Saving a life is like saving the humanity as a whole! Hence, any service even to the size of a mustard seed given to a needy may make us better than the one who has accumulated so much wealth for nothing!
– by Yahya Ibrahim from MuslimMatters.Org From a distance you notice his eyes – piercing, brilliant and engaging. The choicest Praise and Mercy of Allah be upon him. Muhammed, the Praised one is Ahmed, the greatest in Praise of Allah; sublimely appropriate. Al-Mustapha, the Divinely Chosen, is real. He was flesh and blood. Human. I…
Source: Press TV The Department of Veterans Affairs has put the number of homeless veterans in the United States at about 107,000. Nearly 76,000 US military veterans were homeless on a given night in 2009, and close to 136,000 veterans resided in shelters that same year, a study has shown. According to an assessment recently…
Source: Press TV Russia’s Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin says Moscow is against the alliance’s proposal to set up two different missile systems, the NATO system and the Russian system. The United States and Russia have been at loggerheads over a new anti-ballistic missile system for Europe, with Moscow calling for a shared control of…
– By Asma bint Shameem In our eagerness to copy the West, we Muslims have adopted many of their practices which have no basis in the Sharee’ah. And among them is the practice of a woman changing her family name to that of her husband after she gets married. The fact is that Islam does…
Source: IslamOnline.net Instinctively, men and women have a natural inclination to each other. Therefore, contrary to the laxity of the Western culture, Islam regulates the relation between the two sexes in a way that safeguards morals and modesty. As interaction between men and women is sometimes unavoidable, Shari`ah sets conditions and boundaries that must be…
From: Reliance of the Traveller by Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller Supplicating Allah by means of an intermediary, whether it be a living person, dead person, a good deed, or a name or Attribute of Allah Most High. The scholar, YUSUF RIFA’I, says: I here want to convey the position, attested to by compelling legal…
– By Eric Margolis “Plus ça change,” say the cynical French,“plus c’est la même chose.”Many thoughtful Egyptians will be recalling this “bon mot” as they watch one ruler, the ousted Hosni Mubarak, replaced by a military junta led by Field Marshall Mohammed Tantawi. Egyptians are getting more Mubarakism, sans Mubarak, at least for now. This…
This is a deep look into the current life style and perception of Muslims compared to that of our ancestors. Here I am trying to identify some of the key areas where we can see significant changes in our lives today, which is definitely partially or completely against the teachings of the faith. Also, we…
This topic of Da’wah or Islamic Propagation was always an interesting and at the same time confusing topic for me. I consider myself to be a practising Muslim although I fail in a lot of my obligations as a Muslim. Whatever that may be, one question often comes to my mind. Who is responsible for…