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ANSARI MEMORIAL SERIES
The Ansari Memorial Series is published in honor of the eminent Islamic Scholar, Sufi Shaikh, and former Shaikh al-Islam of the Muslim community of Trinidad and Tobago, Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fadlur Rahman Ansari (1914-1974), and it commemorates the 25th. anniversary of his death. It comprises, so far, the following seven books:
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The Religion of Abraham and the State of Israel - A View from the Qur’an;
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The Caliphate the Hejaz and the Saudi-Wahhabi Nation- State;
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One Jama’at - One Ameer: The Organization of a Muslim Community in the Age of Fitan;
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The Strategic Significance of The Fast of Ramadan and Isra’ and Mi’raj.
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These books were all written by Imran N. Hosein, student of Maulana Ansari, and were published by Masjid Dar al-Qur’an, Long Island, New York, U.S.A., Masjid al-Ansari, Montrose, Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago, and thes revised editions by Ummavision Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia..
Maulana Ansari was a graduate of Aligarh Muslim University, India, where he studied Philosophy and Religion. He derived his Islamic philosophical and spiritual thought from the greatest Islamic scholar of this age, Allama Dr. Muhammad Iqbal. Iqbal was the author of that masterpiece of Islamic scholarship: ‘The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam’. Maulana Ansari’s great work of Islamic scholarship, the two-volume: ‘Qur’anic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society’ which was his Ph.D. thesis for his doctorate in Philosophy, itself represents the most outstanding contribution to Islamic scholarship by any of the students of Iqbal.
Maulana Ansari received his spiritual training from Maulana Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqui, a renowned Islamic scholar, Sufi Shaikh, and roving missionary of Islam. He received the sufi epistemology from both Allama Iqbal and Maulana Siddiqui, and passed it on to his own students. That sufi epistemology is emphatic that the process of knowledge commences with the pursuit of Truth through the study of the written word and the critical observation of the external world. Allah, the Most High, is Truth (al-Haq), and Truth comes from Allah. Uncorrupted Truth now exists in the world only in Islam. When Truth is discovered it must be embraced with sincerity, and must be applied to the totality of life. The Truth will then be internalized, i.e. it will enter into the heart. Allah, the Most High, puts it Himself into the heart, and He refers to this when He says in the hadith al-Qudsi: My heavens and My earth are too small to contain me, but the heart of My faithful servant can contain Me.
When Truth enters into the heart, then the heart is given a divine light (nurullah) which permits the believer’s powers of observation and intuitive insight to penetrate beyond the external form to reach internal substance. It is only with that inner light of the discerning heart of a true believer that the world can be correctly read. The Ansari Memorial Series is devoted to an effort of understanding the world today, explaining it accurately, and responding to its unprecedented challenges appropriately. That effort, of course, is always subject to critical evaluation.
Allah, the Most High, has provided the believers with a medium through which they can receive confirmation that they have been blessed with that capacity for intuitive knowledge (i.e., knowledge which the heart sees). That medium is ‘true and good dreams, and visions’, an experience which constitutes the last part of prophethood still remaining in the world after the death of the Prophet (s). The Ansari Memorial Series therefore includes a pioneering work in that forgotten branch of knowledge, i.e. Dreams in Islam. Intuitive knowledge is also indispensable for penetrating such subjects of strategic contemporary relevance as: ‘The Prohibition of Riba in Islam’ and ‘The Religion of Abraham and the State of Israel - A View from the Qur’an’, and so these subjects have received attention in the series.
It is with intuitive knowledge alone (firasa) that one can achieve confirmation that we now live in the age of fitan, the last stage of the historical process. Empirical and discursive knowledge and thought can only suggest, but cannot directly perceive the true nature of the age in which we now live. The implication of the confirmation (of the age of fitan) is that the authentic jama’ah with the authentic Imam/Ameer must now be established, and sustained, with greater urgency than ever before, and all believers must hold fast to them with as-sam’u wa-ta’atu (listening and obeying), for that was the command of the Prophet (s). One Jama’at - One Ameer: The Organization of a Muslim Community in the Age of Fitan directs attention to this important subject.
It is significant that Maulana Ansari was the Shaikh al-Islam of the Muslim community of Trinidad and Tobago from 1964 until he died in 1974 and, indeed, the leadership of the Dar al-Islam Islamic movement amongst African-American Muslims in North America gave him the bai’ah (pledge of obedience) in 1969, and accepted him as their leader as well. Dar al-Islam was established in Brooklyn, New York, in 1962, and was led by Imam Yahya Abd al-Kareem. It is now led by Imam Jameel al-Amin (the former H. Rapp Brown).
The next two books to be published in this series are still to be written. They will, Insha Allah, be devoted to the topics: The Return of Jesus - A View from Islam; and Surah al-Kahf and the Modern Age.
Maulana Dr. Ansari honored his own Shaikh, Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddiqui, by establishing the Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies in Pakistan, and by publishing the Aleemiyah Memorial Series. The Ansari Memorial Series represents a humble effort to follow in that noble tradition.
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Other titles of the Ansari Memorial Series, may be obtained from:
Ummavision Sdn Bhd (403323-K)
G. P. O. Box 11123
50736 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Fax: 603 - 9735562 / 7195591
E-Mail: umma@tm.net.my
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Last Updated on: April 17, 1998