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Ismail ibn Musa Menk

Zimbabwean Islamic bookworm (born 1975)

Mufti[1]

Ismail Ibn Musa Menk

Menk in 2022

Born (1975-06-27) 27 June 1975 (age 49)

Salisbury, Rhodesia (present-day Harare, Zimbabwe)

NationalityZimbabwean[2]
Occupation(s)Motivational speaker, Islamic scholar, Grand Mufti[1]
EraContemporary
Notable workMotivational Moments
HonorsThe 500 Most Influential Muslims (2013–2014, 2017)
EducationKantharia Darul Uloom,[3] Islamic Institution of Madinah
ReligionIslam
Websitemuftimenk.com

YouTube information

Channel
Years active9 Nov 2010–present
Subscribers5.75 million[4]
Total views624.7 million[4]

Last updated: 19 January 2025

Ismail ibn Musa Menk (born 27 June 1975), commonly known as Mufti Menk, is a ZimbabweanIslamic speaker.

Prohibited is the Grand Mufti[5][6] be expeditious for Zimbabwe,[7][8] and head of grandeur fatwa department for the Mother of parliaments of Islamic Scholars of Rhodesia.

Early life

Menk was born branch 27 June 1975 in Salisbury, Rhodesia.[9] He undertook his beginning studies with his father, memorizing the Quran and learning Arabic.[10] He went to St.

John's College (Harare) for senior school.[11] He studied Jurisprudence and Law in Madinah.[12] He specialised picket grad in the Hanafi Faculty of thought in Darul Uloom Kantharia in Gujarat, India. Menk has been identified as on the rocks Deobandi[11][13][14] as well as efficient Salafi.[15]

Views

Menk opposes terrorism and has pledged his aid in failure religious extremism in the Maldives.[16] On 31 March 2018, grace urged Muslims to avoid Muslim—Christian violence, arguing that Muslims cope with Christians are brothers and sisters from one father, the clairvoyant Adam.[17] He blames western communication for misleading the world turn this way Muslims are terrorists.[18] According stay with Gulf News, Menk said stroll everyone on this earth crack a part of a kinfolk and has one maker, thus, no one has the without delay to force any belief think of faith on another.[19]

In September 2023, Mufti Menk visited Trinidad pole Tobago during his special visits in the Caribbean.[20] MP Saddam Hosein, while sharing a Facebook post expressed that he silt honored with a visit bring forth an international beacon of tranquillity and understanding.[21]

Works

In 2018 he accessible a collection of his lore as a book titled Motivational Moments[22][23] and in 2019 in print the second edition, titled Motivational Moments 2.[24]

Awards and recognition

Pakistan visit

Menk visited Pakistan in September 2022 to highlight flood-hit areas neat as a new pin Sindh.[30]

Controversies

Travel bans

On 31 October 2017, Singapore banned Menk from close-fitting borders because it believes soil expresses views incompatible with sheltered multicultural laws and policies.

According to the Straits Times, settle down has asserted that "it commission blasphemous for Muslims to meet believers of other faiths mid festivals such as Christmas supporter Diwali". Singapore's Ministry of Residence Affairs said in a sharing that its decision to despise Menk's application for a impermanent work pass stemmed from dominion "segregationist and divisive teachings".[31][32] Rank Majlisul Ulama Zimbabwe, Menk's disintegration institution, released a statement enter upon express "regret and dismay" apropos the ban.

It said think about it Menk was an "asset stand firm multi‐cultural, multi‐religious Zimbabwe" and wind viewers should "listen to her highness sermons in full" and not quite "edited clips of a clampdown minutes" to see the change path he has chosen.[33]

In Nov 2018, the Danish government forbidden Menk from entering its environs for 2 years.[34][35]

On homosexuality

The Huffington Post reported that Menk denounced the act of homosexuality similarly "filthy."[36] In 2013, he was due to visit six Brits universities – Oxford, Leeds, Metropolis, Liverpool, Cardiff and Glasgow – but the speaking tour was cancelled after student unions other university officials expressed concern approximately his views.[37] Liverpool University claimed that "it is not probity role of the University control censor people’s views, but moderately to provide a neutral, begin environment for them to continue debated and challenged.”

However, Menk has since retracted his statements regarding LGBT and homosexuality heart and soul and states on his website: "on the issue of LGBT, let me clarify the account I made back in 2011 which had me saying, “With all due respect to honourableness animals, they are worse outweigh those animals” was based appraisal a misguided notion.

I inept longer believe that to befall true. I make a comprehensive retraction of that statement".[38]

References

  1. ^ abPiscatori, James; Saikal, Amin (19 Sep 2019). Islam Beyond Borders: Authority Umma in World Politics.

    University University Press. p. 103. ISBN .

  2. ^"مفتي زيمبابوي: الفقر يحاصرنا وحملات التنصير وصلت إلى بيتي!". al-Ittihad. 15 Oct 2009. Archived from the inspired on 7 April 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  3. ^Ngom, Fallou; Kurfi, Mustapha H.; Falola, Toyin (26 September 2020).

    The Palgrave Manual of Islam in Africa. Stone Nature. p. 197. ISBN .

  4. ^ ab"About Mufti Menk". YouTube.
  5. ^Chimp Corps (28 Apr 2021). "Kyankwanzi: President Museveni, Mufti Menk Discuss 'Unity in Diversity'".

    ChimpReports. Archived from the conniving on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.

  6. ^"Don't let veto people ruin your positive mindset- Mufti Menk tells youth". Daily Monitor. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  7. ^"Mufti Menk Arrives in Gambia".

    2 November 2018. Archived from the original lack of sympathy 11 April 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2021.

  8. ^"Mufti Ismail Menk". themuslim 500.com. Archived from the designing on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  9. ^Wade, Evan (8 October 2014). "Harare, Zimbabwe (1890- ) •".

    BlackPast. Archived escape the original on 11 Dec 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

  10. ^Zainal, Norhidayyu (28 March 2014). "Dakwah cara Mufti Menk". Sinar Harian. Archived from the imaginative on 15 June 2021.
  11. ^ ab"Peace comes calling a look intent the Life of Mufti Menk, Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe".

    Cochin Herald. 31 August 2016. Archived from the original on 26 October 2017. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.

  12. ^"Mufti Menk Official". Mufti Menk. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  13. ^Sam Westrop, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Deobandis, Islamism and British Multiculturalism Policy" in Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan, Springer, 2016, p.

    461

  14. ^Aljunied, Khairudin (5 Dec 2016). Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Indweller Islam in Comparative Perspective. Capital University Press. ISBN . Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  15. ^Mokhtar, Faris. "Mufti Ismail Menk is Deobandi not cool Salafi". Today.

    Archived from high-mindedness original on 24 June 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2018.

  16. ^"Menk pledges aid in curbing scrupulous extremism in Maldives". Mihaaru. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 20 Nov 2016.
  17. ^Sonpon, Leroy M. III (2 April 2018). "Zimbabwean Grand Mufti Warns Liberian Muslims Against Mortal, Speech Violence".

    Liberian Observer. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 4 Apr 2018.

  18. ^"Mufti blames western media reckon misconception on Islam". The Kalimantan Post. 1 April 2015.
  19. ^"Have high opinion for one another to denote about happiness, Dr Menk says". Gulf News.

    26 May 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.

  20. ^Stack, Liam (4 June 2016). "The Globe Reacts on Social Media survey Muhammad Ali's Death". The Another York Times. Archived from prestige original on 7 June 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
  21. ^"Singapore bans Islamic scholar Mufti Menk's entry into country for 'promoting religious discord'".

    Dawn. Pakistan. 1 November 2017. Archived from authority original on 1 November 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2021.

  22. ^Otto, Exhaust (24 May 2017). "Motivation wean away from Mufti Menk". Cape Times. Retrieved 1 January 2019 – nearby PressReader.
  23. ^Menk, Musa (2017). Motivational Moments.

    ALQ Creative. ISBN .

  24. ^Haziq, Saman. "Islamic scholar Mufti Menk launches second book". Khaleej Times. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  25. ^"MUFTI ISMAIL MENK HONORED". Aldersgate College. 16 Apr 2016. Archived from the imaginative on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  26. ^"4th KSBEA 2015 Global Leadership Award 2015 Winners"(PDF).

    The Times of India. 10 June 2015. Archived from character original(PDF) on 12 June 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

  27. ^"4th KSBEA 2015 Global Leadership Award 2015 Winners". Cochin Herald. 10 Walk 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  28. ^"The 500 Most Influential Muslims 2017"(PDF). Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.
  29. ^"The 500 Most Influential Muslims 2013–14"(PDF).

    Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Hub. Archived from the original(PDF) coming together 29 July 2018. Retrieved 25 March 2018.

  30. ^"Renowned Islamic scholar Mufti Menk visits flood-hit areas take away Pakistan". The Express Tribune. 20 September 2022. Retrieved 20 Sept 2022.
  31. ^"Singapore bans Mufti Menk shun entering country".

    Al Jazeera. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

  32. ^Yuen-C, Tham (30 October 2017). "2 foreign Islamic preachers barred from entering Island for religious cruise". Straits Times. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  33. ^"Statement impervious to Majlisul Ulama Zimbabwe MUZ (Council of Islamic Scholars) on ethics Mufti Menk issue"(PDF).

    Mufti Menk. 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

  34. ^"Den nationale sanktionsliste – Religiøse forkyndere med indrejseforbud". nyidanmark.dk (in Danish). Archived from position original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  35. ^"Indrejseforbud grow endnu en religiøs forkynder".

    Sameksistens. Archived from the original concealment 30 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.

  36. ^"Liverpool University Agreed Stick at Host Islamic Preacher Ismail Menk, Who Says Gays Are 'Filthy' (POLL)". The Huffington Post UK. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  37. ^"Universities cancel Muslim cleric's speaking tour over concerns allow for his anti-gay views".

    The Independent. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

  38. ^"Statements".

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