by cart | Jul 6, 2007 | Articles, Heart Softeners
The State of Al-Ghaflah(Heedlessness or Negligence) A common disease that we find among many Muslims today is the disease of Al-Ghaflah. Al-Ghaflah is the Arabic word for heedlessness or negligence, in the Islamic context it is the sin of forgetting Allah and the...
by cart | Jun 6, 2007 | Articles, Miscellaneous
Maintaining our Islamic Identities The age we live in today is an age of trial and tribulation, especially for the Muslims living in the non-Muslim societies of the West. You find many of them trying to strike a balance between their Islamic and Western identities....
by cart | May 3, 2007 | Articles, Fiqh
“O you who believe! Prescribed for you is Al-Qisas (legal retribution)” This past week a number of executions were carried out here in Madinah, the City of the Prophet (SAW). I had the opportunity of witnessing a number of them. On Wednesday, the 2nd of May 2007,...
by cart | Apr 6, 2007 | Articles, Daʿwah
Islam: The One and Only Religion A little while back I had written something up on “the purpose behind our existence.” I had mentioned there that the sole purpose behind our existence in this world is to worship the One who created us in the first place, and I had...
by cart | Mar 1, 2007 | Articles, Daʿwah
The Purpose Behind our Existence The age we live in today is an age in which our lives are controlled by the world we live in, in which time passes by without us even noticing. As a result of this most people have little time to stop and think about the most...