
Picture Perfect : The Road to Makkah
Picture Perfect : Hajj – The Journey of Hearts
Lab’baik Allah’humma Lab’baik !! “For all that I have seen helps me have more faith in the Creator of all that I have not seen.” The feelings of one’s true worth comes as an eye-opener and feeling the Divine Presence all around gives way to an atmosphere where one reflects …
Read More »Twelve Hours Old
Twelve Hours Old Canadian convert Katherine Bullock marvels at becoming a Muslim by Katherine Bullock What am I doing down here? I wonder, my nose and forehead pressed to the floor as I kneel in prayer. My kneecaps ache, my arm muscles strain as I try to keep the pressure …
Read More »Al-Fatihah (The Opening) : The Essence of the Quran
Quran Chapter 1 – English Translation of Surah Al-Fatihah (1-7) 1 – In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. 2 – Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds; 3 – Most Gracious, Most Merciful; 4 – Master of the Day of Judgment. 5 – …
Read More »Picture Perfect : Hearts Gathering
Allaah says in the Quran (meaning): “And brought together their hearts. If you had spent all that is in the earth, you could not have brought their hearts together; but All?h brought them together. Indeed, He is Exalted in Might and Wise.” [Quran, 8:63] If you had to spend all …
Read More »Picture Perfect : All Equal Before Their Lord
They are all saying together : “Praise be to Allaah, our Lord, the Greatest”. There is no white, no black, no rich, no poor, no young, no old… just humans bowing before their Lord.
Read More »Absorbed in thoughts of..
The Mughal Emperor, Akbar, was one day out hunting in the forest. When it was time for evening prayer he dismounted, spread his mat on the earth, and knelt to pray in the manner of devout Muslims everywhere. Now it was precisely at this time that a peasant woman, perturbed …
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