Entries Tagged as ‘Information’

December 1, 2007

Mauritania’s Manuscripts

From Saudi Aramco World
By Louis Werner
One could easily lose something precious in Mauritania’s million square kilometers (398,000 sq mi) of dune fields and rocky steppes, stretching north from the Senegal River and east from the Atlantic into the Sahara’s most desolate corners. Nomadic encampments are few, villages are far between, and the wind blows [...]

November 26, 2007

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf: Creed of Imam Al Tahawi Parts 1-6

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November 10, 2007

Islam 101: Who is Allah? - Episode 2

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November 8, 2007

The Scientific Precision of the Quran by Prof. Z Al-Najjar

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November 3, 2007

Islam 101: The Prophets and Their Miracles - Episode 1

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October 31, 2007

What is Sufism? Shadhili Tariqa - Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller

From Seeker’s Digest
Sufism is a knowledge through which one knows the states of the human soul, praiseworthy or blameworthy, how to
purify it from the blameworthy and ennoble it by acquiring the praiseworthy, and to journey and proceed to Allah Most High, fleeing unto Him. Its fruits are the heart’s development, knowledge of God through [...]

October 30, 2007

Islam and the Race Question

From Mas’ud Ahmed Khan’s Home Page
Paul Hardy, M.A. (Oxon.) Ph.D (University of Chicago)
The racialized discourse prevalent in our own era has over the centuries proven alien to the societies which developed under the inspiration [...]

October 23, 2007

Female Circumcision is Not Linked to Islam

From allAfrica
8 September 2007
Posted to the web 7 September 2007
Wandera Ojanji And Redemtor Atieno
Nairobi
As she grew up in a Islamic society, Khadija knew what she had to go through to become a respectable woman. Listening to her mother, a strong Muslim adherent, Khadija came to believe that female circumcision, just like male circumcision, was [...]

October 3, 2007

Fasting Six Days of Shawwal After Ramadan: ‘Like Fasting the Entire Year’

From Sunnipath
Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher

Fasting Six Days of Shawwal after Ramadan: ‘Like Fasting the Entire Year’

Assalamu alaikum,
Ayyub (Allah be pleased with him) relates that the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace be upon him, his family, and companions) said, “Whoever fasts Ramadan and follows it with six days from Shawwal it [...]

September 22, 2007

Sheikh Zaid Shakir - Islam: Religion or Ideology?

From New Islamic Directions
By Imam Zaid on 26 July 2006
Introduction
“Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet they murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their streets, in all corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost all of humanity in the name [...]

September 21, 2007

Recite the Du’a of Qunut During Witr Prayer in the Second Half of Ramadan

From Sunnipath
Answered by Shaykh Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Academy Teacher

Recite the du`a of qunut during Witr Prayer in the Second Half of Ramadan

It is recommended to make the standing supplication (Ar. du’a al-qunut) in the last rak’ah of witr after rising from ruku`, during the second half of Ramadan. This practice starts on [...]

September 17, 2007

Unintended Ingestion in Ramadan?

From Sunnipath
Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher

If, during Ramadan, I unitentionally swallowed a portion of a finger nail, what is the ruling on the validity of my fast?

September 16, 2007

Harun Yahya: The Quran Leads the Way to Science

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