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Renowned Master calligrapher Haji Noor Deen Mi Guang Jiang from China visited CMC to give a short calligraphy demonstration and tutorial to our students.

Join us this November as we look at how the latest theories in business management and leadership intersect with the Islamic tradition, bringing together a faith perspective with current research on these timely topics. http://cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/org-l eadership-worksh…/I

BA Class of 2023 comes together at the top of the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakesh to begin their 1 year of Arabic study.
May Allah grant them success in their studies and goals to serve the community.

Java Heritage Tour - *Registration Closing TOMORROW* Don't miss this unique opportunity: http://cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/tours /java19/

Mawlana Yusuf Motala passes
With great sorrow CMC has learned that on 9 September, Mawlana Yusuf, founder of Darul Ulum Bury, departed this life. May Allah console his family and students, and continue his reward through their prayers and their efforts in the service of Islam.

*CMC 2019 HERITAGE TOUR - JAVA, INDONESIA*
Join Cambridge Muslim College as we touch the soil and traverse the Land of Java, one of the 18,000 islands in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population.
We will commence our journey in the east, the seat of the ancient Majapahit Empire and the resting place of the first known Muslim in Java, Fatimah Binti Maimun. It was in this bustling mercantile district that the Nine Luminaries of Java (Wali Songo) began to plant t...heir seeds of faith, bringing the people to Islam.
Our next destination is a coastal city in central Java that bears witness to the Demak Sultanate, the maiden Muslim kingdom on this island. Here we will visit beautiful archetypal Javanese mosques and traditional learning institutions (pesantren) that continue to teach from manuscripts written in the classical Pegon script alongside modern curricula.
Finally, we will dive into the depths of Java’s heart. This spiritual hinterland is a confluence of Islam and the classical Javanese soul. We will immerse ourselves in some of the most lyrical literary works ever produced by a Muslim civilization (Candi Bahasa) amidst some of the oldest Hindu-Buddhist structures in the world (Candi Sila).
Don’t miss this opportunity to visit Java, a land of scholars, history, and deep Islamic faith.
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Paradigms of Leadership - Imam Al Ghazali "As [Imam Al Ghazali] says, love, longing, intimacy and contentment – if we have some share of those four things, we’ll get some sense of what [he himself] achieved (or was given) during those ten years of his peregrination and his return to human beings and to society; just as the Holy Prophet (saw) came back from the mountain, and came back from the mi’raj. Because it is with human beings that we find not just our greatest challenge...s but also potentially our greatest consolation and paths to God. So that’s maybe 1% of what Imam Al-Ghazali is saying in his absolutely gigantic, colossal and almost miraculous output of books that were game changers for the ummah.” - Shaykh Abdal Hakim
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Paradigms of Leadership Lecture 8 - Ebussuud Effendi “...who is really the paradigmatic Ottoman ‘alim, not just in terms of the legal and the spiritual culture which he occupied, but also because in many ways he understands the tension that exists between local, imperial pragmatism and the idealising discourse of the sharia. And [he] is, in the Turkish memory, regarded as the one who tries to bring customary law, sultanic decree, together with the ideals of the Hanafi sharia.... We’ll see the extent to which that is needed and the ways that he found in order to bring together, in many ways, a difficult convergence. So this is Ebussuud – generally regarded as one of the greatest Ottoman scholars.” - Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad. . Listen to full lecture - https://buff.ly/2WzuATy . Join our mailing list to receive notifications on the next lecture in the series. https://buff.ly/2VYJe5Y . Interested in reading some of the books mentioned in the lecture? Visit our website to find a list of referenced books - https://buff.ly/2WzuATy . #faithinscholarship
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"Invoking ibn Arabi's proof text, Allah nur as-samwati wal-ard. God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. Possible things, mumkinat - latent things, things that might be, or that are that didn't have to be, are the shadows of that light. And again there is Qur'anic text cited here. So things that are in existence - muhdathat, contingent things somehow exist between light and darkness. They partake of reality but also they partake of non-reality. But as phenomena, they ar...e differentiated by the light. So even the principles, which in the fususi system bring about the differentiation of the details of existence, the source forms, as he says, have not smelt the perfume of existence because in reality only the light exists. For him, this is why the Qur'an uses the language of light and shadows. Light is one, God is one. Shadows are multiple, zulumat. But what is the ontological reality of shadows - even though we can look at shadow puppets - it's very platonic, they have no reality. They are absolutely dependent on the existence of the light. So what exactly is the relationship between the two. This, for him is the essence of Islam itself. We as shadows, as possible things, are absolutely dependent, completely helpless, slaves of the Light which alone causes the differentiation of created beings." - Shaykh Abdal Hakim on the importance of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn-i Kemal — Watch full series from Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad & Dr Ingrid Mattson - https://cambridgemuslimcollege.teachable. com/p/bosnia
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"Linked with this minimalist approach to state infrastructure was a deep religiosity that compelled people to view wealth, as first of all, belonging to God.So people didn't talk about self-made men in traditional Islamic society. No one ever thought that they made this wealth or they created it so they had a right to it. They were aware as Muslims that all wealth belonged to God and it was only possible for wealth to accumulate through God's permission and granting us in the... first place, life, and after that, whatever capacities we had physical,intellectual or otherwise to be able to accumulate wealth. Second, Muslims were inducted with teachings of compassion for others. There wasn't this harshness that we see today where people blame the poor for being poor, judge them and believe that they deserve the poverty they live in. Third, Muslims were worried about the afterlife. We all have sinned and have the need to pay kaffarah, if not sadaqah, zakat, or other things, but the more wealth you accumulate, probably the more you are worried about your afterlife, so giving your wealth for these good projects for the benefit of others was something that people were motivated to do." - Dr Ingrid Mattson on the History of Awqaf, Universalities & Particularities — Watch full series from Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad & Dr Ingrid Mattson - https://cambridgemuslimcollege.teachable. com/p/bosnia
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"Our intention is to shed light on one of the key dynamics of the history of the Muslims, which is the dynamic tension between the universal and the particular. What do we mean by that? Well what we mean is that the tawhid by definition is the most universal of principles. We are all subject to the same one God and recognise him according to the same litany of beautiful names. That is universal. But at that same time we also have this other Qur'anic proclamation, which is th...at there is something valid and legitimate in the mutual knowing neighbourliness of peoples and tribes. This is one of the secrets and mysteries of our scripture. On the one hand it proclaims this universal principle, the single qibla. On the other hand it acknowledges that we face that qibla from different directions." - Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, Universalities & Particularities — Watch full series from Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad & Dr Ingrid Mattson - https://cambridgemuslimcollege.teachable. com/p/bosnia
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Does Islam come to impose a totalising culture? How do we deal with the dynamic tension between universals of Islam and the particulars of our communities? What can we learn from the history of European Muslims for our lives today?
... In *Universalities & Particularities: How Islam Relates to the Context*, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad and Dr Ingrid Mattson provide us with an understanding of historical elements of Islamic tradition found in both the people and structures of Bosnia. Tawhid is the most universal of principles – we are all subject to the same one God and recognise Him according to the same litany of beautiful names. At the same time, the Qur’an proclaims that there is something valid and legitimate in the mutual knowing of peoples and tribes. These lectures offer us a way to understand what natural expressions of Islam can be and what it means to live together with faith and mercy.
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Paradigms of Leadership Lecture 7 - Shaykh Nizam ad-Din Awliya . "These are some of the drops from the ocean of that small proportion of the Shaykh’s gatherings... they give a sense of the perfume that attended those amazing transformative gatherings. What we find in them is an extraordinary embrace of humanity in its difference: of the sinner and of the non-Muslim, of disadvantaged classes of society – they're all welcome on his carpet. And this was the way in which the sub...continent [submitted] to Islam. Not through the muftis and the ulama-i-kiram, and not through the sultans, but through this kind of humble teaching: simple, loving, effective." - Shaykh Abdal Hakim Listen to full lecture - https://buff.ly/2WzuATy . Join our mailing list to receive notifications on the next lecture in the series. https://buff.ly/2VYJe5Y . Interested in reading some of the books mentioned in the lecture? Visit our website to find a list of referenced books - https://buff.ly/2WzuATy . #faithinscholarship
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Eid Mubarak!
Listen to Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad's Eid khutbah at Cambridge Mosque Project, in which he urges us to remember what it means to say "Allahu Akbar." - https://youtu.be/qARnpOOepO4

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad reflects on the legacy of Ibrahim (as) as a paradigm of leadership, the archetypal Imam, to consider emulating in challenging times.
May all of our acts of worship be accepted and the blessings of it remain with us in the days to come.
We wish you, your family and loved ones a joyous celebration. Eid Mubarak!