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Some mistakenly believe that commanding good and forbidding evil in Islam, i.e., al-'amr bi-l-ma`ruf wa-l-nahi `an al-munkar (i.e., hisbah) can only be undertaken and enforced by state...
Practical Islamic Governance: Regulating Drug Use
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Terror Entrapment in Canada
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Obama’s War Against Black People
How can we trust those who have spoken so highly of Obama -- fawning over his eloquence, his humor, his legacy, blah blah blech...
See! Obama Really Cares About Black Lives!
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How to Hack Someone’s Memories
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Police Hire PR Firms to Whitewash “Misconduct”
Usually following national media fallout regarding police once again murdering black men, there is a deliberate "pro-police" propaganda campaign on social media and elsewhere,...
Don’t Give Dirty Looks to the Man
Why do we see so many incidences of police being overly combative, violent, and brutalizing toward innocent people?
In America, black people are predominantly the...
Right Wing Support of the 2nd Amendment and BlueLivesMatter
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Making a Sex Offender: The (Non)Case of Maulana Abdullah Saleem
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الهوى والهدى
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Can the Previous Ummahs Prior to Islam Be Described as Following Islam?
A translation of Selected Portions from the Treatise:
Itmām An-Ni’mah fī Ikhtisās Al-Islām bi Hādhihi Al-Ummah
Hāfiz Jalāl-ud-Dīn Suyūtī rahimahullāh (d.911 AH)
Adapted & translated from:
Al-Hāwī lil...
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