What images do you see in your Masjid carpet?
عن النعمان بن بشير رضى الله عنه أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم قال : " عباد الله لتسون صفوفكم أو ليخالفن الله بين وجوهكم" أخرجه البخارى. An-Nu‘mān bin Bashīr رضى الله عنهnarrated
"Shiah" – Jewish alliance inevitable from history
In his article Azerbaijan-Israel: A Shia Jewish Alliance, Mr Roy Tov, A Jewish convert to Christianity asks, "Can this unlikely pact be explained?" Whilst the realpolitik he presen
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Palestine by another name will not smell the same
روى أحمد وأبو ليلى حديثا من سمى المدينة يثرب فليستغفر الله، وهي طابة وفي رواية فليستغفر الله ثلاثا . Rasūlullāh صلى الله عليه وسلم said, “He who calls al-Madīnah Yathrib should see
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Shattering the glass vessels of the Nabi
ميروى عن أنس أنه قال .. كان للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم حاد يقال له أنجشة وكان حسن الصوت . فقال له النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم رويدك يا أنجشة لا تكسر القوارير " " Anas رضي الله عنه narra
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Holidays into Holy Days
There has been such an increase in the volume of readers of this blog from the Northern Hemisphere, that they not only constitute the majority of readers for recent months, but hav
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Lemons into Lemonade
عجبا لأمر المؤمن إن أمره كله خير ، وليس ذاك لأحد إلا للمؤمن ؛ إن أصابته سرّاء شكر ؛ فكان خيراً له ، وإن أصابته ضرّاء صبر ؛ فكان خيراً له . رواه مسلم Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
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Animal rights in Islam; kindness to creation; animal abuse; satanic deception. Ibnul Jawzi; SPCA; Udhiyyah; Talbeesul Iblees 26 Oct, 2011 3 min read
Animal rights & Muslim wrongs
I really need to reread Talbeesul Iblees (Satan's Deception) by Ibnul Jawzi. In fact, all Muslims need to. I do not know which deception was most prevalent in Baghdad in those days
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Evolution & the 10 year old
Its's quite daunting teaching Islam to a 10 year old who has not had the benefit of a formal Islamic education system and in addition to the challenges of just living in the west,
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“We found our forefathers doing so” – errors in Dua
When Ibrahim alayhis salaam confronted his people about their idolatry, their response was, “We found our forefathers doing so.” [ash-Shu‘araa: 74] In other words, custom and tradi
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Italy’s Niqaab Ban – broader issues of reaction vs proaction
Having received an email from "a group of students opposed to ignorance and racism of any form:Veil-ation" regarding their inititive to address Italy's proposal of banning the Niqa
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