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The Essential Nana Asmau

The square in front of the red adobe house "was too crowded to pass through" wrote Isa in the poem he composed on the death of his sister Nana Asma’u in 1864. No one was left unmoved, "even men were crying … she benefited the elderly, helped the poor. She was the benevolent one, the peace maker, the healer of hurts, our brilliant shining light, I held love and respect for her in my heart." When Nana was born Africa was a very different place from what it is today. For one thing the countries we see on the map, like Nigeria, did not exist. Instead the land was open and right across the Sahel, the habitable semi desert area, were pockets of Sufi Muslims each headed by a holy man, teacher, mediator and medical practitioner. Nana Asma’u’s father was one such person who led the devout men and women living in the ’universitywithout-walls’ at Degel near Sokoto. All the localised groups had a sense of belonging to a wider Muslim world. Although the geographical area was immense - the whole of Australia would fit into the Sahara - scholars knew of each other and communicated by sending messages, books and poetry via well established trade routes. The fascination of the Shehu’s personality is that it combined the fundamental characteristics of two different kinds of men, one the Sufi seeing life as a pilgrimage to a spiritual Mecca, the other the lawyertheologian who derives his knowledge from his understanding of the Shari’a and wrestles with the realities of building an Islamic state. READ MORE>>

AL-MURSHIDA

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AR-RAHEEQ AL-MAKHTUM

Beyond a shadow of doubt, the biography of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) manifestedly represents an exhaustive embodiment of the sublime Divine Message that he communicated in order to deliver the human race from the swamp of darkness and polytheism to the paradise of light and monotheism... READ MORE >>

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