Written by © Atabek Shukurov Edited by Muhammad Iqbal Last year, one of my students has published a statement from me about the time of three prayers ‘Maghrib, Isha and Fajr‘ when there is no time of Isha. I think readers still remember the mess that created by Drama Queens from the UK as well Canada…
Burning Gays and Beating Wives: The Abuse of Discretionary Punishment By Muslims
Written by © Atabek Shukurov Edited by Muhammad Iqbal In light of my previous article, which clarified that there is no death penalty (nor necessarily any kind of physical punishment or incarceration) for even public and witnessed homosexuality in Islamic law, which I was compelled to release after the tragic shooting at the ‘Pulse’ nightclub…
ISIS via Ibn Taymiyya and Avicenna
Written by © Atabek Shukurov Edited by Muhammad Iqbal The Prophet Muhammad PBUH was very concerned to avoid any type of ‘mess’ as much as he could. For example in order to avoid academic mess he said; ”Talk to the people on the level they can understand! Don’t let the truth which is from God and…
Islamic Law, Homosexuality and the ‘Pulse’ Massacre
Written by © Atabek Shukurov Edited by Tariq Nazir, 13/3/21 Recently we met ‘Ikrima the Liar’ in the incident of the Governor of Punjab and his killer. I spoke about the Islamic verdict on non-Muslims insulting the Prophet PBUH in a Muslim land. I demonstrated the opinion of Abu Hanifa (i.e that such people are not…
Ikrima as ”Imam” of Modern Hanafis
Written by © Atabek Shukurov Edited by Muhammad Iqbal I can see that people are spreading the opinion of non-qualified people about the reliability of Ikrima according to Abu Hanifa and Hanafis. In order to ‘prove’ this falsehood they are using the following ”proofs”; 1. Abu Hanifa said that he took from several ‘great’ scholars…
Issues related to the Prayer
Written by © Atabek Shukurov Edited by Muhammad Iqbal Last year I had to release an article to explain the Hanafi position concerning the issue of praying Maghrib, Isha and Fajr when there is no time of Isha (a situation occurring at certain climes due to the absence of true night – for example, in the UK during a couple of months of the summer season, it…
Rejecting Maturidi for Bukhari
Written by © Atabek Shukurov Edited by Muhammad Iqbal After releasing our article about the famous Sunni theologian Imam Abu Mansur Al Maturidi’s rejection of a story about the Prophet Moses being made to run around naked by God to prove he had a ‘perfect body’, which is narrated by Bukhari and others, I was…
The Truth About ‘The Study Quran’ Part 2: Al-Maturidi and Who Are The Theological Modernists?
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…
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…
رسالة إلى الشيخ تقي العثماني في حكم المورتكيج
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إلى سماحة الشيخ محمد تقي العثماني حفظه الله السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته أولا وقبل كل شيء أود أن أشكركم على اهتمامكم بخدمة الدين وخدمة طلبة العلم خاصة والمسلمين عامة بتأسيس المدارس والمساجد ونشر العلم أما بعد , فإنه مما لا شك فيه أن العالم بشكل عام يمر بمراحل اقتصادية صعبة…
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 