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Safi ibn Vali

The Mughal Mapmaker and his Remarkable Hajj Maps

Safi ibn Vali’s Mughal Hajj maps The Salamat Ras departed Surat in India on the 20th September 1676, carrying hundreds of pilgrims...

Hajj Tips: Packing List For Women

With Hajj just around the corner, I compiled a list of things useful for women to pack, based on my...

6 Times Pilgrims Were Stopped From Performing Tawwaf

On March 5th, 2020 tawwaf (circumambulation) in the immediate vicinity of the Ka'ba was temporarily halted by the authorities (see the eery images here). A decision was taken to sterilise the area, due to fears over Coronavirus. This is not the first time that worshippers have been prevented from circumambulating the House of God; we take a look at some of the recorded historical instances in which tawwaf has been interrupted, for a host of different reasons.

The Conscious Muslim

Lady Evelyn: the First British Woman on Hajj

Lady Evelyn Cobbold (d. 1963) was the first British Muslim woman to make the pilgrimage to Mecca known as the Hajj,...

Sacred Footsteps

Travellers’ Tales from the Rawdah of the Prophet

“The area between my house and my minbar is one of the gardens of Paradise…” Hadith For centuries upon centuries,...

Who was the First Hajj Photographer?

In 1861, Egyptian army engineer and surveyor, arrived in the Hijaz by train. He had with him a large wet...

10 Historical Pilgrim Accounts of the Day of Arafat

The Day of Arafat marks the climax of the Hajj. For hundreds of years, pilgrims have congregated on the plain,...

Hajj: Journey of the Soul

In the days leading up to my departure from my hometown in England I was nervous, especially when everyone I said...

sacredfootsteps

“Our Ratib is like an iron wall for every city i

“Our Ratib is like an iron wall for every city in which it is recited.” — Imam al-Haddad

Join us for a monthly gathering via Zoom, reciting the Ratib of Imam al-Haddad, with reciters live from Tareem and various locations around the world. The recitation will be accompanied by commentary in English by Malaysian scholar Sayyid Muhiyuddin al-Attas, based on the book by Habib Alawi b. Ahmad b. Hassan b. Imam Abdullah al-Haddad.

In collaboration with @peacemeal_, @nur.saaadah, Ahlaha, HAK, Majelis Rasulullah Amsterdam and al-Fath.

📖 READ: Allamah Muhammad Iqbal: The Theorist of

📖 READ: Allamah Muhammad Iqbal: The Theorist of Muslim Modernity by @saadyacoob via the LINK IN OUR BIO✨

One of the most important thinkers of the last century, ʿAllāmah Muhammad Iqbāl was born in Sialkot in 1877. A third generation Muslim, his thought offers us a basis for building a civilisational movement rooted in the love of Allah and His Messenger ﷺ.

The core question that fueled Iqbāl’s thought was the issue of colonial domination. Iqbāl was born in the British Rāj, a territory that was larger and more populous than its ruling empire.
If the Indian population was to rise up and resist British domination together, British rule would become entirely unsustainable. The question for Iqbāl, then, was the nature of British methods of control and the framework for resisting them.

Intellectually, the British had convinced the Muslims of their civilizational inferiority, and spiritually, the vibrant traditions of taṣawwuf in India, which had once guided emperors and commoners alike, had begun to spiritualise their despair – an attitude that he viciously attacked in his poetry.

Well read in the literary, theological, and philosophical traditions of English, German, Urdu, and Farsi, Iqbāl’s inquiry led him to the realisation that the British exerted control over India as a whole, but especially over Indian Muslims. What one finds in close examination of his thought is an urgent desire to reconcile the tension between what he believes to be Quranic priorities and modern realities – not at a granular level but rather at a core, conceptual level.

By the time of his passing, Iqbāl was considered the most prominent Muslim intellectual in India, and his thought influenced important Muslim intellectuals around the world. His work calls us to take up the divinely ordained role of Islam and Muslims in the world, to cast off despair and don the cloak of hope in Allah’s majestic mercy.

Words: @saadyacoob Video: @mhmal1k

The Malay World and the Ahl al-Bayt Islam arrived

The Malay World and the Ahl al-Bayt

Islam arrived in the Malay world through “good word” and quickly established itself though various kingdoms that would later become centres of learning. Zain al-Haddad (@zainhd) speaks to Syed Muḥiyuddīn Al-ʿAṭṭās about the major Muslim figures in the Malay world and the development of an indigenous Islamic scholarship which was nevertheless rooted in networks of authenticated scholarly chains across the centuries.

🎧 PODCAST: Islam in the Malay world with Syed Muḥiyuddīn Al-ʿAṭṭās | LINK IN BIO or listen via iTunes, Spotify or other platforms.

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The khalwa (place of seclusion) of Sayyida Nafisa,

The khalwa (place of seclusion) of Sayyida Nafisa, the great, great, great-granddaughter of the Messenger of God ﷺ.

Known for her knowledge and piety, Sayyida Nafisa (ra) would retreat to this spot, then located outside the city (now within Cairo) to spend time in seclusion and worship, as her grandfather ﷺ before her and the women and men of God were known to do regularly.

The place is preserved in her memory, and visitors can go and sit in the place in which she once worshipped. A beautiful scent emanates from within.

“In the remote village of Kiselchovo, tucked awa

“In the remote village of Kiselchovo, tucked away in Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountains, a small mosque without a minaret stood quietly, preserving the memory of a little-known Muslim community. I hadn’t come to Bulgaria expecting to find traces of Islamic history, but there it was, waiting to be encountered.”

✍️ Dr Rose Aslan’s (@dr.rose.aslan) latest article on Bulgaria’s Hidden Muslim Heritage is available to read now on sacredfootsteps.com - LINK IN BIO✨

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A conversation with @barakablue and @yasmineaismet

A conversation with @barakablue and @yasmineaismet about our forthcoming course ‘Islamic Cosmology’ in collaboration with @rumicenterarts

This 7 week online course in collaboration with th

This 7 week online course in collaboration with the @rumicenterarts, is a deep study of the themes explored in William Chittick’s book Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul: The Pertinence of Islamic Cosmology in the Modern World. Each week we will cover one chapter and discuss the key ideas within it.

Taught by @barakablue, co-facilitated with @zara_choudhary of Sacred Footsteps, with special guest William Chittick.

Sponsored by @meccabooks students will be provided with a discount link to purchase the book.

⭐️ Sign up: via the LINK IN OUR BIO✨