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Video: Why did Allah send the Tsunami? - Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa

Video: Why did Allah send the Tsunami? - Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa

Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa answers a question about the tsunami elucidating the wisdom behind its occurrence. To watch more of this lecture: http://vimeo.com/26344041
Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa teaches at: http://islamicvillage.podomatic.com/

Chicago Mawlid - Rabi’ul Awwal 2011 Playlist - Shaykh Yahya Rhodus and Shaykh Samer al-Nass

Chicago Mawlid - Rabi’ul Awwal 2011 Playlist

Video: The Khilafa of Umar - Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad - Quilliam Press

Video: The Khilafa of Umar - Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad - Quilliam Press

The Khilafa of Umar - excerpt from Bismillah on Vimeo.
Click here to watch whole video

Umar ibn al-Khattab, known as al-Faruq, ‘the Discerner’, was the second of the four Rightly-Guided Caliphs. One of the greatest rulers in world history, he laid down the institutions [...]

PrayerKit: iPhone App for Salah Prayer Management

PrayerKit: iPhone App for Salah

PrayerKit is a concise prayer application containing all a Muslim needs to know in order to perform their daily obligations.

a Qibla Compass,
Prayer Times with Alerts,
a Distance calculator for Traveling,
A Qadaa Counter
Quick Lists detailing the legal rulings of the various aspects of prayer complete with Audio Assistance.

The rulings [...]

Advice to a seeker of knowledge - from a SeekersGuidance Online Course

Advice to a student in a SeekersGuidance online course
 
In the Name of Allah, the Benevolent, the Merciful
with blessings & peace on the Beloved Messenger
his folk, and companions
 
Review what you have covered;
strive to bring it to life, with excellence, in your life; and
continue to tread the path of knowledge, with consistency, purpose, and excellence.
 
The Beloved Messenger [...]

Revisiting “Meaning and Experience of Happiness in Islām”

Revisiting “Meaning and Experience of Happiness in Islām”

Prof Syed Naquib Al-Attas (seated) and Cikgu Abdullah of Dar al-Andalus of Singapore.

by Wan Ahmad Fayhsal
On the 18th of February 2012, Assembly of Intellectual Muslim (HAKIM) have sent six of their members to a lecture organized by Dar al-Andalus, Suffah Study Circle of Singapore at Orchard [...]

The Orphan - Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad - Cambridge Khutbahs Etc.

The Orphan - Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad - Cambridge Khutbahs Etc.
Friday sermon (jum’ah khutba) - Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad - Cambridge - 17th February 2012 - 26mins 44secs

Seest thou one who denies the Judgement (to come)?
Then such is the (man) who repulses the orphan (with harshness),

And encourages not the feeding of the indigent.
So woe to [...]

When Love is Not Enough: Reassessing Marriage in the Muslim Community - Mental Health 4 Muslims Blog

When Love is Not Enough: Reassessing Marriage in the Muslim Community - Mental Health 4 Muslims

February 29, 2012
By Hosai Mojaddidi & Dr. Nafisa Sekandari

*This article is adapted from a presentation Sr. Hosai Mojaddidi prepared for the Grand Mawlid event, held February 5th, 2012 in Santa Clara, California.
According to a Soundvision survey conducted in 2010: “If you attended six [...]

Videos: The Honor and Rank of the Prophet Muhammad (S) by Shaykh Yahya Rhodus

Videos: The Honor and Rank of the Prophet Muhammad (S) by Shaykh Yahya Rhodus
The Chicago Mawlid Committee holds a mawlid in remembrance and celebration of the Prophet once a month. In this blessed month, Rabi al-Awwal, we are also hosting a special program with Shaykh Yahya Rhodus, who will be reading a work that summarizes [...]

Shaykh Bakri al-Tarabishi 1921-2012 - Nur Sacred Sciences

Shaykh Bakri al-Tarabishi 1921-2012 - Nur Sacred Sciences
Shaykh Bakri al-Ṭarabīshī was born in Damascus in 1338 AH/1921 AD to a home of learning and piety.  His father was Shaykh ʽAbd al-Majīd al-Ṭarābīshī from among the legal scholars (fuqahāʼ) of Damascus specializing in the Ḥanafī school of law.  King Fayṣal b. al-Ḥusayn selected him as a [...]