Uves Sareshwala

Themes

Ibn Taymiyyah

His writing

Book · Understanding the Deen

The Command of the Moment

Tafaqquh fid-Deen and the divine demand of the present hour

Argues that the ummah lacks not religious information but tafaqquh fid-deen: the faculty to recognise, fulfil and convey what Allah requires of a believer now. Drawing on the Qur’an, sahih Sunnah and Ibn al-Qayyim, it tests the principle on repeated nafl Hajj and Umrah and fences it with three safeguards.