NEWSLETTER

Monday, 21 Shabaan 1431 H /02 August 2010

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If you had invested R1000 in Kagiso Asset Management’s Equity Alpha unit trust fund almost six years ago, when it launched, you would have been invested in the number 1 domestic equity general unit trust fund AND your R1000 investment would have grown to R3 847*.

The Kagiso Islamic Equity Fund, which uses this same investment team and process, is NOW available to investors seeking transparent and ethical investments. Whilst complying with Sharia law, the fund aims to consistently outperform the market.

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Abul-Fiqh, Imaam Shafi`i RA

Muhammad ibn Idris ibn al-`Abbas, al-Imam al-Shafi`i, Abu `Abd Allah al-Shafi`i al-Hijazi al-Qurashi al-Hashimi al-Muttalibi (d. 204), the offspring of the House of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam), the peerless one of the great Mujtahid Imams and jurisprudent par excellence, the scrupulously pious ascetic and Friend of Allah, he laid down the foundations of Fiqh in his Risala, which he said he revised and re-read four hundred times, then said: "Only Allah’s Book is perfect and free from error."

He was born in Ghazza or `Asqalan in 150, the year of Imaam Abu Hanifa’s RA death, and moved to Makkah at the age of two, following his father’s death, where he grew up. He was early a skillful archer, then he took to learning language and poetry until he gave himself to Fiqh, beginning with Hadith. He memorized the Qur’an at age seven, then Malik’s Muwatta’ at age ten, at which time his teacher would deputize him to teach in his absence. At age thirteen he went to see Malik, who was impressed by his memory and intelligence.

Malik ibn Anas and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani were among his most prominent teachers and he took position against both of them in Fiqh. Al-Shafi`i said: "From Muhammad ibn al-Hasan I wrote a camel-load." Al-Hakim narrated from `Abd Allah ibn `Abd al-Hakam: "Al-Shafi`i never ceased to speak according to Malik’s position and he would say: ‘We do not differ from him other than in the way of his companions,’ until some young men spoke unbecomingly at length behind his back, whereupon al-Shafi`i resolved to put his differences with Malik in writing. Otherwise, his whole life he would say, whenever asked something: ‘This is what the Teacher said’ - hâdha qawl al-ustadh - meaning Malik."

Like Imaam Abu Hanifa RA and al-Bukhari RA, he recited the entire Qur’an each day at prayer, and twice a day in the month of Ramadan.

Ibn Rahuyah described him in Makkah as wearing bright white clothes with an intensely black beard. Al-Za`farani said that when he was in Baghdad in the year 195 he dyed his beard with henna.

Abu `Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam said: "If the intelligence of an entire nation was brought together he would have encompassed it." Similarly, al-Muzani said: "I have been looking into al-Shafi`i’s Risala for fifty years, and I do not recall a single time I looked at it without learning some new benefit."

Imaam Ahmad related by his students Abu Talib and Humayd ibn Zanjuyah to say: "I never saw anyone adhere more to hadith than al-Shafi`i. No-one preceded him in writing down the hadith in a book." Imma Ahmad ibn Hanbal also said: "Not one of the scholars of hadith touched an inkwell nor a pen except he owed a huge debt to al-Shafi`i."

Al-Shafi`i was known for his peculiar strength in Arabic language, poetry, and philology. Bayhaqi narrated: read more

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The UAE says it will block key features on BlackBerry smart phones, citing national security concerns because the devices operate beyond the government's ability to monitor their use. Officials in neighboring Saudi Arabia indicated it planned to follow suit.

Two people were killed and three others injured when a tanker transporting chemicals collided with another truck and two cars on the N3 near Lynnfield, Pietermaritzburg on Sunday, KwaZulu paramedics said.

A disgruntled group in the ANC Youth League in the North West will go to court this week to try to nullify the election of the new provincial leadership.

The police department intends to brief media this week on a press report that national police commissioner General Bheki Cele allegedly signed a "dodgy" multi-million rand property deal.

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