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Bismillah 💍 Indian American
Attorney & seeking ‘ilm inshaAllah - focus on Maliki fiqh
Currently in: Cairo

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[Link in bio] Published in February 2022 amid Karnataka’s hijab ban protests, this Q&A with Afreen Fatima explored the rollback of religious freedoms in India. The recent rejection of a student’s plea to wear hijab at school in Uttar Pradesh marks the latest chapter in this ongoing dispute. These renewed restrictions should be viewed within a broader backdrop of ongoing anti-Muslim hostility and discrimination.

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[NEW] Link in bio. This review by Heraa Hashmi reads Ted Chiang’s fantasy/sci-fi story ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’, set in Baghdad under the Abbasids, through the concept of qadr and repentance. She argues that the story presents a sort of compatibilist vision in which time-traveling is a means of understanding divine decree and human responsibility/atonement together.

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📖 THE FAQIH WHO BROUGHT ISLAM TO SICILY | @caveheraa | READ via link in bio or at sacredfootsteps.com

At 70 years old, Asad ibn Furat was no ordinary military commander. A student of Imam Malik and the leading Hanafi jurists of Iraq, he had become chief judge of Ifriqiya and a renowned scholar; and now he was going to lead a force of some 10,000 men 10,000 across the narrow channel from Sousse to Marsala.

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[Link in bio] Alimah Raissa Khalil and Heraa Hashmi write that while Muslims can reduce meat consumption and should oppose animal abuse, they should not adopt vegan/vegetarian ethics that frame all slaughter as inherently immoral or rely on incorrect arguments misrepresenting Islamic exegesis and jurisprudence. They discuss the sunnah, udhiyya/qurbani, and divinely ordained roles, emphasizing that Islamic animal ethics require just treatment, lawful slaughter, and preserving the Eid sacrifice as worship.

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[NEW] Link in bio. As surrogacy becomes more common, Heraa Hashmi challenges the autonomy-based arguments used to justify it by building on Islamic bioethical critiques.

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Join us for a guided journey through Fard Ayn, covering the essentials of prayer, zakat, fasting, Hajj, and purification of the heart - with a focus on Maliki Fiqh.

This is more than a class, it’s an opportunity to deepen your understanding of Islamic practice with clarity, structure, and spiritual focus in a supportive sisters-only environment.

Whether you’re strengthening your foundations or returning to your deen with intention, this journey is for you.
🗓️ Starts 5th April 2026
🕤️ 9:30 PM (Cairo) | 2:30 PM EST
🔗 Register: taybafoundation.org/sisters-fiqh

#IslamicStudies #MalikiFiqh #MuslimWomen

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Join us for a guided journey through Matn Ibn Ashir, a foundational text in Maliki fiqh, covering the essentials of prayer, zakat, fasting, Hajj, and purification of the heart.⁠
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This is more than a class, it’s an opportunity to deepen your understanding of Islamic practice with clarity, structure, and spiritual focus in a supportive sisters-only environment.⁠
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Whether you’re strengthening your foundations or returning to your deen with intention, this journey is for you.⁠
🗓️ Starts 5th April 2026⁠
🕤️ 9:30 PM (Cairo) | 2:30 PM EST⁠
🔗 Register: taybafoundation.org/sisters-fiqh⁠
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#IslamicStudies #MalikiFiqh #MatnIbnAshir #MuslimWomen #SistersOnly #IslamicLearning #TaybaFoundation #SeekKnowledge

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[Link in bio] Menstruation-related exemptions in worship are a legally coherent feature of fiqh while leaving ample avenues of devotion open. While critiquing misogynistic stigma, Heraa Hashmi also looks at secular-liberal re-readings that collapse worship into personal choice, insisting instead that the metaphysical core of ‘ibadah is obedience, sometimes expressed precisely by refraining.

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[NEW] Heraa Hashmi’s review of The Light We Lost: Grappling with Shariah in the Modern World presents Mashal Ayobi’s project as a confessional reclamation of “Shariah” from Islamophobic caricature and Muslim squeamishness, insisting that “neutral” modern law is itself a moral formation regime.

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[Link in bio] Islamic learning has always depended on a living oral tradition supported (not replaced) by written preservation. Shaykh Amin Kholwadia discusses the development of kalām as a disciplined defense of inherited creed. It then applies a Maturidi epistemological framework to show how theology can ground distinctly Muslim engagement with bioethics and professional ethics in contemporary society.

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[Link in bio] Heraa Hashmi explores whether cultured meat can fit within Islamic dietary law, citing Shaykh Musa Furber’s work concerning sacred law and intensive animal farming, while arguing that real ethical progress also means reforming how animals are raised and treated in today’s meat industry.

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[NEW] Link in bio. Heraa Hashmi reviews sociologist Dr. Sara Farris’ ‘Feminationalism.’ Farris’ concept of femonationalism is a term to describe how European nationalist, neoliberal, and feminist actors strategically deploy the figure of the oppressed Muslim woman to justify xenophobic agendas and exploit migrant women’s labor.

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