2018 Ramadan Calendar

Divine Harmony – Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui RA

In my old age, I have undertaken the present world tour, with all its attendant hardships, only with the mission of delivering the message of peace and goodwill to my fellow beings so that they might be able to avoid conflicts and quarrels and to live in harmony. After years of serious thinking, I have […]

What is Islam? Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui RA

Alhamdu Lillahi-l-lazee hadaana lihaaza wama kunna linahtadiya lawtaa an hadaan-Allah wahdahu laa na’budu illa Iyyah. Nashhadu an-laa Ilaaha Illah wa nash-hadu anna Sayyidana wa Habeebana wa shafee ana wa Maulana Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa Rasuluh. Allazee la Shafee’a fil kawnayni siwaa. Amma ba’dufa inna a’azza min qaa ilil qattal. Wabi Qawlihi Yahtadil Muhtadun. Wa lza quri […]

Ijtihad & Mujtahid – Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui RA

From Ch. VI, “The Codification of Islamic Law” published by Haji Mohammed Ibrahim, Trinidad, 1950 This island of Trinidad enjoys British administration and is governed by British Law. Those who wish to enter any such Government service here, which is concerned with the administration of law, are bound to qualify themselves with knowledge of British […]

Islamic Ideal – Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui RA

(Extracts from a speech delivered in London at the Islamic Cultural Centre 1st March 1950) Sisters and Brothers: According to Islamic teaching, every Muslim must act as a born missionary. For, Muslims have been described in the Holy Quran as the “best of nations” on the ground that “they enjoin what is right and forbid […]

Glad Tidings & Warnings – Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui RA

(An extract from a sermon delivered on the occasion of Eid ul Fitr by His Late Eminence Maulana Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi (R.A.) at the Jama Masjid,Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1950) My Friends, here let me give you an important warning. Beware! You have earned a spiritual treasure during Ramadhan. Take care! Just as […]

Principles of Islam – Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui RA

The beautiful panorama of the heavens and the earth which we see around us carries in its bosom the testimony that it is the creation of a Great Artist. The existence of teaches us, leads us to the belief in the existence of a Supreme Power and a Supreme Intelligence who is responsible for this […]

The forgotten path of knowledge – Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui RA

The subject under discussion is “The Forgotten Path of Knowledge”. We would, therefore, start by defining the word “Knowledge”. We would define it as “clear perception of a truth or a fact”. Again, “Knowledge” is not an “end”, but a “means” to an end, and the immediate human end seems to comprise the acquisition of […]

Quest for True Happiness – Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui RA

Man’s Limitation Complex and complicated problems confront man in his day-to-day life, and he is always plunged in anxiety to discover their solution. This is so, because human life is, in its very nature, complex. On the one hand, man possesses an unlimited urge for scaling the loftiest heights of ambition and of attaining the […]

A Shavian & A Theologian – Illuminating Conversation

A SHAVIAN AND A THEOLOGIAN An illuminating conversation between George Bernard shaw (The sceptic) & His Eminence Mohammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqui (The spritualist) HIS Eminenece Mohammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqui Al-Qaderi, the eminent Muslim divine, who was on a visit to Mombasa, interviewed George Bernard Shaw, world-revnowed Irish savant, who was passing through on his way […]