All praise belongs to Allah the Most High, who created both life and death as a test to see who is foremost in deed. Through His infinite mercy He blessed mankind with selected times and seasons in which the best deeds are made obligatory and the reward for good deeds …

The institution of Zakat works to fulfill the basic needs of the Muslim community. It strikes a balance between the economics of socialism and its call for equal distribution, and that of capitalism and how it concentrates wealth into the hands of the elite. Zakat is not simply regarded as …

[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 …

The Month of Ramadan… the crowded Muslims praying Taraweeh Salah in the Piazza of Masjid an-Nabawi.

  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 (rahimahullah)

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 …

A view of Prophet’s Mosque (Masjid an-Nabawi) in Madinah at the time of iftar during Ramadan.

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 …