Quranic world – a quote by Imam Abdul Latif Finch

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

The Qurān is from a different world. If recited properly you go into it. If you consider its meanings while reciting you tour it. If it moves into your heart you become a resident in that world.

– Imam Muhammad Abdul Latif Finch 2015

Muhammad Abdul Latif converted to Islam at the age of 20 and has earned ijazas in Islamic Sciences including Quranic Sciences, Hadith, Maliki and Shafi’i Jurisprudence, Usul al-Fiqh, Seerah, Logic, and Arabic Grammar and Morphology under the tutelage of numerous scholars, including Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Salik bin Siddina, Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Abdur Rahman Taahir, Qari Umar Bellahi, Shaykh Abdullah Ali, and Shaykh Yahya Rhodus.

Imam Muhammad Abdul Latif Finch co-founded the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, California where he served as the Imam till for 3 years until he resigned in 2012 to focus on his graduate studies. In addition, he was a teacher and a program developer for Deen Intensive Foundation, Seekers Guidance and has assisted Zaytuna College ‘s Summer Arabic Intensive program for three years in a row.

Imam Muhammad Abdul Latif Finch has recently attained a Master’s degree in Philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, a member of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

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Trouble free-ness – a thought from Imam Abdul Latif Finch

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

It seems like every person wants their life to be trouble-free.

There is nothing in this world that is free from trouble.

So, where do we get this notion of trouble-free-ness from?

Since all of us regardless of our backgrounds and times long for this kind of life, without having ever experienced it here.

This collective condition indicates that all of us without exception, know of it but from some other time and place; one we’ve all experienced and remember.

This life that we recall that is free from problems and consequently attempt to re-create here was in paradise.

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Permanence – a thought by Imam Abdul Latif Finch

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

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Our souls are permanent.

This world is temporary.

We are constantly bombarded with the temporary while our souls are in this world.

How does the soul get the permanence it relates to if not from reminders about that which is Permanent?

After time without reminders its as if the soul mistakes itself to be temporary like the world.

This is how souls get lost.

Every soul needs reminding about its permanence and about the Permanent, Himself who can give it what it needs: permanence.

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July 2015

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True Submission – a thought by Imam Abdul Latif Finch

August 17, 2015August 17, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

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Submission to God is difficult.

One of the more difficult aspects of it is accepting what He does with us and others when we don’t like it.

Usually in that event we will ask for a reason.

We suspect that by knowing why He has done what we don’t like we can see the benefit, perhaps.

By seeing the benefit we will like it.

By liking it we can submit again.

This is not submission at all.

This is proof against us that we only “sumbit” when and in the way we want to as opposed to the way He wants us to.

Besides, if God were to explain to us the reasons for all that He has done in just our single life alone, how much of that explanation would we grasp much less an explanation that would entail the rest of the universe and how we fit into it?

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July 2015

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Western Islam | from ‘Quranic Soul Food’ – a recording by Imam Abdul Latif Finch

August 3, 2015July 27, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

Below is a quote from Imam Abdul Latif Finch’s talk ‘Quranic Soul Food’, which is mashAllah full of more deep reminders.

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Muhammad Abdul Latif Finch converted to Islam at the age of 20 and has earned ijazas in Islamic Sciences including Quranic Sciences, Hadith, Maliki and Shafi’i Jurisprudence, Usul al-Fiqh, Seerah, Logic, and Arabic Grammar and Morphology under the tutelage of numerous scholars, including Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Salik bin Siddina, Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Abdur Rahman Taahir, Qari Umar Bellahi, Shaykh Abdullah Ali, and Shaykh Yahya Rhodus.

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Needs & Wants | from ‘Quranic Soul Food’ – a recording by Imam Abdul Latif Finch

August 2, 2015July 27, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

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A Life that Makes Sense | from ‘Quranic Soul Food’ – a recording by Imam Abdul Latif Finch

July 30, 2015July 27, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

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Our Capacities – a thought from Imam Abdul Latif Finch

July 29, 2015July 29, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

A glass container can only stand so much pressure from its contents.

If it is over loaded it will crack and be destroyed.

We are glass containers and what God gives us is according to our capacities.

If He gave more we would break.

He never gives us more than we can bear even though we may genuinely perceive it that way.

His Mercy itself is unlimited and we ourselves are the limited.

So any limitation of His mercy we perceive is only due to the limitedness of our containers.

May He continue to have Unlimited Mercy despite our limitations and may we continue to rely on Him to accept it, inshallah. Amin

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July 2015

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Like-for-Like | from ‘Quranic Soul Food’ – a recording by Imam Abdul Latif Finch

July 28, 2015July 27, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

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Repentance as Mercy – a Thought by Imam Abdul Latif Finch

July 27, 2015July 27, 2015 / unlimitedmercy

Anas b. Mālik Al-Anṣāri (raḍyAllāhu ‘anhu) the servant of the Messenger of Allah narrated:

Messenger of Allāh (ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said,

“Verily, Allah is more delighted with the repentance of His slave than a person who lost his camel in a desert land and then finds it (unexpectedly).”

[Bukhārī and Muslim]