Islam & the World: Highlights of the History and Achievements of Muslims
Abdullah Hakim Quick
This lecture series takes a look at the history of Islam, it’s spread from the times of the Prophet Muhammad(saw) and it’s influence on the rest of the world.

 

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Aboo Hurayrah (ra) reported that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: Verily, I have been sent to complete the best in character.” (Al- Muwatta)

By Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick PhD
All praises to Allah, Lord of the worlds. He who revealed in His Glorious Qur’an, “O you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those who came before you that you may keep your duty to your Lord (having taqwa),“ (2:185). And may [...]

Understanding your Condition by Sh. Abdullah Hakim Quick, presented at Lakemba Mosque, Sydney, Australia.

An-Nu‘maan ibn Basheer said, I heard the Messenger of Allah
say,
“That which is lawful is clear and that which is prohibited is clear but between them are doubtful matters about which not many people know. So, he who avoids the doubtful matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honor. But he [...]

As big Western financial institutions have teetered one after the other in the crisis of recent weeks, another financial sector is gaining new confidence: Islamic banking.

Proponents of the ancient practice, which looks to sharia law for guidance and bans interest and trading in debt, have been promoting Islamic finance as a cure for the global financial meltdown.

The following text is transcribed from the khutbah delivered by Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick on Eid-ul-Fitr at Masjid-ul-Quds in Gatesville (Cape Town), South Africa. Nearly five thousand people were in attendance. The impact of this speech was so powerful that an initiative was made to produce audio copies and to make the message available in print.

“Uthman Ibn Fodio is probably the most influential Islamic scholar in the history of Islam in west Africa…”, stated Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick who has recently acquired a PhD in – Aspects of Islamic Social Intellectual History in 18th century Hausaland: Uthman Ibn Fodio. This is the end of a nine year educational journey, which began with a Masters and gradually moved on to a PhD degree from the History Department of the University of Toronto, St. George Campus.

“The net result is an education system that is failing every student, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. Generations of students are being graduated who know very little about their fellow citizens of other faiths; and if they gain any information at all about Islam as a world religion, or about its history, civilization and culture during the entire course of their formal education — that information is most likely to be false.”