Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller

[aslan]

Assalam-o-Alaikum,
I reply to those who call the great Sheikh Keller as "dodgy" or "deviant"!!!
He is the one who translated the famous Islamic Fiqh work of "The Reliance of the Traveller"!!!
It is worth noting that the al-Azhar University has been the centre of Sunni learning since MashAllah 900AH!!!!
Nuh Ha Mim Keller, American Muslim translator and specialist in Islamic Law. Born in 1954 in the north-western United States,
was educated in philosophy and Arabic at the University of Chicago and UCLA. He entered Islam in 1977 at al-Azhar in Cairo, and later studied the traditional Islamic Sciences of hadith, Shafi'i and Hanafi jurisprudence, legal methodology (usul al-fiqh), and tenets of faith (`aqidah) in Syria and Jordan, where he has lived since 1980. His English translation of `Umdat al-Salik [The Reliance of the Traveller] (1250 pp., Sunna Books, 1991) is the first Islamic legal work in a European language to receive the certification of al-Azhar, the Muslim world's oldest institution of higher learning. He also possesses ijazas or "certifiates of authorisation" in Islamic jurisprudence from sheikhs in Syria and Jordan.
His Other translations and works include: Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam; The Sunni Path: A Handbook of Islamic Belief; and Tariqa Notes (handbook for those on the Shadhilli path of tasawwuf). He is currently translating Imam Nawawi's Kitab al-Adhkar [The Book of Rememberance of Allah], a compendium of some 1227 hadiths on prayers and dhikrs of the prophetic sunna. He is also completing a work on the issue of the Qibla which will be available soon.

You can see more of him at:
http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/nuh/default.htm
http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/nuh/bmuslim.htm

I CHALLENGE all those who call this great Sheikh as "dodgy" or other names!!!!
Take care,
Allah Hafiz.

[mishor]

Brother Aslan. Are you a mureed of Sheikh Nuh?

[ahmedqman]

I don't think you'll find too many people here calling Shaykh Nuh "dodgy".

[godilali]

There was an individual in another thread who did so.

[ajnabi]

Its Shaykh Nuh Ha-Mim Keller not kim lol.

was'salam

[salman]

Salamu 'Alaykum

Shaykh Nuh is one of the leading scholars of our age, a wali, a faqih, and an example for all of us Muslims. He's done a tremendous service to our Ummah through his teachings - May Allah raise him with the Prophets and Shuhada, Amin.

Stating that, I see no reason Sidi as to why this topic should stay open as it is a cause of fitna and nothing more. After all, why would we want someone speaking ill of the noble Shaykh due to our challenges?

Wasalam