Who Started The Latest Round of Escalation: Gaza Palestinians or Israel? A Timeline.
Source: by Amad Here we go again. Israel has started bombing Gaza using one of the most superior air-force in the world against one of the most inferior resistance in the world. As always, two narratives carry the day. One that is dominant in most Palestine-friendly and neutral countries that decries …
Read More »Islam and Nationalism
The prophet Muhammad said: “He is not one of us who calls for asabiyyah, (tribalism/nationalism) or who fights for asabiyyah, or who dies for asabiyyah.” [Abu Dawud] On one occasion during the time of the Prophet (salallahu alaihi wa sallam), a party of Jews conspired to bring about disunity in the …
Read More »Treasure Your Parents
It’s a classic movie scene, almost cliche: a grown child leaving home as his parents standby watching. The mother, usually weeping, is being consoled by her husband. Today’s children think that it was the parents who were losing in these situations. Typically the child is beaming, excited at the new …
Read More »Caught in a Storm – The Muslim Way
As Hurricane Sandy heads towards US and people all over the East Coast prepare to bunker down, this verse from the Quran comes to mind: “Certainly, We shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss of wealth, lives and fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to (As-Sabireen) …
Read More »Spend little on my shroud
“Spend little on my shroud, for if I have good awaiting me with Allah, He will give me what is better than that shroud. If it is the other destination, I will be rid of that shroud in a haste. Also, do not make my grave very wide, for if …
Read More »Effects of Janazah
“They [the salaf] used to attend janazah, and its effect would show on them for days thereafter. They used to often think about death and the condition of the deceased.” —Ibrahim an-Nakha’i (al-’Aqibah, p. 153) (Read on pg 91, Abdul-Malik bin Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman Al-Qasim, Silent Moments: The Description …
Read More »Ask Allah Alone!
It is related that when Prophet Dawud (AS) supplicated, he would say, “Oh Allah, the One who provides sustenance for baby crow in it’s nest….” When the crow chick first hatches from it’s egg, it appears white (and featherless). Hence, the (parent) crow does not recognize the chick and due to …
Read More »Picture Perfect : The Importance of Masjid Quba
‘Extremism’ and Islam: The Forgotten Letters
– by Felicity Arbuthnot – London | Source: palestinechronicle ‘We are the indispensable nation.’– US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, NBC, 19th February 1998. On 21st September 2001, George W. Bush addressed Congress and the nation. He stated: “Americans are asking ‘Why do they hate us?’ “He gave the nation the …
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