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Ramadhan is undoubtedly a very important date in the Muslim calendar and is a great gift from Allah to the believers. It is a month full of Allah’s blessings and mercy, a month where the devil is locked up and people are presented with the opportunity to prove themselves to Allah. All year long we give in to our inner most desires and are constantly feeding our bodies and our egos, not taking into consideration the extreme damage we are doing to our body and soul. Ramadhan is an opportunity from Allah to reflect on what we have been doing the whole year, assess ourselves and to make changes that will bring us into line with what Allah wants from us.
Too often we forget that we have not been sent to this world to get caught up in its attractions and distractions, but to worship Allah and prepare for a better hereafter. Ramadhan gives us time to reflect on what we have, to appreciate Allah’s blessings he has showered us with and to lessen the grip of the devil and our ego.
May Allah give us the ability to benefit from this month in the best possible manner and may Allah forgive those souls who have left us in the past year, who were amongst us last Ramadhan but are not here today, most importantly my father Al-Haaj Mahmood Hussain, who tragically passed away in a car accident in January earlier this year. May Allah elevate his status and forgive his sins and grant him space under his shade. Ameen.
محبوب حسين الأزهرى
Allama Hafiz Mahboob Hussain al-Azhari BA (Hons), BSc (Hons), MA (RES) Secretary of WAAG (World Association of Al-Azhar Graduates) UK, a mureed of Hazrat Zia-Ul-Ummat Shaykh Pir Justice Pir Karam Shah Al-Azhari and a student of Shaykh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada. As such, Mahboob Hussain is the founder and resident scholar of PirKaramShah.com. He was born in Pakistan in 1976 Mahboob Hussain arrived in the UK in 1978 where he settled in Dewsbury. In 1980 he began his primary Islamic studies under Abul In’am Muhammad Abdul Bari Chishti and followed that by memorisation of the Qur'ân. After completing his GCSE’s in 1993 he rejoined his teacher in Jamia al-Karam, which at that time was at the former site in Milton Keynes, where under his tutelage and the auspicious guidance of Shaykh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada, he began his studies in Arabic and Islamic studies and A Levels. Here he was fortunate to meet with his Shaykh, the Ummah’s Luminary, Justice Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari (ra) and pledged his allegiance to him.
After completing his A Levels and studies in Jamia al-Karam in 1997, he was fortunate to pursue his studies in Jamia al-Azhar, Cairo where he gained a BA honours from the Department of Theology, specialising in the science of Prophetic Traditions. After completing his studies in 2000, he returned to the UK and spent a year teaching Arabic and Islamic studies in his local town Dewsbury. In 2001 he began BSc in Computing and Information Studies in the University of Bradford, which he completed in 2005 and immediately rejoined Shaykh M I H Pirzada at Jamia al-Karam as a teacher. Mahboob Hussain has achieved his MA thesis by research at the University of Leeds titled ‘Jewish Anecdotes in Qur'ânic Exegesis’ and is currently looking forward to his upcoming PhD InshAllah. He is also involved in alot of other literary work, such as English translation of selected surahs of Tafsir Zia-Ul-Quran, soon to be exclusively released on pirkaramshah.com.