Category: Religion

  • Reading Quran can change your life

    Reading Quran can change your life

    Being a Muslim I have came across a lot beautiful things but only when I actually started to understand Quran by it’s real meaning. By the grace of Allah I took a short course of Arabic and was able to understand Quran even more easily and amazingly came across so many new things. Islam is…

  • Secrets of Surah al Kahf

    Secrets of Surah al Kahf

    Ever wondered why Prophet Muhammad(SAW) asked us to recite Surat Al-Kahf every Friday? Let’s find out today inshaAllah… Secrets of Surah al Kahf This Surah has Four stories in it,having some morals,lets see them and understand what they are saying to us: 1) The People Of The Cave Its the story of young men who…

  • Can Muslims take nationality of America or other non-Muslim countries?

    Can Muslims take nationality of America or other non-Muslim countries?

    Is it allowed for Muslims to take nationality of America or some other non-Muslim country? Is it allowed for Muslims to live in the lands of Kufr and Shirk? Following is published for knowledge and guidance of people, who: a. live in a non-Muslim country but criticize those who reside in a Muslim country b.…

  • Eid-ul-Adha Greetings

    Eid-ul-Adha Greetings

    Yet again, we have been blessed with another Eid, this time Eid-ul-Adha, which falls two months and ten days after Eid-ul-Fitr. It is one of the two Eids that Muslims celebrate all over the world. On Eid-ul-Adha, Muslims sacrifice animals – goats, cows, camels – and divide the meat into 3 parts. One is given…

  • Virtues Of Ramadan

    Virtues Of Ramadan

    “O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you in order that you might learn piety . . . . The month of Ramadan is that wherein was revealed the Quran, as a guidance to mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the Criterion (to distinguish…

  • Why do people finish their prayer before the Imam?

    I have noticed that while finishing salah, when the imam is in the process of saying ‘assalam alaikum wa rahmatullah’ while turning his head towards the right, the people praying behind him have already finished saying ‘assalam alaikum wa rahmatullah’, and the same thing happens when the imam says ‘assalam alaikum wa rahmatullah’ while turning…

  • What Happened To The Sunnah Way Of Marriage?

    What Happened To The Sunnah Way Of Marriage?

    It seems as though to go along with society’s customs, people are willing to compromise with Islamic teachings, specifically the sunnah way of marriage. Even religious people spend enormous amounts of money on their son’s and daughter’s marriages. In this day and age, the sunnah way of marriage seems non-existent. What happened to the sunnah…

  • A Brief View of The Glorious Night Of Mairaj

    Just one year before the Hijrat from Mecca to Medina, on the 27th night of Rajab, Prophet Muhammad PBUH had a unique experience in the history of all religions. The Prophet PBUH, accompanied by Angel Gabriel was taken for Night Journey-(ISRA) from Mecca to Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. There he led a congregation of the…

  • A Unique Dream

    A Unique Dream

    Once a man dreamt that a lion was chasing him. In his dream, the man ran to a tree, climbed it and sat on a branch. He looked down and saw that the lion waited for him right next to the tree. The man then looked to his side on the branch on which he…

  • Islam and international media

    Islam and international media

    International media had become obsessed with Islam. Due to an intense focus on the eradication of the fundamentalist, Islam has come into public eye and now people all over the world know more about Islam than they did before 9 /11. There have been numerous deliberations on the fundamentalist who is often defined as a…