A Muslim Convert Once More

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   Imam Muhammad Sa`id ibn Muhammad Ramadhan al-Buwthi ( r.a. ), was born of Kurdish descent in 1350 AH / 1931 CE.  He was born in the village of Jilka.  He migrated to Damascus with his family when he was four years old.  The son of one of the foremost Shafi’i scholars of his time, Mulla Ramadhan ( r.a. ), he studied Arabic grammar, logic, and philosophy with his father, as well as Shafi’i jurisprudence and fundamentals of Islamic law and faith, and after graduating from the al-Tawjih al-Islami Institute of Damascus.   He then traveled to Cairo and joined the Faculty of Religion at al-Azhar.   He acquired the International Certificate in 1955.   The following year, he joined the faculty of Arabic Language at al-Azhar and acquired a Diploma at the end of the same year before returning to Syria.   He was appointed as dean in the Faculty of Religion at Damascus University in 1960, and deputed to al-Azhar Univ...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   The following is a transcript of a discourse delivered by Mawlana Wafi’ Muhammad.   We have spoken of the importance of cultivating faith in our hearts.   We remind ourselves of what Allah ( s.w.t. ) Tells us:   سُوۡرَةُ الحُجرَات ۞ قَالَتِ ٱلۡأَعۡرَابُ ءَامَنَّا‌ۖ قُل لَّمۡ تُؤۡمِنُواْ وَلَـٰكِن قُولُوٓاْ أَسۡلَمۡنَا وَلَمَّا يَدۡخُلِ ٱلۡإِيمَـٰنُ فِى قُلُوبِكُمۡ‌ۖ وَإِن تُطِيعُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ ۥ لَا يَلِتۡكُم مِّنۡ أَعۡمَـٰلِكُمۡ شَيۡـًٔا‌ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَفُورٌ۬ رَّحِيمٌ (١٤)   The desert Arabs say, “We believe.”   Say, “You have no faith; but you (only) say, ‘We have submitted our wills to Allah,’ for not yet has faith entered your hearts.   But if you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not belittle aught of your deeds: for Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful.” (Surah al-Hujraat:14)   If we have true faith in your heart it will manifest throughout our entire personality and wh...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The fourth chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew contains two quite distinct sections.   The first half, until verse eleven, is the account of the Temptation of Jesus ( a.s. ) by the Satan.   The second section deals with Jesus’ ( a.s. ) early Galilean ministry and the gathering of his first disciples.   Matthew 4:1-11 1 And now Jesus was led by the Spirit away into the wilderness, to be tempted there by the devil.   2 Forty days and forty nights he spent fasting, and at the end of them was hungry.   3 Then the tempter approached, and said to him, “If thou art the Son of God, bid these stones turn into loaves of bread.”   4 He answered, “It is written, Man cannot live by bread only; there is life for him in all the words which proceed from the Mouth of God.”   5 Next, the devil took him into the holy city, and there set him down on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 saying to him, “If thou art the Son of...