Suicide - It's Not An Escape!
In a society that prides itself for freedom and liberty to attain maximum happiness, suicide ought to be the furthest from the mind? Yet it is not an uncommon practice and may be someone who is close to you and opens up to you and you may be the only person who can help. Suicide, resorted to ...
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Why should you, a young Muslim, be helping to bring your friends closer to Allah?
After all, you've got your own struggles to deal with: trying to explain why you pray to hostile teachers, Hijab discrimination, standing up in class when the professor attacks Islam, ... Continue Reading
A message to someone Drowning
Author: Sh. Hamed ibn Abdullah Al-Ali
Question:
I would like to let you know that I have committed most major sins and I am not saying this in order to take pride in my sins; I used to feel this before but not any longer. I have drunk wine twice in my life or perhaps three times, I don't ... Continue ReadingAsceticism in the world
Muhammad, A Guidance to follow
Muhammad as a man had already died, but as a Prophet he left behind him a legacy in the form of the Qur'an and the Sunnah. He stressed the urgent need to hold firmly to these two sources during his Farewell speech in the valley of Arafat. If people hold fast to them, they will never ... Continue Reading
Evidences of Equality in Islamic History
First Evidence:
Abu Zarr of the
Ghifar tribe somehow got angry with the freed slave of Abu Bakr,
Bilal of Abyssinia. Both of them were the companions of the
Prophet. The altercation became prolonged and Abu Zarr in his fury
called Bilal the son of a black skinned mother. Bilal ...
Translation of the meanings of surah Al-Furqaan
(1) (1) Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion upon His Servant that he may be to the worlds a warner -
(2) (2) He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and who has not taken a son and has not had a partner in dominion and has created each thing and determined it with ...
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Islam Q&A – No Happy Halloween for You!
Jamaluddin Zarabozo
Leisure Time or Lost Time?
Translation of the meanings of surah Al-Faatiha
1 - Al-Faatiha
(1) In the name of Allah,[2] the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.[3]
[2]- Allah is a proper name belonging only to the one Almighty God, Creator and Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is within them, the Eternal and Absolute, to whom alone all worship ...
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Invocation for When Rain Increases and one Fears it
(2) The Prophet's Childhood
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