Messages

This brief message was written in November of 2015, when the late Mawlānā Taha went to perform ʿumrah. One day, he was seated with a number of ʿulamāʾ in Madīnah, when his conversation with them caught the attention of a student sitting nearby. The student shared his discussion with his peers—a Yemeni student and two Iraqis—who then sought out Mawlānā Taha individually for ijāzah.

As Muslims, especially living as a religious minority, should we be part of the voting process in a secular democratic system? If so, why? If not, why not?
This brief message was penned by Mawlānā Taha in response to a question he received from Toronto, Canada. And although the message was written in 2019, it still holds much academic merit in terms of providing a basic Sharʿī framework for how Muslims living under such circumstances should look at these types of nuanced issues.

In his work, Ghiyath al-Umam, Imām al-Ḥaramayn raises the question of the loss of Muslim political power and posits that the obligation of consolidating and organizing a quasi politico-religious authority rests upon the ʿulāmāʾ.

Can you have more than one juristic person under a corporate division?

Did al-Imām al-Shāfiʿī contradict an authentic ḥadīth?

How should Muslims living as a religious minority with no Muslim polity deal with varying fiqh positions?

Did al-Imām Taqiyy al-Dīn ever perform ijtihād?