Shirk ad-Du'aa (Polytheism in Supplication)

Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid

Question: Ya sheikh, I have question regarding the tawasul, I was telling someone that seeking tawasul at graves and asking the person who died to make dua to Allah it's wrong, he told me what is wrong with if I asked ...

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By Sheikh Salman al-Oadah

All of us have to wrestle with the emotion of anger, an emotion that flares up and tests a person's ability to control himself and keep himself from stooping to the level of the one who wronged him.

There are reasons why some people can keep their composure ...

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Sheikh Salman al-Oadah

A person's need to feel import is something perfectly natural, something instilled in human nature. It may well be that this feeling is behind many of humanity's greatest inventions, achievements, and noble acts.

This is why Allah mentions to us that Abraham (peace be ...

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Where are the Malcolms and where are the X's
People of today come back to your senses
Before the day comes where there'll be no recompenses
We are wasting our time at heaven's expenses
Claim over the fences and lay over the Benz's The west looks at me with a funny type of way
Frown, clown do ... Continue Reading

The Light of Guidance

Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahmaan al-Swiyaan

(Al-Bayaan magazine, issue # 152, Rabee' al-Aakhir 1421, pp. 66-67)
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I was coming back from a long journey, and Allaah decreed that my seat in the airplane should ... Continue Reading

I was reading a book in the dining room when the printer started to print. Strangely, my computer was in ANOTHER room and I was the only person in the house. I picked up the message which read:

"The oceans, the insects, the planets and their orbits, the light and the darkness, the air and the ...

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"Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe..." "From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary..."
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Written by : Michael Wolfe

After twenty-five years a writer in America, I wanted something to soften my cynicism. I was searching for new terms by which to see. The way one is raised establishes certain needs in this department. From a pluralist background, I naturally placed great stress on ... Continue Reading

Prophet Solomon (peace be upon him) (in Arabic he is called 'Sulaiman'), built a mosque, a long, long time ago, on Mt. Moriah in Jerusalem. He dedicated it to the worship of Allah s.w.t. the One True God.  Like his father, Prophet David (peace be upon him) (in Arabic he is called 'Dawood'), he ... Continue Reading

Written By : Abdul-Rahman Dimashqiyyah

It is the nature of every person to seek happiness, happiness is the object of all their strive. Some people strive to seek a temporal happiness of this world, thinking that this is the only true happiness which bill be succeeded by pain and sorrow at ... Continue Reading

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he ... Continue Reading