Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad explains: ‘In the Western milieu, converts to Islam claim that they are attracted to what they regard as its clear, rationally-accessible teachings, unobscured by elaborate mysteries. It is not only insiders who wish to take this view. Non-Muslim academic accounts… now frequently draw attention to the …
Read More »The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited, This Time in Korea
Source : PalestineChronicle | By George Katsiaficas The current threat of a major war in Korea is akin to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when the US and the USSR nearly waged nuclear war. Peaceful coexistence was assured only after an agreement was reached for Russia to withdraw its …
Read More »In Their Shoes: Obama Failed Palestine
Source : PalestineChronicle | By Uri Avnery Obama in Israel: Every word right. Every gesture genuine. Every detail in its place. Perfect. Obama in Palestine: Every word wrong. Every gesture inappropriate. Every single detail misplaced. Perfect. It started from the first moment. The President of the United States came to …
Read More »Picture Perfect : Don’t Follow The Path of Shaytaan
“Alif Laam Raa’. A book which we have revealed to you (Muhammad) so that you may lead the people from out of the darknesses into the light by their Lord’s leave to the path of the All-Mighty, the Praiseworthy.” (Surah Ibrahim 14:1)
Read More »Friday Khutbah (Sermons) : Repentance – The only Way out of Hardships
Friday Khutbah (Sermons) : Repentance – The only Way out of Hardships – by Imam Al-Madinah Al-Munawarrah ’Ali Abd-ur-Rahman al-Hudhaifi from the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, on Shawwaal 27, 1422 (January 11, 2002) The Transcript: All praise is due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. May His blessings and …
Read More »Birds of a Feather Hopefully will Flock Together
Birds of a Feather Hopefully will Flock Together A Muslim’s Reflections on the New Pope By – Imam Afroz Ali 1. Birds, Francis and the New Pope I was somewhere in between Singapore and Sydney when fumata Bianca from the chimneys of the Sistine Chapel announced to the world of …
Read More »“When Will Our Lands Return to Us?”
A young man enters a gathering in which an elderly scholar is addressing an audience. Clearly agitated, the young man struggles to wait for a pause in the scholar’s speech in order to interject. Finding his moment, the man gets up to say his piece. Voice raised and angry, he …
Read More »Importance of Parents
Abdullah ibn Umar, a leading scholar among the Prophet’s (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) companions once saw a man from Yemen carrying his mother on his back and going around the Kaaba in his tawaf. Rather than show any sign of complaint, the man was happy, repeating a line of poetry in …
Read More »What Matters at Heart
‘A servant is not afflicted with any chastisement greater than a hard heart and of being remote from God. Hardness of the heart comes about by four things, when the level of need is exceeded: eating, sleeping, speaking and socialising. Hearts that are attached to carnal passions are veiled from …
Read More »Michael Prysner : ‘The Real Terrorist Was Me…’
navedz.com republishes the fragment of one of the most powerful anti-war speeches done by the former Corporal of the US Army in Iraq Michael Prysner at the 2008 Winter Soldier in Maryland. It is still relevant and sounding as ever. By Michael PRYSNER (USA) “I tried hard to be proud …
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