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Advice to parents with children who are fasting this Ramadān

Click for your city’s 2017 Ramadan timetable The occurrence of Ramaḍān along with the beginning times of ʿIshā’, Maghrib and Fajr prayers during summer leads to confusion for some Muslims living in Europe, North America and Canada, and of course, ...

In 1942, a sequence of events eventually culminated in the extermination of nearly 6 million Jewish men, women and children; and it all began with the euphemistically termed “Final Solution” to the Jewish Question. [1] That such inhumanity and manifest ...

The beginning of summer brings great confusion amongst many Muslims living in the UK, North America, Canada and some other European countries concerning the commencement of ‘Ishā, Maghrib and Fajr prayers. Muslims frequently enquire about the best time to pray ‘Ishā given that it starts very late...

69 years after Nakba – 9 reasons why it is time for Israel’s retirement Yet again we mark another birthday of the ongoing international catastrophe known as Israel. It has been 69 years since almost a million Palestinian were ransacked ...

Read what is likely one of the most in-depth pieces on this topic in the English language.

Just as al-Sunan al-Rawātib are better than other kinds of voluntary prayers, so fasts observed (in the months) before and after Ramadān are better than fasts at other times...

Muslim community and advocacy group MEND (Muslim Engagement & Development) has recently made public a wealth of high quality resources to be used in schools to teach about and tackle Islamophobia. The content is designed to equip teachers with materials ...

The Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act bill, currently sitting at the US Congress, will designate the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), and all its “affiliates”, terrorist organisations. This is a worrying prospect for Muslim civil society, since these “affiliates” as alleged by ...

A letter sent to the Guardian yesterday signed by 243 academics has complained of what the signatories call “outrageous interferences with free expression” at universities.[1] It refers to the government’s attempt to “silence campus discussion about Israel” in the wake ...