Shaykh Ali Gomaa Video Portal
Prophet Muhammad's Biography: A Walking Mercy
Benefitting from Prophet Muhammad's biography is not confined to a certain time period or limited with specific geographical location. The life of the Prophet in totality represents a valuable reference point and a vital handbook for conducting our lives today. Sheikh Ali Gomaa delves through the Prophet's biography to dig out the hidden gems and points out the methodologies which his noble biography contains and sketches a blueprint for applying them in our modern lives.
Sparkles of Divine Mercy
Mercy is an all encompassing feature which God started Quran with and under which all the values and principles of Islam are built. The Prophet Muhammad presents the role model who was sent as a mercy to the worlds. In this program sheikh Ali Gomaa delves through some major values in Islam which spring from mercy. Sheikh Ali started his series with the precedence of the hadith of mercy which sets the mode for all the prophetic traditions.
Stories of the Righteous
This series is dedicated to narrating the stories of the Muslim scholars who contributed to the process of Islamic legislation through their intellectual discernment and religious scholarship with a unique ability to comprehend the vast ocean of Islamic knowledge and deduct the legal maxims on which all juristic issues are based.
About The Teacher
Shaykh Dr Ali Gomaa
3 March 1953
Shaykh Ali Gomaa is the former Grand Mufti of the Arab Republic of Egypt. He is one of the foremost Islamic scholars in the world. Despite retiring from the post of Grand Mufti of Egypt in 2013, Gomaa has remained active on many fronts and his counsel is more in demand than ever before.
Shaykh Ali's scholarly influence is derived from his position at the centre of many of the most significant institutions of Islamic law in the world. Before becoming Grand Mufti, Shaykh Ali was a professor of jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University—the second oldest university in the world, founded in 975 CE. Shaykh Ali also served as a member of the Fatwa Council. He is currently a member of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, the highest institute of Islamic law in the Organization of the Islamic Conference—an intergovernmental organization for Muslim-majority countries. Shaykh Ali has authored over 50 books, as well as hundreds of articles.