Al Afaaq Publications

03/02/2014

Asalaamu Alaykum. Our first published book, "Selected Islamic Wisdoms" is now available on Amazon. Please check it out here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0989230716/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_awdo_hs8etb1MXN2SG

"Selected Islamic Wisdoms" (Muqtatafaat Islamiyyah) is a classical Islamic manuscript containing inspirational stories and insightful admonitions from authentic sources in the Islamic religious tradition. The book is unique in the way it combines a diverse spectrum of exemplary attributes, includ...

06/23/2013

06/23/2013

Quote from Chapter 35 of the Qur'an entitled "The Originator of Creation":

35:15 (Asad) O men! It is you, who stand in need of God, whereas He alone is self-sufficient, the One to whom all praise is due. -

35:16 (Asad) If He so wills, He can do away with you and bring forth a new mankind [in your stead]:

35:17 (Asad) nor is this difficult for God. -

For a more detailed exposition of this quote, including the Arabic text of these verses, see the associated file upload.

05/19/2013

"Selected Islamic Wisdoms"
Progress Update 5/19: (see alafaaq.org or read below)

We received the Foreword from Imam Zaid Shakir about a week ago. Many thanks. After incorporating the Foreword into the manuscript, we began our final pass over the whole book. Approaching completion (yay)! We are aiming to go to the printers tomorrow, or Tuesday at latest, so that we can get some copies into the hands of Samia Dahir in time for her to carry them with her to Somalia to share with Shaikh Abdirahman’s family there during her trip this summer. “Selected Islamic Wisdoms” to be available for sale on Amazon.com by mid June, God-willing.

05/12/2013

Quote from Chapter 4 of the Qur'an entitled "Women":

4:148 (Asad) God does not like any evil to be mentioned openly, unless it be by him who has been wronged (thereby). And God is indeed all-hearing, all-knowing, -

4:149 (Asad) whether you do good openly or in secret, or pardon others for evil [done unto you]: for, behold, God is indeed an absolver of sins, infinite in His power. -

For a more detailed exposition of this quote, including some of the surrounding verses, see the associated file upload.

05/12/2013

04/24/2013

Al Afaaq Director Khurram Tai meeting with Samia Dahir, daughter of Shaikh ‘Abdirahman Dahir ‘Ajeb (may God shower him with Mercy).

04/24/2013

Please also note the Progress Update we posted on our website.
Here it is again:

— Progress Update on “Selected Islamic Wisdoms” —
“Selected Islamic Wisdoms” is almost ready to be released to the public. We are awaiting the Library of Congress Control Number, as well as the Foreword, to be written by Imam Zaid Shakir Insha Allah (God-willing). We also plan to do one last pass to review the entire book before making it available for sale at local bookstores in the SF Bay Area, on Amazon.com, and right here at alafaaqpublications.com.

04/24/2013

Peace, friends,
A few weeks ago, we uploaded a video infomercial featuring Imam Zaid Shakir speaking about the Life of Shaikh 'Abdirahman Dahir 'Ajeb.
Through video modification software, we were able to edit the video Imam Zaid made for us. Please note the addition of the Al Afaaq web address and logo--at the beginning, end, and throughout the video.
If you like the way this video turned out, give props to our graphic designer, Abdur Rahim Hernandez, who has been generously supporting Al Afaaq with his talents throughout our history as an Islamic scholarly non-profit publishing organization.

"Selected Islamic Wisdoms" (Muqtatafaat Islamiyyah) is a classical Islamic manuscript containing inspirational stories and insightful admonitions from authen...

04/14/2013

The Qur'an, Chapter 6 (Cattle), verses 50-55:

50- Say [O Prophet]: "I do not say unto you, 'God's treasures are with me,'; nor [do I say], 'I know the things that are beyond the reach of human perception'; nor do I say unto you, 'Behold, I am an angel': I but follow what is revealed to me." Say: "Can the blind and the seeing be deemed equal? Will you not, then, take thought?"
51- And warn hereby those who fear lest they be gathered unto their Sustainer with none to protect them from Him or to intercede with Him, so that they might become [fully] conscious of Him.
52- Hence, repulse not [any of] those who at morn and evening invoke their Sustainer, seeking His countenance. Thou art in no wise accountable for them-- just as they are in no wise accountable for thee-- and thou hast therefore no right to repulse them: for then thou wouldst be among the oppressors.
53- For it is in this way that We try men through one another-- to the end that they might ask, "Has God, then, bestowed His favour upon those others in preference to us?" Does not God know best as to who is grateful [to Him]?
54- And when those who believe in Our messages come unto thee, say: "Peace be upon you. Your Sustainer has willed upon Himself the law of grace and mercy-- so that if any of you does a bad deed out of ignorance, and thereafter repents and lives righteously, He shall be [found] much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace."
55- And thus clearly do We spell out Our messages, in order that the path of those who are lost in sin might be distinct [from that of the righteous].

04/07/2013

The Qur'an, Chapter 51 (The Winds that Scatter), verses 15-21:

15- Behold, the God-conscious will find themselves amid gardens and springs,
16- enjoying all that their Sustainer will have granted them [because], verily, they were doers of good in the past:
17- they would lie asleep during but a small part of the night,
18- and would pray for forgiveness from their innermost hearts;
19- and [would assign] in all that they possessed a due share unto such as might ask [for help] and such as might suffer priva­tion.
20- and upon the earth, there are signs [of God’s exis­tence, visible] to all who are endowed with inner certainty,
21- just as [there are signs thereof] within your own selves: can you not, then, see?