While the debate of whether Dunkin’ Donuts should have pulled the ad or not has been hashed out in the blogosphere, one thing that many people are ignoring is the potential fall out from this disaster. I have, therefore, taken it upon myself to outline for America just a few ways how this milestone event in our history may affect our future.
This is a good reminder about paying off debts. He touches upon doing hajj vs. paying off debts, and also includes examples from the Seerah about when the Prophet (saw) himself went into debt, and what the circumstances were.
Talk available in video and mp3.
A wife is a wife… No matter who you are! How would you caption this?
I had the distinct pleasure of hearing the Muslim “pop” group Seven8Six. Their performance was part of a concert put on by a new nonprofit organization, the Crescent Arts Foundation.
When the Companion Ubada ibn as-Samit led a Muslim delegation to Muqawqis, the Christian patriarch of Alexandria, Muqawqis exclaimed: ‘Get this black man away from me and bring another to talk to me. … How can you be content that a black man should be the foremost among you? Is it not more fitting that he be below you?’ ‘Indeed no,’ Ubada’s comrades replied, ‘for although he is black as you see, he is still the foremost among us in position, in precedence, in intelligence and in wisdom; for darkness is not despised among us.’
New Khutbah delivered on May 16 at IIOC by Shaykh Yaser Birjas. We will also be podcasting the mp3 of this talk, so please make sure to subscribe to our
For this week’s oldies, think Arabic and Quran: Quranic Verbs used for Purification and Exoneration Expressions for Giving And Getting Help in the Qur’an “Alhamdulillah†– A Linguistic Miracle of
Sometimes we start to get a bit down when Da’wah isn’t going right, or our techniques are failing, or we’re worried about someone not being very responsive to our efforts. This video addresses all these concerns with three simple tips that every dai’yah need to remember.
This is a new khutbah recently delivered by Shaykh Yasir Qadhi in Bath, UK on happiness. [audio http://muslimmatters.org/audio/True%20Happiness.mp3] (Direct Download) *Please make sure to subscribe to our podcast if you
Many practicing Muslims on the verge of having a wedding party find themselves struggling with how to set up the big day. They don’t want it fully mixed between genders, but should the party be fully be separated with a partition? Or is just segregated the seating on different sides okay?
The following article, from www.themuslimhousewife.com, touches on this issue with a very eye opening personal story (and a cameo by Shaykh Yasir Qadhi!).