Doing Good The Right Way

Abdal Hakim MuradJuly 16, 202629 min0 comments

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Islamic History Seerah Charity & Waqf Spirituality Business Ethics Quran Community & Society Tafsir

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In this closing address from a British Muslim charitable sector gathering, Sheikh Abdul Hakeem Murad reflects on the rich Islamic tradition of charitable endowment (*waqf*) — drawing on the remarkable 66-metre founding document of Hagia Sophia and the endowments of Hürrem Sultan — to explore what it truly means to do good the right way. Grounded in Surah an-Nisa (4:58) and classical *tafsir*, the Sheikh reminds charity workers that they are trustees of a sacred *amanah*, calls them to preserve their *niyyah* amidst the demands of modern organisational life, and draws inspiration from the Prophet's descent from the Mi'raj as the ultimate model of selfless service to humanity. The lecture also features an opening address by Brother Yusuf Islam on the need for institutionalised Islamic thought and legal infrastructure.

Abdal Hakim Murad

Timothy John "Tim" Winter (born 1960), also known as Abdal Hakim Murad, is a British Sufi Muslim researcher, writer and teacher. His profile and work have attracted media coverage both in the Muslim World and the West. Conversant in both traditional Islamic scholarship and Western thought and civilization, Winter has made contributions on many Islamic topics. Education Born in 1960, Winter was educated at Westminster School, and graduated with a double-first in Arabic from Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge in 1983. He then studied and taught traditional Islamic sciences at the Al-Azhar University in Egypt for several years, and spent several more in Jeddah, where he administered a commercial translation office and maintained close contact with Shaykh Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad. In 1989, he returned to England and spent two years at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where he concentrated on Turkish and Persian. Career Winter is currently the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, Director of Studies in Theology at Wolfson College, and a doctoral student at Oxford University, where he is studying the relationship between the government and Sufi brotherhoods in the Ottoman Empire. Winter is also the secretary of the Muslim Academic Trust (London), Director of The Anglo-Muslim Fellowship for Eastern Europe, President of the UK Friends of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Director of the Sunna Project, which has published scholarly Arabic editions of the major Sunni Hadith collections.

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