Antiperspirant Off Hands

A blond Sayyid, an English Shaikh, Facebook and the Prophet

Habib Allah - The Beloved of Allah Shaykh Ahmed Saad
/ Shaykh Zahir Mahmood
London, 4 February 2011

A lecture on Habib Allah, the prophets? I was a bit skeptical. Not that the issue would be unimportant. But after the fifth book, the seventh lecture, it seemed to me unlikely to learn much new things.

My skepticism was reinforced when I use the Lizzie in tow, entered the room and sat right next to the women and men. Hm I sat down with the women, the event had already begun, top of the podium sat and recited a very sonorous from the Quran. Slowly, the two officers arrived. They both wore long, loose white robes in dark green, earth brown, black, served with turban and beard. They were briefly introduced by a young student who wore a white beard on his mini-cap, long dark robe and sneakers. On Facebook he had the two had been identified, it was all so much easier today than before, Subhanallah!

One of the two speakers , a blond Sayyid from Egypt, who had studied at al-Azhar , Germany and California, spoke first. Sounded all very reasonable to. Then the second was my turn. Born in Britain, he had at various Islamic (high) schools studied in England, Pakistan and South Africa and finally put an undergraduate degree in theology from the University of Birmingham on it.

He made some really good comments:

The Islamic State: Now while it would be revolutionized in Egypt, many are speaking again of the Islamic state, as would happen if Egypt is an Islamic state, all good. He was not of such a black and white thinking: "Do not forget," said he, "an Islamic state, which is only from me and you whether and how well it depends on the people who live in it ".

to pluralism of opinions in Islam: The must be accepted." It's just me and my boys - and everybody else goes to hell "would not be easy the way to go

To categorize the Muslims in practitioners and non practitioners: ." Mashaallah , he practiced Islam "- which means that at all," he practices! ? It should, thus question the Shaykh, more often, as we speak actually. What you see that someone practiced? On beard? fact that he sometimes prays? The headscarf? (where he had probably most of the audience on your side - as he said, 'Especially if it "upstairs and downstairs hijab or Holly-Bollywood' is")

given how religion is often used as an excuse: How come . it, he said that so many are willing "to die for Islam," but not as many live, in line with Islam?

There he stood, then, the Shaikh of England, who had studied in South Asia, Africa and Central England, stood in his traditional robe, a turban and beard in the large, white-painted room, under his waxed floor, above him the stucco ceiling - and if that were not East and West in perfect harmony ... then I do not continue.