Yet Another Anti-Muslim Film: Obsession
An American Jewish rabbi has produced a film declaring war against Islam. Rabbi Raphael Shore claims to have declared war on Western "Radical" Islam with the DVD he has prepared, "Obsession". "Obsession" is a 2005 anti-Muslim propaganda film put together by controversial anti-Muslim figures to further the perceived divide between Western and Muslim audiences. Just when the presidential elections ...

Muhammad Asad
Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) was born in 1900, into a family of Jewish scholars in Poland. It was the tradition of his family that the son would become a rabbi, and therefore he received a strict religious education. He was so well instructed in the Jewish religion that he knew Aramaic and Hebrew very well. He studied the Torah in original. From his teenager years, Asad/Weiss made many unsuccess...

‘Acts of Worship slow down time'
  One of the most important reasons why the Muslim world has not been crushed and swallowed by the global system is the atmosphere of Ramadan. Our guest today is Professor Kemal Sayar, a psychiatrist who is also literature professor. His elegant style and broad-minded perspective as well as the depth in his answers to ou...

Have you ever heard the Call to Prayer?
If you live in a Muslim country, then you hear the call to prayer often throughout the daily routine. But here it might be better to use the verb "listen" rather than the verb "hear".... You hear the call to prayer five times a day, but do you listen to it? This call to prayer has become so much a part of our daily lives that we merely hear it and therefore we may not be aware of its true meaning...

Exploring the Truth within Cinema
We followed the trail left by the shadow. We pursued noble feelings, pure sorrow, harmless anger and universal truths on the silver screen, something normally dulled by violence and banality. While walking on the path made by film strips wrapped around the girth of the world we became fascinated by how Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is treated as a topic for the cinema. We investigated how well the life...

Keeping the Connection to the Prophet Alive
The Prophet Muhammad is ever present in the lives of Muslims, but how often do we ask ourselves about the nature of our connection to him or how his teachings have come down to us? Certainly we know of his teachings and example from the Quran and Hadith, but there is also a living connection to the Prophet that has been cultivated and guarded by generations of Muslim scholars. The tradition of I...

The Night of Salvation: Bara'a
Bara’a connotes the lack of relation between two things; a person becoming freed from an obligation or not having an obligation. It is understood that Allah clears his servants [slate] who face him on this night and ask for forgiveness.

The Night of Bara’a (Salvation or record) holds an important place among nights which are considered sacred. The hadith belonging to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), in wh...

Where in the world is the first Call to Prayer recited?
Do you know where the first Call to Prayer is read every morning? Where the first iqama is recited and who prays the first daily prayer?   For millions of years the sun has first sent its rays to this place; it is the Kamchatka Peninsula which lies to the east of Japan and under Russia, flowing like a hook onto the ocean… The first people to see the rising sun are those in Kamchatka.   They are t...

Islamophobia in Italy II
The Guastalla Park in Milan, about thirty meters from the great Synagogue of the city. It is the last day of high school. Hundreds of students are playing the traditional game of throwing eggs and flour. But in a corner of the garden there is a more simple form of teasing and deceit. Two students - one in the final year, the other in the third year, 19 and 17 years old. The former is Andrea. He h...

Lastprophet.info Met With 35,000 People at ISNA
Lastprophet.info recently attended the ISNA (Islamic Society North America) Congress, the most important organization that brings American Muslims together. Representing our site, our editors participated in the activities which were held in Columbus, Ohio. Also a Lastprophet.info stand was set up at the fair, which was organized together with the conference. Thousands visited the stand. In addit...

Supplications often recited by Prophet Muhammad
"Prayer is the best form of worship." (Abu Dawud) It has been said that each part of the Prophet Muhammad's life entailed supplication and entreaty to God. The following is a brief compilation of suppllications often recited by the Prophet. 1.      "My Lord, I ask from You guidance and truth." (Muslim) 3.      "My Lord, I ask from You guidance, piety, chastity and wealth." (Muslim) 4.      "O Al...

'Those With Dates at Home Won't Go Hungry'
The month of Ramadan is upon us. The display windows and street stands have now been prepared for Ramadan. The foods which will adorn the blessed iftar tables are piling up in storage rooms. The fruit which receives the most attention and is the most popular item on stands is undoubtedly the date. So much so that the date is one of the first food items which comes to mind when thinking of iftar t...