Hajj occupies a very important position in the various forms of Islamic worship. The Holy Prophet (sws) once, answering a question about Islam, placed it among the basics of Islam. He defined Islam in...
Spending in the way of Allah is a great virtue. It occupies paramount importance in divine religions. All Prophets of Allah emphatically urged their followers to spend in the way of Allah. In this art...
It is indeed only Allah who has given man whatever he possesses. Man’s life and all his belongings are the bounties of Allah. The only befitting way man can express his gratitude to acknowledge this t...
One of the most promising new realities is the dialogue taking place on many different levels between Muslims and Christians. Commenting on Muslim and Christian sources, the author, Islamic scholar an...
Someone’s story … My brought up – middle class, semi-religious Exceptionally kind parents, two jobs Spent more on us; Always under debt We were not bad children either; Our academic record brilliant P...
Why does a vast majority of Muslims not perform H~ajj? Do they not realise its importance? What are they doing here after all? Why are they wasting time? Don’t they know that the most unreliable partn...
Hajj, unlike all other religious practices, carries the potential of complete spiritual transformation for anyone. One comes across many living examples of this transformation phenomenon. Sometimes it...
The timings stipulated for the Prayer are most appropriate for worship as well as for the acceptance of supplications. They are soothing for the psyche, in accordance with the timings of prayer of the...
This article contains detailed information about how to perform Hajj in a shorter time (8-12 days) on your international passport without going through the government’s formal application system. It d...
Let us analyse the influence of the Mosques on our society. In this regard, the Sunnah set by the Prophet (sws) is that the Friday address should be delivered by the head of state and his administrato...
When a person is overcome by material desires and cravings, he becomes negligent of his spiritual being and indifferent to the obligations imposed on him by his Creator. To help man in combating this...
When a person is overcome by material desires and cravings, he becomes negligent of his spiritual being and indifferent to the obligations imposed on him by his Creator. To help man in combating this...
When a person is overcome by material desires and cravings, he becomes negligent of his spiritual being and indifferent to the obligations imposed on him by his Creator. To help man in combating this...
Fifth Argument: Only Ismail deserved to be selected for the offering The Torah states it explicitly that Ismail was the firstborn son of Abraham and it has been the established divine commandment of t...
Despite the assertion of the Torah (Genesis, Ch 22), this author is convinced, because of the evidence in hand, that Abraham had in fact offered his son Ismail and not Isaac to Allah the Almighty. Fir...
Chapter 2 Admissions of the Torah and Judaeo-Christian Scholars It would serve our purpose better if the following ten premises of our discussion on the concepts of revelation, inspiration, apocalypse...
Introduction This treatise is one of the prologues of my exegesis of the Qur’an, ‘Nizam-ul-Qur’an’, wherein I have tried to demonstrate as to which of his two sons---Ismail or Isaac---did Abraham offe...
To the less-informed Muslims, Tarāwihs are additional, almost obligatory prayers prescribed specially for the holy month of Ramadhān. Anybody who does not say them in congregation, it is generally bel...
The word sha’air is the plural of sha’eerah and implies certain objects which indicate and symbolically represent certain realities. In religious parlance, it implies those manifestations of the Sharī...
Let us next 1 analyze the role which the mosques play in our society as agents of change. The influence they exercise is, also, no doubt, tremendous. In this regard, the Sunnah set by the Prophet (sws...
