This article seeks to discuss, in moderate detail, the fiqh ruling on giving zakāt al-fiṭr in the form of money instead of staple food item. In...
Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh, As the last 10 nights of Ramadhan are now upon us, I wanted to share a short and simple yet...
Of the acts of worship special to this month is that of I’tikaf. Allah (تعالى) mentions I’tikaf in one place in his book: أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ لَيْلَةَ...
Assessing our Ramadan As the last 10 nights are now upon us, it is time to re-evaluate where we have come so far. Two-thirds of the...
Keith Olbermann delivers a crushing blow to Horowitz. Apparently the ad used on a poster that is promoting this event of bigotry and religious intolerance displays...
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Ramadan is a time to make much du’a. In Surah al-Baqarah, verses 184-188 discuss fasting and Ramadan in considerable detail. In the...
Probably the most intense component of salat is sajdah. No other position expresses worship and obedience as powerfully as bowing all the way down with your...
A very inspiring story, from Arab News (follow link for photo). What really inspired me – more than the story of this orphan teenage convert who...
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self,” wrote Aldous Huxley, the English novelist best known...
I’ve been thinking more and more about the difference between extremely locally-based, grass-roots Islamic activism vs. a larger, almost institution-like system (such as al-Maghrib)… these thoughts...
