Islam

Rediscovering Luqman The Wise

Source : http://azizaizmargari.wordpress.com/ | By : Margari Aziza Hill When I began my research on depictions of Blacks and Africans in pre-modern Arabic Literature, I came across a passage: It was related that a black man came to Said ibn Musaib Radiyallahu’ anhu (A wise man too) for asking him advice and …

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Picture Perfect : Hayya alas Salah, Hayya alal Falaah

Hayya alas Salah, Hayya alal Falaah Come to prayer, Come to success. Five times a day, at any nook and cranny at any given time of the day, these phrases are echoed all over the world. Come to success. It’s the call people yearn for, what one would spend hundreds …

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Callers to Allah : Things Have Been Far Worse

Before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), humanity was going through one of the worst periods in its history, a truly “dark age”. Nothing was untouched by this darkness. It pervaded the lives of the people in every way: religiously, morally, socially, politically, and economically. Humanity …

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