The Shari’i Silver Dirham: Seeking the Barakah of Allah

The Shari’i Silver Dirham: Seeking the Barakah of Allah

By Hisham Kassim (1 Safar 1430 Hijri)

“If the people of the towns had but believed and feared Allah, We should indeed have opened out to them (all kinds of) blessings from heaven and earth: but they rejected (the truth), and We brought them to book for their misdeeds.” (Surah al-A’raf 7:96)

All around the world today, people are looking forward with renewed hope to the tenure as President of the United States of America by a man with an uncommon name and family roots. While it is very true that Barack is Swahili for a term that means “blessing” in Arabic, we have yet to see whether the name fits the man who will determine the fate of over a million Muslims in Palestine who have long been laid siege to by the political and military might of the “free” world.