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هذه المقالة نشرت في مدونة الزميل أشرف الفقيه في 18 سبتمبر 2010http://www.alfagih.net/site/?p=5493 هو سؤال بريء سمعته يتردد كثيراً، والغريب أن ذات السؤال يصدر من أشخاص بلغوا من فطحلة الذكاء درجاً، ومن أناس بلغوا من دحرجة البلاهة دركاً، وقد اكتشفت بعد هذه السنين أن غير المصنفين في خانتيّ الفطحلة والبلاهة بينهم قاسم مشترك وهو أنهم يفرقعون أصابعهم عندما يسألون هذا السؤال. السؤال ليس له علاقة

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المقالة منشورة في مدونة الزميل أشرف الفقيه.http://www.alfagih.net/site/?p=5635 [بعدَ جلسة التحقيق] مسؤول قسم الشكاوى رجل لطيف، والمحقق رجل حاذق ظريف، والعاملون في وزارة القانون من الطيبين والطيبات، ويارب التوبة النصوح، فأنت القائل لا يحب الله الجهر بالسوء إلا من ظلم. رجعت إلى بيتي، ولكن البيت خلية نحل ونمل، الجميع فيه يزنزنون، ولأكفهم محكحكون، الجميع أقنعني أني أحمق مجنون، مالي ومال وزارة

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المقالة منشورة في مدونة الزميل أشرف الفقيه. http://www.alfagih.net/site/?p=5631 [ملاحظة: جميع أحداث هذه القصة مستوحاة من أحداث حقيقية تعرض بقالب أدبي لكي ينالها الفسح] قصتي هي قصة الكثيرين، ولكن في القلب غصة تحصرمت في الحلقوم، فتدلى اللسان رغما عنه مفصحاً عن الممنوع، فأنخ سمعك يا صاحبي فربما أحكي قصتك لا قصتي، وشاهت الوجوه على جميع مقصات الرقيب. يا صاحب القبيبة ودار سلمى وأطلال الحمى، قد سرق

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هذه المقالة نشرت في مدونة الزميل أشرف الفقيه في 22 يوليو 2010http://www.alfagih.net/site/?p=5366#more-5366 قالَ في لسان العرب: الُأمّيُ هو الذي لا يكتب.وقال الفقهاء: الُأمّي هو الذي لا يحسن الفاتحة أو بعض حروفها.. ففتش نفسك إن كنت من الذي يقرؤون “ولا الظالين” بدلًا من “الضالين”، أو “اللزين أنعمت عليم” بدلاً من “الذين”  فأنت من الأميّين في لغة الفقهاء.وقال في الصحاح: العامة خلاف الخاصة، وقال

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[See: Muslims and World of Fiction (Part One)] I am writing this article while I am facing my humble home library. Fiction occupies around one fifth of the library, and I admit that its order in the shelves gives the library a handsome look. The collection is diverse, ranging from the classics of Shakespeare to the 2009 Noble prize winner: “The Passport” (for Herta Muller). From time to time, I

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In the past five years, my rate of reading novels scored a rate of one novel per year. When life gets busy and more serious issues arise, the result is an increasing graph of focused non-fiction readings and a declining graph of fiction purchase. Recently, I have finished reading “Life of Pi” by the Canadian author Yann Martel.  The fiction itself did not arouse my appetite for reading more

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[This article is part of a series that discusses university education reform. Previous articles are: I Study in the Market, Life Without Sciences and Arts, The Crime of Reason, Intellectuality and Happiness, and University Dream Land ] Education can be viewed as a dynamic relationship between five entities: the student, the teacher, the curriculum, the environment (i.e. school) and the evaluation

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I wrote two previous posts on the Sunni Identity: The Era of Confusion and Are Sunnis an Islamic Sect? The first post reflected on the current confusion on the Sunni identity and the second argued for the importance of viewing Sunnis in a non-sectarian manner. Unsurprisingly they have received very minimum interest. I can think of two reasons. It is viewed as a philosophical topic which is

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Let us assume for the sake of stimulating our imaginary sensors that Destiny led one of us to be a principal/rector of a new top-world university. To make the experience more delicate, let us assume that we have unlimited resources and complete freedom and power for decision making and execution. The objective of this article is to navigate with each other in this University Dream Land to

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A: I am confused, how many rak'as is the Tarawih prayer? B: The reliable position in the four Sunni schools of thought: the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi and Hanbali, is 20 rak’as (i.e. prayer cycles). A: This is too short of an answer for such controversial topic. B: Well, the Maliki school gives the option to pray it 36 A: 36? I have never heard of it. B: This does not mean it does not exist. Imam As

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1- (A) Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most famous and influential German philosophers of all times. He was born in 1844 in Prussia and on the age of 24 became the youngest individual to ever hold the position of the Chair of Classical Philology at the prestigious University of Basel. He is known with his critical writings on religion, morality, philosophy and science and his notable

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[For having a better understanding of the context of this article, kindly read our previous post: “The Era of Confusion”.]To many, the question in the title is a naive one to ask. From the observation that Sunnis constitute around ninety percent of the Ummah, we can easily deduce that they deserve the term “Islamic”. Moreover, with the presence of many other groups and sects such as Shias, Zaidis

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Let us dream! Dreams are the spirit of the oppressed, the food of the poor, the shield of the threatened, and the land of the lost. We have the freedom of dreaming, a right that no tyrant was able to steal and history will continue without discarding the power of dreams! We are the protectors of freedom and justice! We are the guardians of the truth! We spark light; we shine wisdom and we plant

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Robert Betts Laughlin is an applied physics professor at Stanford University who was awarded the 1998 Noble prize in physics (along with Stormer and Tsui) for his contributions to the topic of “fractional quantum hall effect”, a subject which I hope the readers share with me their complete ignorance. I was introduced to him through his courageous, interesting and brain-tickling book “The Crime

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Ibn Qudamah narrated through his chain of narrators in his heart-softening book: “The Repented”[i]:Al Fadhl bin Al Rabee’ [ii] said: It was a time when the Prince of the Believers (Amir Al Mo’meneen) Harun Al-Rashid was in one of his pilgrimage travels. While I was asleep, I heard a knock on the door. I inquired: “Who is he?” It was said: “Answer the Prince of the Believers”. I hastened out

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I entered one of the small and old mosques in downtown Amman. Living for the past three years in the west, far from the crowded mosques in the poor areas, made the visit of an exceptional taste. I prayed my two raka’ah’s close to the end lines so I can have a better view of the mosque and allow my eyes to scan the faces of the visitors; whom we can safely call “the guests of Allah”. I do not

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In 1750, The Academy of Dijon offered a prize for the best essay on the following question: "Have the arts and sciences conferred benefits to mankind?" The question rephrased by some history books: "Has the reestablishment of the arts and sciences contributed to the purification or corruption of morals?" The winning essay was the famous essay "Discourse on the Science and the Arts" which

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Let me speak softly, because this topic has much heat! The pre-Islamic Arab Bedouins used to have an evil practice against animals, which is to mark their cattle through burning or wounding the face with a special symbol that indicates the owning tribe. This practice was condemned later by Islam because it involves excessive torturing of animals. When I flash back and give a glance at my body, I

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Does Islam encourage imagination? Let us make the answer short. Allah says in the Quran [37:65] describing the tree of "Zaqquom" which is found in the Hell Fire: "Its crop as it were the heads of devil". No one of us had seen the "Devil" (Satan), but the Quran left it to our imagination to draw in our minds a dreadful image of how a tree will look if it produces crop similar to the heads of

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Everything around me speaks money! my professors are dollars my courses are credit my thesis is cash, my office is an asset my supervisor is a manager my colleagues are competing corporations the alumni is a stock market my student union is a law firm, and I am a penny trying to be promoted to a quarter. Let me take a sip of my iced chocolate milk! I enter the registrar office, I pay $12,000

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I am single, and more accurately I have never been married! I put this note ahead to alleviate any claim of authority when discussing marriage issues. To give you one more reason to give up reading the rest of the article, I am still firm on my observation that women are harshly discriminated against in our time and regardless of many disgusting examples, the Eastern woman is still treated little

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[Related Post: Are Muslim Activists Leftists? Part (1): Who are we] There is a new course offered on the campus I am currently enrolled in called "Feminism and Islam" (1). In a place where there is absence of academic courses about Islam, and in a time when Islamophobia has high presence, a person can not but pledge those who offered the course for their initiative of breaking the silence, if

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After a draining day of events, to which most love to call activism, I was trying to find a moment of relief in sipping my favorite Mocha in downtown Kingston Second Cup. A close friend of mine, who is less involved in this "sorta f' stuff" and who was sharing the other side of the table asked me in a mixed tone of innocence, confusion and maybe unhappiness: "So, do you think (as a Muslim) you

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