عن زيد بن وهب قال: "رحلت إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فقبض وأنا في الطريق"

Zayd bin Wahb said, "I was travelling to the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and he passed away while I was on the way"

[mentioned by Al-Khateeb in his Al-Rihla fee Talab al Hadith]

A great new academy. I had the pleasure of sitting in shaykh Omers muwatta durus and found them to be really good.

https://x.com/Talweeh_Academy/status/1873450445827649859

The telegram: https://t.me/TalweehAcademy

اللهم بارك لنا في شامنا

Quite possibly one of the worst feelings ever has to be being so busy that you don't have enough time to sit down and do any focused reading.

(this is an obv first world problem, so pls don't take this literally)

Mawlana Zeeshan Chaudri and Mufti Muntasir Zaman have released a book on gender interaction. I have yet to read it, but knowing of the authors, it'll be well worth a read

Sh Harun Saleh, in my opinion, has one of the most beneficial telegram channels. It's well worth a follow, if you're not already doing so

On the ruling of capital punishment for apostasyOne of the objections to the shariah is the punishment for apostasy which is to be administered by a legitimate legal authority after due process is given and time is given for the one convicted of apostasy to speak to scholars to come back to Islam.

The justification for this ruling is clear by revelation and intellect. Anyone would accept that if someone is actively killing others it is justified to stop them even if it means executing them. For the one who openly apostates, they are directly endangering the afterlife by risking pushing them into an eternity of hell. Surely this is a worse action than actively killing others which anyone would accept justifies execution and so it is more obvious that apostasy necessitates such a ruling.

One might say they don’t believe in hell so it’s not justified. However that is like saying you don’t believe in private property and so that justifies you taking other peoples things because in reality it does not belong to anyone. No judge will take your beliefs into consideration since you are aware of what paradigm the law you live under is built on. Same thing in a Muslim country. You know the paradigm that the laws are running on.

Therefore, just as it is not logical to object to punishment in a legal system you live under simply because you do not believe in an ontological point that legal system assumes it to is not logical to object to a ruling of the shariah which logically follows the ontological points it presumes to be true.

The real issue is to discuss why Islam is the correct religion and not this tertiary point because if Islam is true this ruling makes sense by logic just as it is established by revelation.

While this presentation may not be enough for someone to be fully convinced or accept this ruling, it is enough to get them thinking and push them to logically address the argument rather than appealing to emotion. Other considerations would have to be taken when defending this ruling but this is one of them.

This also requires one has patience and is able to break things down to people easily since many who claim to be rational thinkers will be exposed as simplistic people by their inability to process a simple argument and will opt for appeals to emotion instead.

For those who don't understand -- the night cannot start unless the sun sets...

I hope this clarification was unnecessary...

In other words...avoid twitter/x ?