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By:Umm Khalid O you who believe! Save yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones, over which are [designated] angels, [dreadfully] stern and severe. They do not disobey Allah in whatever He commands them. [Indeed,] they do whatever they are commanded. (Qur’an, 66:6) Some men …

Intended Insults: Unintended Consequences   On 31 January, Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, published an open letter to Muslims saying he was sorry that Muslims took offence from the cartoons (which his cultural editor had commissioned for the express purpose of causing offence). In that caricature of an apology he …

al-miftah.com  Some contemporaries, who degrade the Fiqh of the four Imams & their followers, actually do so because they view legitimate “difference of opinion” as evil. This is the reason for which they keep harping on the fact that we need to follow the Quran and Sunnah and not any …

  (Sayyiduna Hakeem bin Hizaam [radhiyallahu ‘anhu] –) Sayyiduna Hakeem bin Hizaam (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) is a Sahaabi of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) who was blessed with an extraordinarily long life – he passed away at the age of one hundred and twenty! Another unique aspect of his life is that he …

Some have falsely accused the Prophet (pbuh) of being hyper sexual, because he had eleven wives. If you read the life history of the Prophet (pbuh), only two of his marriages one with Khadija (ra), and the other, with Ayesha (ra) were marriages in the normal course. All his other …

  By Sister S Bemath eislam PROBLEMS. . . how we hate them! The time and energy we waste, stewing over problems instead of tackling them cheerfully and constructively, recognising them as the growth points of life and progress. Life can expose us to a series of problems. Problems evoke …

Just imagine: if a close relative hurls insults at you us in a very nasty manner, what would be your reaction?   Most of us would obviously react in any one of the three of manners given below: If you are an extremely hot-tempered individual you would at once throw …

  بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم   The Prophet (ﷺ) never saw his father, and still developed into the paragon of human excellence. How many Ṣaḥāba were orphans due to their fathers being martyred? Weren’t greats like al-Ḥasan al-Baṣri, Abu Yūsuf al-Qāḍi, Imam ash-Shāfi’i, Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Imam al-Bukhāri, all …

Sayyiduna Suhaib bin Sinaan (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) is commonly known with the title “Roomi”, although he was not from Rome. The reason for him being called this is that when he was young, the Romans had captured him during one of their attacks on the Persian territory and they had enslaved …

Umm Khalid Haqiqatjou muslimskeptic.com No amount of makeup or cosmetic procedures will make you as beautiful as haya’ will make you. Haya’ makes a woman stunningly beautiful. Haya’, الحياء: that elusive internal and external quality of modesty, humility, bashfulness, shyness. Refraining from indecency and immorality out of an instinctive self-preservation. …