Shaykh asrar rashid biography of michael
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Imam calls for Muslim British armed forces boycott
A spokesman said: "Theologically speaking there is nothing that prevents a Muslim joining the British army. To date there are 350 serving Muslim officers, men and women, in the British Army."
He said that disrespecting the Queen, as the British head of state, was a "disgusting" thing for a Muslim to do.
"As Muslims we are ready to show respect to leaders. We may disagree with some of the things she might do and say but that does not give us the right to be insulting to her."
Zeeshan Hashmi, whose brother Jabron was the first British Muslim killed while fighting in Afghanistan, said: "I am privileged living in Britain. One of the key traits of living in this country and being a Brit is that we have free speech. Based on that the Imam can say all of these things living in a very free society.
"At the same time being an ex-solider and having lost my brother in Afghanistan, I can easily sympa
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Mikaeel Ahmed Smith
Shaykh Mikaeel Ahmed Smith (Michael V Smith) is an instructor at Qalam. He is a faculty member at the Qalam Seminary where he teaches Tafsir, Seerah, Aqeedah, and Hadith. He gives lectures and conducts various classes for the community. You can listen to him regularly on the Qalam Podcast.
Shaykh Mikaeel previously served as a resident scholar at the Islamic Society of Annapolis and the Islamic Society of Baltimore. He grew up in a deeply spiritual Christian home in Buffalo, NY. At the age of 18, he embraced Islam after reading the Qur'an and the Autobiography of Malcolm X, and then completed his memorization of the Qur'an.
In 2012, he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Islamic Studies at the Dar ul-Uloom Canada in Chatham, Ontario. He currently resides in Dallas, TX with his wife and three children.
Sheikh Mikaeel Ahmed Smith’s work on Prophetic Emotional Intelligence and Prophetic listening cultivated conversations in the muslim community about analyzing how t
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Above is a depiction of Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih and his army
“My choice of Muhammad [ﷺ] to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise readers and may be questioned bygd others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels.
Of humble origins Muhammad [ﷺ] founded and promulgated one of the great world religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive.
The majority of persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centres of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Muhammad [ﷺ], however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at the time a backward area of the world, far from the centres of trade, art and learning…
The Bedouin tribesman of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and p