A spiritual Ishmaelite

Category: Prophetic family and Sunni-Shia intrafaith

  • Givaudan and Swiss Arabian: How sunnah of alcohol free perfumes contributes to synthesis of civilizations

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·SATURDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2017
    Today someone brought Swiss Arabian alcohol free perfume in my house. I also learned that even Sola Scriptura scholars like Ibn Uthaymeen do not consider perfumes with alcohol content less than 1/20th part of it, to be forbidden according to divine commandments.
    God is beautiful and loves beauty according to Hadith, so the orthodox community should promote this sunnah to help promote a modernity-compatible super-traditionalism in the 21st century.
    We have a strain of mystic self neglect in the traditional culture which can occur in celibate forms of catholicism, but reviving sunnah has the heavenly reward equivalent to martyrs.

  • When a Shia brother quotes Companion Abdullah bin Abbas, may God be pleased with him  

    Abdullah bin Abbas may God be pleased with him has said: Never in history did the wife of any Prophet commit adultery.
    Ayatollah Nasir Makarem Shirazi quotes that and defends the chastity of Mothers of Believers.
    But militant and divisive Shia missionary Yasir Habib did not like that and said that Abdullah was not infallible and he was a disciple of Jewish convert Kab Al-Ahbar so he does not have any legitimacy.

  • Al-Atash: Dying with thirst in desert of karbala and the thirst for sacred knowledge

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2017
    Assalamu alaykum sister. I am an electrical engineer and a student of Tafsir, Hadith and Ahlulbayt from Pakistan and I am happy to know there are pak(pure) people in India who love the pak struggle of Imam Husain(as) against secular Muslim government of his time. Today I wept when I read the word Atash in wikipedia biography of Imam Daralqutni(r) in the context of thirst for sacred knowledge. فحُبب إليه طلب العلم وقد ساعده على ذلك مامنحه الله من تعطش شديد للمعرفة For example, Imam Husain(as) learnt the dua of qunut from his Nana, I guess, even before puberty. I wanted to tell my mother why I wept, but she could not recognize what Al-Atash means. I am happy that there are still modern educated sisters in the world who know Arabic words of religious significance. I like the approach of Zaydi Shias of Yemen who do not exaggerate in mourning and avoid public weeping which can become riya (pretentious worship) and self-mutilation. Dr. Ali Shariati an Ithna Ashari scholar has said that we should become Alawi Shia instead of becoming a Safawi Shia.I am happy that you are informed about history like Dr. Rajendra. God bless you. Imam Muhammad Al-Baqir(as) said: Our true Shia are those who do not disobey Allah and pray tahajjud. God bless you.

  • A Shia believer shares a story from a book about ten vanguard Companions

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·SATURDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2017
    A rare sacred manuscript unavailable on internet about the virtues of ten vanguard Companions. It’s name is Riyad An-Nazirah fi Manaqib Al-Asharah.
    My response to an Urdu-speaking Shia believer who shared that: Allah humain dono khazano se istifaday ki tawfiq de. Yeh kitab un 10 Ashab(r) ke baray me he jin ke baray me Shaheede Ahlebayt Hazrat Saeed bin Jubayr(r) farmatay he: Yeh 10 Namaz me apke peechay sab se qareeb hotay awr jang me apke agay apkay sab se qareeb hotay.
    May God allow us to benefit from both treasures of sacred knowledge. This book is about the virtues of the ten vanguard Companions about whom the martyr of Prophetic family, Saeed bin Jubayr, remarked: These ten were the vanguard both in the congregation and in the battlefield.

  •  A unifying story: Sitting together at the blessed pulpit and playing with pebbles

    The second Caliph of Islam and the Prophetic grandson sitting together on Prophetic pulpit.
    Ishmael Abraham
    أقلب حصى بيدي میرے ہاتھ مین کنکریان تھین جن کے ساتھ مین کھیلتا رہا
    Ye jumla zahir karta he ke Apka ikhtilaf dil lagi awr muhabbat per mabni tha.
    I kept playing with pebbles in my hand while sitting on the pulpit. This statement shows that the disagreement was based on humour and affection.
    Mufti Gulzar Naeem
    واہ اچھا ہے

  • A Shia believer tries to outwit me through sarcasm for being a dissenter of popular Shi’ism

    Ishmael Abraham
    Sean Stone: A convert to Islam with Jewish descent
    Ishmael Abraham Waqar Anwar
    Hussain Murtaza Waqar Anwar jumped off his chair the moment you tagged him on this post.
    Ishmael Abraham Sean became a Shia BTW.
    Ishmael Abraham But he loves Sunni Rumi too.
    Hussain Murtaza Rumi is frowned upon first and foremost by your beloved Salafis. Many Shi’a scholars, including Ayatullah Khomeini, openly expressed admiration for him.
    Ishmael Abraham But I have read riwayat of Ahlulbayt where they critcize Sufis like Salafi scholars as well. Ayatollah Borqei is an example of such a Salafi Shia scholar.
    Hussain Murtaza Please also tag Waqar Younis, he was one of the greatest fast bowlers Pakistan ever produced.
    Hussain Murtaza I know. The condemnation of Sufia is unanimously established among all of mainstream Islam, particularly Ithna Asharia. But what kind of Sufi, and for what reasons, is a subject to this condemnation is a question of much. Hence the case of Maulana Rumi becomes subjective. Personally I neither admire nor condemn him. Ishmael Abraham I neither admire nor condemn you

  • Night of Siffin: Dialogue with a religious Talmudic Jew regarding Zuckerberg, Shema and lost tribes

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·TUESDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2017

    Alperovich Anatoly Ishmael Abraham sorry , i had a post of lost tribes in afghan . I dont know why they deleted it
    Ishmael Abraham Israeli govt or fb admin?
    Alperovich Anatoly Lol. I think fb, it was Israeli post .
    Ishmael Abraham But Zuckerberg is Jewish too?
    Ishmael Abraham But he is secular.
    Alperovich Anatoly I will try to check now.
    Alperovich Anatoly Yes, i think he is .
    Alperovich Anatoly So… your tribesman as well .
    Alperovich Anatoly Tislam, Ishmael.
    Ishmael Abraham Shalom on truth seekers.  It is written in sacred Islamic texts that God will grant victory to children of Isaac peace be upon him without weapons through dhikr or reciting the remembrance of God by glorifying Him and His holy names. That’s why I told you never to forget reciting Shema before sleeping. Ishmaelite leader of saints Imam Ali(as) said that I did not forget reciting dhikr even during the night of battle of Siffin which was a civil war. So, do not forget that even in the most stressful and anxious days of your life until you die.
    Alperovich Anatoly Thank you for that , i remember .

  • Why Prophetic praxis of sunnah is superior to Kantian philosophy according to a feminist

    Kant was a lifelong celibate. Annette Baier emphasizes that “The great moral theorists in our tradition not only are all men, they are mostly men who had minimal adult dealings with (and so were then minimally influenced by) women.”
    Annette Baier, ‘Trust and Anti-Trust’ in Doing and Being: Selected Readings in Moral Philosophy, ed by Joram Graf Haber (New York: Macmillan, 1993) p362
    The interactive dealings of Prophetic praxis and Mothers of Believers with diverse backgrounds make Islamic tradition more feminist than western tradition.

  • Hasan bin Qahtaba: A soldier of conscience or Mouchesias the zealot

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·TUESDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2017

    الحسن بن قحطبة جندي الضميراو رجل متعصب
    Assalamu alaykum brother. May God reward you for the article. I would like to point out that historians of Byzantine empire commit the character assassination of Hasan bin Qahtaba as Mouchesias the Zealot which seems very implausible because a God-fearing man who takes the risk of execution to avoid the sin of murder cannot plausibly be guilty of forced conversion of minorities which is forbidden by Quran 2:256.
    His story of conscience:
    Muhammad Pure Soul rebelled against al-Mansur in Madina in 145 AH and was supported by the people of Khorasan and others but he was too far away for them to be able to help him. It is reported that in Madina, Malik issued a fatwa, permitting Muhammad to rebel. At-Tabari and Ibn Kathir state that he gave a fatwa commanding people to pledge allegiance to Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah and that when people said that they had already pledged allegiance to al-Mansur, he said that they had been forced and that a forced allegiance is not binding. So people pledged allegiance. Malik stayed in his house. The affair ended when Muhammad was slain, and the same fate befell his brother Ibrahim after he had rebelled in Iraq, takes several cities and attacked Kufa.
    Some people think that this alleged fatwa by Malik was the reason that he was flogged and injured. Abu Hanifa held an even stronger position about the matter than Malik. He openly supported them in his classes. Things reached the point where one of the generals of al-Mansur refused to go out to fight him. It is reported that al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba, one of al-Mansur’s generals, went to Abu Hanifa and said, “My situation is not hidden from you. Can I repent?”
    The Imam said, “If Allah knows that you regret what you have done. If you can choose between killing a Muslim and being killed yourself, choose your own death before his. Then you will have a contract with Allah if you do not go back on it. If you fulfil that, you have repented.”
    “I have done that,” said Hasan. “I make a contract with Allah that I will never again kill a Muslim.”
    Then Ibrahim ibn ‘Abdullah rebelled and al-Mansur com-manded Hasan to go against him. He went to the Imam and told him what had happened and he said, “The moment of your repentance has come. If you fulfil your promise, you have repented. Otherwise, you will be punished for the first and last.”
    So he was serious about his repentance, prepared himself for execution, and went to al-Mansur and said, “I will not go against this man. Allah is owed obedience in everything you do as far as you are able. I will have a fuller portion with Him. If it is disobedience, I am responsible.”
    Al-Mansur was angry and Hamid ibn Qahtaba, his brother, said, “We have suspected his mind for a year. He seems muddled. I will go. I am more entitled to excellence than him.” So he went. Al-Mansur asked one of his confidants, “Which faqih does he go to?” They said, “He frequents Abu Hanifa.”

  • The martyr Savonarola, contempt of the world and Ishmaelite theosophy

    The Gothic interior of Florence Cathedral is vast and gives an empty impression. The relative bareness of the church corresponds with the austerity of religious life, as preached by Girolamo Savonarola. In the unfinished treatise he left behind, later called “De contemptu mundi,” or “On Contempt for the World,” he calls upon readers to fly from this world of adultery, sodomy, murder and envy. Savonarola and two of his supporting friars were imprisoned. On 23 May 1498, Church and civil authorities condemned, hanged, and burned the three friars in the main square of Florence. Ishmaelite Prophetic descendant Imam Jafar As-Sadiq(as) interprets Quran 26:89 to mean that the only thing that will benefit in the next life is a clean heart which is not corrupted by love of the world. Most of his biographers reject or ignore the account of his younger brother and follower, Maurelio (later fra Mauro), that in his youth Girolamo had been spurned by a neighbour, Laudomia Strozzi, to whom he proposed marriage.