that it’s a Western, originally Christian festival is in all honesty, completely besides the point. We should celebrate Love everyday!
Many cultures have something similar, a day to celebrate love, to send a message of love to your beloved – a person whom you would like to marry or is already your husband or wife. Seriously, what’s wrong with that? What could possibly be wrong with that?
The only argument I’ve heard against Valentine’s Day, is the same one I hear about every other festival besides the two Eids – it’s not part of Islam. Well, sorry, if that’s the best these people can come up with, it’s a pathetic argument – cars and aeroplanes aren’t technically part of Islam either, but we still use them!
More to the point, a Muslim can celebrate any festival, even the social aspect of those of other religions, as long as this doesn’t mean they end up committing shirk – i.e. worshipping another deity besides God or associating partners with God – and this is the position of the mainstream scholars of Al-Azhar University in Egypt.
Indeed, for the vast majority of people who celebrate it, Valentine’s Day isn’t even that religious, rather it’s just a wonderful opportunity to show loved ones how much you appreciate them – which is something every Muslim should do anyway, even if they do not celebrate Valentine’s Day!
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Simone Weil: The Personal and Impersonal God and the Sanctity of the Atheist
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“As the Hindus say, God is at the same time personal and impersonal. He is impersonal in the sense that his infinitely mysterious manner of being a Person is infinitely different from the human manner. It is only possible to grasp this mystery by employing at the same time, like two pincers, these two contrary notions, incompatible here on earth, compatible only in God (the same applies to may other pairs of contraries, as the Pythagoreans had realised).
One is able to think of God at the same time, not successively, as being three in one (a thing which few Catholics manage to be able to do) only by thinking of Him at the same time as personal and impersonal. Otherwise one represents Him to oneself sometimes as a single divine Person, at other times as three Gods Many Christians confuse such an oscillation with true faith.
Saints of a very lofty spirituality, like St John of the Cross, has seized simultaneously and with an equal force both the personal and the impersonal aspects of God. Less developed souls concentrate their attention and their faith above all or exclusively upon one or the other of these two aspects. Thus little St Theresa of Lisieux only represented to herself a personal God.
As in the West the word God, taken in its usual meaning, signifies a Person, men whose attention, faith and love are almost exclusively concentrated on the impersonal aspect of God can actually believes themselves and declare themselves to be atheists, even though supernatural love inhabits their souls. Such men are surely saved.
They can be recognised by their attitude with regard to the things of this world. All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, including affliction – all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.
Those who possess perfectly these two virtues, even should they live and die atheists, are saints.
When one comes across such men, it is futile to want to convert them. They are wholly converted, thought not visibly so; they have been begotten anew by water and the spirit, even if they have never been baptised; they have eaten of the bread of life, even if they have never communicated.”
- from Letter to a Priest by Simone Weil (ISBN 0415267676)
