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Prophetic Supplications for Fasting

Prophetic Supplications for Fasting Download PDF: Prophetic Supplications for Fasting   1. Frequent supplication when fasting and breaking fast. The Prophet mentioned among the three whose supplication isn’t rejected by Allah: “the fasting person until they break their fast.” [Tirmidhi & Ibn Maja] Make a lot of supplication while fasting and at the time of breaking […]

Pornography, Respect, and Responsibility: A Letter to the Hotel Industry « Public Discourse

Pornography, Respect, and Responsibility: A Letter to the Hotel Industry « Public Discourse Pornography, Respect, and Responsibility: A Letter to the Hotel Industry by Robert P. George and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf     A letter on pornography and business ethics written by two prominent public intellectuals—one a Christian, one a Muslim—sent to hotel industry executives last week. We […]

Brief Prophetic Supplication (dua) for Difficulties

Brief Prophetic Supplication for Difficulties عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِك قال: كانَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيهِ وسَلَّمَ إِذا كَرَبَهُ أَمرٌ قال: {   يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ بِرَحْمَتِكَ أَسْتَغِيثُ } Anas ibn Malik (Allah be pleased with him) relates that if any distress befell the  Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), he would say: […]

Certainty vs uncertainty: Thoughts on the Occasion of the Middle Night of Shaaban – Shaykh Jihad Hashim Brown

Certainty vs uncertainty: Thoughts on the Occasion of the Middle Night of Shaaban – Shaykh Jihad Hashim Brown Download as PDF: Certainty vs Uncertainty in Rajab and Shaaban Posted with author’s permission. By the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate Certainty vs. Uncertainty in the Preparatory Program of Rajab and Shaaban Jihad Hashim Brown […]

The Scholar on Verge of Eviction and Knowledge Without Barriers

The Scholar on Verge of Eviction and Knowledge Without Barriers In the Name of Allah, the Benevolent, the Merciful “Religion is sincere concern,” said the Beloved Messenger of Allah (peace & blessings be upon him & his folk) Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah,   It came to our attention this afternoon that: URGENT: There is a scholar […]

Breaking Barriers: Telling the Seekers’ Story

Earlier this week, the SeekersGuidance team found themselves surrounded by technical gadgets even they hadn’t worked with before. Lights, numerous cameras and even an electronic “action” board filled SeekersHub Toronto in preparation for a special SeekersGuidance project. Working with a Virginia based video production team, SeekersGuidance was capturing footage for a series of videos to […]

New Class: Arabic Grammar (Murabit al-Hajj’s Commentary on the Ajrumiyya) & Readings – Mondays 7.30 pm Eastern

New Class at SeekersGuidance Toronto & live online: Mondays (7.30 to 9.30 pm Eastern)  Arabic Grammar (Murabit al-Hajj’s Commentary on the Ajrumiyya) & Arabic Readings with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani begins: Monday, June 25 Register now (free)   [1] Arabic Grammar: Murabit al-Haj’s Commentary on the Ajrumiyya Ideal for people who have some previous exposure to […]

Prisoner found Islam — and then freedom – MercuryNews.com

Prisoner found Islam — and then freedom  – MercuryNews.com Andre Wiley’s freewheeling youth abruptly ended the night in 1989 he fired a hail of bullets at a hamburger stand, killing a man and wounding several others because their clothing marked them as rival gangsters. Wiley is a different man 23 years later. He’s Yusuf Wiley, […]

Don’t Wake Him Up – Short Story by Novid Shaid

Don’t Wake Him Up – Short Story by Novid Shaid “Whatever you do …. Don’t wake him up!” First he warned him, in a quiet and careful voice, but then, as they began descending the plummeting flight of stairs, which disappeared into the darkness below, the voice grew in desperation. “Don’t wake him up…You’ll regret […]