Joining hands to spread peace
A great misunderstanding has been embedded amongst most of the Muslims regarding the true nature of fasting, and they make it an occasion for making special sweets, eating and drinking, staying up late at night watching shows on TV or waste time on internet. Many take it as an opportunity to make fortune in their…
Humor has the power of warming people’s hearts and lifting the spirits like no other human characteristic, and it provides a welcome break amidst the pressures of life. But does Humor have limitations? Does Islam define it? Read on…
The dome over the grave of the Prophet (Pbuh) has been a controversial subject amongst the Muslims for decades now. There are many groups who have promoted it without realizing the facts behind it. Read on…
Al-Qurtubee in his tafseer, he talks about such people who say when they read the Qur’an in my mind this comes to my mind, or my heart tells me this, and he concludes who reads the Qur’an and says, “ask your heart” or “my heart tells me,” and so forth, they are speaking about Allah…
The entire World is crying and suffering from Economic Crisis! What are the reasons for it? Why did such a calamity hit Human kind?? Check out the Islamic view point on this great debacle!…
Cheating is one of the major evils of the society. It is because of this that many have been destroyed and some have even lost their lives. Although cheating sounds something very small, but the effect it leaves cannot be described. An entire family might die of hunger just because they were cheated. A person…
Hadith Qudsi (Hadith 40) are the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) as revealed to him by the Almighty Allah. Hadith Qudsi (or Sacred Hadith 40) are so named because, unlike the majority of Hadith which are attributed to the Prophet as his sayings, their Sanad (authority)is traced back not to the Prophet but to…
The Identity in the Fingerprint While it is stated in the Qur’an that it is easy for God to bring man back to life after death, peoples’ fingerprints are particularly emphasized: “Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones? Yes, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his…
Barrier Between Sweet & Salt Water “He has let free the two bodies of flowing water, meeting together: Between them is a Barrier which they do not transgress.” [Al-Qur’an 55:19-20] In the Arabic text the word barzakh means a barrier or a partition. This barrier, however, is not a physical partition. The Arabic word maraja…
Blood Circulation & Milk The Qur’an was revealed 600 years before the Muslim scientist Ibn Nafees described the circulation of the blood and 1,000 years before William Harwey brought this understanding to the Western world. Roughly thirteen centuries before it was known what happens in the intestines to ensure that organs are nourished by the…