Shaikh siraj biography of michael
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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
The following is adapted from Shaykh Siraj ad-Din Abu Bakr Martin Lings’ (q.s.) Life & Work. It was in turn adapted from Michael Fitzgerald’s “In Memoriam: Dr. Martin Lings”.
Shaykh Martin Lings (r.a.) was a leading member of the Traditionalist or Perennialist school and an acclaimed author, editor, translator, scholar, Arabist, and poet whose work centred on the relationship between God and man through religious doctrine, scripture, symbolism, literature, and art. He was an accomplished metaphysician and essayist who often turned to a number of the world’s great spiritual traditions for examples, though he is most likely best known for his writings on Islam and its esoteric tradition, Sufism.
Shaykh Martin Lings (r.a.) was born in Lancashire, England, in 1909 and received both his BA and hi
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Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini
12th century scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence
Abū Hafs Sirāj al-Dīn al-Bulqīnī (Arabic: أبو حفص سراج الدين البلقيني; c. 1324–1403 CE); also known as just Sirajuddin al-Bulqini was an Egyptian scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence. Regarded as the foremost leading Shafi'ijurist of his time.[3] He was known to have reached ijtihad in the science of jurisprudence.[4]
He is a prominent scholar of the famous al-Bulqīnī family, which was an influential dynasty of Shāfiʿī judges, law professors, and administrators in Mamlūk Syria and Egypt. They were renowned for being the house of knowledge, virtue, leadership and generosity.[5]
Early life
[edit]He was born in the August 4th of 1324 CE. He memorized the Noble Qur'an when he was seven years old, which was a young age that only a few scholars ever did. He also memorized "Al-Muharir" in jurisprudence, "Al-Kafi" in grammar by Ibn Malik, and Mukhtasar Ibn Al-Hajib in Usul al-Fiqh an
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Siraj Wahhaj
American imam
Siraj Wahhaj (Arabic: سراج وهّاج; born Jeffrey Kearse; March 11, 1950) is an African-Americanimam of Al-Taqwamosque in Brooklyn, New York and the leader of The Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA). [1][2] He was also the former vice-president of the Islamic Society of North America.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Wahhaj was born as Jeffrey Kearse and raised in Brooklyn. His mother was a nurse and his father a hospital dietitian. He went to church regularly and went on to become a Sunday school teacher as a teenager in a Baptist church.[4]
In 1969 he ended his schooling and joined the Nation of Islam, changing his name to Jeffrey12x.[4] During this time he was vocal in his belief that “white people are devils." He said of this, “I preached it. inom taught it.” While Wahhaj acknowledges the black pride instilled in him from the Nation of Islam, he concedes that pride went too far when he began