Sh Sajid Umar explains what is often easily overlooked: the core aim of fasting in Ramadan...
Read More »The REAL Christmas Story: How a Prophet was turned into a god
Muslims typically argue on the basis that the date of December 25th, and symbolic practices such as adorning trees with gold and silver, have direct parallels with paganism, and therefore such celebrations should be avoided.
Read More »The Importance of Ikhlās
During our life we go through different phases; we go to school, then we go to university, then we graduate and get jobs in which we get decently paid. What necessitates the accomplishment of them all is hard work and ...
Read More »Journey Through The Cave
Tafsīr Sūrah al-Kahf – part 2 Verses 1-3 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 الْحَمْدُ لِلَّـهِ الَّذِي أَنزَلَ عَلَىٰ عَبْدِهِ الْكِتَابَ وَلَمْ يَجْعَل لَّهُ عِوَجًا ۜ ﴿١﴾ قَيِّمًا لِّيُنذِرَ بَأْسًا شَدِيدًا مِّن لَّدُنْهُ وَيُبَشِّرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الَّذِينَ ...
Read More »The Caliphate Chicken & Egg
A chicken and egg paradox has appeared in some minds where one might for example, blame the fall of the last Caliphate for the host of micro problems we suffer from today...
Read More »Who are the Majoos?
In the run up to Christmas and the New Year, the Nativity was re-enacted by school children across the country. The entrance of the Magi is always one of the highlights. ‘For a moment, the sober Christian story seems to shimmer ...
Read More »Am I a Convert or a Revert?
I used to want to be called a ‘revert’ not a ‘convert’ to Islam, but stop the press, it is at last conclusive, I am actually a convert. I think the reasoning on this minor issue of semantics is probably ...
Read More »How we all know God is one
How we all know God is one “Islam’s creative gift to mankind is monotheism, and we surely dare not throw this gift away.” Arnold Toynbee Islam is a way of life that has a simple yet profound theme permeating all ...
Read More »Where does the Sun go after it sets?
The previous verses spoke of how land, pertaining to place (Makān) is under the full power and control of Allah as He resurrects it from a state of barrenness to bring out lush green shoots and leaves and then ...
Read More »To Awaken the Atheist & Polytheist
The greatness and power of Allāh is elucidated in these verses. If He, the All-Mighty, is able to create all that we see around us, then surely He can AND will resurrect our very own bodies for the Day of ...
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