Five Simple Ways to Strengthen Your Child’s Connection with the Quran
In this life, every one of…
Quran
Is the Qur’an not Enough for Guidance?
An innocent question but pregnant with…
ṬAWWAF Maximizing Your Hajj Worship – Part 3
Concept 2: Why Anti-Clockwise Circumambulation at…
ṬAWWAF Maximizing Your Hajj Worship – Part 2
Discerning the Effects and Benefits of…
Sunnah
Is the Qur’an not Enough for Guidance?
An innocent question but pregnant with…
Reviving Abandoned Sunnah Recitations in the Jumu’ah Prayer
What are the chances of you…
In the Company of the Rasul-Allah (ﷺ)
Anas Ibn Malik رضي الله عنه is…
Why We Must Study Hadith Once Again
Why should we worry about authenticating…
Islam for our time
Energy Conservation and Islam
The title may sound a little disconnected to some but since Islam is…
Keeping Yourself Pure through Understanding the Heart: Part 4
Vital Signs of a Healthy Heart What are some signs of a pure…
Keeping Yourself Pure through Understanding the Heart: Part 3
Clearing Away the Harm of Your Sin We all —at one time or…
Keeping Yourself Pure through Understanding the Heart: Part 2
Purifying Your Intentions Using Cost-Benefit Analysis In our daily lives we often must…
Keeping Yourself Pure through Understanding the Heart: Part 1
Acts of the Heart Allah created the heart and made it a king,…
Ya Nafs
Ya Nafs, Falling prey to the traps of Satan easily, Not letting go,…
Adab
Character, Character, Character: Living By the Book
This article, dear reader, is a message of hope and action. Our life…
Translations from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) | The Station of Adab (Etiquette) – 1
THE AUTHOR OF Al-Manâzil states: Al-Adab is to be wary of the extremities of…
The Ramadân Muslim
The surge of spiritual energy, the feeling of goodness within your soul, the…
Translations from Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) of Imam Ibn Al-Qaiyym: On the Deeper Meanings of Gratitude – Part 2
THE AUTHOR OF Manazil Al-Sa’irin [Shaykh Al-Harawi Al-Ansari] says the following of gratitude…
Translations from Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) of Imam Ibn Al-Qaiyym: On the Deeper Meanings of Gratitude – Part 1
THE LEXICAL MEANING of the Arabic word ‘shukr’ [root: sha ka ra, represented…
Translations from Madarij Al-Salikin by Imam Ibn Al-Qaiyym: The Station of Humility
FROM AMONG THE the stations of worship and reliance on Allah is the…
Naseeha
Neurocardiology and the Spiritual Heart Part 2 of 2
Here we continue from Part 1, where we detailed the workings of the…
Neurocardiology and the Spiritual Heart Part 1 of 2
The heart and its centrality to health was in the midst of confusion…
Between Jihad and Terrorism | Part 2
Between Jihad and terrorism So what are the differences between Jihad and terrorism?…
Da'wah
Monotheism In Interfaith Exchange – 25
In Parts 8-24 of this series, we have dug into the history of…
Rectifying Monotheism In Interfaith Exchange – 24
We continue our series on the story of how Christianity veered off the…
The Signs Granted to Prophet Isa (A.S)
The very essence of an Islamic mindset is ‘submission in peace,’ as it…
Priorities of Dawah (1)
“It is imperative that we Muslims adopt a scientific, proof-based, and rational daʿwah…
What Does it Mean to Become Muslim? (1)
MANY CONVERT STORIES are to be found in cyberspace, giving testimony to how…
Lessons in Patience from the Life of Musa
We human beings naturally love to receive prompt appreciation for the good things…
Fiqh
Satisfaction in Ṣalât Advice from Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
Just assume, a company manager loves an assistant very much and likes his…
Revving Up Your Worship in Islam
Worship is a relationship natural to the human being. How a person establishes…
10 TIPS TO MAINTAINING YOUR SALAH
1. KNOW ITS WORTH If one does not know the merits and necessity…
Why Scholars Disagree? (2)
WE CONTINUE with issues resulting from the collecting and weighing of evidence and…
How Much Of The Quran Did The Prophet Interpret?
THERE ARE TWO scholarly opinions as to how much of the Quran the…
Why Scholars Disagree (1)
AS ALL MUSLIMS know, through their understanding of the Quran and the Sunnah,…
Gatherings
ḤAJJ AND EPIGENETICS: Humans Survived While Neanderthals Went Extinct
What does Hajj have to do with Humanity’s successful survival when the Neanderthals…
Rejecting Original Sin for Religious Pluralism
Both Islam and Judaism agree that the Christian belief in ‘Original Sin’ is…
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ as a Political Thinker
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, is undoubtedly to be regarded as a foremost social reformer…
Musings from a Mile High
As the plane takes off like a bird from the ground, leaving the…
Hajj in Makkah and Yerushalayim
Both the Holy Qur’an and the Holy Bible stress the religious importance of…
The Constitution of Medinah and Mideast Peace
The 'Constitution,' 'Charter' or 'Covenant' of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by…