Category: Lessons by Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed

Temptations of the Youth

Temptations of the Youth

(Taken from HERE) If we look in the Qur’an Al Kareem, Allah Almighty has given so many stories of how people searched for Allah. Even the prophets (may peace be upon them) used to turn to Allah Almighty in their youth, in the age of around 14 and 15. It comes about Hadrat Ibrahim (may peace be upon him) the […]

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Islam & Secularism

Islam & Secularism

   [Taken from: HERE] For a university Muslim  young man or a woman on campus faces a number of special difficulties that no other Muslim around him faces. The first difficulty that a young Muslim man or a woman faces on campus is what we call the force of secularism. Secularism is a philosophy that teaches you to remove everything about […]

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An Academic Session: Imaan, Ihsaan and Ikhlaas

An Academic Session: Imaan, Ihsaan and Ikhlaas

The western philosophy of history teaches that human beings are continually going to progress .So when they write their history they write it as the progress, advancement and what are they thinking? They are thinking in material terms , they are thinking in terms of scientific technology, they are thinking in terms of politics and economy , so much so that now western secularism believes that human beings are reaching the end of history.
According to the Deen , humanity, the Islamic philosophic history is that humanity is going on a decline. Not in progress but that’s because the Islamic philosophy is tracking something else. It’s not tracking materialism. It’s not tracking science or development or wealth or technology or that you have cars or space stations, it’s not looking at that Islamic philosophy of history is tracking spirituality. That says from the time onwards of Prophet s.a.w human beings are in a spiritual decline.

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