Spiritual Significance in Islamic Architecture, Dr Mostafa al-Badawi and Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad 

A pure joy listening to not one but two spiritual masters...

this is pure gold! may Allah bless you for the upload!

Jazackum Allahu Khairan to both for sharing your insight on spiritual connection, architecture and Tawhid

MashaAllah!

JazakAllah Khairan Kaseera

Beautiful harmony..May Allah strengthen our Iman

Very beautiful ❤️

Fantastic

Alhamdulillah

فتح مبين الحمد لله بارك الله فيكم نود زيارة هذه المعلمة

Ustad should read and talk about beloved British architect Laurie Baker...

Very interesting and useful. Thanks for the Q&A. It will be a much sought out book by students of architecture and structural engineers. Now out of stock. The Cambridge Mosque is truly amazing. I wonder if glulam (glued laminated) timber was used. In the foyer of the mosque I couldn't help noticing a cross in the centre of some of the panels. Oneness God is so appealing. Two squares rotated - heaven and earth - makes sense. Also a sign of much debated hypostatic union of Christ? How much man may 'design' signs and wonders, God shows up nicely to ALL believers. Any hint of Mary/Maryam in the panels for Muslim ladies?

Does anyone know how I can get into contact with Dr Badawi, email or website? I would Like to engage with the Noble Doctor and Honourable Shaykh

What street was Abdul hakim talking about in cairo?

40:30 that is extremely incorrect brother, unless you are talking about the saud

The Egyptian and Middle Eastern elites must really be suffering from acute self-hate, according to the great Shaykh Hakim, for failing to appreciate the spiritual significance of their own traditional architecture. However, what Hakim does not explain to his audience are the many British, American and other Europeans who have actively promoted modernism in Muslim countries arguing for the complete modernisation of the Islamic world. This has been unrelenting since the beginning of the 20th century and every attempt was made to show the Muslims just how inferior their architecture was compared to the more 'advanced West'. Hakim should explain the issue in terms of Western ideas of 'superiority' falsely inculcated by the many western artists, writers, architects, court advisors to various Muslim governments. Fortunately not all is lost and traditional Islamic architecture is seeing a renewal throughout the Islamic world and in the West. Hakim exaggerates the Muslim rejection of their own architecture in order to ease his own biased mind. Pure projection on his part. Even if traditional Islamic architecture is renewed all over the Islamic world Hakim will be the first to reject it since it excludes his own non-descript understanding of European forms. If there is any Arab self-hate among Arab elites then it only exists as a remnant of the destabilizing and dysfunctional function of the colonial powers. Hakim admits his own failing with his wild claim : " there is no interest among the Egyptian elite" and even goes far as labelling it as " malign neglect". No mention of the European "malign neglect" which passed through the minds of modernised Europeans when judging traditional Islamic forms. Hakim is quite happy to enter into self-deception when he stereotypes all Arab elites as an ignorant bunch. He reserves, naturally, his venom for these elites since they are the very elites who were targeted by Western elites to shut up and modernize. Most telling, however, is his rejection of Islamic forms in Europe, labelling them falsely as "foreign imports". According to his logic the Paris Mosque would be an architectural 'misfit' in an otherwise godless France. Hakim himself is arguing against the very forms which he himself criticizes the "Arab elites" for rejecting. He concludes by suggesting that traditional Islamic architecture should not exist in an post-modern apocalyptic Europe. So Hakim's position is actually no different from the past colonial mind-set which regarded all traditional forms as inferior to modern western sensibilities. The only difference is that he is trying to convince his Muslim audience that his own contradictory way of understanding the spiritual function and relevance of Islamic architecture is actually quite coherent. Hakim 's self-deception is complete. Absolutely awful to watch in the 21st Century and tragically disengenuous as a scholar of Islam.