Help us build a home for SIIASI!

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As Salaamu Alaykum, in our effort to establish a center in Mali we have an excellent opportunity to purchase land and property in the ancient city of Djenne where we can establish a zawiya, madrasa (school), and free clinic.

The property and land include a twelve room hotel and adjacent land large enough to construct a school and clinic. The objective of SIIASI (the Sankore Institute of Islamic-African Studies International) is to establish:

The objective of SIIASI (the Sankore Institute of Islamic-African Studies International) is to establish:

[1] an Islamic madrasa where the Qur’an and Sunna can be learned and taught in accordance with highest ideals of our African Muslim ancestors.

[2] a free clinic for women and children where traditional Chinese medicine is practiced and taught utilizing the latest techniques in healing accompanied with Prophetic medicine.

[3] a spiritual Zawiya where dhikr (remembrance of Allah), fikr (critical thinking & reflection) and training in martial arts.

We have more than twenty-six scholars of Djenne committed to helping us in this endeavor.

We have also set up a LaunchGood Campaign to raise funds specifically for this effort and your financial support and dua are greatly needed to achieve our goals.  Once the campaign is approved and goes

Once the campaign is approved and is launched we humbly ask that you support it with your wealth and by telling everyone that know shares the concern and can donate financially.

 May Allah give success to all of our sincere efforts to attain His good pleasure and benefit everyone in these times. Ameen

Ramadan Mubarak!

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The Legal Consideration of the Jurist is More General Than the Spiritual Consideration of the Sufi

Shaykh Muhammad Al Amin

At-Tafriqa; First Chapter, Fifth Section

Then realize that the legal considerations of the jurist (nadhr’l-faqeeh) are more general and comprehensive than the spiritual considerations of the Sufi.

It is for this reason that it is valid for the jurist to object (inkaar) to some of the teachings of the Sufi, but it is not valid for the Sufi to object to the legal rulings of the jurist.

It is further, incumbent to resort from tasawwuf to jurisprudence, but it is not necessary to resort from jurisprudence to tasawwuf with regard to legal judgments, but not with regard to leaving a lawful action. Then realize that the science of tasawwuf for the transformation of character is required to be given and transmitted to everyone.

Shehu Uthman Ibn Fuduye’

As Salaamu Alaykum,

The Tafriqa of Shehu Uthman ibn Fuduye` is an early text on the science of Sufism, written during the beginning of the reform movement that resulted in the establishment of the SOKOTO CALIPHATE, the largest most successful Islamic polity in Africa.

The text is called:

at-Tafriqa Bayna `Ilm ‘t-Tasawwuf Alladhi Li ‘t-Takhalluq wa Bayna `Ilm ‘t-Tasawwuf Alladhi li ‘t-Tahaqquq wa Madaakhil Iblees.

(The Distinction Between the Science of Tasawwuf for Character Transformation and the Science of Tasawwuf for Divine Realization & the Incursions of Ibless into the Souls).

You can read Shaykh Muhammad Shareef’s translation Here>>

SIIASI

The Essential Shehu

In 1774, a young Turudbe Fulani man named Shehu Uthman Dan Fuduye’ began a social revolution that would change the entire map of Western, Central and Eastern Bilad’s-Sudan. Shehu Uthman began his career by traveling throughout the villages and metropolis of Hausaland, calling the people to the religion of Islam. His methodology of reforming Hausaland included going to the markets and singing Fulbe and Hausa songs to writing Arabic texts addressing the many social ills which affected the people. The

The blameworthy characteristics, which he rose to correct, were: the persistent pagan customs that prevailed among Muslims and non-Muslims alike; the heretical innovations that the evil scholars allowed to proliferate among the people; the injustice of the rulers; and the illicit behavior and immorality that afflicted family and community life. Shehu Uthman initiated the practice of teaching as he learned.1

Thus, around him there emerged a cadre of learned colleagues who shared his zeal for erudition and reform. Among these colleagues were his brother Abdullahi, his best friend Umar Kammi, and many of his sons and daughters – like Muhammad Bello, Muhammad Sanbu, Khadija and Nana Asma’u.

Whenever the Shehu recognized that an issue was unresolved or not clear to his colleagues, he would set out immediately to compose a book dealing with the fundamentals of that issue. Thus, around him grew a very learned group of men and women, who were inspired to spread education and reform as the Shehu had done.

To read More of Shaykh Muhammad Shareef’s excellent intro to the Shehu,

Click Here>>