Author: hajjissa

Talk delivered by hajj Abdalghani Melara at the Granada Mosque 15th Anniversary Celebration,  7th July 2018.

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Talk given by Khadijah Martinez at the Granada Mosque Celebration on Sunday 8th July 2018.

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Below is a link to Mega for hafidh Luqman Nieto’s talk at the Granada Mosque Anniversary entitled, ‘The Mosque in Modern Society; it’s Importance for Muslims and Da’wa’. Delivered on Sunday 8th July 2018.

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Pages 275-6

“At a certain stage the bedouin in their power of growth and expansion, and by a genetic vitalisation denied the passive urban community, begin to identify themselves as a new civic force. A natural need becomes wedded to a higher evaluation, an evaluation of themselves. There emerges among them the most powerful force that social man can experience. It is kinship, but not of blood. It transcends the tribal and the familial. This unification of the group takes them to the Second Stage. Stage Two is defined by Ibn Khaldun with the term ‘Asabiyya’. Asabiyya, normally ‘kinship’, is here used to mark as distinctive the bond, the life and death unifying bond of a brotherhood without blood ties. In the excellent Pléiade edition of ‘The Muqaddima’ its editor and translator calls it ‘esprit de corps’, but it is much more than that, for it has in it also a moral evaluation as in the term ‘Futuwwa’, chivalry or nobility of character. Asabiyya unites men to find the power to act and transform and command. If its motor power is high, its brotherhood is raised higher. If the binding factor (religio – to bind together) is there, that is Divine religion, it is, that being its highest possibility, assured a triumph.”