A Spiritual Swelling Up: The Concluding Ayahs of Surat Al-Tawbah
Two Attitudes Allah, Most High, says:…
Quran
The Testimony Of The Quran And The Witness Of Its Messenger | Muhammad Abdullah Diraz
WITHOUT A DOUBT, it is common…
The Best Inheritance: A Lesson from Surat Maryam | Ghada Khafagy & Farid Al-Toni
Sûrat Maryam, Verses 2-15: Zechariah and His…
Only Those Who Follow It Reflect On It (2)
WE CONTINUE FROM Part 1, where…
Sunnah
Hadith Explained | The Special Night & Abu Hurairah’s Two Kinds of Knowledge: Commentary Based on Fath Al-Bari, Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani |Omar Abdl-Haleem
The Special Night Bukhâri narrates on…
Hadith Explained | The Prophet and the Quran Revelation | Commentary Based on Fath Al-Bari, Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani | Omar Abdl-Haleem
MÛSA IBN ISMÂʿÎl related to us, saying: Abû…
Hadith Explained | Hasad: Commentary Based on Fath Al-Bari, Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalani | Omar Abdl-Haleem
ABÛ HURAIRAH NARRATED that the Prophet…
ٍSunnah Compilation | Al-Mustadrak Of Abu ‘Abdullah Al-Hakim Al-Naysaburi | Omar Abdl-Haleem
THE COMPILER OF the Hadith work,…
Discover Islam
ATHEISM: A Giant Leap of Faith | Part 24
Isn’t eternity in Hell too severe a punishment? This question involves two separate…
ATHEISM: A Giant Leap of Faith | Part 23
Worship: slavery or freedom? Humans are naturally predisposed to submit and follow (serve…
ATHEISM: A Giant Leap of Faith | Part 22
Are we born believers? Contrary to what atheists believe, everybody, religious or otherwise,…
ATHEISM: A Giant Leap of Faith | Part 21
Characteristics of Divine Religion (continued) True religion acknowledges and honors all God’s prophets…
ATHEISM: A Giant Leap of Faith | Part 20
Characteristics of Divine Religion —from the Creator, not from Man Clarity in the…
ATHEISM: A Giant Leap of Faith | Part 19
Darwin’s Doubts (continued) Darwin also referred to the Creator several times in his…
Character
Translations from Ibn Al-Jawzi’s Sayd Al-Khatir (Quarry of the Mind) | Knowledge Without Action | Omar Abdl-Haleem
The Entrance of Corruption SOME TIME AGO, I took account of myself with…
The Mother of All Spiritual Maladies | Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
THE FOLLOWING ARE some remarks inspired by my perusal of an insightful passage…
Translation from Ibn Al-Jawzi’s Sayd Al-Khatir (Quarry of the Mind) | Taking the Side of Allah
THE RATIONAL MAN is careful to uphold the positions of Allah even when…
Translation from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) | The Station of Faqr (Mendicancy) | Part 2
Mendicancy and the Moment MENDICANCY (FAQR) HAS effects, signs, causes, and implications that the…
Translation from Ibn Al-Qayyim’s Madarij Al-Salikin (Steps of the Seekers) | The Station of Faqr (Mendicancy) | Part 1
AMONG THE STATIONS of iyyâka naʿbudu wa iyyâka nastaʿîn, “You alone we worship…
Translation from Ibn Al-Jawzi’s Sayd Al-Khatir (Quarry of the Mind) | From the Stories of Life
The Wages of Youth I STUDIED THE conditions of people who attain glory…
Advice
How to Ask of Allah During Ramadan
AND IF MY servants ask thee about me—behold, I am near; I respond…
Seeking Knowledge: The Way to the Garden (2)
(2) The Correct Method for Seeking Religious Knowledge IN THE WORLD we now live…
Seeking Knowledge: The Way to the Garden (1)
FROM THE BEGINNING Islam honored knowledge and the search for it. O you…
Da'wah
What Does it Mean to Become Muslim? (2) | Abda al-Huzhriyyah
HAVING LOOKED WITHIN one’s self as a means for examining the meaning of…
‘Kosher’ or Not: Can a Non-Jew Convert To Christianity? (5)
PAUL: MASTERMIND OF CALLING NON-JEWS TO HIS GOSPEL (continued) Paul: Self-claimed “Master Builder”…
‘Kosher’ or Not: Can a Non-Jew Convert To Christianity? (4)
BEFORE WE COME to the teaching of Paul, the self-styled ‘Apostle to the…
‘Kosher’ or Not: Can a Non-Jew Convert To Christianity? (3)
In Parts 1 and 2 we demonstrated how Jesus was thoroughly Jewish in…
‘Kosher’ or Not: Can a Non-Jew Convert To Christianity? (1)
THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIAN missionaries are working tirelessly and spending billions of dollars across…
Monotheism In Interfaith Exchange -15 | Linda Thayer
WE CONTINUE WITH Rubenstein, (When Jesus Became God, The Struggle to Define Christianity…
Fiqh
Da‘wah in Complex Settings (3) | Ra’d ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz
PART (1) AND (2) discussed the first and second situations in which dâʿîs…
Da’wah in Complex Settings (2) | Ra’d ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz
PART (1) DISCUSSED the first situation—a position of powerlessness—in which dâʿîs may find…
Da’wah in Complex Settings (1) | Ra’d ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz
THERE IS NO question that there are few or no serious fiqhi (legal)…
Shari‘ah Ruling on Marrying a Person Who was Previously an Adulterer or an Adulteress (2) | Mahmoud Rizq
PART (1) DISCUSSED an âyah (24:3) which apparently prohibits a Muslim from marrying…
Shari‘ah Ruling on Marrying A Person Who Was Previously an Adulterer Or An Adulteress (1) | Mahmoud Rizq
ALLAH SAYS IN Sûrat Al-Nûr: A man who fornicates shall not marry anyone…
Why Scholars Disagree (3) | Shaykh Ibn Uthaimin
WE CONTINUE FROM Part 2 with issues related to the weighing of evidence…
Thoughts
Belief in Destiny (Qadar) | Part 2
Accepting Destiny with Submission We have discussed the essentials of the belief in…
How to Ask of Allah During Ramadan
AND IF MY servants ask thee about me—behold, I am near; I respond…
A Perennial Problem: Is Islam the Only Valid Path to God?
ISLAM —THE RELIGION and way of life which the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ came with–…
Seeking Knowledge: The Way to the Garden (1)
FROM THE BEGINNING Islam honored knowledge and the search for it. O you…
Al-Azhar University & The Role Of Scholars
One of the distinguished features of Islamic civilization was that whenever there was…
The Lioness of Ahl Al-Bayt | Zainab Bint Younus
Either you carry Islam, or Islam carries you. Those in the former category…