Combating Terrorism
PURPOSE AND GOALS OF Terrorism Terrorism is an activity that has some immediate purposes and some long-term goals. Almost all the leading works on terrorism discuss the purposes and goals of terroris...
Happy New Year!
How can we make this year the best ever to get us closer to Paradise? We need an intention with determination and discipline we pray. There are easy ways to raise us each day closer to our goal with...
Real & Wonderful Stories-A Brother
With a non-practicing Jewish mother and a non-practicing African-American Baptist father, both Socialists, religion obviously didn't play a role in my upbringing. Briefly exploring both Judaism and Ch...
Controversial Questions About Islam & Comments
What is the Punishment of Stealing a Valuable Thing? First of all, Allah says: {As for a male thief or a female thief cut off (from the wrist joint) their hands in recompense for what they committed,...
Prequisites and Requirements of Salah
Allahu laa ilaah ilaahu, wal hai-yul qai-yum, laa ta' khuzuhu sinatum wa laa naum, lahu ma fis-samawati, wa ma fil ardman zal-lazi yash fa 'u 'indahu ilaa bi iznihi, ya' lamu maa baina aydihim, wa maa...
Muhammad (pbuh): A Mercy to the Universe
“We have not sent you (O Muhammad) except as a mercy to the universes.” (The Qur'an, 21: 107) This verse comes near the end of the Chapter of the Prophets which tells us the stories of the different p...
Questions on Sects and Schools of Thoughts
Question 38: Does God reward one who believes in Him without necessarily following any particular religion? If there is indeed such a reward what then would be the importance of following a...
Controversial Questions About Islam & Comments
Why Islam Imposes Punishment for Fornication? First of all, Allah says: {The woman and the man guilty of illegal sexual intercourse flog each of them with a hundred lashes. Let not pity withhold you...
Combating Terrorism
MUSLIM GRIEVANCES In so far as the Muslim world is concerned, the root cause of terrorism are not difficult to trace. For centuries, the world of Islam has undergone...
Real & Wonderful Stories-Yahya Abdul Rahman Smith
I am from New Brunswick, Canada. I was brought up a Christian but did not seriously practice Christianity until I was seventeen. At that age I became very zealous in my faith. About one and a ha...
Combating Terrorism
MUSLIM GRIEVANCES There is no justification for taking and preaching extreme positions, and no religion provides a basis for such attitudes. All religions preach toleran...
Prequisites and Requirements of Salah
Summary: How to Perform Two Rak'at of Prayer 1 Have the intention (Neyyah). 2 Perform ablution (Wudu). 3 Declare the Iqamah.