Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim year which follows a lunar calendar. Each month begins with a sighting of the moon’s crescent and lasts 29 or 30 days until a sighting of the next month’s crescent. The month of Ramadan commemorates the days when the Angel Gabriel imparted the wisdom of the Koran, […]
How did Muhammad become a Messenger of God?
At the age of 40, while engaged in a meditative retreat, Muhammad received his first revelation from God through the Archangel Gabriel. This revelation, which continued for twenty three years, is known as the Qur’an Muhammad began to share the revelations he received from God with the people of Makkah. They were idol worshippers, and […]
How do Muslim view the elderly, death, and the afterlife?
Muslims, by faith, are expected to respect and care of the elderly. It is quite common to find children, parents, grandparents and sometimes great grandparents all living together in one large home. In Islam, serving one’s parents is a duty second only to worshipping God. It is considered despicable to express any irritation when, through […]
Sûrat Ar-Rahmân (The Most Gracious) LV.
n the Name of Allâh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 1. The Most Gracious (Allâh)! 2. He has taught (you mankind) the Qur’ân (by His Mercy). 3. He created man.
Allah created everything for the purpose of worship.
Allah says, “I created not the jinn and humans except that they should worship Me (Alone). I seek not any provision from them nor do I ask that they should feed Me.” [Soorah an-Najm (51): 56] Allah informs us (in this verse) that the wisdom behind creating the Jinn and humans is that they establish […]
Ruling concerning changing to whom what is vowed is to be given.
Question: Is it allowed for a person to change to whom what he has vowed is going to go to after he finds that there are more deserving recipients and after he had specifically stated what and to whom he was going to give?
She made a vow to fast but she does not have the ability to do so.
Question: A woman vowed that if she gave birth to a healthy baby and it lived for at least one year, she would then fast for a year. Such did occur and the baby lived for more than a year. But she is not able to perform the fast.
The Prophet’s(pbuh) Prayer Described.
Facing The Ka’bah When the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) stood for prayer, he would face the Ka’bah in both obligatory and voluntary prayers1, and he (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) ordered that, saying to the “one who prayed badly”2 : When you stand for prayer, perform ablution prefectly, then face the qiblah and say […]
The way to achieve happiness.
It is the nature of every person to seek happiness, happiness is the object of all their strive. Some people strive to seek a temporal happiness of this world, thinking that this is the only true happiness which bill be succeeded by pain and sorrow at the day of doom, these will tomorrow know that […]
Women In Islam: Beyond the Stereotypes .
What comes to your mind when you think of a Muslim woman? A mysterious, veiled victim of male oppression, awaiting Western liberation? A slogan-shouting terrorist? An uneducated foreigner with whom you have little or nothing in common? Unless your social circle includes Muslim friends and acquaintances, the chances are that your impressions of Muslim women […]