Paul Sutherland, himself a poet, interprets works from the Psalms, Daoist Poetry and Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. Enjoy as of Sutherland as he takes us through these select samples of sacred poetry. --- Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/CMC_Cambridge Like us on Facebook: www.fb.com/cambridgemuslimcollege Subscribe to our mailing list: eepurl.com/8cdif …

Donate Today: https://cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/support --- We live in confusing times – times that we struggle to understand and that often don’t understand us. How, then, should we as believers respond to its challenges? What are the precedents set by the luminaries of the past? And how can a longer term understanding of the history and evolut…

All the melodies in the Rawdat al-Shuhada are from Celtic folk tunes. This one (page 20) is based on "Crodh Chailein". Sung by Abdal Hakim Murad, Mohsin Badat and Kenneth Cook. Booklet and audio recording available at http://www.hubooks.com --- Donate Today: https://cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/support --- For information, events & programmes subsc…

10 Muharram 1442 Karbala Lament: "The Field of Misfortune" from the Rawdat al-Shuhada’ Sung by Abdal Hakim Murad, Mohsin Badat and Kenneth Cook --- Rawdat al-Shuhada’ picks up the story where the Burdah leaves off and takes us through to Karbala. Written by Imam Husayn Vaiz Kashifi (d.1505), it recalls the sufferings of the Ahl ul-Bayt and the rewa…

The current pandemic has upended nearly every aspect of the world we live in. But is it unprecedented? Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, Dean of Cambridge Muslim College, shares his perspective on this humbling phenomenon, one which is not unfamiliar in our Islamic tradition. He also highlights the beauty and healing of our religious practice and provides …

One Ummah – Abdal Hakim Murad – 2019 Ramadan Moment 4 by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

Overcoming Ego – Abdal Hakim Murad – 2019 Ramadan Moment 3 by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

Being Neighbourly – Abdal Hakim Murad – 2019 Ramadan Moment 2 by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

Connecting to Fitrah – Abdal Hakim Murad – 2019 Ramadan Moment 1 by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

Professor Omid Safi speaks at CMC about the love-based devotion and poetry that has always been at the heart of the Islamic tradition, while presenting some of the masters of this path, with special attention to Mawlana Rumi, ‘Attar, Ahmad Ghazali, and Kharaqani.Cambridge Muslim College

For many today, World War I in the Middle East brings to mind T.E. Lawrence and the 1962 Hollywood blockbuster movie “Lawrence of Arabia”. In it we see an eccentric Englishman racing across the Arabian desert on camelback, his native robes flying leading a band of bellowing Arab bedouin against the Turks, raiding their camps, blowing up their train…

Cambridge Muslim College & Sa’adah present a book launch of Haroon Sugich’s latest book ‘Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints and the Road to Redemption’.‘Hearts Turn’ is a singular and gripping exploration of the act of ‘tawba’, a Qur’anic term commonly translated as repentance. In English, repentance is a forbidding word that suggests a puritani…

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad delivers the keynote address at the 2019 European Academy of Religion Conference.Because politicians and social administrators are learning the need to engage with Muslims in their self-definition as a religious community, purely secular definitions of human fulfillment and liberty must find ways of conversing with theologi…

Riding the Tiger of Modernity - Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

Dr Sohail Hanif discusses how we go about dealing with a subject as intricate as Islamic law in a way that gives students at Cambridge Muslim College a real hands-on grip of an old and ancient tradition whilst having with an understanding of how it intersects with today’s world, the challenges at that interface and the questions that need to be ans…

Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, Aziz Foundation Professor in Islamic Studies at Cambridge Muslim College delivers his Distinguished Lecture, at Senate House, London on 19 November 2018. ..Support CMC to develop the next generation of Muslim Thinkers - http://cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/support-usCambridge Muslim College

2018 Ramadan Moment 7 – Abdal Hakim Murad by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

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2018 Ramadan Moment 5 – Abdal Hakim Murad by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

2018 Ramadan Moment 4 – Abdal Hakim Murad by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

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2018 Ramadan Moment 2 – Abdal Hakim Murad by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

The Nature of Prophetic Speech - Shaykh Yasser Qureshy by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

2018 Ramadan Moment 1 – Abdal Hakim Murad by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College

Cultivating One's Environment to Develop the Inner Self - Shaykh Yahya Rhodus by Cambridge Muslim CollegeCambridge Muslim College