The Fifteenth Night of Sha‘ban, known in Arabic as Laylat al Nisf min Sha‘ban, literally “the eve of the middle day of Sha‘ban,” is one of the greatest nights of the year. In Islam the night precedes the day so really it is the night before the fifteenth day of Sha‘ban. ‘Ata’ ibn Yasar said […]

Ustadha Zaynab Ansari, in partnership with Muslimah Media, speaks in a 5-part series about the amazing Muslim women who paved the way for others after them. Umm Ma‘baad, whose real name was Atiqah bint Khalid al-Khuzaiya, was a very fascinating woman. She is most famous for being the first woman to narrate a comprehensive description […]

Shaykh Abdurrahim Reasat discusses how the burning questions of the soul and the satisfactory answers to them are predicated on the existence of a Creator. Forty-two…! It took Deep Thought, a super-computer built by hyper-intelligent beings, seven and a half million years to arrive at the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe […]

Ustadh Ali Ataie gives a short history of fasting in Judaism and Islam, its importance and significance, and how it relates to fasting in Islam. Allah Most High says in the Sura al Baqara 2:183: يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ “Fasting has been prescribed for […]