First single by Wietske Merison from her album titled, WITNESS. For more, visit www.usuli.org/music/wietske. Also available on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/DvOG3qce5Ko Full album release date: March 1, 2023.

Lyrics:

I testify
By heart and eye
By the tears I cry
I no longer deny

The blessings in my life that are too numerous to count
My heart I thought was lost but in your mercy it was found
So from this moment onward, ya Hadi be my guide
Till even my darkest darkness is just a shadow of your light

Ashaddu an la ilaha illa Allah, la ilaha illa Allah,
La ilaha illa Allah, la ilaha illa Allah
La ilaha illa Allah, la ilaha illa Allah
La ilaha illa Allah, wa ashaddu anna Muhammadan Rasul Ullah

I witness
I see you are the sight beyond my eyes
I witness
Truth has become apparent beyond lies
I witness
The many different names have become one
I witness
Returning back to where we had begun

Ashaddu an la ilaha illa Allah, la ilaha illa Allah,
La ilaha illa Allah, la ilaha illa Allah
La ilaha illa Allah, la ilaha illa Allah
La ilaha illa Allah, wa ashaddu anna Muhammadan Rasul Ullah

WITNESS

Shahada by Wietske Merison

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl answers questions after his original English language commentary (tafsir) on Surah Hashr and Surah Nur, part of Project Illumine: The Light of the Quran series. This comprehensive chapter-by-chapter intensive study of the Quran is the result of this scholar's lifelong relationship with the Quran in which he tries to recapture the ethical message that sparked the passion of early Muslims and apply those lessons to our modern day challenges. Recorded at the Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org) on 2 July 2022. 

The topics discussed in this Q&A include, but are not limited to: the sin of Hajj; the Shaykh’s personal journey with the surahs; practices of bashfulness and shame in relation to Allah, and the bashfulness of the Prophet; hikmah and izza; necropolitics; theories of justice and honesty in such discourses; studying Arabic in countries like Saudi Arabia; question of awra and zina, especially in relation to men; going beyond physical appearances; suspending judgement; and more.

The article that the Shaykh mentions from the first question on the sin of Hajj is: Prohibiting the Pilgrimage: Politics and Fiction in Mālikī Fatwās https://brill.com/view/journals/ils/2...  

Please support the Usuli Institute at https://www.usuli.org/donate to help us continue in our endeavors. Your donation to The Institute for Advanced Usuli Studies will help fund important work to combat extremism and ignorance. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity dedicated to research and education to promote humanistically beautiful and morally elevating interpretations of Islam. We seek to support our brightest minds to advance knowledge and to build a community of individuals founded on dignity, respect and love for all of God's creation. 

For quick links to all previous Project Illumine halaqas, go to: https://www.usuli.org/project-illumine. Visit https://linktr.ee/usuliinstitute for more resources.

Surah 59: Al Hashr and Surah 24: Al Nur | Q&A | Project Illumine

The Institute for Advanced Usuli Studies (The Usuli Institute)
www.usuli.org

For more resources visit Linktr.ee/UsuliInstitute

Surah 59: Al Hashr and Surah 24: Al Nur | Q&A | Project Illumine

The Usuli Institute

Related tracks