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“Food for the Soul”-Kindness to your Wife
Subject: Kindness to your Wife Allah, The Most Exalted, says: And among His Signs is this, that He created for you wives from among yourselves, that you may find repose in them, and He has put … [ Read More... ]
Durood Shareef
Hadhrat Abu Dardaa (Radhiallahu Anhu) reports that Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said: “The one who recites durood upon me ten times in the morning, and ten times in the evening, will receive my intercession on the day of … [Read More...]
“Food for the Soul”-Kindness to your Wife
Subject: Kindness to your Wife Allah, The Most Exalted, says: And among His Signs is this, that He created for you wives from among yourselves, that you may find repose in them, and He has put between you affection and mercy. Verily, in that are … [Read More...]
Behind every Dark Cloud there is a Silver Lining
Behind every Dark Cloud there is a Silver Lining Hamza married Ruwayda. After the nikaah(wedding), Ruwayda's mother gave her a newly opened bank savings book with a R2000 deposit amount at the local … [Read More...]
Raising Children in Islam Part 2
How to raise children into responsible Muslim adults? The following provide some of the key responsibilities of the parents in terms of raising and training their children: Inculcating the concept of “La Ilaha Illa-Allah” and Huquq Allah … [Read More...]
Latest Global News
More than one in 10 under 25s in the UK now describe themselves as Muslim
Census figures show Christianity in sharp decline whilst belief in Islam dramatically increases Heather Saul Friday 17 May 2013 inShare http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/census-figures-show-christianity-in-sharp-decline-whilst-belief-in-islam-dramatically-increases-8621271.html A fresh analysis of the 2011 census has shown that Christian faith in the UK is declining rapidly amongst the British-born population, whilst belief in Islam has dramatically increased. A report published by the [...]
Dropping the Q bomb
Ejaz Khan 16 May 2013 02:07 (South Africa) “They” said that al-Qaeda was going to bomb the World Cup stadia in 2010. The only bomb that fell was Lionel Messi’s failure to score a single goal in the entire tournament. The closest thing to “terrorism” was Nigel De Jong’s karate kick on Xabi Alonso in [...]
The forgotten heart of the Nakba
Ebrahim Moosa – Cii News | 15 May 2013 Palestinians who live in the Diaspora have a special word to describe it. The ‘Shatat’: An Arabic phrase that conveys the gaping wound of Palestinian dispossession, all resulting from the Nakba – a catastrophic series of events that led to the forced expulsion of 800,000 [...]
Burma: Lest We Don’t See, A Genocide Is In The Making
By Bonojit Hussain 14 May, 2013 Countercurrents.org I “We have to ask ourselves whether we may have over-romanticized its (Burmese pro-democracy movement within and outside of Burma) battles against the junta as a broader quest to bring pure, universal human rights to Burma, when in fact we had little evidence of a wholesale commitment to [...]
Quota increase unlikely
With just a few months until the start of the 1434 haj season, pilgrims have been urged to finalise their contracts with their operators of choice by Friday, so the arrangements in the Saudi Kingdom can be made well ahead of time by the South African Haj and Umrah Council (Sahuc). Speaking to Breakfast Beat [...]
