Shaykh Atabek Shukurov It has become necessary to embark on this article and others like it because under ideological and financial pressure from Salafis and other fringe elements, most Muslim groups purporting to follow ‘Classical Islam’ have instead falsified and fabricated astonishing amounts in its name. A prominent example is pretending that those hadiths, fatwas and…
Category: Quran
The Truth About The Study Quran: Part 1: The ‘Quransploitation Industry’
Written by Shaykh Atabek Shukurov and Sulaiman Ahmed The recent controversy over the release of ‘The Study Quran’ by Sayed Hossein Nasr and his team has really shown Muslims at their worst – both in their academic incompetence and in their readiness to anathematise and declare Nasr and others heretics and unbelievers based on the…
Islamic Blasphemy Laws and the Strange Case of Mumtaz Qadiri – Part 1
Written by Atabek Sukurov Edited by Muhammad Iqbal I often look at the online fatwas and talks of Islamic ‘scholars’ and wonder if perhaps they are deliberately trying to arm Islamophobes or to further garner harassment and vilification for Muslims with their bizarre pronouncements. What makes me really sad is that they never couch these…
Permissibility of Mortgages – An Open Letter to Sheikh Taqi Uthmani
In the name of God, most Merciful and most Compassionate For the Attention of: His Honour Sheikh Muhammad Taqi al-Uthmani (may God preserve him). Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. First and foremost, I would like to thank you for your services to Muslims generally and to students of knowledge specifically by…
Shaykh Atabek Shukurov an Nasafi 