The God Solution
Allah is the proper name in Arabic for The One and Only God, The Creator and Sustainer of the universe. It is used by the Arab Christians and Jews for the God (Eloh-im in Hebrew; 'Allaha' in Aramaic, the mother tongue of Jesus, peace be upon him). The word Allah does not have a plural or gender. Allah does not have any associate or partner, and He does not beget nor was He begotten.
The Name Allah was not chosen by man but was revealed and referred to by all the Prophets (peace be on them). Allah is the God worshipped by Adam, Noah, Moses, Abraham and all the other Prophets sent by him.
Keynote Speaker:
Abdul Hakim Murad, born Timothy J. Winter in 1960,
Abdal Hakim studied at the prestigious Westminster School in London, UK
and later at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with first
class honours in Arabic in 1983. He then lived in Cairo for three
years, studying Islam under traditional teachers at Al-Azhar, one of
the oldest universities in the world. He went on to reside for three
years in Jeddah, where he administered a commercial translation office
and maintained close contact with Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad and
other ulama from Hadramaut, Yemen. In 1989, Sheikh Abdal Hakim returned
to England and spent two years at the University of London learning
Turkish and Farsi. Since 1992 he has been a doctoral student at Oxford
University, specializing in the religious life of the early Ottoman
Empire. In 1996, he was appointed University Lecturer in Islamic
Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Sheikh Abdal Hakim is the translator of a number of works, including two volumes from Imam al-Ghazali Ihya Ulum al-Din. He gives durus and halaqas from time to time and taught the works of Imam al-Ghazali at the Winter 1995 Deen Intensive Program in New Haven, CT. He appears frequently on BBC Radio and writes occasionally for a number of publications including The Independent and Q-News International, Britain's premier Muslim Magazine.
He lives with his wife and children in Cambridge, UK.
Sheikh Abdal Hakim is the translator of a number of works, including two volumes from Imam al-Ghazali Ihya Ulum al-Din. He gives durus and halaqas from time to time and taught the works of Imam al-Ghazali at the Winter 1995 Deen Intensive Program in New Haven, CT. He appears frequently on BBC Radio and writes occasionally for a number of publications including The Independent and Q-News International, Britain's premier Muslim Magazine.
He lives with his wife and children in Cambridge, UK.
{No son (or offspring or children) did Allâh beget, nor is there any ilâh (god) along with Him; (if there had been many gods), behold, each god would have taken away what he had created, and some would have tried to overcome others! Glorified be Allâh above all that they attribute to Him!} [Quran, 23:91]
