The Palestinian Struggle Through the Prophetic Lens
Is Palestine a Muslim issue? What is the Islamic response to the Palestinian question? Put differently, “What would the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ do?”Rarely do we encounter political situations in our lifetime in which the prophetic way is as clear as it is in the case of the Palestinian struggle. Questions of policy are often complex, morally ambiguous, even at times unanswerable, because th...

Tips for Students of Islam: Grasping Terminology
For many a student involved in the first two years of Islamic studies, one of the hardest things to grasp and remember is the variety of terminology that one is taught. For example, in the field of ‘Aqeedah, you need to learn what is Tawheed, Shirk, Kufr, Nifaaq, Bidah, Risaalah, Aakhirah, Rububiyyah, Asma Wa Sifaat, Ibaadah, Ta’weel, Tashbeeh, Riya and many other terms.At the same tim...

Infographic: Qurbani (Sacrifice)

Infographic: Night of Ascension (Al-Miraj)

Infographic: Three Holy Months
We pray that all of our readers have  blessed Rajab and Shaba’an, and with health and faith reach the blessed month of Ramadan. Tonight in Turkey will be celebrated as ‘Recep kandil’ or the first Thursday night in the month of Rajab, when prayers for the three consecutive holy months are offered. This summer, Rajab, Shaba’an and Ramadan follow most of May, June and July, and the Eid-ul-Fitr (...

Calendar of 3 Holy Months 2020

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...

The Principle of not Neglecting the Heart
َدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ عَنْ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَأَخْبَرَنِي عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ أَنَّ حَكِيمَ بْنَ حِزَامٍ أَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ أُمُورًا كُنْتُ أَتَحَنَّثُ أَوْ أَتَحَنَّتُ بِهَا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ مِنْ صِلَةٍ وَعَتَاقَةٍ وَصَدَقَةٍ هَلْ لِي فِيهَا أَجْرٌ قَالَ حَكِيمٌ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَل...

Qurban: The Symbol of Submission to The Prophet and Allah
Every time the act of slaughtering a qurban takes place, believers refresh the memory of the triumph of Prophet Ibrahim and his son Ismail with regards to passing the trial with complete submission to Allah Almighty’s commands and with this symbolic act they reflect that they are ready for a similar sort of submission. Allah Almighty has bestowed us servants with countless blessings. As stated i...

Deception
حدثنا قتيبة حدثنا الليث عن عقيل عن الزهري عن ابن المسيب عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه : عن النبي صلى الله عليه و سلم أنه قال لا يلدغ المؤمن من جحر واحد مرتين Narrated by Abu Huraira: The Prophet Muhammad (saw) said, "A believer is not stung twice (by something) out of one and the same hole." (Al-Bukhari Al-Adab 83, Muslim Zuhd 63) Abu Azza did not know that he was in the presence of a prophet who wa...

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 a...

The Enquiry of Heraclius
Heraclius, Illustration by Rossen Toshev Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Abbas: Abu Sufyan bin Harb informed me that Heraclius had sent a messenger to him while he had been accompanying a caravan from Quraish. They were merchants doing business in Sham (Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan), at the time when Allah's Messenger ﷺ had truce with Abu Sufyan and Quraish infidels. So Abu Sufyan and his compan...