So it’s that time of year again. When the days are short, the nights long and you have large amounts of time off from your school/...
Amidst the Presidential elections, Operation Pillar of Cloud, Palestinian bid at the UN, unrest in Egypt and a host of other issues, the Syrian conflict has...
Here we go again. Israel has started bombing Gaza using one of the most superior air-force in the world against one of the most inferior resistance...
There is no place on Earth as venerated, as central or as holy to as many people as Makkah. By any objective standard, this valley in...
A number of classical and contemporary scholars proposed divisions for the actions of the Prophet . Chief among them are Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziah, in several writings...
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Al Jazeera English correspondent Jamal Elshayyal reports from this year’s Hajj on a group of Rohingya Muslims making the pilgrimage. One pilgrim interviewed said: “The problem...
By: Omar Hafeez-Bore So here we are, at the start of the article and the starting line of Charity Week 2012. Yes the Olympics may be...
The explanation of this hadith was translated by Abd-Allah Abdullah b. Mas’ud reported: The Prophet said, “Truthfulness leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise. A man...
By Sunny Hundal [vimeo 50020581] It started with a Tweet. 23-year-old Faran Rafi from Islamabad, wrote: “I say when/if these #protests end, we take up the...