Islamic Lifestyle

Marriage Counselors Share Their Experience By Fatima Bheekoo-Shah Gauteng, South Africa Couples need to regularly re-evaluate their relationship in a gentle and honest manner. Marriage like any other relationship is never perfect. Even the best of marriages tumble. Most experts agree that the key to a successful and loving marriage …

By Deana Nassar A smile is an instant message to those we know as well as those we do not know. It is received and understood even before we speak to or greet someone Smiling doesn’t seem like a particularly complicated act. You feel a happy emotion, the corners of …

By Ejaz Khan   First we had the “Terrorism in SA” fear mongering attempts in SA media all those years ago…Thankfully, those stories died a painful death, due to lack of any substance to the claims. Then they realized that ‘no name brands’ don’t sell too well, so they registered a …

‘Keep calm and don’t give the peddlers of lies room to celebrate’ Cii News | 05 Jumadal Ula 1436/25 February 2015 A community that has remained largely unscathed by the effects of the global ‘War on Terror’ (sometimes dubbed a ‘War on Islam’), is for the first time facing unprecedented …

 What South African media is NOT telling you about  Cii News | 06 Jumadal Ula 1436/26 February 2015 The Spy Cables, a leak of hundreds of secret intelligence papers from agencies all over the world, is offering a glimpse into the murky world of global espionage. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit …

Bint Ahmed Sulaymaan – Cii Radio | 05 Jumadal Ula 1436/25 February 2015 Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) spoke of intelligence in a different way, “Clever is the one who prepares for the life after death, and the person who remembers death often.” “If you remember death, I would not see …

Posted On 21 Feb 2015 A deeply troubling alarmist report by Graeme Hosken in The Times (February 20, 2015), “Al-Qaeda at the gates”, is best described as a perfect specimen of news manipulation (see report). My analysis of it allows me to use it in MRN’s media workshops as an example …

Moulana Khalid Dhorat “Please rush home, Darling. Our Ahmed hasn’t returned from school yet and it’s already 5:00 PM.” The father of “our Ahmed” rushes home, and asks the neighbor whom he hasn’t seen in three years, if he seen his son that afternoon. After receiving “no” as an answer, …

Translated by Zameelur Rahman [Al-Ubbi said:]Al-Shafi‘i said: “Allah (Glorified is He) singled out the Messenger of Allah by obligating on him things which He alleviated from other than him, in order to increase his (Allah bless him and grant him peace) sanctity, and He permitted for him things which He …

Ebrahim Moosa – Cii Radio | 29 Rabi uth Thani 1436/19 February 2015 As a US federal inquiry commences its investigations into the killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina, and amidst reports that an Islamic center in Houston, Texas, was intentionally set on fire last Friday, a new …