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Abdal Hakim Murad - Own Your Wealth

Abdal Hakim MuradMay 14, 2020

About this lecture

In this lecture, Abdal Hakim Murad reflects on the Islamic perspective on wealth, drawing on Quranic verses and Hadith to challenge the human tendency to accumulate and hoard. He explores the Prophet Muhammad's ﷺ extraordinary generosity and his prayer to be resurrected among the poor, calling believers to embody the same spirit. Delivered during Ramadan, the lecture is a powerful reminder that true wealth lies in giving — through zakat, sadaqah, and silat al-rahim — and that Islam offers a compelling alternative to the loneliness and inequality of modern consumer culture.

Abdal Hakim Murad
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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