Feb 13, Sun, 5:22 pm. As I was going over my schedule for this week, I received this message via Messenger: “I hope this does your work justice. Please revise as needed. Thank you again for the honor.:)” “Yes!” I spontaneously replied. Yes, it’s the text of the Foreword I have been waiting for! Soon after… (1) I emailed the book manuscript and cover to the printing house for the final quotation, and (2) also uploaded the book in
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It’s exactly 23 years back. 1998. February 11. 3:12 am. “In a few moments, we will land in Mehrabad International Airport,” an IranAir flight attendant in navy blue hijab assured with a smile the drowsy passengers to a seven-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur to Tehran. A score of fellow students from Mindanao and I were fetched by a minibus at the airport and transported to Qazvin, a city over 100 kilometers away. After taking a sumptuous breakfast in Karaj in
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While still stranded in a travel due to canceled flights with the Omicron Surge in early January, a small group of my students asked me for a Google Meet interview as part of their course requirements in an education subject. They asked me about the personal and professional qualities that I think a teacher should possess. I reminded them of the 4 basic functions of a teacher: F – Formation of values I – Instruction and teaching R – Research
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Since it’s #WorldReadAloudDay yesterday (February 2), let’s listen to Spiderman reading ‘aloud’ an excerpt from the PROLOGUE of my forthcoming book – to be released this month, insha’ Allah – ‘MBAYUKA TANU! MAGUINDANAON BAYUK TRANSCRIPTION, TRANSLATION, AND ANNOTATION, https://amzn.to/3uJMjLH. Of course, the footnotes are not included for obvious reasons. —– Since childhood, I have always been fascinated by oral elegance and verbal beauty. As a kid in the 1970s, I can still remember my late mother listening to the radio
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Let me confess to you something. As I was really, really engrossed with preparing the draft of my forthcoming book, ‘MBAYUKA TANU! to be sent to the reviewers, I totally didn’t find time to make this announcement yesterday (February 1 – World Hijab Day). Here is it: This book, REPLIES TO CRITIQUES OF THE BOOK ‘THE ISSUE OF HIJAB’ by Shahid Murtada Mutahhari, which is worth $9.99 in paperback (https://amzn.to/3gf7GMo) you can now get its digital copy for… FREE. Yes,
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After finishing my contract exactly a month ago (December 21) as a virtual assistant – to be more specific, as a regional consultant in an intergovernmental organization (IGO) that trains religious leaders on interreligious and intercultural dialogue – I immediately embarked on publishing some of my written and translation books in paperback via Amazon.com’s direct publishing platform. This, I pursued, in response to a longtime request of friends, students, and readers to make those books available in printed form. Just
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Salamun ‘alaykum! Yes, I know… It’s been a while… since last August, to be exact… No news from me 🙁 After translating and publishing “Replies to Critiques of the Book ‘The Issue of Hijab’“, I had been engaged – in addition to my university teaching job – in writing a book on oral cultural heritage conservation (Maguindanaon bayuk) and another one on Shari’ah-compliant investing in the Philippines stock market. (The first title is expected to be published next month, insha’ Allah.) Thereafter,
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In response to popular demand from my readers, the books I have written and translated will be made available in printed format (paperback and/or hardcover) in Amazon, insha’ Allah. In addition to that, I’m also determined to finish writing the following two books: ‘mBayuka Tanu! Maguindanaon Proverbs (Bayuk) Transliteration, Translation, and Annotation How to Shari’ah-compliantly Invest in the Stock Market: Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide After publishing these two books, I will resume my translation of Shahid Mutahhari works, and these two
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Dayn (debt) is mentioned in Islamic sources (Qur’an, Traditions, Supplications, and Jurisprudence) and history in various ways.
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Salamun ‘alaykum! I’m glad to share with you that with the onset of the month of Muharram, I’m so much engrossed with the translation of the remaining pages of Shahid Murtada Mutahhari’s “Mas’aleh-ye Hijab” (The Issue of Hijab). Obviously, this book is NOT the same, and MUCH THICKER than, the one by the same author, which has been published many years ago under the title ON THE ISLAMIC HIJAB or ISLAMIC MODEST DRESS. Hopefully, THE ISSUE OF HIJAB will be published
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BISMILLĀHIR RAHMĀNIR RAHĪMAL-HAMDULILLĀH, AL-HAMDULILLĀHIL-LADHĪ QĀL:LAQAD ARSALNĀ RUSULANĀ BIL-BAYYINĀTI WA ANZALNĀ MA‘AHUMUL-KITĀBA WAL-MIZĀNA LIYAQUMAN-NĀSU BIL-QIST [Translation:In the Name of God, the All-beneficent, the All-mercifulAll Praise is due to God; all Praise is due to God who said: “Certainly We sent Our apostles with manifest proofs, and We sent down with them the Book and the Balance, so that mankind may maintain justice.” (Sūrat al-Ḥadīd 57:25)] Esteemed anthropologists, respected scholars, fellow students, dear friends, and my distinguished co-panelists – Salāmun ‘alaykum and
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As the author of the Persian book I’m currently translating mentions a section in Ibn Khaldun’s “Al-Muqaddimah,” I checked both the original “Al-Muqaddimah” in Arabic and its English rendition by Franz Rosenthal (https://amzn.to/3BzVu2z) for verification and knowing the context. Also known as “Al-Muqaddimatu Ibn Khaldūn” (Ibn Khaldūn’s Prolegomena), “Al-Muqaddimah” is a book written by the Arab polymath Ibn Khaldun (https://amzn.to/2V0weih) in 1377 which records an early view of universal history, and intended as the introduction chapter and the first book
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If there were any immovable object that I have taken picture of the most number of times within that week, it was no other than the statue of a man on the clock, displayed on the wall of the Intercontinental Hotel where we were billeted for seven days. The man is either trying to stop the movement of the clock’s hand, or putting it back. Either way, the message is the same: “If only I could turn back time…” I
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It was then my daughter’s first summer vacation after graduation in elementary. Over lunch I was mentioning to her the articles I was planning to post at one of my blogs – www.MuslimandMoney.com – and also the book – ‘Muslim Couple and Money’ – I was currently writing then. Curious enough, she asked, “Papa, do you have also plan to write ‘Muslim Kid and Money’ for us youngsters?” Almost spontaneously, I replied, “Yes, I also want to… Can you help
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