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Help Eastern Ghouta (Syria) Refugees: SNMC target is to donate $25,000

Homes are burnt, already thousands fled and over 500 killed.

Refugees need shelter, food, and medicine.

Every dollar you donate will be matched by SNMC.

The fund will be given via Islamic Relief Canada who has staff working on the ground in Eastern Ghouta.

You can donate from Zakat and Sadaqa/refugees and still get a CRA tax receipt!

Please donate online at www.SNMC.ca You will notice a donation window on the left-hand side of the Home Page. Please select “refugee” option for the drop-down list and add comments for Eastern Ghouta refugees. 

Thanks for your generosity!

The Shafi’i school has the paramount sources of legal school in the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Of less authority are the Ijma’ of the community and thought of scholars (Ijitihad) exercised through qiyas. The scholar must interpret the ambiguous passages of the Qur’an according to the consensus of the Muslims, and if there is no consensus, according to qiyas.

History: The Shafi’iyyah school of Islamic law was named after Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi’i (767-819). He belonged originally to the school of Medina and was also a pupil of Malik ibn Anas (d.795), the founder of Malikiyyah. However, he came to believe in the overriding authority of the traditions from the Prophet and identified them with the Sunnah.

Baghdad and Cairo were the chief centres of the Shafi’iyyah. From these two cities Shafi’i teaching spread into various parts of the Islamic world. In the tenth century Mecca and Medina came to be regarded as the school’s chief centres outside of Egypt. In the centuries preceding the emergence of the Ottoman Empire the Shafi’is had acquired supremacy in the central lands of Islam. It was only under the Ottoman sultans at the beginning of the sixteenth century that the Shafi’i were replaced by the Hanafites, who were given judicial authority in Constantinople, while Central Asia passed to the Shi’a as a result of the rise of the Safawids in 1501. In spite of these developments, the people in Egypt, Syria and the Hidjaz continued to follow the Shafi’i madhhab. Today it remains predominant in Southern Arabia, Bahrain, the Malay Archipelago, East Africa and several parts of Central Asia.

Adherents: There are no figures for the number of followers of the school. It has some adherents in the following countries: Jordan, Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon and Yemen. It has a large following in the following countries: Egypt, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and among the Kurdish people.

The Method of al Imam al Shafi’i in His Book: Al Risalah:http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/law/alalwani_usulalfiqh/ch4.html 

Almighty God reminds men/women in the Qur’an:

وَوَصَّيْنَا الْإِنسَانَ بِوَالِدَيْهِ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ وَهْنًا عَلَىٰ وَهْنٍ وَفِصَالُهُ فِي عَامَيْنِ أَنِ اشْكُرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيْكَ إِلَيَّ الْمَصِيرُ

“And We have enjoined upon man/woman [care] for his/her parents. His/her mother carried him/her, [increasing her] in weakness upon weakness, and his/her weaning is in two years. Be grateful to Me and to your parents; to Me is the [final] destination.” (The Qur’an 31:14)