Umar Faruq Abd-Allah - Prophet Muhammad (s) came with The Truth for all

Umar Faruq Abd-AllahMarch 23, 20190 comments

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Civilization & Islam Islamic History Seerah Dawah Aqeedah Spirituality Quran Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah

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In this lecture delivered in Malaysia, Sheikh Umar Faruq Abd-Allah reflects on the Quranic verse affirming that Allah sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to make it uppermost over all other religions. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own journey from Christianity to Islam, he explores how Islam spread peacefully across diverse civilizations, why the human being is inherently religious, and why Islam — rooted in the tradition of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah — holds the answers the modern world is searching for. He calls on Muslims to reconnect with the depth of their tradition and present Islam as the liberating, civilizing force it has always been.

Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah is an American scholar and theologian regarded as one of the intellectual fathers of indigenous American Muslim thought. Born Wymann-Landgraf into a Protestant family, he embraced Islam in 1970, earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies with a dissertation on Malik's concept of amal, and taught at the University of Michigan, King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, and elsewhere. As scholar-in-residence of the Nawawi Foundation in Chicago, he authored influential essays including "Islam and the Cultural Imperative" and the acclaimed biography "A Muslim in Victorian America" about Alexander Russell Webb. His work centers on theology, Maliki law, and the formation of an authentic American Muslim culture.

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