Shaikh ‘Abdul-Muhsin al-’Abbad Sick

I was browsing on Facebook yesterday and noticed that my good friend, Ali Sabir, had posted a link to a video on the FIKS (Fundamentals of Islam & Seminary) website. The video had a message and request from one of the brothers from the organization, Abu Taubah, for visitors to supplicate to Allah for Shaikh ‘Abdul-Muhsin bin Hamad al-’Abbad; may Allah preserve, protect him, and give him good health.

“Atheism Is Definitely An Acquired Position”

Back in May, SalafiManhaj.com posted up a news bulletin titled Children Are Believers In God, Academic Claims. The bulletin was a short article taken from the Telegraph that told of a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind named Dr. Justin Barret who “claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being because they assume that everything in the world was created with a purpose.”

Salafism, Do You Really Get It?

I had originally began this article a few months ago in hopes that it would be completed well before Ramadân. Circumstances however, have prevented its completion until fairly recently. I’ve been waiting on some feedback from some brothers I sent the completed article to before; so far only a few brothers have responded with their input. I thought, however, that I’d post it now despite not hearing back from some of them, since most of the feedback I was getting while working on it was fairly positive.

Saudi Gazette: Americans flocking to Kingdom to learn Islam

Americans flocking to Kingdom to learn Islam
Monday, 03 August 2009 – 12 Shaban 1430 H
By M. Nasir Jawed

MAKKAH – The growth and spread of Islam to every nook and corner of the world could almost be witnessed in the Umrah-cum-knowledge trip of not less than 75 men and women from America. The group, with several converts to Islam, made pilgrimage to the Two Holy Mosques between July 16-Aug. 3.

Senior scholars of Saudi Arabia, including the Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz Aal-Sheikh, gave lectures and taught the aspiring learners various sciences of Islam. All seminars were translated bit-by-bit for the American audience.

The trip is organized every year by Al-Qur’an wa As-Sunnah Society of New York (www.albaseerah.org), which is engaged in inviting people to Tawheed and Sunnah. The Society has held several seminars that has featured nearly 50 prominent scholars.

Newsweek: Why Fears Of A Muslim Takeover Are All Wrong

Much thanks to Abdulhaq from SalafiManhaj.com for showing me this article. It’s a pretty good read on dispelling a notion that is being propagated by alarmists hostile towards Muslims and Islam (this video is just one such example of the propaganda that’s out there). Titled Why Fears Of A Muslim Takeover Are All Wrong, it puts things into perspective.

QSSC Needs Some Help

A message and request from the Qur’an & Sunnah Society of Canada sent today: