5th Volume 2nd Issue of Journal of Hadith and Sira is Now Availa

The 5th Volume 2nd Issue of Journal of Hadith and Sira is published. In this issue you may find articles, review essay, obituary and books reviews. The titles, writers and translators are as follows:   Articles Halit Çil – Risâlet Öncesi ve Sonrası Hz. Muhammed’in Hayatında Himaye Kavramının Sorun Çözücü İzdüşümleri Hüseyin Akgün – Mehdîlik Hadislerinin Hadis Rivâyet Coğrafyası Açısından İnc...

Time to be mobilized…

On Friday, March 15, 2019, one of the most harrowing and brutal attacks of recent years in Christchurch, New Zealand, targeted Muslims who came together for Friday prayers. As Meridyen, we pray the Almighty to give patience for the families of those who are martyred in these attacks and offer prompt recovery for the wounded. We invite the whole Islamic world for solidarity... Considering the conn...

Surah An-Nisa

1. O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife [Hawwa (Eve)], and from them both He created many men and women and fear Allah through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship). Surely, Allah is Ever an All-Watcher over you. 2. And give unto orphans their property and do...

Surah Al-Imran

1. Alif-Lam-Mim. [These letters are one of the miracles of the Qur'an, and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings].   2. Allah! La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists.   3. It is He Who has sent down the Book (the Qur'an) to you (Muhammad ) with truth, confirming what came before it. And he sent dow...

Surah Al-Baqarah

In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful 1. Alif-Lam-Mim. [These letters are one of the miracles of the Qur'an and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings]. 2. This is the Book (the Qur'an), whereof there is no doubt, a guidance to those who are Al-Muttaqun [the pious and righteous persons who fear Allah much (abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which He has forbi...

Surah Al-Fatiha

In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.   All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.   The Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful,   Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.   It is You we worship and You we ask for help.   Guide us to the straight path –   The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked Your...

Treaty for Quds

THE TRANSCRIPT OF OMAR IBN KHATTAB’S TREATY FOR QUDS 1. All praise be to Allah for honouring us with Islam; gracing us with iman (belief); for being merciful to us by sending us His Prophet Muhammad (saw); and guiding us when we were astray; for bringing us together and joining our hearts as one after we became scattered; for making us victorious against our enemies; for ordaining these lands fo...

Hijra, the Month of Muharram and Ashura

Hijrah is the exemplary and difficult narrative of forsaking ones mother, father, child, love, land, possessions, property and even one’s life for the sake of Allah. Da’wah engendered hijrah, while the hijrah moulded da’wah. In short, the hijrah is a milestone for Muslims.

“We have entered the month of Muharram in which our Prophet realised the hijrah from Makkah to Medina and which the Prophet of...