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Also an ordinary Muslim scholar is better off following these prominent Imams as well. What a great article. May Allah bless u.
Pls write more of such beautiful articles. We must respect all of our 4 imams and their followers too. Once upon a there were 4 men at well for water, all of them fetched water from the same well ar thier turn. It ws surprising that, all 4 of them had diferent colour of water from the same well,. What was the reasknof that diference????
Can any one explain me that??? What Islam says about that?? JzK for gathering all the fruits and putting it in one basket!
Imam is an Islamic leadership position. It is most commonly used as the title of a worship leader The term is also used for a recognized religious scholar or authority in Islam, often for the founding scholars of the four Sunni madhhabs. This volume contains the English translation of the four books describing and analysing the life and work of the Imams who founded the four canonical schools of.
Even these great Imams have said: The muslims of today are more keen on criticising the works of these illustrious Imams as if these Imams were some ordinary muslims. Well let us not get divided of The issue of being Shafi,Hanfe. We are Ummati Mohammad pbuh and we must focus on Quraan and Sahi Hadees…which all these great Imaams also laid stress on…let us be united as one Muslim community….. Brother, nobody gets divided based on their school of thought. Those who reject Ijtihaad outrightly are the ones who unnecessarily create confusion among the muslim masses.
May Allah guide us all, Aameen!
May Allah reward u on this comprehensive details of this fathers of knowledge and may Allah forgive their shortcomings amin. May reward u on this comprehensive details of this fathers of knowledge and may Allah forgive their shortcomings amin. Those are great Imams indeed yet it sadens me to not see our beloved Imam Al Ghazzali counted among the greatest imams of all time. Thank for this beautiful article and may Allah grant you peace; Brother. It was a very informative article on the major Islamic schools of thought.
I wish even the followers of these great imams have utmost respect for each other as the imams did. The fiqh is very important for the organization of the islamic law but the Ilm is the most important knowledge of Islam. Your email address will not be published.
In , a Zaidi ruler, al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya , founded a line of such imams, a theocratic form of government which survived until the second half of the 20th century. Ruhollah Khomeini is officially referred to as Imam in Iran. Several Iranian places and institutions are named "Imam Khomeini", including a city , an international airport , a hospital , and a university. Discourse between Islamic Imams in the Mughal Empire. Crimean Tatar imams teach the Quran. Lithograph by Carlo Bossoli.
Imam Khomeini , leader of the Iranian revolution. An Ottoman imam in Constantinople. A Bosniak military imam in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Travelling muftis of the Ottoman Empire. Grand Mufti Absattar Derbisali of Kazakhstan. Portrait of Shaykh ul-Islam by Ali bey Huseynzade.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with Iman. For other uses, see Imam disambiguation. Imam khatib Sunni Islam. Imamah Shi'a doctrine and The Twelve Imams. Imam Shamil , Caucasus.
Tomb of mufti in Indonesia. Grand Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin. Grand Mufti Ebrahim Desai. The titles for each imam literally translate as "First Ali", "Second Ali", and so forth. The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf. The Cambridge History of Islam: Retrieved from " https: Islamic religious leaders Religious leadership roles Arabic words and phrases Titles of national or ethnic leadership Imams Islamic honorifics.
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Part of a series on Islam. Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal Athari. This is not a vain hope. Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said:.
You never know whether the beginning or end of it is the best. Today, educational opportunities are more accessible than ever. Books, including the great encyclopedic legal works, have become widely available in print.
Schools are faculties that have been established everywhere. Communications have become easy from one corner of the world to the other, and people enjoy greater freedom of opinion and expression. This will empower them to engage with the questions and challenges of our rapidly-changing world. The Islamic scholarly leadership has begun to shift from being an accidental vocation to one where people are carefully chosen for their intellectual and moral qualities, as well as their insight and interpersonal skills. They have to be people who not only have strong grounding in the authoritative religious sources, but also a broad and up-to-date knowledge of the modern world, so they will know when to be firm and when to be flexible, when something is certain and when it is open to doubt —when it is better to speak out, and when it is best to just keep quiet.
Developing such a cadre of scholars has become a pressing strategic necessity.
Everyone who can contribute to achieving this goal must do so, including decision makers, academics, religious preachers, and businesspeople. Reformers today cannot rely upon the solutions that past scholars came up with. What they can take from their predecessors is the soundness of their methodology. Every era has unique problems and challenges, as well as its own set of academic, economic and political opportunities. It is quite possible that the imams of the past had ideas and wishes they were unable to express because of their circumstances.
Today, because of technological developments and the changing political climate, it may be that those things have become feasible. These are problems that affect everyone and that require insights from many different angles. Ours is an era of communication, dialogue and exchange. Research academies dedicated to Islamic thought need to expand their role by providing carefully researched and mature answers to the issues that face society, free from sectarian chauvinism, political influence, or ideological bias.
Researchers need to work together and pool their expertise if they are to come up with comprehensive and balanced solutions. Furthermore, in order for these research academies to remain independent and objective, they need to have proper sources of funding, like endowments.