Islam

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/user/MakkahLive?v=cMgnsrJXTOc] Google’s bringing tradition and technology closer together by putting a digital spin on the holy month of Ramadan. As explained in a blog post by Maha Abouelenein — Google’s head of communications for the Middle East and North Africa — the search engine giant will have a YouTube channel …

  For almost every one of us, there’s something we know we need to change but simply won’t. How we think we know ourselves and our intentions, but really, we don’t. But in Ramadan, a lot of unpleasant things come to surface because the devils are chained and the depths …

“Spread wheat on the tops of mountains, so it cannot be said that a bird went hungry in the land of the Muslims.” ~ Caliph ‘Umar bin Abdul Aziz (radhiAllahu ‘anhu)

Source: saudilife | By Aisha Al Hajjar, AMANI TEACHING deen (religion) to our children is a huge obligation upon all parents. Generally, Muslim children begin to imitate the movements of salat (daily prayers) long before they are able to speak a word, let alone understand its significance or recite surats …

Edited version of Shaikh Muhammad bin Salih Al-Uthaymeen’s abridged work Majaalis Shahr Ramadan [pp. 41-43] that was translated by Isma’eel Alarcon. (al-manhaj.com) FASTING—from dawn to dusk—is an act of worship done for Allah. The ‘Abd draws closer to His Lord by staying away from things he loves and desires like food, …

Saa’im comes from the Arabic word Sawm, which literally means to abstain [from something]. Islamically, Sawm means to fast or abstain from certain things from dawn to dusk. The Saa’im, therefore, is the fasting person. ARE YOU… the type of person who finds fasting burdensome? Do you consider yourself to be doing a great …

Yusuf `alayhi sallatu wa sallam (may Allah send his peace and blessings on him) faced many difficulties in life; over a period of decades he was thrown into a well by his brothers as a young boy, sold into slavery, seduced by a beautiful and powerful woman in his youth and then …

Despite the differences in our colours, nationalities, castes, moods, bank accounts, needs, deeds, stocks & businesses, ISLAM makes us stand together & united in peace facing Allah’s House – the Kaaba and become EQUAL in front of our RABB (God) as we stand to worship Him 5 times a day everyday! Alhamdolillah …