Women doing qada’ of their missed fasts
Can women who missed some days of their their fasting in Ramadan due to menstruation or post-natal bleeding combine the intention of making up the missed days of fasting in Ramadan with the commended six days fasting in Shawwal?
Fasting six days of Shawwal
Your question was: How important is fasting six days in Shawwal? My response: Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, may Allah be pleased with him, reported from Allah’s Messenger, peace be upon him, that he said: “For one who observed the fast of Ramadan…
Religious emotion and self-knowledge
People often confuse the intensity of an experience or feeling with the reality and authenticity of that experience or feeling. This applies very much to religious and devotional exercises. Both these can induce states of minds like…
Mawlana Syed Rashid
وابستگان مادر علمى اور عام باحثين ومحققين كے لئے يه كسى عظيم تحفه سے كم نهين كه “البعث الإسلامي”، “الرائد” اور “تعمير حيات” كى گزشته فائلين دار العلوم ندوة العلماء كے ويب سائٹ پر فراهم هين، اگرچه بعض شمارے مفقود هين تا هم يه ايكـ اهم
Who Has Taught You Fear?
قلت: هو الخوف من الله تعالى: سخطه وغضبه في الدنيا والآخرة، والقيام بين يديه، والنار.
The Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun
The Muqaddimah of ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad al-Ishbili, known as Ibn Khaldun (732-808/1332-406), was written in 1377. It is considered the first work on philosophy of history or cultural history.
Apostasy among Muslims in the UK
Many Muslims and others repeatedly claim that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. If there is truth in this claim, it may have more to do with relatively higher birth-rates among Muslim communities than higher rates of conversion to Islam.
Supplications in the Quran
In the Quran supplication is a special form of human speaking addressed to God. We say human speaking because the Quran tells us that we humans do not understand the speech of other creatures who also address God.